Thrasher Skate and Destroy: The First 25 Years of Thrasher Magazine Paperback – DVD, May 30, 2006

Great retrospective of, (some), of the years I missed the mag!

Well worry the wait, super stoked, great quality 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....

everybody who skates needs this book. Now go out and get a copy of this! The photos are big and burly and in your face...

Reading through this is so much fun, I kept a bunch of my old issues and wish I would not have lost the rest.

Maybe my expectations were too high but I really expected quite a bit more from this book. It's really just a collection of photos from each year with a couple of descriptions here and there. I expected much more from the early years and either reprints of articles or some new content. How can you not have a section on Pushead? Just not what I expected and fairly weak.

Everything I hoped it would be.

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.

I brought this as a gift for my partner, an avid reader of Thrasher back in the day, he collected all the magazines until they were destroyed in a fire.He really loved this book, its a fantastic collection of wonderful photos but as someone else said it could have had more reproduced articles or updates. If you loved and remember Thrasher from the early 1990s then without doubt you will enjoy this book but you may be wishing for a bit more content.

bel libro per tutti gli appassionati di skate! ottime foto e articoli su 25 anni di storia dello skate e della rivista

Very Good book 25 five years of trasher real skateboard in this ... This is a magazine style book with a lot of image

Time for an update (2005 is long gone by now) but still one of the best books ever made about skateboarding, with a rich content.