Luchaskate Volume 1 Issue 1 Editor/Publisher David Thornton Contributors: Edward Pidgeon, Wrex Cook, Kim Cook, Lindsey Rowland, Dawn McKay, Brian Sneed, Christian Johnson, Christian Westphal, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Dan Pinder, Ron Hale and Matt Eckelberg Contact: luchamag@yahoo.com Additional Content: luchaskate.com The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the publisher. Submissions are accepted digitally at luchamag@yahoo.com.
About the Cover If skateboarders left skatepark design and construction up to the general public, the world would be covered with bland, no flow, awkward skate spaces. Skateboarders all over the world realize they need to involve themselves in the skatepark design and construction process to ensure quality and creatvitity in the skateparks and skatespots that are given to most of us. Wrex Cook is no exception. Being a motivated part of a growing machine was something he learned early on from his mentors that taught him the ropes in a skateboard scene rich in history, Arizona. So much so, that kids today still look up to the old guys that made Wrex work for every backyard pool and ramp session with them. And he continues to give back to his first love, skateboarding, by taking every chance he can get to get his hands muddy, dried up, burned and calloused to build something for all of us to skate. If I had to choose a motto for him, it would be "Create, then Skate"...Wrex just finished up a six week job in humid heavy West Point, Mississippi. As seen on the cover busting a frontside ollie in the south's newest public skatepark designed and constructed by him and his fellow crew, Grindline Skateparks. -Kim Cook