Tony Hawk
1st Place Toys in
Tony's attic: backside
disaster to rock and
roll entry on spine,
360° air over same,
backside ollie to tail,
Smith stall to fakie
transfer, gay twist on
tail over spine, pool
to spine transition ollie,
McTwist on pool wall
to finish. Since Tony
wasn't even aware of
the event the day
before, it was a
damn good showing.
BACK
HEAD
THRAS
BC ES
CAPITOL
BURNOUT
Official memo and briefing on skate skirmish at Sacto Drags. Aug. 20-21
by Ralph Ng
Sun, cheers, dust boogers and
beers. A skateboarding good time
took place at the Sacramento
Raceway, live and outdoors the way
dedicated crew of Bosticks,
Blockheads and Blanchards had leveled a section of
motocross track conveniently facing the spectators
stand for the Capitol Burnout.
it's meant to
The spectators had fun drinking beers and baking
under the sun in three figure Sacto summer heat. All
contests should permit beer drinking. After all, you can
do it at sporting events, concerts and races, and a skate
contest is like all three rolled together. Four out of five
fans of drinking age surveyed voted yes to the barley
beverage with skateboard viewing.
The Raceway was an incredible playground. A good
time was unavoidable. The course was essentially three
mini-ramps. Two were placed back to back with the
third joined at the side, creating a "T" shape. This
assemblage created and contained a spine (with a
narrow roll-out deck for half of its length), three other
roll-out decks (one with transition, "The Spoiler"),
metal coping, a hip, a hump, two feet of verticul top-
ped with real concrete coping, and an infinite number
of lines to be skated.
On the masonite, in the field of dust, trucks were
ground and tails tapped. Out of all this, just past
sunset, eight roller-masters had the most fun. Aside
from reaping the ecstasy of slashing all over the
skateboard track, they got paid for having a blast: