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JO THE BOOK
By Wayne Kerr
When I first started skating bowls and pools back in the days of skateparks in England.
the emphasis was on last carve grinds long slide 'n rolls, edgers, tail taps and laybacks.
Nobody was doing 10-foot airs or Kendall-type inverts. Everyone was getting edgy.
Today lip moves are getting noticed more. For the last four years or so people only
thought of the lip as a launch pad. Skaters just wanted to get high and that was it. Now,
many realize that on the lip many tricks are possible. For the sake of catagorization,
a liptrick, as defined by Mark Rogowski, is "Any skate stant-on curb, cope, ditch, vert,
or your coffee table using mainly nose, tail, truck, wheel or board bottom to assault
edges, peaks, crests and lips of skating terrain."
Just use your imagination. I had a friend in England, Dave Hopkins, who learned
tricks on curbs and would then take them to the pool. This was in 1980, long before
I'd ever seen anybody skate curbs. Mark Gonzales uses that method today, he learned
his indy nosepicks, for example, on the curb and took them to the ramp. So, what about
liptricks? What are people going to be doing in the future? We surveyed several skaters
known for their lippy maneuvers in order to gain more insight into edge antics.
Who are your liptrick influences?
Dan Wilkes Everyone that skafes has some influence on everyone else. Major influences on
my skating? I guess Duane Peters, he ruled.
Tom Groholski-Cement coping Bbcause it handles best and you can hear your trucks touching it.
Bill Danforth-I like to watch Wilkes and Groholski skate together, not at a contest but at a demo.
They both control the lip and totally inspire me to try new stuff
Rick Demontrond-Sleve Alba, Jay Smith, Neil Blende, Brad Bowman, Steve Oon, Mike Smith,
Steve Douglas-used to be Bobbie Hunter, Joe Evans, Mick Foster, Danny Webster, when t
lived in England, but now it's Groholski, Ben Shroeder and, of course, Blender
Mark Rogowski Duane Peters, Dave Andrecht, Kent Senatore, and Alan Geland stoked me early
on. But now it's guys like Gonz, Blender Groholski, Smith, Danforth, Douglas, and kids I never
saw before Continued on page 64
Snapping back off a rail, Mike Archimedes
positions himself for re-entry at the H.P. Ramp in
San Francisco. Photo by Bryce Kanights
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