Thrasher Magazine

Vert skating's favorite event is back! No winners, no losers, (except anyone who chickened out,) this is halfpipe action at its down-and-dirtiest best!

Peter Hewitt went on the disabled list, so he picked up a camera and turned into P-STONED, baking away at Washington Street and filming the homies.

Black Label skateboards is stoked to announce Auby Taylor as their newest team rider.

Broken boards equals broken dreams. Chris Russell had it in the bag but one too many hang-ups enabled Tom Schaar to spin his way to the top. Meanwhile, Pedro Barros stole the show with a death defying NBD. 10 years of the Pool Party and this was the best one yet! Cheers, Vans!

Our Double Rock filmer "Redder" isn't always inside the park. Check out this montage of his travels around the Bay Area.

"Auby's World" caused quite a stir, but the skaters of Texas have known about Mr Taylor's abilities for a while now. Check out this part from Index Skate Supply's "Allergic to Awesome" video, which came out in 2012.  

When you are so focused on getting your trick it can be easy to overlook the safety of your janky set-up ramp. Auby gets sucker punched.

This is one of the surprise video parts of the year. Auby Taylor is a true ledge wizard but as this part progresses the tricks and spots just keep getting gnarlier. Epic part, epic dude. You gotta watch this.

He's been emerging from the underground the past couple of years and his full part is going to melt your brain tomorrow. For now, here is Auby with some quick D-Rock destruction.