STEFAN JANOSKI'S GOT MAIL

His mom reads and responds to 'em, so we fi gured we might as well make Stefan Janoski, the king of switch fl ips, follow in her footsteps, and do the same. After all, Mother knows best, right?

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Or for all you mothers of pros out there, send your embarrassing stories to: TransWorld SKATEboarding Attn: We've Got Mail 2052 Corte Del Nogal, Suite 100 Carlsbad, CA 92011

This month's featured letter gets a Stefan Janoski pro board from Habitat.

LETTER OF THE MONTH

Beloved TWS, a few years ago I decided that the milk-gallon-in-anhour impossibility couldn't be that impossible, so fi rst I searched the Internet and found two guys who claimed to have basically done it. One guy declared he accomplished it on his lunch break at work (a tie and cubicle workplace, even) with the help of some cookies and then vomited it up after keeping it down for the second hour (which is strange because it should just have to be kept down no matter how long after). The other guy was a tubalard who said he used an entire gallon of milk while eating his breakfast cereal and felt very satisfi ed afterward. Well, I had a bunch of bags of powdered milk at my house that someone gave me, so I decided to mix up a gallon and go for it. My friend tried it (unsuccessfully) with me, but I pulled it off! Friends balked at the use of powdered milk, so a few weeks later I bought a gallon of whole milk and did it again for them to witness! Both times it was going right through me even before getting it all in me, and I also spent the rest of both of those days on the crapper, but it was well worth it! I tried again later with chocolate milk and failed, but should I be contacting Guinness, or a circus, or Stan Lee?-Dan Klebes, via e-mail

Yeah man, contact Guinness, or a circus, or someone who cares.

MOTHER KNOWS BEST

Dear TransWorld, I was interested in reading the letter from "Stefan, Vallejo, California." He wrote that he is "kinda homeless living on the streets of Vallejo" and someone stole his skateboard. If you can connect me to him somehow, I would like to provide him with a complete Stefan Janoski skateboard. As the mother of Stefan Janoski, I can't let someone named "Stefan" be without a skateboard especially if that is their passion. Please let me know if I can help. -Margi, Vacaville, California

Wow Mom, you really need some attention, eh?

ANATOMY OF A SKATEBOARDER

Dear TransWorld, fi rst off, I'm thirteen years old and I really love your magazine. I love skateboarding and it's been my life since I was four. I recently got a clothing sponsor and have been doing great in competitions except for one problem: about a year ago, I snapped my femur right in half boardsliding a handrail-it was the worst. I recovered fully, but I am worried. Skateboarding is a dangerous sport. I want to be doing it my whole life, but I don't want to hurt myself so much that I can't even walk when I am 60. I am going to start wearing pads, but I hate the way they look. How do the older pros' bodies feel? What else can I do to keep safe? I am sick of worrying about my knees and wrists and other joints! Help! -Alex Whitehouse, via e-mail

Skateboarding is bad for you. My body feels terrible, I have bad wrists, fl oating bones in my heels and hips, my knees ache every morning, my elbows are deformed, my mind is going, and my ankles hurt every step. Boohoo. Somebody call the wahmbulance.

BLINK 180 POO

Hey TWS, I'm just writing to ask you, why do skaters listen to such terrible music? It seems like everyone who skates listens to rap. People should listen to music that fi ts better with skating, like punk. Old Blink-182 had a few skateboarding references and they were skaters themselves. I just think that punk music and skating go hand-in-hand, so we should listen to music that fi ts with skateboarding.-Juan Lucente, via e-mail

Blink-182, punk rock? Hahaha! Looks like people who listen to terrible music shouldn't tell people they listen to terrible music. Open your mind and quit being so judgmental.

DAVID VS. GOLIATH

Yo TransWorld, I'm really pissed off. There is a new kid at school who skates really good, but he wants to use other skaters' boards at my school. The main problem is that he breaks boards. Every board he uses, he's broken; he weighs 150 pounds but breaks all of them. The worst board he broke was an almost Double Impact Haslam board that cost 60 dollars. He made no friends after that one. All of the students ask him to buy them new boards but he refuses. Thankfully, he has not broken mine yet. TransWorld, what should I do, or what should we all do? Sometimes he brings his board and we try to break it, but he tells the teacher, and she gives us detention. It's not fair. Somehow he always gets our board or some stupid kid lets him borrow it.-Ryan E., La Puente, California

Just say "no" and tell him to land his tricks right.

SKATE COACH

Hello TransWorld, I know you get messages like this-people asking for sponsors-but I'm not looking for a sponsor. I'm looking for a teacher. I try to teach myself how to skate, but so far it is an epic fail. I try to look for other skaters who are not poseurs, but as we already know, that's not going to happen because at my school, there are so many f-king poseurs. But anyway, I need to be taught, not get sponsored. So, my question is: are there any pros that want to be my teacher? Help!-Nick Mezeraani, via e-mail

Skateboarding cannot be taught. It is an individual activity. There are no rules, no lessons. Figure it out on your own or go play baseball (but I will teach you for 1,000 dollars an hour).

SICK KICKS

Hey TWS, I just wanna know, how do you think Stefan Janoski feels when he sees his buttery-ass shoes on someone else, a.k.a. millions of other people?-Dominique Jarod Burl, via e-mail

Thanks for thinking they are buttery-ass. It feels good. I'm glad people like them.

SCOOT CITY

Ay TransWorld! Thought I would send you some thoughts from the porcelain throne. I got a problem. And it's scooters. Who the hell scooters anymore? The town I live in, we have an okay little skatepark, but it's being taken over by Scooters-of all people. Every day, my friends and I go there to enjoy a nice skate session, only to see there are twenty kids on scooters in one spot. They all migrate together, so if you're tryin' to fi nd a run, 99.9 percent of the time you won't be able to get it because there is some little kid on a scooter in your way. I got a couple friends that scoot that are actually pro status, but for the rest it's just annoying as f-k. More and more seem to show up every day and this shit is getting really old really fast. I know you guys probably don't care, but I thought I'd let you guys know and warn you before this epidemic spreads. Oh and you guys have the best mag to read while takin' a dump! Thanks!-Buc Nasty, a.k.a. Joey Adams, Bend, Oregon

Go skate street.

GOOFY-FOOTED FALLACY

Hey, TWS! After pondering the subject of style one night, it dawned on me that the majority of skaters that came to my mind were regular-stance, including Nick Trapasso, Tom Penny, and Daniel Espinoza. For some reason it seems that, even though a ton of goofy-footers (like P-Rod, Shane O'Neill, and Nyjah Huston) are extremely skilled, they don't seem to have that casual, sleepy style that some regulars have. I'm regular-stance, so I want the opinion of a pro on the subject so that I can rest assured that there are some stylish goofs out there. Thanks!-Ben Beitel, via e-mail

Mike Carroll. What's left to ponder?