Indholdsfortegnelse for 227 Spring 2020 i Slam Skateboarding

Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

Trust Tiago

We consider Tiago Lemos to be the best in the world. In our opinion you’d be hard pressed to find another individual with such power, technical prowess, and style on a skateboard. When Tiago joined New Balance he knew our revered history of making technical performance footwear to meet the needs of professional athletes. Numeric is proud to continue this tradition with the introduction of the 1010, the first signature shoe for Tiago Lemos. Trust Tiago. Introducing Tiago Lemos' debut signature model, the 1010. Blending New Balance heritage and technology, the 1010 is confident on and off the board. High performance skateboarding shoes. We’re back! After skipping our Winter Edition due to many of our leading advertisers freezing marketing budgets as the COVID chaos sent the world into an unhinged…

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Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

A CHINWAG WITH GAZ

Gareth Liddiard has cemented himself as one of Australia’s most prolific and critically acclaimed songwriters and performers. After fronting alt-rock behemoth, The Drones, for over 16 years, he is now unleashing a new wave of glorious carnage with Tropical Fuck Storm. It’s impossible to summarise Gareth’s body of work, but it’s safe to say that his music and lyrics will remain relevant and respected for many years to come. Gaz grew up skating Perth in the ’80s, which was a good enough reason to catch up for a chat over a couple of isolation ales. Finding skateboarding I was exposed to it through older friends. Our high school had a beach culture and was really friendly, so all the year levels weren’t so segregated. We’d go to the beach and…

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Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

RIELY PAVEY QUARANTINED

You may know Riley Pavey as one of the Australian Nike SB up-and-comers, the kid from a few Precinct ads and the winner of our New Gen of the Year award in 2019. Riley is a Gold Coast skate rat, a bit of a smart arse and a sugar fiend. For such a young dude, he manages to travel the East Coast quite a lot. Even while he was in high school, he’d frequent Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne all the time. A few months back, Riley went down to Melbourne to film some tricks with Geoff Campbell and to stay with his girlfriend who lives down there. After a trip up to Sydney, and then another stint back in Melbourne, COVID-19 – and the hysteria surrounding it – ripped through…

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Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

EVERYONE SEES EVERYTHING

In the good old days, getting noticed in the skateboarding industry meant getting noticed in the USA. Australians would usually migrate to California and hope to be seen and noticed by the right people. But these days, all that power to be seen and noticed is right there in your pocket. Instagram is a more powerful tool than ever to keep the sponsors happy for another month and keep those packages and pay cheques flowing. Just film a few clips on your phone, make a quick mixtape, add some fire trap music and whack it straight onto the ’Gram. But how long can that last? And how much does that mean, beyond getting a couple of reposts? Is there any longevity in that? Where is the face-to-face contact you get…

2 min

Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

SHANE O'NEILL DIGITALISED

At 30 years old, Shane O’Neill is undoubtedly Australian skateboarding’s biggest name. He’s a tech god and a contest killer, winning all sorts of accolades on the street comp circuit over the past decade. Nugget is also a force to be reckoned with in the streets; he famously backside nollie heelflipped Wallenberg, and he has filmed so many mind-blowing video parts. In more recent years, he scored himself a pro model shoe with Nike SB and started his own company, April Skateboards. And if everything goes to plan, he’ll be among the first Aussies to skate in the Olympics. Shane is also the first Australian to be included into the legendary line up of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game franchise. Having grown up playing the game, it was a…

5 min

Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

“LC” BEN RIVER LAWRIE

Ben River Lawrie is sitting at Lincoln Square, drinking a coffee and talking to me on the phone. It’s an apt location for Ben to be doing this feature interview since he earned the nickname ‘Lincoln Child’ for skating the iconic plaza spot so obsessively back in its heyday. But a few things have changed since LC was a baby-faced local kid drinking Dare iced coffees and sessioning the slappy ledges at Lincoln Square. Obviously, the city’s most cherished spot got resurfaced and effectively destroyed back in 2016, but right now the entire city feels different. Melbourne is at the midway point of stage four lockdowns due to the second wave of COVID-19, which means there are curfews and skateboarding in the streets is heavily restricted. Midway through our interview,…

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Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

MY FIVE SONS

Cameron Sparkes, the Australian New Balance Numeric brand manager, filmer and all-rounder provides a breakdown of the NB# boys’ first proper video production. Filmed almost exclusively in Sydney and featuring Sparkes’ “five sons” – Jack Paterson, Sean Ryan, Cody Riley, Tyrone Sutherland and Jett Stanton – this yet-to-be-named production is sure to provide some new definitions for what’s possible at Sydney spots. My NB Kids Being able to build the brand and team from scratch here in Australia has been an awesome experience. Putting together this small group of trailblazers, who continue to surpass my highest expectations, has been extremely rewarding, and as corny as it sounds, it has left me feeling like some kind of proud father. Jack, Sean, Tyrone and Jett are a fair cry younger than me,…

16 min

Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

BEN HENNESSY

“I’ve known Ben for ages, and he constantly surprises me when he skates. His skating is super unique and exciting to watch. He’s one of my favourites.” – Noah Nayef “Ben drinks a hundred beers, and is taking out all the untouched spots in Sydney.” – Gary Almeida “We’ve been Monster Skatepark bros since day one. Ben can skate the Five Dock old bowl, and he can confidently take a plunge down any cobblestoned bank.” – Jack O’Grady “I’ve been hanging out with Hennessy over the past year, and I have only good things to say. He’s got fresh eyes for skateboarding in Sydney and has a lot of focus on doing what he wants as an individual – being skating or his studies at NAS [National Arts School]. He’s…

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Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

ROLLING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC

Coronavirus has touched just about every aspect of our lives. From buying toilet paper, to having a beer with your friends, to the amount of times you’ve heard the word “unprecedented”, COVID-19 has changed it all – even skateboarding. Obviously there’s a very real human cost to the pandemic and every death is tragic, but the pandemic has also ushered in some subtler changes for skateboarders. Being cooped up at home makes you miss even the annoying sides of skating: the shinners, the ripped laces, the snapped decks, and the chalkies. Even a crusty skatepark full of entitled scooter kids seems like heaven when you can’t skate at will. This plague probably isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, so here are some of the things we might as well get used…

3 min

Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

PUSHING THROUGH MELBOURNE WITH EVISEN

When half of the Evisen team flew from Tokyo to Melbourne to spend a week getting clips in the streets, they set themselves the added challenge of doing it all without a rental car. That meant that there would be no trips to the outer ’burbs for hidden gems – they would have to get creative with the heavily-sessioned – and some might say blown out – spots in the gritty city. But it turned out that pushing around from their hotel at Southern Cross Station was a good formula for the Japanese crew. They were accustomed to the heavy kick-outs in Tokyo, so Melbourne seemed comparatively mellow when it came to security and cops. The spots also turned out to be quite accommodating to the Evisen style of cutty,…

16 min

Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

ADELAIDE NORRIS

Hey, Adelaide. What’s been happening today? Damn, I just got home from work. My body hates me today, so I’m about to take a magnesium bath. Lockdown has been the weirdest six months of my life. For some reason, I’m kinda happy slowing down. I’m going a bit crazy but it’s OK. I feel so privileged being in a country like Australia. It’s crazy out there for a lot of the rest of the world. You work at Hemley Skate Shop, and word has it that you just got a promotion. How’s your new role going? It’s pretty fun. I feel like I’m the only one to have gotten a promotion during the pandemic. I’m doing all the design work, social media and stock stuff. It’s a lot more responsibility…

11 min

Slam Skateboarding|227 Spring 2020

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