Thrasher Magazine

Hella photos from the FA Hollywood Skate Jam 2. Didn’t make the site? There’s always next year!

Rolling up and there’s already a session at the First Baptist Church

Natas jump

Heavy five-stair attack

New shit

Griptape is the new book

Nice to meet y’all. See ya inside

Nora, you missed it!

Cody made it

Management types

Already getting loose

The details

Big John’s workout started hours ago

Suski-ish

Matt Bennett presses his signature grind. Obstacle approved!

Whattya think, Dennis?

BS ollie B&W = art

Speaking of, Graf fans were in for a treat

The homies from Colombia

Style on display in Hollywood

Logos OUT!

Lotta people here to shoot the action

Sticker wars

C’mon ….

I miss Big Love too

Lotta friends cruised out

Mikey and the boys, pre-revs

Honey bourbon

Feathers and shells

Wait. Is that the FA sign?

Not shy, just cautious

Collector vibes

How to make friends, part 1

My friends from the camera club

And Cold Dawg

Start the bidding at 2 Gs

Easy $400

Pete!

Frankie already snapped his shit

Cole on logistics

Detail-oriented types

Tubed

’Nah, this ain’t like Muni at all …’

SOTY on the light

Skiddin’

Bump to SOTY, Silas Baxter-Neal

Perez, flipping in all the way from the Bay

K White, wiping it up

Dill’s looks changed with the hour, but his mood was consistently sunny

Big John OTW

Vert-risk ratios for those keeping score

Side view of the BS NBS

Hugo Boserup, shifty flip. Dude rips

Marcos Montoya, cop pincher

Kickflip tail, didn’t catch the name

West Park’s Diego Todd

Dogz

You may have heard that Cold Dawg unofficially won the event. This information is not incorrect

Face down

To catch Gregson blasting off

New pro Jake Yanko braved the wall

Quick crowd check …

Not sure if this is the same laptop-filming kid or a clever lookalike

Either way, count me collected

Waiting for the big takeover

Project Berry style

Family friendly, at least at first

Ok, yeah, maybe sorta

Table time! Berle bites it

Spears up top

Smith, off the end

Suciu part 1

And 2

Oh shit, Toby’s here …

Majerus, sky scraping

Old friends Greg and John

Ventura strong

Scianooooooo!!!!

Cody booster while Nora and Jaeb find the lines

Get off the goddamned roof!!!

MS, BS TS

The oldest competitor by at least 15 years, Omar never passes up a skate jam

Loving every minute of it

Frontside flip

Crowd check from on high. Back at ya!

Perimeter breach, part 1

‘I mean, if they’re jumping in ….’

LAMF

Starting to squeeze

Lou, Mason and Jason

Pick a lane, bro

Put your wallet away, this shit’s free

Bubz and Flech yuck it up

While the East Coasters converse in that more raucous style they enjoy

Trend check number 43

And 36A

Twuan made it! Domo too

Ryan Lee, Flech and Meza. If you have eyeballs, you can thank these guys

Lil’ Shaka out the back from Ry Rey

Goldie made it!

What are y’all about to do…

And breach #2

Back on course, Toby and Tyson share the wave

Josh and Gage made it

Get comfortable, this shit’s about to go OFF

‘Shit … maybe I’ll frontside flip it … what’s the worst that could happen …’

Style for miles

North and South

Dre and Dill

If Rhino’s there, you know it’s gonna get serious. And that a tree might die!

KB and Imes

Yes, this is a photo of Baby Schizo and Mark Suciu. You’re welcome

Douglas lofts the can

While Boo tucks the fuck out of a hardflip

A scheduling snafu meant our guy Neck handled the mic

Which was actually the best case scenario

Everybody ready?

Best trick the short way!! Daiki on hurricane

Majerus with a nosegrind drifting into crooks country

Last year’s champ, bs Smith

Big ol’ shifty flip

Nora battled the kickflip Indy

She’ll get there

MS, 180 NG to forward

Comin’ through

Part-time shipper, full-time ripper Vans’ Kevin Shealy

Jonathan’s fired up

Pop-shove tail grab warm up

Then this happened

I was so shocked I failed to hold my finger down the whole time, so these were the only two frames I got

Bailey Schreiner captured it much better

Amazingly, neither Jaeb nor GT suffered any serious injury

‘Bruh …’

‘Uh, muh guh …’

And Grant even brought him his board back. THAT’S how pro skater this dude is!

Back to the action ––big spin

Time to push back against some of this riff-raff

‘Actually, you’re right.’

And the make …

Cody Jacobson gets some licks in

Did Chapman really nollie 360 over this thing?

Crowd: hyped

And then the Suciu grind! First time ever completed on a simulated police car in competition

Heavy traffic

Total jam

‘So should we turn it the long way?’

‘We should totally turn it …’

'Long ways, right?’

‘You guys, we gotta turn it …’

SCRICHHHHH

Quick vibe check while the car gets rotated

Alright, point taken

Cameras … ready

There’s that PMA

Let’s do this

When heckle hill is a van

Shit, bring your swimsuit, if you got one

They gonna smoke this shit!

When souvenirs become ponchos

More PMA

Jake and Boosh … ‘But you’re the defending champ!!!’

At least someone is staying behind the barrier

Fits for days

Our guy Jerome: cautiously optimistic

After that SOTY to the nuts, Dylan wasn’t taking any chances

Testing it out

Fire marshall check

‘And then I’m gonna go that way SUPER FAST!’

Jando breaks the ice

Lil’ Toby follows suit

Cariumas don’t fail me now!

Love this photo

So THAT’S where the art was …

Majerus busted it

Oh man

Very casual one-footer from LL

Curren with the classic cross up

Watch it, dude

‘That shit’s really far!’

Another test fling, shit!

Back to the top

This is a kid who’s busted the Mega, keep in mind

Missed Hale’s kf indy. Sorry, homie

And Curren’s flying starfish

Louie’s pop shove tail grab was one of the sickest tricks of the day. Floated it!

So sick!

And then the one-frame of Toby’s award winning 360 tail grab. Shee-ittt!!!

Cold Dawg flies so high

And then Mikey from the Concrete Cowboys, well, you know













Cue Mozart

Shit hits fan. Again

Neck and Toby

He didn’t even realize at first that he’d not only won the obstacle cash, but the big check too

Shut the fuck up! Dead City Punx are starting

If you were looking for a mellow chortle fest

This is NOT the band for you

Pure mayhem!

Aggro zone

Safe behind the iron fence

Thank you, Los Angeles

And the good folks of Hollywood

See you next year ––all of you