Slam Magazine Issue 251

DOUBLE COVER! For the first time in 15 years, this issue of Slam was printed with two cover shots. Jedd McKenzie’s frontside air on a rusty steel structure in Newcastle, and Jedd’s stalefish on the refurbished Hardcore bowl.

This giant steel section is part of a beastly boring machine called Kathleen, used to dig Sydney’s Metro rail tunnel beneath the Harbour. Masquerading as “steelworks archivists” to scope the spot and get the backstory, JEDD MCKENZIE and his crew discovered the only day the workers knocked off early was on Sunday afternoons.

They had 40 minutes of daylight before the sun laid itself to rest – to sneak in, skate it, and shoot the shot before it was annihilated. Jedd frontside airs on a thin strip of steel transition – rest in peace Kathleen – may your destruction become another skateable creation. PHOTO: RIELY WALKER

And to celebrate 50 Years of Hardcore, the Hardcore indoor bowl was given a facelift, pool coping, and a lick of blue for JEDD MCKENZIE to blast a stalefish off the new extension into the corner. PHOTO: WADE MCLAUGHLIN