RAT HOLE CONTEST
The weekend following
Pflugerville another underground
event took place in the form of
a pool contest. Staged at the
Rat Hole, longtime favorite and
heavily abused Dallas area
skate spot. Once again a hardy
crew of skaters and fans turned
out to take part in what was a
very "grassroots event
Rain turned out to be the
main factor at this event. It rain-
ed heavily for 1½ days before
the contest. Normally this
wouldn't matter except for the
fact that this pool leaks
especially right after a hard
rain. The morning of the contest
we drained the pool and
started warm up sessions. It
leaked so bad at first that after
5 or 6 runs puddles would
every 5
form in the deep end. We plac
ed towels over most of the
cracks to try and catch the
drippage before it had a
chance to make it to the bot-
tom
Most people would have
given up by now, but not us, we
pulled it off without a hitch (ex-
cept for when a skater would hit
one of the towels and slam). We
would like to extend a big Tharx
to everyone who showed up
and helped with these contests.
RESULTS
Jeff Phillips
2- Craig Johnson
3- Barry McDaniels
4- Dan Wikes
The Rat Hole, heavily abused but still shreddable.
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"Most people would have given up by now, but not us."
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KONA from page 159
Schmitt, Jeff Jones. (SIO) Barry
and Alan Gelfand who had just
arrived from down south. Also
showing up from points south
was Mark Lake. who only spec-
tated due to a recent knee in-
jury. The crowd was settled in
and ready to witness some fine
Skating
this was only
Asdays final the
prelims for
tion
funs were bionic and v varied αν
the spectators every indic
on that the finals would be in-
tense. When the rurs had been
taken and the dust had settled
some of the skaters were stoked
with their riding while others
were disappointed but they all
knew that they still had Satur-
day to confront
FRIDAY, JULY 17
Friday morning came all to
soon for most of the amateurs
since the previous night was not
quiet one. At 11:00 AM the
first event held was the
Freestyle finals, which was won
handily by Robert Rodrigues and
followed by two students of
"Mulen & Mutt University" in
Gainsville. The p
pool was half-filled with muddy
water. Believe it or not Buck and
some other locals were doing
swan dives into it. There was no
hope in skating on this day so
the finals were postponed unti
Sunday morning
thrilling with Kit event was
Kirt Jose winning the
17 & over division and Lance
Mountain taking the e
Open
The next event up was
honors
the
Amateur W ½ pipe finals, with
eight
skaters going i
head to
head. The judges panel was
selected quite well, with Poul
Schmitt, Ziggy, Ruft
Ruff, McGill and
Folmer (Hey, that's me). With the
judges in place and al practice
in, the first matchup was bet-
ween Chris Baucom and Buck
Smith
a good fight
Chris 88.33
Buck put
put up a good
but his 85.66 average wasn't
good enough to top i
So Buck went to the losers
bracket and Chris stayed in first
and did so al the way through
Jeff
Jones Tony Hawk, and Billy
Beauregard. He was now in the
final match with Lance Moun
tain Californias top amateur
Lance had already lost to him
once so he had to beat Chris
twice to win. D.David flipped a
coin to see who would skate
first since they were both wom
out from skating all the way to
the final match. Chris went first
me
SUNDAY, JULY 19
Sunday morning came quickly.
and I steped outside and
started sweating instantly. Sure
enough the weather was as
muggy as always I arrived at
the park at about 9:15 AM.
some of the Pros were there
and some were still in bed t
ing wood. We first had to take
two runs and combine the best
one with Thursdays best. Surpris
a few skaters who had
choked Thrusday
skated
on
saw-
hard and made the oight cut
today. McGill and Losi were tied
for eighth and in a run-off McGil
won putting Losi out of the
head to head. The first mo
t match
up was between Eric Grisham
and Nell Blender, with Eric going
to the losers bracket. McGil
then had to skate against
Stevie, but lost and went to the
losers bracket. The two standout
matches were Blender-Nolder,
where Nel blew it in both runs
and slamming on the 2nd r
run he
held his face, screaming but
thon got up smiling and said Tm
OK". Nell's like that you know
I make a strong com-
make a
eback beating Grisham in this
match up Grisham stalled an
Andrecht s that he flipped
so long
having a good I run but not his
best. Lance took his run beating
Chris' with an average of 91.33
All Lance had to do was beat
Chris one more time to win
Chris took his next run knowing
he couldn't fall or skate mellow
He gave it his all and it was BIO
earning him an average 92.66
and putting the pressure on
Lance Mountain had to get a
9300 average to beat Chris
and win the contest. You could
tell he was pushing every
maneuver to the max, but it
wasn't enough to knock Chris
out of
and her
of the top spot. This victory
was Chris' biggest win and proof
that Florida skaters are right on
top of things.
SATURDAY, JULY 18
Saturday, I arrived at the park
about 4 PM just in time to see
the worst thunderstorm of the
month it poured so hard the
over almost i making it By Ruff
and Mike Smith had an exciting
match. with Billy i
introducing
some new twists such as a 540
Miller Rip. But McGill passed by
all of them leaving Smith oth
Ruff 5th, Blender 4th, Nolder in
in the find
up
Stevie
3rd and winding
match up with Caballero
-vs-Mikey. Now the pressure
was on and the crowd roaring
for radical action as the team-
mates went from comrades to
arch rivals Now was the time to
pull all the tricks out of the hat.
McGill had lost to Cabaliero
earlier so he would have to
beat him twice to cop the win
But after two run of high airs.
Andrecht to fakie to a fake
handplant and other bionics, he
couldn't top Stevies run. Thus
making Stevie Caballero the
proud winner of the
Varflex/Kong Summer Nationals
He recieved $1000.00 cold
cash, a trophy ½ as big as
himself and
and victory shower,
courtesy of
of D.D.M
Many
glad
of the Californians were
me co
this week was over so they
return to a more comfor
table climate. This contest was
could
to-
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skating events in
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world
day. Hopefully it generated the
interest needed to keep skating
alive in Florida and push the
issue of another contest of this
type in the near future. Many
thanks to Mr. Gil Losi and Mr.
Ramos for making this contest
al possible.
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