Thrasher Magazine

Ripping bands, rattling coping and flying carcasses! Sounds like Death Match 2025. Check it out and see if you made the only blog that matters!

Photos by Aguilar, Burnett, Coulthard, Joseffer and Rhino

This the place? Oh, whattup, Romel?

Yep, Pappy and Harriets. Townley stood there all day, by the way. Thank you for your service!

A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet … at Death Match

Locals seemed friendly

Ok, here we go!

First thing’s first: check out this ramp! ABD for Pedro

Ron breaks it in … to fakie

Evan flew in from Pittsburgh, Indy style

And Roman gapped the horns, no problem

Is that little halfpipe on top skateable? Pete Dolphin says yesss

Back lip up and in? Ok, bet

Death Match vet Raney Beres rains Indy to fakie

And even the street skaters started showing up

SOTYs …. Everywhere

Grind plop, hornwise

Fastplant frontside. You get it … total domination

What a view!

Cranking it up, still watching

GT don’t need a crowd to bust bigly

Oh yeah, that’s Lefty under there in the Smith stop position

Phone filmer is a real job now. Too easy for Robin and Ryan

While Tim Aguilar takes it back to some 1950s technology as our resident Polaroid expert

Diggs made it!

Pedro stokes the bros as dark clouds gather

What, me worry?

Cons crew made it. They better

Macey keeps it logos out. Wait, we got our own coffee cups?

Hella merch, ready for consumption

Where’d you get that??

Skate night? Nah, date night for Tobes. Love to see it

The look you get when you are wearing neither shorts nor high socks

Music time!! No Warning! No, that’s the name of this badass band!

See!

Febuary (that’s how they spell it) won over hella fans with their first visit to the Match

So sick!

Haywire were ready to destroy! Just gotta find a place for his Wet Willy real quick

Ok, HERE we go

Fired the F up!

Back at the ramp, cheeky Converse snack break

Two weeks after meeting Johnny in Brazil, here he is at the Match, heeling off the horn

This was sick! Rock to Natas spin back in, with pants full of cool bands

Leading ladies of stoke

Lady Meek really is from Texas

And Bryce brought the sun in from Encinitas

Kasci is a mini-ramp master! Mistress? Fuck it, she rips

‘How do we get up there, anyway?’

It was Omar’s birthday. So glad he wanted to spend it with us

And you probably heard Bob Burnquist made it too!

Sad plant to fakie BATTLE, smiling all the way

Ain’t skating great?

Ground check! Don’t worry, Cody. Your flick made the mag

Direct from Machu Pichu, the Silvas!

Dave and Cole, icons behind the scenes

Stagger and Fall? Nah, Eben and Ash

The twins made it!

Birdhouse survivors!

Ganging up gang. Thanks for coming out!

The elegant Billy Markses, with friends

Ducky and his girl. See! He’s not that crazy

Wait, isn’t Thrasher for old dudes? Well, we got those too!

Twilight, shhhhh

Oh, hey, Ed

Duck takes advantage of the nicest light of the day

While Sean unloads the unorthodox Underhill plant. Incredible

Detroit’s HiTech smashed it!!

Dare you not to boogie

Superheaven, too. One of two Heaven-themed bands booked for the event

The Mainliners were kind enough to initiate a few kids into the wonders of the pit

Won’t be their last surf

The Dark lived up to their name …

While Lathe of Heaven was a crowd fave with their classic New Wave stylings

Last blast before the headliners. Milton’s domination showed no slowing

He would launch impromptu doubles with unsuspecting partners. Insane to watch

This is frontside half-Cab flip in, not a frontside flip

And Zach Allen almost joined the 540 club. Next time!

Jammed up to the front

‘Will you hold my camera if I want to stage dive?’

And WHAM! Dinosaur Jr’s sonic wave washed over us like a rock n roll tsunami

Oh shit, the boss is here …

I mean, OH SHIT!!!!

Not Evan’s first time to ride the human wave

It’s crazy that some venues don’t allow it

A man and his pedals

Bryce and a pal come up for air

While Kasci kicks back and enjoys the ride

A little sidestroke from Cody

You wanna go up, Sean? We got you!

Cruise was so locked in on Lou Barlow’s epic bass display we literally had to carry him out!

And NOW …. The thing you’ve all been waiting for … THE FAMOUS TEXAS DEATH MATCH

On your marks …

GO!

Greyson boldly sneaks in an ollie

Only to be taken out in the flat!

And Kowalski emerged victorious! No big surprise given the bullshit he’s survived over the years

And now THE BRIDGE OF DEATH!!! Of course the Muscle was the first one over it

Traffic jam on the way back though

‘Maybe I’ll just chill here …’

T-Bird takes a heel

While Greyson and Hutch double up

Five-O, holy shit from Kowaski

Noseblunt floater

Pedro’s nosegrind on top was insane

As was Gav-O’s head-high no-comply slide

Stand-up Rube a Dube to put a fork in it. Wow!

So stoked!

Then the Schaar Show began. Tailgrab 540, second try

And the Smith kickflip you’ve all seen! He’s on one

Like WOWEE WOW!

But Greyson would not be satisfied …

Front blunt kickflip attempts, landing a few, missing several and smash, smash, smash!!

Exhibit A

Even a FaceTime from dad couldn’t make it work

But we all knew he gave it his all

And then Ducky gapped to the dirt. The End!

Thanks to Converse Cons and all our friends who made the trek. This shit was a laugh riot! See you next year!