BAS
by Jacques Strappe
That took balls...What a
ballsy maneuver...she's got
balls...balls to the wall...
put your balls in your back
pocket and go for it...ball
bearings? Over the years
there have been many
legendary skate sessions,
which have led to even more
legendary bull sessions. As
these manly tales are told
and retold, the grinds get
gnarlier, the edgers get
edgier, the airs get airier
and the ballsy get ballsier.
Whether you find these tales
believable or not, they all
have foundations in the
truth. These dangling jewels
of skate lore have shaped
skating as we know it, for
now and for future skate
generations.
...The day was great for
skating and the session at the
Dog Bowl was insane. T.A.
started off with a backside
double carve grind into a
backside micro- edger to a
frontside air to a tail tap and
finished up with a frontside
snapback grind over the nip-
ple. Bob Biniak's first attack
was similiar but placed more
emphasis on backside carves,
edgers and frontside
snaps... The kitchen got so
hot that Taters had to walk the
deck and check out the action
from above. By now airs were
getting higher, carves longer
and grinds louder. Fuzz was
ragin' in Fuzz form. Then T.A.
and B.B. started doing
doubles, one after the other,
trick after trick with progres-
sively more aggression. T.A.
would carve a gnarly monorail
double grind for six blocks.
Then B.B. would do a hectic
micro-edger lapover carve
grind. On the next wall B.B.
did a frontside rail grab
quarter-edger. T.A. would
volley with a two-foot frontside
air. Then T.A. came around
with a backside tailtap slider
on top of the coping and B.B.
answered with a tail tapping
backside air to tail. On the
next wall B.B. would rattle the
Opposite: Monty Nolder hangs 'em
high with a fully-boosted Madonna at
a perfect ramp in AZ. Photo: L. Ogden
Right: Dave Hackett, committed during
a rather gutsy frontside spit out from
the Baldy pipe. Photo: Brad Bowman.