Category: From The Mag

Getting Mental at VIC. Even the rain can’t stop Nikolai Piombo, Ronnie Kessner, Thomas Dritsas, Andrew “Chunks” Norton, and friends getting down.

Video from Mental’s debut tour to Auckland, New Zealand. As seen on the cover and inside Manual Winter 2025 issue. Featuring a horde of heavy hitters including Chima, Snape, Zion, Nikolai, Christian Henry, Gabriel Summers and more.

From the outside looking in, Ishod Wair seems like he wouldn’t have a worry in the world. He is at the top of the skateboarding mountain, certified SOTY, has graced many a magazine cover, and is on his second Pro Shoe for Nike SB.

Tim Guy reflects on the passion, trials and excitement of 20 years in the game. Change is constant, and the B-Town team are up for the challenge.

Ari Saffer’s Good As from Manual Magazine, Issue 72.

Cullum’s Good As feature from Manual Magazine, Issue 72.

There’s nothing wasted here. When Orson Reynolds puts trick to lip or brush to canvas there’s nothing spared.

The story behind the cover of Manual Magazine, issue 72. Karl scales a prominent feature in Auckland’s Spaghetti Junction. Chami captures it in an iconic image.

SLS, World Champs, Tom Cruise, the trials of Olympic qualification, and going padless — Jessica Ready has a lot going on. Talent and consistency have everything to do with it.

Meet Dereck De Souza. He’s a powerhouse on a skateboard and is making moves with his eponymous clothing brand.

Veteran skateboarder Dean Hunt remembers the massive indoor skatepark built in an old railway shed on Wellington’s Waterloo Quay.

Australian Fiend, Nixen Osborne is a total ATV Crusher. He scoured Aussie terrain and slayed it all in his first full-length video part for the Black and Green.

At ages 15 and 53, there is almost four decades difference between them. They share the same stoke for skateboarding, The Dew and can run laps around any bowl. But who’s tunes are playing in the camper?

Whitmore Park DIY is not a skatepark. It’s a skate spot made by skaters for skaters. It may possibly contain more things the average skateboarder would like to skate than your average skatepark.

Southland could be the most untouched region of Aotearoa. It could also be the roughest and most weathered grounds. Pavement Store sends the team deep into the unknown pastures south of Otago.

Lorna Goldfinch’s sketchbooks read like a compendium of the world’s most iconic skate spaces and places.

Auckland-based skateboarder Jess Lord on rituals, skating with your eyes closed and Drew Barrymore.

Jamie Cook’s ‘My Favourite Thing’ from Manual, issue 70. A gem from 2004 featuring one of H-Town’s favourite sons, Pedro Day.

Sam Palmer (alongside many others) paved the way for spaces like Wellington’s Newtown Ghetto Spot and Berhampore’s Treetops. Hopefully, his words inspire you to pick up a trowel for the first time or double down on your DIY conviction.

Backyard training facilities, back-to-back 540s and chasing the Olympic dream. Life is never dull for Wānaka’s Zedyn Fellows.