Thrasher Magazine

Steve Caballero celebrated 30 years of the Half-Cab with a VIP final session at the Combi Pool. Hosoi, Pabich, Lizzie, MacDonald .... who WASN'T there?!

The mighty Combination Pool ––half square, half round, all radical

Packed house, already

Dan and Rye, checking their frame rates. Steady, boys!

A flood of familiar faces

A shaka? Too early, bro

“No, on our knees. We put ‘em on our knees …”

Worthy fuckin’ adversaries Acosta and MRZ

As well as some of the new breed of skate media

Babes? Oh yeah, hella!

Salba and Chicken, spec talk

Looks like a steep one

Some serious faces from the Vans brass. You’d be in a serious mood too if you saw the kind of risks Jamie’s taking on those curbs every weekend

Helluva job, Brownie!

The Cat and Christ … so sick!

Grabke and Fish?!! No WAY!

I still remember what you told me in that parking lot, Mami …

Cedric, media averse

Still, c’mon … who doesn’t love a cute cat video?!

The R. Pabiches, fine AF

Crowds forming

Something about these helmets is making me thirsty

Juneau scores some Buck nucks. Nice

Look, kids! Big Ben!

Ray and a dude we were calling “Healthier Chet”

Go-Pro convo

Like and subscribe!

And … the man of the hour

Buddha-like, from on high!

Schaar made it!

Bostick … he used to run this town

The hype is here!

Steve, Omar, Dave and a whole lot of Benjamins

Grrrrrr!!!!

“Can we start?”

No dive! No water, brah!

Then Thin Lizzie sparks it with the killer boardslide!

Mami on Smith, foot rolled like Cab

Josh Rodriguez is a force of nature. This front feeble is like breathing to him

Lilly from Germany, slaps it to rail

Jordan Santana with a set-up invert

Followed by a wicked McTwist!! Holy shit!

Omar on roll-in lip. Casual

Borden was on fire. Dive bomb Indy

Liz with the easy hand up frontal

Minna Stess, Smith grind success

Sleepy Turtle steps out

There it is!

Oliver Grosso was in the bowl ––tucked and sailing

Standing tall on a sweep

How sweet it is!

This kid played ‘90s pop punk hits on a ukulele! Only in the OC, folks!

Boom! Mami goes frontal

While Ruby slapped tail

Ms. Stoephasius again, stale AF

With authority!

Zach Miller flies FS

No pads, no panic. Roman plants fast for Larry

Big Ben, into the corner! My life flashed before my eyes a little

Edgy egg

Shoe-grab nosegrind

My life before my eyes, part 2

Cab’s new band Urethane performed

They did a Misfits and McRad cover, too

So, yeah, pretty rad

Back to the action –– Nicky Guerrero!

The undead was there … heelblocking shit

Ben Schroeder put that groove to work, riding the hip like a fuckin’ freight train!



Much safer angle

He invented H-Street, Osiris, the 360 Varial … but sadly, Tony Mag did not invent the Ollie

Tom takes it to the future with a boned out switch tailgrab

Mayday! Mayday!

Mac on Japan

Two-fingered stale. All she needs, I guess

Kiko Francisco, one-footed mute

Now THAT’S a sweeper! Bucky Lasek is the Ironman of the Combi

Hosoi was ripping all night

Eye contact fs grind

Mac on Beef

Ollie oop? Jesus!

Kaito Hashimoto is not from Texas

‘Cane fakie, Vamped

Judo!

Dave Andrecht was in the building. Which was probably why Minna chose this hand plant

From the hip

Ruby Lilley,  almost John-Gibson tucked!

Kiko tripping on Thrasher Dan’s loafers

He landed it. Don’t worry, he just did

You think this shit’s not scary?!!

Method to fakie, through the corner. There will never be another

Sleepwalking a nosegrind through the corner, Juneau again

Borden, Roman and a casual corner encounter



Surprisingly, both were fine

Cocona Hiraki was there

Bennett Harada on layback duties. Always

More old school shit from Bucky —nollie flip backside air

Tom gets in the flip game with the heelflip Lien

No comply tailslide

And then the no-slide version. Very heavy

FF to tail by Lizzie, for Claus, probably

And then the ‘Hana!

Not a lot of fools doing Andrecht fakies. Maybe just one, in fact. One fool

Jesus died so we can fly. Amen, brother!

Look at that shape!

SVD, best seat in the house

Looks like best-trick time again!

Not that you need money to have fun

Staab and Fish know

Lance yucks it up while Prof Schmitt calculates everyone’s wheelbases

Shallow pocket, step back

A rare occurrence

Anybody gonna get that board for him or what?

Pops Hosoi got a better shot of Lester than I did

Frontal bluntal. If not now, then sometime recently for sure

More skyscraping by Kiko. What does that feel like?!

Rye can only fantasize

If you can’t get a good photo of that layback you better return that camera, brah

Stevie in a jovial mood

Looks like he wants the lunch tray surprise!

Omar, you got this???

Almost …

There it is …

Nooo!

Boo-yeah!

To head smacker (not shown)

A valiant effort by a seasoned showman!

But now it was the man of the hour’s turn …

Cheeky 40-foot-long boardslide. No problem-o

Followed by a classic frontal

A few, actually

This would make a good Anatomy, right?

Finishing it off with the maneuver that sparked a generation ––the Caballaerial

You’re G.D. right he’s still got it

What a time to be alive!

And we were there!

Thanks, Steve! Thanks, Vans! Lots of good memories in that building...