, a 16-year-old kid named Shane “Shazi” Azar had a Focus in Slam. The portrait showed a cheeky-looking lad in an Etnies hoody sitting in a wheelchair, comfortably leaning back into a wheelie. The skate photo is a “flat stick” 50-50 on an out-ledge at Manly, in Sydney's Northern Beaches. Azar already had a long list of sponsors at that point, but this was his introduction to the mag. Over the next decade, he would have an insane amount of coverage in Slam, and other mags, alongside a steady succession of heavy video parts. In Slam's very next issue, Azar can be seen “boosting” a frontside air in a very funny ad
