A raw love letter to San Francisco skate chaos, anchored by the line “Playing in traffic is what skateboarding in San Francisco is all about,” this issue barrels through heavy skating and off-kilter personalities. World Champ Weekend brings spectacle and splashes with a 540 into the water, while Jaws delivers kickflip stalefish bodyjars and Bingaman throws it back to gnarly ’80s vert energy. Mead drifts into outlaw country soul with George Jones and Gram Parsons, McEntire gets strangely domestic with seven pairs of socks, and Hatchell faces punishment culture with chores for missed tricks. Suciu dives into mind-bending science, Lutheran frames collecting as personal art, Nesser runs on caffeine madness, and Ryan gets brutally real about staph infections. The departments and side features keep the mag buzzing with street grit, music weirdness, visual punch, and that unmistakable Thrasher blend of danger, humor, and grime soaked authenticity.
