Thrasher Magazine

With some of the best bowl skaters in the world lurking around Huntington Beach this week, Red Bull hosted a jam at Chicken’s backyard bowl. The session was streaming live, the energy drinks were flowing and Thrasher was on hand to shoot some photos. —Joe Hammeke

Chicken has one of the most extensive board collections in existence

Here he shows Tom Curran one of the first scooters ever made

There it is—Chicken’s pool, since '91

Right away Mike Rogers comes through with the front rock

Ffej is about to turn 50 but he still gets upside down. Age is meaningless

“Hey, it’s sugar free"

Alex Sorgente fires up a back Smiths through the corner

Chris Russell, frontside invert with his hand over the deathbox

Next up, a feeble grind along the roundwall

Robin Bolian placed 2nd at the last VDI stop. Here he is boosting a huge Madonna for the love, not the judges

Nora Vasconcellos with her fave, kickflip back D

Dune with the hard hitting questions: “So who’s your favorite skater?”

“Um, I’m kinda into this boy named Daniel Vargas”

Sandro showed up for a few grinds

Then Alex Sorgente did a half cab blunt fakie in the deathbox.

Bo Mitchell was there, keeping Richie Valdez company while he filmed the live webcast

Brazil was in the house. Or at least outside the house

Heimana Reynolds showed up and brought an eggplant with him

Joey Brezinski, “fired-up” the grill

Chris Russell on the sidewall with a slob fastplant

Murilo Peres was charging hard all evening, hauling ass over the many blocks of coping

Ryan Decenzo lives so damn close he probably could have skated over. FSA

Sorgente gave it one last pump of gas and pulled this kickflip indy and the session was a wrap