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LITTLE
ROCK
YOU
SHOULDA BEEN
HERE YESTERDAY
Yea, sheeeliit...you missed out. I
guess it all started with a phone call,
well heck, a lotta phone calls actually.
That good ole boy Paige Hearn, yeah,
you know Paige, he's kinda the skate
guru around these parts, the one with
the big skate ramp over on Pike Avenue.
Anyway, back a coupla' months ago,
Paige had this sorta wild hair growin
about hostin' a big Pro/Am skate
contest on the Skateboard Plus Ramp
that he built. Anyhow, he finally plucked
it and started makin' these phone calls
to all the big skateboard type com-
panies, askin' for support for this
championship he was plannin'. He ran
up against a brick wall there for a spell
cause a lot of these big wigs weren't
takin' him very serious on his proposi-
tion. What they didn't realize at the time
was skater types had been tricklin'
through here checkin' the ramp and
skatin up a storm, all the while makin'
claims that Paige's ramp was the bioest
skatin' structure this side of the panhan
die.
Now you probably wonderin' what
makes me such an authority on these
matters. Sheeili...I just happen to
reside, as I have for the last 22 years,
across the road from Hearn's Furniture,
right here in Little Rock, Arkansas,
where the ramp sits, right next to the
warehouse on a plot owned by Paige's
dad. I seen Paige go through his
phases, BMX bikes and the like, but
never was he so serious about some-
thing as when he started building that
dad-burned ramp.
When it was all said and done the
local skate pokes were skating on a
dream halfpipe that measures some-
thin' like 24' wide by 11 foot tall. It has 16
feet of flat bottom with 9% foot transi
tions and a foot of vert. The whole
skating surface is coated with
fiberglass and features full rollout
decks, steel coping and a staircase to
boot.
Anyhow, gettin back to the story of
how this whole Skateboard Plus Pro Am
event came together. I knew Paige had
done some serious convincin' when
these professional and amateur skater
types started showin' up a full week
before the damn contest was s'posed to
commence.
Bob Pribble and Rick Demontrond show heavy attitudes
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Barreling down for a lip smack, Allen Lost, lein to fail
Mike McGill follows through on a frontside channel olie