Skateboarding and more ….
This one’s been a long time coming. It’s with great pleasure we present to you, the original environmentally correct skater, Tom “Wally” Inouye on this week’s Monday Cover. Wally is the founder and CEO of Inouye’s Pool Service, a water conservation movement whose mission statement reads: “Conserve Water – Drain Your Pool.” Check out all that is Wally after the turn.
Congratulations Wally!
A member of the plastic man clan, this week’s Monday Cover skater, Shawn Reinert, tucks a mean air over the hip at the Bass bowl. If you’ve skated with Shawn, you know he likes to keep a bit of air under his board. Need proof? Check out more pics of Shawn floating about the Northwest along with a bonus video after the turn.
Congratulations Shawn!
Surf and skate photography legend, Warren Bolster, would have been proud of the color choices made by this week’s Monday Cover skater, Tom Kilroy. That yellow helmet and red shirt sure do pop against the blue sky over the Walla Walla bowl. An O.G. midwest skate refugee that now calls Boise, Idaho home, Tom is one of the true gentlemen of skating. Check out some more pics of Tom respectfully shredding the gnar after the turn along with a bonus cover.
Congratulations Tom!
Montana is chocked full of great skate spots and along with it great skaters. Case in point, this week’s Monday Cover skater, Randy Katen, slashes some of Tedder’s finest during a session at the Bass Bowl. Check out a few more pics of Randy slashing and tail blocking about the bowl after the turn. Don’t forget to listen to Randy’s interviews with some of your favorite punk heros on our Generation X, the Interviews page as well as his live bi-weekly radio show on KBGA.
Congratulations Randy!
A prepared skater never leaves home without their “lip stick.” Case in point, this week’s Monday Cover skater, Kim Petersen, demonstrating how to apply a layer of metal shavings to the Treasure bowl lip. The stoke level of any session is kicked up a few notches when Kim is in the mix. Check out a few more pics of Kim after the turn along with a few video clips.
Congratulations Kim!
That’s a mouth full as well as a little word play on the Generation X song “One Hundred Punks Rule.” It’s all tied together by this week’s Monday Cover skater, Randy Katen. In addition to commanding the lip with super styling frontside snap-back grinds, Randy commands the punk airwaves in Missoula with his biweekly show Generation X on KGBA, University of Montana Radio. So how does mid-centenarian relate to all of this? Well, Randy celebrates his 50th birthday in t-minus 8 days. Check out more pics of an original N-Man after the turn.
Congratulations Randy and here’s to another 50 years of shredding!
Believe it or not, we are wrapping up our third year of Monday Covers and we are honored to feature Mr. Dedication himself, Bryce Kanights. Whether he is on a board, behind a camera or blogging it up for Skate Daily, Bryce is a true skateboarding connoisseur. Check out Bryce on a coping tasting tour after the turn.
Congratulations Bryce!
Growing up in a small mid-American town in the 70’s and trying to get your skate on was a bit of a challenge. Skateboarder magazine, possibly a set of Rampage ramp plans and your personal ingenuity were your ticket to survival. So, how many folks out there built a Rampage ramp? How many cut it in half at the bottom and inserted some flat? How many cut it down and put it inside of a garage or other building so you could skate through the Winter months? Like so many of us, this week’s Monday Cover skater, Jeff Ament, shares those skate roots. Check out more pics of Jeff shredding it up after the turn.
Congratulations Jeff!
Doing 8-wheeler pioneer Lonnie Toft proud, is this week’s Monday Cover skater, Rockin’ Ron with a bitchin’ frontside air. That’s one gnarly move on a deck with twice the amount of required trucks and wheels.
Congratulations Ron!
So the next time you’re throwing down an alley oop anything, you might want to thank this week’s Monday Cover skater, the legendary Chris Strople. Seeing those early sequences of Chris hucking a backside alley oop at Del Mar were mind blowing not to mention those trademark striped socks. Check out more pics of Chris shredding the gnar after the turn.
Congratulations Chris!
