The Skateboarders Journal Magazine

The founders of The Skateboarder’s Journal have long hoped to see the full spectrum of skateboarding covered with greater depth, balance, intelligence, and perspective. After years of talking and dreaming, they decided to create a magazine that does just that and it is now available in South Africa.

Jack Smith, Publisher of the Skateboarders Journal had this to say about the magazine:

Our vision is this: to respect and honor skateboard history, both the neglected aspects and the over-exposed elements, while supporting the evolution of all skateboarding disciplines as entities unto themselves – with individual subcultures that need not be chained to Old School nostalgia, despite the romantic allure of bygone Golden days.

You will find comparatively few advertisements in TSJ. Our goal is to be more reader-supported than advertiser-dependent. With fewer ads, we can devote more pages to in-depth articles about skateboarding topics that receive little attention in mainstream magazines.

You will see interviews/features with skateboarders from all eras and all disciplines: street, vert, longboard, racing, freestyle and just plain old skating. In this second decade of this new century, all-around skateboarding is once again enjoying a renaissance, just as it did in the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, Approaches that were considered “alternative” for the last twenty years – such as longboarding, slalom, downhill, all-purpose cruising, and flatland freestyle – are now more readily accepted. TSJ will treat all of these time-honored aspects of skateboarding with the respect they deserve.

The Skateboarder’s Journal will delve into all dimensions of skateboarding – culture, history, art, travel, technology and the future. We will also bring you photography from the world’s best skate photographers.Content is foremost. It will be presented in a clean, classic format that focuses your attention on what’s important, not on indulgent graphic design.

Readers will be able to access TSJ from their iPad, iPhone, other Internet-enabled mobile device, laptop, or desktop computer. Our goal is to make TSJ available to you no matter where you are, or where you may be going.

The premiere issue features the following content:
I Am a Skateboarder by Stacy Peralta
Skateboarding’s New Golden Age by T. Jonathan Colberg
Why Longboard?
Urethane Wheel Pioneer Frank Nasworthy Interview by Ben Marcus
Young Skywalker: Life so Far with Alex Olson by Mackenzie Eisenhour
Legends of the Downhill: Shufeldt, Hickey, Reimer by Gary Fluitt
Retro Respect – The Work of Legendary Skate Photographer Jim Goodrich
A Picture of Emptiness by Ozzie Ausband
Art – Steve Caballero
The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, The Self-Interview by Ben Marcus
What I Ride: The Bare Necessities by Abby Zsarnay
Face Time: An Expression Session of Legends by Lucia Griggi
Film – Highway Gospel

Issue 1.2 features the following line-up:
Finding Tony Alva Tony Alva
Long May You Skate – Sims, Economy, Edwards, Pilloni.
Photo Gallery – Garric Ray
Mimi Knoop & Nora Vasconcellos
Skaterdater
Bones Brigade Documentary Artist Profile – Judi Oyama
Skateboarding Through The Dark Ages
What I Ride – Kilian Martin
Larry Stevenson

Contact your local skate store for the magazine.

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