Skateboard Magazine Make-A-Wish Skate Jam 2012

Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2012 by Porpe

Photos/Words By Porpe

Skateboarder Magazine and SPoT Productions joined forces to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. It was a hot day at Stoner Plaza in West LA, but everyone battled through heat. All in all the skateboard community was able to raise over $5000 for a great cause.

Aquil Brathwaite

Ryan Clements and Vern Laird are pretty entertaining on the mic. Add Aquil Brathwaite's two cents and there are moments of gold.

Eric Koston

Jaime Owens from Skateboarder Magazine helped make this event happen. His friends Paul Shier, Eric Koston, and Reda were all in attendance. It was nice seeing some of skateboarding's finest showing support for a good cause.

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Aaron Snyder

Aaron Synder is a local of Stoner Plaza, and a Street League judge. He skated in the first jam and did a bigspin backside sugercane. I missed it but I did managed to get this shuv pivot to fakie.

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Shawn Hale

Last week Shawn Hale took some of the hardest slams I have ever seen trying to backside noseblunt the shark at Coastal Carnage. Here he had no problem doing a bigspin backside noseblunt revert.

Shawn Hale

Here is some more of Shawn Hale ripping. Believe it or not, he wallied into this backside smith grind.

Paul Hart

Florida transplant, Paul Hart, doing a switch heelflip backside 5-0.

Norman Woods

Norman Woods - kickflip crooks.

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Oscar Meza

Oscar Meza - kickflip nosegrind revert.

Max Barrera

When Clements told me that there was going to be a surprise jam on the dish to the stage I didn't think anything but an ollie was going down. I was proved wrong. Max Barrera with the airwalk.

Anthony Pshebelski

Anthony Pshebelski with a kickflip. Please take a look at that distance between the dish and the stage.

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Who Dat?

Who dat with the varial heelflip out of nowhere.

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Sebo Walker

It was only appropriate that Sebo Walker shut it down with this backside flip. I still can't believe he lives out of his van. He parks his van outside of Stoner and skates there everyday.