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By now some of us had decided to find
out why Florida is the singles' capital of the
world. Down at the Thunderbird Lounge,
Fausto and East Coast kingpin Dorsey
were having some serious under-the-table
discussions. At Confetti's, the local new
wave nitery, Scroggs worked his magic
with the ladies, taking down phone num
bers on tiny specks of paper confetti that
would shower down on the crowd every
hour. Tracker Larry got involved in some
hula hoop lessons. Fun city.
Sunday morning rolled around all too
quickly, and it was close to noon by the
time everyone dragged over to the park.
The action continued with Pro qualifying on
the halfpipe. When the dust finally settled,
the top eight were announced. Qualifying
eighth through first were Losi, McGill,
Blender, Hawk, Gibson, Phillips,
Beauregard and Caballero.
Some of the pros that missed the cut but
blazed nonetheless were voicing their
opinions against the judging. Billy Ruff: "I
don't like how the judging goes out to the
second heat. The second group always
has the advantage." Monty Nolder, who
had been coming on strong all week with
his new move, the Nold-Air, a fakie 360° air
with a backside boneless-one thrown at
mid-spin, had this to say: "Everybody gets
burnt out. Next time I'll come and practice
one day, then skate the contest the next
day. You don't need that much practice."
Christian's comments are unprintable, and
Rowgowski, although he had blazed,
reserved his criticism and took it in stride. I
guess as long as skate contest are judged,
there will always be other judges, judging
the judges' judging of the skaters, right?
AM FINAL
So it was Am time again. Not surpris-
ingly, Buck Smith skated bio, cutting
quickly back and forth on the ramp with a
lot of tricks and good airs. Buck's layback
handplants and kicked-out one-footed
backside airs were gnarlsome. Surpris
ingly, Kevin Staab wound up forth after the
30-minute jam. The Arizonan had the ramp
and the heat dialed but just couldn't keep it
all together in the clutch. Wedging in
between Smith and Staab were powerskat-
ers Pat Clarke (second) and Bobby
Reeves (third). Both of these guys did their
best to destroy the ramp, Pat with lumber-
ing aerials and straight arm handplants,
the smoother Bob going both sides
boneless and grabbing footplants and
different air variations. John Grigley had
some difficulty but managed fifth place,
little Randy Barfield was consistent with
sixth and Dan Wilkes roared into seventh
with some of the highest air (attempts) I've
ever seen. Koesel ended in eighth.
All of these guys are going to push the
pro ranks if they should decide to pursue.
More significantly, none of the amateur
skaters entered in the Kona/Sundek this
weekend were from California.
Rodney Mullen came out and demoed
again before the Pro halfpipe finals,
teaching everyone a little something about
patience, practice and dogged pursuit of
tireless perfection. Some have begun to
wonder if Rodney is an alien from another
world. His freestyle skating is beyond belief
As the Pro verticalists took to the
halfpipe for the final session, one thing
stood clear: despite any complaints they
might have voiced, the skaters were here
and blazing. Regardless of the organiza-
tional problems, scheduling delays and
judging dilemmas, the skaters were giving
it all and having a blast doing it.
PRO JAM
Going into the first half hour, everyone
was ripping hard. John Gibson didn't even
fall until his fifth run of the eight-man
rotation. All the while "Tex" was using
every inch of the ramp with long layback
rollout grinds and stepping two feet past
the lip on backside boneless ones. His
frontside airs were floated from edge to
edge, covering the entire wall of the 16 foot
ramp. Somehow I felt John wouldn't get
the scores he deserved though.
In mid-finger flip on his way to first place and $700,
the incredible Tony Hawk. Schmitt photo.
Neil Blender, despite slapping his chin
for stitches during a qualifying bail, put on
a credible performance. Fast plants and
other boosting air moves looked good, but
Neil seemed to be still a bit shaken by
impact. Al Losi was also racked by injury
early on but came back to make the cut. Al
slipped in some of his fakie air variations,
varial handplants and lean-to tappers
before he started to tire out in the later
rounds.
Mike McGill wasn't about to make it easy
for anybody and skated strong throughout
the jam. At times Mike would string
together eight to ten different handplants,
variations one after another, consecutive
contortion.
In the second half of the jam, the skating
got even more intense, Caballero and
Hawk were trading bio moves. Each run
trying to outdo the other, as well as their
own previous one. Phillips, plain and
simple, got burned at this contest. Every hit
he went above and beyond the lip of the
ramp. Backside table-top airs with his
trailing arm flailing for the balance to pull
the sucker back in, Jeff was boosting extra
air on all sorts of footplant variations. His
frontside rollout into a frontside boneless in
was subtle but burly.
Billy Beauregard was on and off through-
out the jam but put together some flawless
runs towardds the final gun. All weekend
his floating air to fakies would stop
everyone in their tracks, they were so
death. Billy showed his mastery of con-
torted Andrechts and popped backside
ollies and airs way out. Billy skates some
difficult tricks and managed to stay on
during most of them.
Battle between Hawk and Caballero was
setting the pace towards the end. Tony
was powering the ramp for once with good
height on his airs. His incredible fingerflip
and varial, backside flights definitely
cinched him into a top spot. Cab could do
no wrong though, as usual, and was
gyrating one-footed airs to one-footed
plants. His Miller flips should be called
something else and his grinding control is
unruly. When it was all over though, at
least half of the eight men in the cut were
able to hope for a first place decision.
When the final tallies were announced
after an hour-long judges' meeting,
resident field doctor, morale booster,
dietician and head judge Slo Barry came
over to announce the Pro halfpipe awards:
Alan Losi, eighth; Neil Blender, seventh;
John Gibson, sixth; Mike McGill, fifth; Jeff
Phillips, fourth, Billy Beauregard, third;
Steve Caballero, second; Tony Hawk, first.
Barry's quote after awarding Tony first
place ("Of course, I was pulling for Tony all
week. I hate to say it, but I'm glad I had my
money on him") shouldn't take away from
the fact that Tony blazed the contest.
Just then Christian whipped out a few
trucks for the crowd of kids that had
gathered for a sticker brawl, the ensuing
scramble for merchandise had the parents
squirming and a few kids came out of the
melee clutching bruised noggins. While
surveying the scene, Micke mused: "Jams
are way better, the head to head formatt
passé. Open jam: not so much as snaking.
but you get a lot more energy when two or
three drop in and try to do their lines. It rips,
it's exciting, it's radical."
By now brand new boards were being
thrown around in the parking lot. Free
Kona dogs were happening in the pro shop
for all takers. "Doc" Couture was paying
the green to the Pro winners, who were
being immediately hit upon for low interest
loans.
As everyone began filtering away from
Kona Skatepark, I pondered a few still
unanswered questions: Where was Chris
Baucom? And how 'bout Mike Folmer,
Mark Lake and Peddie? Is Peddie's pool
still ridable? Will throwing merchandise to
hungry packs of skate kids be the death of
the sport? When will this story end?
I realized it was all over as our crew was
walking towards our gate at the Jax airport.
Neil passed us, going the other way, after
being told to check a steak knife that had
been found in his luggage. Caballero's
luggage was being searched by some
burly female security guard. We strolled
through the area, laughing and vibing and
carrying on. Once on the plane I found
three vacant seats, kicked the arm rests
out of the way, lay down and passed out.
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