Skate and Destroy: The First 25 Years of Thrasher Magazine

by High Speed Productions and Eden O'Neill

Filled with the adrenaline pumping, gnar photos, and original and noteworthy content fans expert from Thrasher magazine, this volume is packed with interviews, and articles from skateboarding's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789313863
• ISBN13: 9780789313867
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

My son LOves this book

I bought this book for my 16 yr old son who is an avid skateboarder. He loves this book. It is definitely a collector item filled with many unknown and interesting facts through out the yrs of skateboarding....

Slashdog POV

As someone who started skating even before Thrasher published their first issue, and who has an extensive collection of Thrasher magazines, I too was a little underwhelmed by this book. Nevertheless, it's a worthy effort at summing up what Thrasher was and is. The print quality is top notch, and the photography is excellent. Many pages are occupied by short bios of "Legends", skaters that have left indelible marks on the art of skateboarding over time. These offer little more than polish on the already established fame/infamy of those mentioned, though. I was expecting more of Thrasher's seminal articles reprinted, but besides that pillar of skateboard writing, "Skate and Destroy", from 1982 they are few and far between. All that aside - Thrasher remains the truest, most meaningful print expression of skateboarding. Don't forget - Thrasher was there when skateboarding appeared dead to the eyes of the world at large, and they're still here.