Guest Penis: Dave Carnie
Carn Carn has started writing for The Skateboard Mag and has taken a position in the new USAS. We’re going to give him an uncensored medium when he has time. Cuz we Love him. Dave sent us some mail…
Dear Skateboarding Sucks,
…The reason I’m writing, is to tell you about the USAS. which I like to call US ASS! which is “USA skateboarding.” yes, sounds bad, I know. but guess what? I’m an executive board member.
First of all I’m proud to be a part of this group. Second I don’t like it. I mean, this is what I’ve been clamoring for over a year now: all of skateboarding’s groups, IASC, UPSA, WCSK8 and SPAUSA, needing to organize. They did. I just wish we didn’t have to. but, in order to retain some semblance of what we call skateboarding, we need to form a governing body. Because if we didn’t do it, someone else (like rollersports) will. Now we have one. Hooray.
The meeting itself was hilarious. it was run by Gary Ream and Mike Jacki of Woodward. because of their ties to Olympic gymnastics, they have been approached by the IOC. at first I didn’t like what I was seeing, but in the end I’m glad Gary and mike are there. mike has extensive Olympic experience so he was able to “walk us through” everything. like we had to make motions and nominate people and second motions…we had no idea what the fuck we were doing, but mike coached us every step of the way. it was gay, but whatever, it has to be done. so after we formed the board of directors, we had to nominate the executive board, which is as follows:
Gary Ream, President
Tony Hawk, Vice President
Jim Fitzpatrick, Vice President
Don Bostick, Vice President
Miki Vuckovich, Member
Dave Carnie, Member
John Bernards, Treasurer
Mark Waters, Secretary
Neal Hendrix, Athlete
Buster Halterman, Athlete
I’m happy with the way things turned out and though there’s going to be a lot of bad decisions in the future, at least skateboarders will be making them. Like I said at the beginning, I wish this didn’t have to happen, but it does.
Full story will appear in an upcoming issue of The Skateboard Mag.