Innehållsförteckning för 242 Winter 2024 från Slam Skateboarding

Welcome to our Winter Edition. As the temperature drops and each slam comes with a bitter slap from the cold concrete, this issue aims to bring some heat. Rome Collyer has been on fire! The 18-year-old, originally from Duns Creek inland of Newcastle, has lived out of his suitcase for most of the past year. He's been touring with Vans, jumping in the Real van and on the international comp circuit. Rome has left a trail of destruction as he roams around the world. We've compiled some of his heaviest hits, shot mostly while he's been back in Aus for his first full-feature interview in Slam. New York based Josh Wilson brings the East Coast flavour to turn up the temperature in Melbourne. Check out our chat covering his time…

Without a doubt, skateboarding is one of the greatest gifts bestowed upon my life and possibly yours, too. From the opportunities to explore creativity, make new friends, explore places and engage in opportunities that I would've never imagined possible, skateboarding has taught me to open my mind to the vast array of experiences that life can throw at me. If skateboarding wasn't in your life, how differently would the world appear to you? For starters, consider the way that skateboarders approach problem-solving, connect with their imagination, and look at the environment to explore the architecture. For instance, skaters look for bumps in the footpath, ditches by the side of the road, open spaces, smooth ledges, stairs, rails, and the obscurities of the modern, urban world. In skateboarding, you're exposed to…

Western Australia's most historic spot is under threat. Developers are eyeing Woolstores in Fremantle, but locals are asking if the perfect hundred-meter ledge can be retained following any renovations to the building, which was first constructed nearly 100 years ago. Woolies became a popular skate spot in the early ‘90s when boards grew noses, and some serious wax was applied to the metal edge. OG Perth legend Morgan Campbell expressed his affection for the ledge during a conversation with Sylvain Tognelli for this page. “Every moment I've been having trouble doing a trick on a ledge anywhere in the world, I pretend that I'm at Woolies,” says Morgan. “One particular trick is switch crooked grinds. I'm not very good at them, but if I pretend I'm at Woolies, and the…

When the fifteenth issue of Slam left the printshop in Spring of 1991, skateboarding was in the midst of a complete metamorphosis. Terrain, tricks, hardware, and footwear were changing from issue to issue of every mag and some of them couldn't keep up. The issue of Poweredge that sat beside this edition of Slam on newsstands would be their last, and Skatin’ Life, arguably Slam's biggest competitor in its early years, had already gone the way of the dodo a few months earlier. Slam survives by adapting to the new world, with Mike Perry, the magazine's first editor (RIP), handing the helm to the fresh-faced all-terrain ripper Andrew Currie. Cuzza was only 15 when he took over as editor, but Perry wasn't the first to put a teenager in charge…

When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon hit Australian television screens in February 1990, I, along with every other kid I knew, went berserk with martial arts madness. There was even a special assembly called at my school to ban homemade nunchucks in the playground. The other thing I became obsessed with in 1990, like a lot of other kids, was skateboarding. For this reason, a nightly news segment lingered in my brain for over 30 years; it combined my two passions, Ninja Turtles and skateboarding. The segment claimed that the Turtles’ sewer surfing antics had influenced Australian skateboarders to skate the drainage systems beneath our very feet. I spent hours scouring YouTube trying to find the segment only to come up empty handed time and time again. Then, recently…

Hey, Josh. How are you, where are you, and what have you been up to lately? Hey, what's up? I'm heading out to San Francisco. I've been working a lot lately and that's why I'm heading to SF. Explain who you came to Melbourne with and what that trip was about. I was with Will Marshall, John Shanahan and Sean Paul. It was my first time in Melbourne, but I had wanted to go forever. The spots have always looked so good to me. When DC was headed there and asked me to join, I was all in. How does a DC trip compare to going on tour with Bronze? What would a Bronze trip look like in Melbourne? It's funny because I think everyone who was on the DC…

NEW GEN AGE: 19 LIVES: Bensville, NSW RIDES FOR: Vans [flow], Ace Trucks, Crap247 and Boardworld “THERE'S ALL THIS CRAP POURING INTO THE WORLD, ALL THIS BRAIN‘ROT TIKTOK SHIT.” So, let's start with the obvious – your name is Ben and you're from a place called Bensville, right? [Laughs]. That's right. I was born there, and I've spent my whole life in Bensville. It's between Gosford and Woy Woy on the Central Coast. It's a pretty small town; there isn't too much going on. There's a little café and a wharf. There's a skatepark pretty close as well. That park was a bit of a disaster. Yeah, the council built it themselves, and most of the ramps are bumpy and lumpy. They just recently resurfaced it, though, and it's actually…

After being injured for over a year, Dane discovered an alternative option to heal his battered body after decades of skateboarding abuse. Here's the scoop on a radical treatment that has gained widespread appraise by many of the world's leading athletes. You and Chris Cole recently underwent some treatments for your injuries. What exactly did you have done? We did. Chris and I both have had some serious injuries throughout our lives, spanning over 60 years skating between us; that is a lot of time for tears and breaks and sprains. So we decided it'd be good to get ahead of the damage and went to CPI [Cellular Performance Institute] to get stem cell treatments for our ailments. The clinic is in Tijuana, Mexico, so they can offer much more…

When a copy of The Vertical Axis: Memoirs of Pymble Pool and its Place in Australian Skateboarding History arrived on my doorstep, the package was so heavy that I thought they'd mistakenly sent me multiple copies. Surely there weren't enough photos of a 50-year-old pool to fill a book this size. I couldn't have been more wrong. Compiled, edited, and published by Aussie skateboarding royalty, Jon McGrath (you might know him as Johnny), The Vertical Axis is a hardcover, 166-page collector's item, comprised of 22 memoirs and more than 170 photos of insane pool riding. To put it in context, the Pymble Pool was as significant to Australia's skate scene as the famous Dog Bowl was to California. Except, instead of one pool, the Pymble Pool was part of a…

AGE: 13 LIVES: Moffat Beach, Sunshine Coast SPONSORS: Project Distribution [Real and Grizzly flow], Independent Trucks, DC, Boardstore and Ice Block Wax “Eli is such an amazing skater. He sends anything and everything! He is also so funny in general, he has a really good sense of humour. Eli gets me hyped.” – Chloe Covell “I'm super excited to see what Eli adds to skateboarding. He has already developed a solid bag of switch and nollie tricks, which is rare for a kid his age. Eli is definitely one to watch out for. I look forward to watching your growth and progression, mate! Enjoy the journey.” – Tommy Fynn…

The Melbourne skateboarding community crammed into the True East for Gabriel Summers’ new part for Zero Skateboards. Tortas and Tacos were in the house and Philter beers were flowing. Come premiere time, and the Gabbers show did not disappoint with a part of absolute destruction for No White Flag.…