The Skateboarder's Companion

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Big up Focus and Royal Mail for the delivery today.

The smell and feel make it so satisfying. Way more fulfilling than scrolling Instagram, Reddit or this place (no offence). Just had a quick flick through and started reading through. Loving the interview with Lucy Raemers, and have to agree with the accessibility of it for casual skate followers, same as how Sidewalk eased me in when I first started skating, hopefully this will carry on that tradition for the new generation. That doesn’t mean it’s derivative or patronising for the more experienced and informed of us.

Really though, with Rye and Leo at the helm, was there ever any doubt?

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Lotta mag sniffing going on.

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I fucking love mag smell! It’s one of those life luxuries that has been missing from life for too long.

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Fracture are still a brand??

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My thoughts on seeing the ad. Are they part of route one?

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They are owned by TKC which was the distribution arm of Route One years back. I think that R1 and TKC are separate companies these days.

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You could make a magazine scented candle.
I want to make a sticker scented one.

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Oh god yes, I work with vinyl everyday and some brands, glues are insanely sniffable.

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same ! proper lovely

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Nothin wrong with mag sniffing. I work in a bookshop and it’s how you know which paper stock is best

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Fuck. Hope you’re managing to stay afloat.

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Surely people are reading more books then ever right now.

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Yeah defo, it’s quite specialist and thankfully does ok online, very optimistic to see how much people do care about that kinda stuff

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My issue 1 arrived today. Cannot describe the joy in holding a physical skate magazine again. I didn’t realise how much I would miss it or the nostalgia it would bring

Massive big ups to anyone on here who is involved in this

(I totally sniffed it and it smelt great)

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Just out of interest, does anyone read any of the other mags? Since SS20 went I don’t think Iv had a copy of anything.

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I read Free, Grey, North and sometimes Vague.

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KeithBeef been a legend and delivered a copy to my door!

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I hadn’t seen anything since my local SOS (Smash) closed so, thanks to a tip off from Build, I subbed to Free at the end of last year.

Since then a few orders I’ve made via Parade have come with free copies of Free - so this month I have three.

Three free Free’s.

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Classic mag smell confirmed!

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Didn’t realise Ben had three thrasher covers! They’re all similar tricks lol

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