By Ben Powell

Hold the fuck up and look at this cover: it’s a dude skating in sunglasses, cropped to provide no reference to where he’s coming from or landing, grabbing stinkbug, and it’s blurry as all hell. Four strikes, and that’s just the cover! Probably the worst skate photo I’ve seen printed in years. The back cover says the author is the editor of he “biggest-selling” skate mag in Europe. Given the quality of the cover of his book, I can’t help but gather that the magazine isn’t fit for birdcage lining. And what the hell does “biggest-selling” mean? ‘Cause it don’t mean best-selling.

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