Page 5 - BackSIDE VOL.13 Summer/Winter 2022

Volume 13
‘That’s the foundation
Summer/Winter 2022

of any skate mag;
Publisher/Editor/Writer/Designer
spike

Contributing Editors
Jim Goodrich (SkateBoarder) rad photos.’
Michael Sieben (Thrasher)
Luke Jackson (Session)
Olman Torres (stand by) Jaime Owens
Jono Coote (Sidewalk) CLOSER
Jamie Owens (Closer)
David Read (Manual)
Jay Mandarino (SBC)
Nat Kassel (SLAM)

Contributing Authors
Cole Louison (The Impossible)
Sean Mortimer (various)

Contributing Archivists
Skate Media Nerd (digital)
Kevin Marks (physical)

Contributing Historian
Jürgen Blümlein

Contributing Photographers
Patricia Kavanaugh
Bezdomny Pelikan
Glen E Friedman
Michael Burnett
Belle Kaiesiepo
COVER SHOT Kevin Spencer
‘We were just cruising around San José and this street
was under construction. We saw this little pipe and I Miguel Howell
said to my friend Daniel Cacon that it would be cool do a Reece Leung
photo here. I told him to do an Ollie and he delivered. Jaime Owens
The spot was just there for a couple of days so we were Olman Torres
lucky to have found it in time.’ Jim Goodrich
Photo: Olman Torres Alexi Falson
David Read
Tony Hawk
PREVIOUS PAGE SHOT Sam Clark
‘We were trying to come up with an original idea for a Grant Ellis
team or tour article for the next Irrom (Distribution) trip. Curtis Hay Jaime Owens taking a quick break at his Transworld Office in 2017. Two years later he
Morri’s friend had an empty kitchen manufacturing was facing a more permanent break from the mag. TWS discontinued its print edition
warehouse and we came up with this bonkers idea to in March 2019 and another iconic skatemag disappeared. Sort of. Some people keep
cover it in newsprint. Morri and Rhys Campbell had
some obstacles on hand and clued newspaper to them its digital spirit with the website and social media channel with an incredible 1.6M
along with some sheets of ply for run up and landing. followers on IG alive. And there is skatemag archivist Kevin Harris from Look Back
The rest of the room was covered in loose newsprint. Library, preserving the physical spirit of most skatemags across the world.
People’s names were made from individual letters and Contact
stuck on the walls. The article was called Irrom in Print.’ backsideskatemag.com More good news? Jaime getting tired of becoming really good at skateboarding again,
Reuben Baker - BS kickflip - Auckland, NZ @backsideskatemag decided to publish his own skatemag. CLOSER hit the shops in May 2022 and proves
Photo: David Read
michele@backsideskatemag.com one thing again. Print is not dead.

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