Dave Swift discusses growing up in Southern California, skating in CASL contests in the early 80’s, getting sponsored by Schmidt Stix, shot first photo in 1983 at Great Desert Ramp Battle, started working at Transworld in 1989 as a writer, asking Grant Brittain to borrow an old camera to start shooting photo’s again, getting his first photo printed in Transworld, shooting with Tom Penny when he first came to the states, the stories behind some of Heath Kirchart’s iconic photo’s & covers, switching from film to digital, Transworld magazine being over 400 pages, leaving Transworld to start The Skateboard Mag, how selling The Skateboard Mag to The Berrics came about and much more!
DEVOTED (Trailer).
The LB Project’s trailer for DEVOTED featuring Giovanni Reda, Trent Evans, Tony Vitello, Michael Burnett, Eric Swisher, Mark Whiteley, Brad Staba, Guy Mariano, Mike Mo, Steve Berra, Patrick O’Dell, Dave Swift, Jaime Owens, Skin Phillips, Kevin Marks, Dave Chami, Ando, Ryan Clements, Josh Stewart, Masafumi Kajitani, Benjamin Deberdt, Elliott Templeton, Al Boglio, Peter Smolik, Paul Schmitt, Chad Muska, Dave Carnie, Josh Friedberg, Keith Hufnagel, Mackenzie Eisenhour, Mike Blabac, Lance Mountain, Marc Johnson, PJ Ladd, Remy Stratton, Mike Kershnar, Alex Irvine, Mikko Kempas, Sami Valikangas, Trent Fahey, Roland Hoogwater, Oliver Percovich.
SPOTS – Del Mar Skate Ranch Part 2
Tony Hawk vs. Christian Hosoi and the demolition of the Del Mar Skate Ranch
Raiders of the Lost Archives: Dave Swift Part 1 of 3
Dave Swift, Editorial Director of The Skateboard Mag shows you some of the things in his hoarder collection. Stay tuned for parts 2 & 3 coming soon.