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Christian Hosol, whos
RRRRRRRIINNNGGG!!!!
"Mountain residence may I ask
who's calling?" said Mr. Mountain.
"Spidy, the black Bowman, is
Lance home?"
"One blistering moment please."
"Hello Spidoo."
"Lance, are we going to skate
today
"No, I'm just trying to put on the
new coping for tomorrow but
everytime I go to nail it on, Joe
Lopes does a nitro-lacked lien to
tail on my head!"
"So there's people skating?"
"Yeah, Fedge and Steve Douglas
are strategically preparing for
tomorrow's contest."
"It's a contest?" Cannon-balled
Spidy at aggressively high volume.
"No it's just a skate session, and
a barbecue."
December 29th 1984
Lance awakens at 6:30 and
prepares a rip-snorter of an
omelette. He looks out his window
to see Chris May performing some
stretching exercises, others arrive
shortly afterward hoping to get
some early rides, although the
ramp was still chained up. Fausto
drove up in his usual rent-a-car and
opened the trunk, Steve Steadham,
who was standing close by,
missled head long into it and
snatched up the first and best,
multi-colored "Lock at Lance's
limited edition T-shirt.
10:00a.m.:
The ramp was unlocked and
"Lock at Lances, Just Another
Mystery," was under way. Total
silence erupted into a driving
madness of strength and bombard-
ments of endless fury as the skaters
took to the ramp. Jeff Phillips who
was quickly adjusting to the slower
transitions, showed his unique
ability to do any trick from any line
as he pulled off lein-oop channels.
Ken Park, brother of Skate Park,
was skating with friendly correct-
ness, pulling some incredulous
back torking, toe working inverts.
Todd Swank was snapping off
some pics for Wesslow-zine. Chris
Miller took some runs then
commented "I find it hard to do
inverts on ditches." Eric Nash took
one ride on his new board then
drove home to put together his old
board.
11:00 am.
Thunderous numbers of skate
related beings began storming
down the driveway, hard on the
scent of bags loaded with freshly
bought food Fausto and Eric were
carrying. Skating was reaching
feverish levels with roll-out decks
bowing from the weight of eager
skaters. Screams and shouts of
approval bellowed forth, along
with comments of arriving guests,
"Check out Roskopp, his hair has
transformed from com into carrot
coloured." "Hey Steve and Micke
Alba are here." "Yeah, and Steve is
wearing a jacket he must have
stolen from the singer from the
Time." "Who?" "You know, the
band in the Purple Rain video."
"Look April Hoffman's here with
her free-style board, for who
knows what!" "Is she really, oh,
yay, now we can exchange
Christmas presents," chirped Steve
Douglas,
12:00 noon
Skipper boy was flipping the
patties on the barbecue while the
big time manufacturer businessman
types conversed. The likes of Larry
Balma, who turned up with a
barrel of baked beans, Stacy
Peralta sporting a beard, Tim
Piumarta, who showed up with
steaks for the Santa Cruz team.
Other business types present
included Billy Ruff who hadn't
slept for 36 hours. Mrs. Hoffman,
Mr. Wiggley, Glen Friedman,
promoting for S.T.'s new video and
Beau Brown,
Back on the ramp Lester Kasai
was gliding high airs, stylish
frontside ollies and very lofty
frontside mutes across the channel.
Tony Hawk, riding a bigger board,
was the only one to successfully
execute 540 mutes. His skating
showed his excellent adaptability
to new terrain. Kevin Staab was
skating alot and was winging into
impressive indy airs and frontside
inverts off the channel. Adrian
Demain dropped in for a few rides,
then went to get something to eat.
The injured list included Gary
Sanderson and ex-Endless Summer
local, Bill Ferguson who was
present to root on team mates Alan:
Losi, who was trying out a new sort
of truck and Eric Grisham,
"Eggplant flip, arrgh!! a turbulent
no sensible no handed 540 unit
over the channel! Some one stop
this guy!" His dog stayed locked in
his truck all this time. Jim Gray
always seemed to be skating
doubles on the ramp, but he still
managed to throw in a few
mannequin slides, John Lucero
flew some rad frontside ollies
considering that he was still
suffering withdrawal symptoms of
a foot breaking encounter with Del
Mar's Keyhole. Steve Douglas had
been skating and was in excellent
form. He was showing his own
flavor and twist to skating, flashing
some new tricks America's way.
Fakie sliding layback roll outs,
backwards sliding tail stalls, and
other tricks such as ally ollie-oops,
Eric Sanderson padded up but then
unpadded when he heard "Next
batch of food's ready." Everyone
was munching on free food,
generously supplied, such as
hamburgers, sodas, hotdogs,
chips, m and m's, snickers, beef
sticks and pop-com. Tommy
Guerrero spent all day viewing his
Powell ad in the new Thrasher.
"Corey O'Brian stole that screwd-
river" "Oooh!" "Magnusson just
Tony Alva, edged.
Lance Mountain,
kicked out
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