My Mind is SO Open!
Thrasher Magazine Review
May, 2021 Edition - very high-fashion, glossy, 200+ page presentation.
I saw a LOT of full-page, full color, raggedy guys grinding expensive structures and saying, “It’s not desecration. It’s a celebration.”
Maybe I can’t spot ‘em any more, but I think I saw only one girl skater in the entire mag, in its back pages - and she was helmeted.
Initially, because of experiences a long time ago with Surfer magazine, I had hoped to glean some skater lingo, but I didn’t see much – maybe some terms for board moves. In Thrasher, “sick” seemed to mean “good”. Political awareness was definitely there, but seemed to echo “as seen on TV.”
So I looked and looked for where Thrasher’s and my thinking o’lapped. I found it on page 147. Interviewing Steven “Lefty” Breeding, a San Diego skater who’s o’come the loss of his right arm, Thrasher asked him “What’s poppin’ off for you in 2021?” Steve didn’t hesitate to say,
“Something about this pandemic put a new fire into me. Time is limited out here; you just got to go for it!”
Pretty much all I ever need to hear around here.
A year of Thrasher is only $17.95 and you score a free t-shirt besides.