Thrasher Magazine

Twenty-five years is a long time in skateboarding—many of you reading this are probably not even that old. Real skateboards has been around a little longer than that and Keith Hufnagel has been riding for them since almost the beginning. To celebrate Keith and Real’s quarter-century relationship, they put together a collection of photos that Morf has shot of Huf over the years and released a capsule of Huf X Real collaboarative goods that’s now available in finer skateshops. To celebrate the occasion, a party was in order, complete with a photo show, free beer and tacos, a high-ollie contest and a raffle for some limited-edition boards and photos on display. All proceeds went to the City of Hope, a cancer treatment and research hospital. Win, win, win! —Joe Hammeke

Naud St, deep in the LA arts district

The line was halfway down the block and it wasn’t even 8 pm yet

Huf and Morf—these two have shot thousands of photos together

Manchild and Robin Wilson check out one from ’96

Real TM Nate Alton with wife Sharon and a couple of young shredders on the way. Congrats!

Some classic Real Huf decks

More classic boards and all of Huf’s magazine covers. Big Brother was knocking off the Thrasher logo way before all you streetwear goons

Thrasher masterlensman Dan Stolling was there to document the night in HD

Hey, Ishod, happy birthday!

Long time Real TM Darrin Howard along with Jack Olson and Real’s newest am, Tanner Van Vark. Peep that new Thrasher hoody that Tanner picked up on the Am Scamble. Expect to see more of him in the mag real soon!

More Real team riders, Jaffin Garvey, Gage Boyle, Robbie Brockel and house sitter to the pros, T-Huff

Real’s newest pro—who also landed on the December cover—Zion Wright and 2016 SOTY Kyle Walker. Heavy crowd!

The OGs: Thiebaud, Huf and Tommy G

DJ Mixmarkie kept the tunes flowing throughout the night

Grant Fiero and Luke MacMaster held down the raffle station. Renee Faulkner bought a whole string of tickets. Her husband works at Huf and she said she didn’t need any free skate gear but still wanted to donate to the City of Hope charity

Look Back Library’s Kevin Marks with Huf’s Thrasher cover. Always blasting

One of our most controversial articles ever—when Daniel Harold Sturt snuck in and fully poached a transworld shoot

Lakai’s Adrian Trejo imbibes in some free PBR, brown baggin’ it just like 25 years ago on the streets of SF

Al Boglio, adidas’s Paul Shire and switch guru, Pete Eldridge

Huf, Tommy and Jim reminiscing on 25 years of Real

Henri Yoro was the MC for the evening, “You ready for the high-ollie contest?!”

An adjustable fire hydrant was made by Keen Ramps

The crowd cleared a pathway…

…and it was on!

failed attempt at a nollie

Yardsale

The hydrant got buckled so it was reinstalled in an upside-down fashion

Manchild, straight to it

Not sure why, but this guy thought it would hold up to a pole jam

Ollie means no hands

Randy Nakajima and Ben Kelly were in charge of raising the “bar.” At 37 inches, only a few skater were left

Ben Campbell squeaks one a bit to the side

Which called for a redo. Clipped it

This guy was top three as well but clipped the top on a 37 incher

With $500 on the line, WKND’s Chris Maalouf cleared it with ease

“He did it!”

Make that $501!

“Dude you did it!” —Salomon Cardenas

It’s huge!

Kingswell Los Feliz’s owner DJ Chavez and the champ, Chris Maalouf

Then it was time to draw the raffle tickets for the prints on the wall and the stack of gear from Deluxe. Spitfire’s Luke MacMaster and MC Henri Yoro did the honors

Scott Mackey only bought five tickets but he was on the come up!

Mackey walked away with this framed print and a limited-edition board. Thanks to all who came out and to all the sponsors, especially Real and Huf for making this thing happen. Here’s to another quarter century, gents!