Kentucky
FRIED
It blared over the radio like a drag-strip commercial, "Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, June 23rd, 24th, and 25th, Tracker Trucks, Vision
and Sundancer present the Tracker Bluegrass Aggression Session
at Freedom Hall in Louisville, featuring 100 of the world's top freestyle,
streetstyle and vertical skateboarders competing for over $25,000 in
prize money. Be there!"
"This is the event I've always wanted to do," said NSA chairperson
Top Left: Ricky Winsor, airball
express. Above: Mr. Potors prefers to
slap a rock. Left: A hip-hop is stupid
fresh in Tommy Koesel's book.
Spread: Liens don't get much more
boned than this floater by Chris
Miller. Opposite Page: The victor,
Mark Anthony, mute fakie fastpla
to R) Tony
A collage of cohorts (L
Mag. Gator, Cab and Tommy G.
Sonia Catalano. "A freestyle, streetstyle and ramp
contest with major media coverage."
When we heard about it just two weeks before we
were stoked. The thought of thousands upon
thousands of screaming people watching the best
skating in the world is always exciting. It sounded
almost too good to be true. It was.
Pulling into the Louisville Fairground parking lot,
we thought we were in the wrong place. There were
only a hundred cars parked in the lot. We figured that
everyone must have parked on the other side. But
when we got in, instead of seeing thousands of skate
grommets, we saw thousands of empty seats. We
reminded ourselves that this was only the first day ►