Slam Skateboarding

35 YEARS OF SLAM A NEW MILLENNIUM – 2000 TO 2010

Issue 55 from February/March 2000 is the first edition of the new millennium, and Adair's photo of freestyle veteran Shaun Gladwell, features on the contents page performing a 50-50. In freestyle, a 50-50 is a kind of truck stand, not a grind. Running a freestyle photo during this period might seem like a throwback, but Gladwell was on the verge of becoming one of the country's most controversial artists.

, Gladwell's first major work, thrust the artist into the Australian eye on a broader scale than a skateboarding magazine could provide. The 11-minute video featured Gladwell

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