When We Was Rad

I don’t have any disks containing text this old. They survived for another ten years, but were destroyed in the New Deal fire. So we’re mostly going to have to do with scans for this issue. I’m trying to use OCR to extract the text, but it’s very patchy.

I can’t get the credits out of this page, for example, which is a shame. One of the notable mentions there is Derek Westwood, who is credited as “Designer in Body”. Derek sat in during the transition period between the reigns of Nick Philip and Ian Lawson. That’s not an easy thing to do. Derek never got the chance to experiment as freely as most of our designers.

The Steve Caballero Ollie Indy Footplant gets a reprise in sequential form. Not the exact same one obviously: Fuji 50 sequences in the dark of the South Bank? I think not.
FEATURES

NIGHT OF THE LIVING SKATE
ZOMBIES ………………………… 10
In the Limelight
LAID BACK IN LlVl ………………..1 6
Stress free pool contest
POWELL TOUR ……………… . …… 22
The official demos, and the other
stuff too
MUNSTER MASH …………………. 40
Europe’s biggest competition.
Part One
INTRO …………………………………. 47
Justin Ashby. Mark Findlay
RIDE IF YOU WANT, HOW YOU
WANT …………………………………….. 47
Stress free bike contest

DEPARTMENTS

EARS ………………….. .. ……………….. 4
Inside Knowledge
Xs ……………………………………………… 7
Mixed Doubles
STEVE DOUGLAS …………………… 9
Seattle Comp!
HORACE THE HIPPY ……. 13
Builds His own board
CALENDAR 88 ………………………14
Dates for your diary
WHERE? …………………………………. 36
Back down South
THE WALL …………………………….44
High pressure sales
LETTERS ……………………………….46
Words with you
PARAPHERNALIA ……………….. 54
Those who flow shall be rewarded

CARTOONIST:
Graham MacEachran

Cover: Steve Caballero, Ollie
lndy Footplant, South Bank.
PHOTO: Dobie
This page: Let’s look at that
again …

Some cracking stuff in here, notably the “How to be the world’s greatest street skater” article!

FEATURES

16 All Play and No Work

The daily grind

23 Holy Hamburg

Europe’s Hottest Skate Spot

27 How to be the World’s Greatest Street Skater

Win Münster with our 30 day wonder-plan

39 Birmingham Days

Skate HARD in the City

56 Goshen Gallery

Snaps and Snippets from the Bury comp

DEPARTMENTS

6 Ears

Summer Tour Dates, New Places and Faces

10 Products

Decked out for the sun

12 Letters

Gavin gives as good as he gets

14 Steve Douglas Page

As predicted last month: Cab’s won one

21 Couch Session

Blinding stuff — a major contribution from Gonzales and co

36 Spangleski

Hi-jacked by Hardcore, the Mouth of the Street

46 The Wall

Hi to X-ey, Y-ey and Z-ey. Please send diagrams.

48 Intros

Warren Brown, Winston Whitter, Jagger

52 Sequences

Tweakery, nosery and bumpery

61 Desert Island Skater

Brider Bleeding on a Beach

62 Calendar

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The pictures on this page were from our road trip to Northern Ireland. It’s a great shame we didn’t get out more.

FEATURES

• 20 SCARY PLACES More pleasurable carbuncles
• 35 BARBECUE AT BEAST MANOR Shred, pig out and party
• 41 DEATH BOX CHRISTMAS COMPETITION Seasonal fun with Team DB
• 44FREESTYLE IN STREET TERRAIN They came, they saw, they kick-flipped
• 52IRELAND The forgotten isle
• 60 EL TORRO GRANDE Everything you need to know about the Madrid AES competition

DEPARTMENTS

• 8 EARS So, tell me about it
• 15 LETTERS No, don’t
• 16 WHERE? Mini Traveller
• 27 INTROS John Coffey, Jason Ellis
• 33 ENCYCLOPAEDIA G
• 70 XS Royal ragers

COVER Christian Heitman PHOTO: Mike John ILLUSTRATION: Ian who skates Crouch End CONTENTS Blurred Wurzel at Clive’s in
Dublin; Damp Derry, Ollie Airwalk on the only dry patch; Steve’s ramps, Antrim; Dublin crew PHOTO: Jay

See what I mean? We got to run a good picture on the contents page… Jan Waage, in this case, courtesy of Claus Grabke.

FEATURES

• 16 DISCONNECTION
  One for Halloween
• 26 WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?
  Attitude Adjustment
• 40 DUNDEE
  The Anarchy Jam
• 49 A GREEN ISSUE
  Eco Thrash at Crouch Hill
• 56 HOME MAD JAM
  Bikes bust out in Wath, not many dead

DEPARTMENTS

• 6 EARS
  Now with added product
• 14 LETTERS
  Points of view
• 22 SEQUENCES
  Arron and Wager
• 38 THE WALL
  Evolving slowly
• 46 WHERE?
  St Albans, for one
• 55 INTRO
  Captain Wager
• 60 ENCYCLOPAEDIA
  Back from summer break

Photo: Jan Waage, at Munster by Claus Grabke

• Features
1. Win a Rareunit Mini-ramp. No Way 16
2. In Through The Outdoor. Winter Street 22
3. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. One of Those Things 31
4. Jeremy Henderson. On Shut and Skating 40
• Departments
1. Ears. Is 6
2. Letters. Harrassment Special 14
3. Steve Douglas. Back 15
4. Encyclopaedia. G 18
5. Wall. Penfriends? 46
6. Intros. Jason Lunn, Russ Goodman, Paul Davidson. 48
7. Comp Circuit. Australia, Texas and Birmingham. 52
8. Back Door View. by Joe Millson 62

Original photograph of Steve Douglas at Raging Waters was by Luke Ogden. The credit has been written on by hand. I assume we must have forgotten to have it typeset: at this time we were setting type direct from disk (which involved learning codes which make raw HTML seem easy). We dropped the disks off at the typesetters late at night and collected the finished galley output the next day. So if something was wrong, or missing, we frequently had to adapt and make do.

At this stage there was still a fair bit of BMX content, and also the dreaded scooters.

Features

• Ears Extra 5
  ESA Series, Preston
• Raging Waters 8
  The hottest ramp in the world
• WORDS WITH Mike Canning 16
  Mad ramp ride mellows out
• Lucian Hendrickse 22
  Talks like he skates: hard and fast
• Checking out: Pacer Street Scoot 33
  Look at these
• Win a Scooter 37
  Take one home
• Holeshot IV Preview 40
  Who’s coming

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