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Lapper Begun in 1984 as BWNSM (Bruce and Wade's New Skate Magazine), a photocopied, northern Virginia skate 'zine, Lapper eventually became known world-wide !!

We want to be clear... Lapper supports the Mid-Atlantic Skateboard Hall of Fame and what they are accomplishing.The keyw...
26/05/2026

We want to be clear... Lapper supports the Mid-Atlantic Skateboard Hall of Fame and what they are accomplishing.

The keyword there is "support". Notice that support is the first word following "Join today". Someone told me, "$50 is a lot to pay, for one vote". If that's all it's about, that person might be right, and particularly so, since that one vote may not put a particular person into the hall, in that one year. The reality is... Most of us are grown-ups now. $50 a year, for a cause one might find important, really isn't that much money. The word is Support. Put supporting the Mid-Atlantic Skateboard Hall of Fame as the first priority for your $50 and then, having votes, attending events, discounts, etc., even influencing the future of the hall itself, just feels like a bonus.

Join today! (Your commentary is appreciated, too)

Birthday greetings to our good friend, . Back then... We called him "Backwards Bernie". Little did we know that he was p...
25/05/2026

Birthday greetings to our good friend, . Back then... We called him "Backwards Bernie". Little did we know that he was paving the way for skateboarding's evolution into the "switch" era. There's a little bit of skateboarding history, for you.

Hey, Bernie! I hope you have a good one, and many more.

Happy Birthday, .midgette! Fifty-eight y.o. and still ripping. Btw... This is also a big congratulations for being voted...
25/05/2026

Happy Birthday, .midgette! Fifty-eight y.o. and still ripping. Btw... This is also a big congratulations for being voted into this year's class of the Mid-Atlantic Skateboard Hall of Fame. I guess that means we'll be seeing you, in Ocean City, at the end of this summer. It's been a lot of years getting here, but you've definitely kept us entertained, along the way.

Happy Birthday, , as you 360 transfer into another year. is so excited, he had to slip in a nip. ...
21/05/2026

Happy Birthday, , as you 360 transfer into another year. is so excited, he had to slip in a nip.

Okay... I've given it a month. Honestly? I was so stunned that Mike Vallely wasn't on this list, I spent the past month ...
17/05/2026

Okay... I've given it a month. Honestly? I was so stunned that Mike Vallely wasn't on this list, I spent the past month questioning the very nature of "fame".

We want to congratulate everyone on this list. All are deserving. No argument. It's just that the Mid-Atlantic Skateboard Hall of Fame is starting to look, just a little, like the Mid-Atlantic Vert Skateboarding Hall of Fame. There have definitely been exceptions to this trend, but c'mon... Vallely? In the wider world, Mike V. is, easily, among the most famous skateboarders to ever emerge from the Mid-Atlantic region.

Here's how the Mid-Atlantic Skateboard Hall of Fame works... One must be a "member" of the hall to nominate or vote for who is going to be inducted. Membership costs $50 per year, and inductees receive a lifetime membership. Fifty bucks. That was a lot of money, when we were kids, but if some street skaters decide it's worth the spend, maybe we'll see Vallely, or Pepe, or Andy Stone get in; maybe we'll even see Pulaski Park go in, as a spot.

Having said all of that, I am trying to provoke a discussion. Tell us what you think. Don't hold back. What's good, what's bad, and what's important about a hall of fame. Ready? Go.

Close to 40 years ago (it was LATE May), pulled a McTwist, which was the first anyone had done at the . Honestly? The ...
10/05/2026

Close to 40 years ago (it was LATE May), pulled a McTwist, which was the first anyone had done at the . Honestly? The jury is still out on whether it was fair to call the landing "a make", smacking the tail and, instead of having the board completely je**ed out from under him, he glued his feet to the board, all the way to the flatbottom. The bottom line is that we were all VERY stoked, and Bruce and Wade had promised a cover to the first McTwist at the Crest. Volume 2, #2... Don Hillsman.

So, today, Don turns 40 years older than he was in the moment pictured. Happy Birthday, Don! We don't forget. In fact, many of us are still talking about this moment, forty years later.

working out his selfie video angles (Stereo ad!). I'm thinking he needs to be working with the experienced skate photog...
07/05/2026

working out his selfie video angles (Stereo ad!). I'm thinking he needs to be working with the experienced skate photog, who lives about a mile-and-a-half from the park.

Aaaahhh... Spring is here, I got my hands on a decent camera and skates my local park. It's time to work on my ollie, f...
07/05/2026

Aaaahhh... Spring is here, I got my hands on a decent camera and skates my local park. It's time to work on my ollie, flippy, street/park photography. Yoshi's a great subject and he threw me a bone with that blunt on the big quarterpipe. Thanks, Yoshi. It's all part of my campaign to make Lapper something other than a vert history book.

Olney Manor

Since we are in the 40th anniversary month of the opening of the Cedar Crest ramp, and since we have just launched the h...
06/05/2026

Since we are in the 40th anniversary month of the opening of the Cedar Crest ramp, and since we have just launched the hashtag , I'm going back to my earliest Cedar Crest rolls and pulling images that haven't been seen before. Some of them might be bails. This is , celebrating the new ramp by doing a cartwheel on the brand new coping.

Take note... This spring... The Spring of 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of a legend. Standing like a biza...
06/05/2026

Take note... This spring... The Spring of 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of a legend. Standing like a bizarre alien monolith, in some woods just off the Manassas battlefield, for many the Cedar Crest ramp would become the heart of the greatest ramp scene ever created. In fact, just last fall, this ramp was inducted, with the inaugural class, into the Mid-Atlantic Skateboard Hall of Fame. The first event -the Go for Broke Jam- would be at the end of May, in 1986. This picture, with dirt piles, no deck, and straw spread on the ground, is from the weeks prior. Tobin's "Bomb King" ( ) deck, where the front truck had been stomped through the board, is jammed onto a branch, in the background. I was so stunned by what I was seeing, I just kept taking pictures of the ramp.

Photographically-speaking, I'd like to cheer (front-right) for wearing a shirt and helmet, so bright, they were still burning the slide, decades later.

On this , we're staying right in this recently uncovered trove of photos, from the late . Frankly, it's been a little ...
05/05/2026

On this , we're staying right in this recently uncovered trove of photos, from the late . Frankly, it's been a little surreal, lately, with all this NOS photography. It feels, just a little, like having Bonnie back on staff, if only in spirit. While I'm on that... I'll acknowledge, without hesitation, that Bonnie's encouragement was key, to me, in the early years of my own skate photography journey.

This is tuckin' his knee, over the channel, at Cedar Crest, on an afternoon in either 1988 or 1989. Slowly, but surely, some of these sessions are actually identified, by people who were there, and the dates get better.

Anyway, happy and happy Cinco De Mayo.

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