About a week ago, Pure Skateboarding, magazine created by Mirai Pulvirenti and the Baco boys, came out with issue 3.
In the double spread above that opens up the mag, we see Danny Galli fs lipsliding the cradle at the Knodel bowl in Brescia.
Even if Danny still has a few weeks of forced rest ahead, it’s good to see him reaping the seeds of this year’s alarming productivity on his side.

On the other hand the weird (and dated) image on the cover shows Gargy, a.k.a. Alessandro Gargiullo, long time roman skater, in the big pants small wheels era, ak.a. the early 90s, at the famous EUR Palombini spot in Rome.

The leit motiv of this issue is infact an excerpt of Gargy’s memories and pictures, of which he decided to make a book on his twenty-more years of skateboarding.

Gargy tells us about the uncomfort and social akwardness of a young boy in the outskirts of Rome who chooses a slightly different route for entertaining himself. Then the realization that this diversity is a value that opens the door to a brand new world that carries along friends, an actual subculture and a real long term lifestyle.

The cover of this beautiful issue of PURE Skateboarding and eight pages inside are dedicated to Marcin Solecki.

Other than the Issuu version, browsable online, you can download the pdf file [7,2 MB] and at bastard store – and 249 other stores in Italy – some original copies are available… I mean printed, on paper.