The project crystallizes all manner of things to do with skating and the extent to which it has changed. The pros represented go as far back as Tony Alva (born 1957), and as forward as Paul Rodriguez (or “P-Rod,” born 1984). Mainly, the focus is on who they think the five most influential skaters are, which one is at the top of that list, and which figure inspired them the most.
In five-to ten-minute profiles, the skaters discuss their careers and are quizzed on the subject of influence.
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The magazine’s editors selected thirty of the most influential pro skaters and then tracked them down to talk. The (), occasioned by a thirtieth anniversary, are coming out gradually over the course of the year. Transworld is one of the two most central skating magazines-the other being the more punk-minded Thrasher-and has long been distinguished for its emphasis on progression and on the high calibre of its photos. As if sensing the potential for a broader oral history of the sport, Transworld, arguably the best equipped to do it, is working on a project of their own.
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“Epicly Later’d,” a loose and often candid series directed by Patrick O’Dell at Vice, looks at the careers of professionals past and present-a featured rider’s reminiscences may turn on anything under the sun, and include snippets of old unseen video. But some new oral histories are changing that. Skate history is usually restricted to magazines, company video footage of riders, and of abuses chronicled on benches, rails, curbs, and blocks, which skaters can read like the tracks of animals. The most fascinating elements of all this activity are the online interviews. Among these are the old-school-oriented The Skateboarder’s Journal-the latest issue has a feature on clay wheels-and 43, a grass-roots mag out of Brooklyn. And, improbably in this twilight of print, new magazines have surfaced. Documentaries have been trickling out, about Hosoi, Gator, Rocco and, famously, Dogtown and the Z-Boys Stacey Peralta’s next film, about the Bones Brigade, is due to première this summer. There are ubiquitous short boards and long boards, if you’re into those, and reissues of classic decks, like Gonz’s original Vision model, or Vallely’s red-eyed-elephant board. Old-man body aches aside, mature skaters have a fair amount to smile about these days.
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