I've been working on a book about the history of Australian skateboarding magazines, and I end up scouring my archives on a daily basis. Now with 237 issues (and counting) my Slam boxes take up more space than all the other Australian magazines combined. Slam has literally been there throughout my entire 32 years as a skateboarder. When I grab an old issue, it brings back memories; what tricks I was learning at the time or what board I was riding. But there's more to it than that. The mags themselves are printed storage devices of our history; we can use them to study what was happening during a
