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CLOSE-UP
(From page 43) make the cut, but
freshly-returned Bill "Crinch" Bakker
ripped solidly into the top spot, follow-
ed by Mike Connally, Rich from
"Crackdown," and Richie Rojas, who
could have won it with his 360°-tweak
spine transfers if too many falls
hadn't held him down.
Next, madness ensued on the
course as Joe Humeres and Matt
Wood came out for a freestyle demo
before the sponsored amateurs got
their practice session. Soon the
heaviest session began. These
adrenaline-fueled sponsored ams
delivered some progressive moves
and new school schralping to the ap-
plause of a few hundred loud and
trendy East Village bystanders.
Some notable rippers who didn't
make the final 8-cut were Harry
Jumonji, Felix Arguillas, Ducky, Big
Jim, Pepe Torres, the H-Street boys,
and S.F. shredder Danny Sargent,
who blazed fast and supertough
moves. Unfortunately, Sarge fell (or
stepped off) too often, despite an ollie
over the box-hip to frontside 50/50 on
the handrail (made clean in practice)
and a solid no-handed blunt on the
quarterpipe. The final eight then
skated, and the smallest boy stayed
consistently the best boy with too
many moves. Little Bill Waldman has
more mental strength than his elder
competitors and time will give him
more power.
On the topic of power, little Bill's
teammate Sean Sheffey from
Maryland is a textbook definition.
Shef ripped so hard that if he hadn't
fallen twice, he surely would have
won with giant (6+) ollie-to-grab
180° variations over the box to slant,
an original ollie into a jump ramp from
the big 16' wedge and solid flatland
moves. There was a tie for third place
between the radical boy from Las
Vegas, Brian Lotti and the usual con-
test dominator Mike Kepper (New
Jersey) as both skated hard and
technically clean all over the course.
In fourth place, Barker Barrett from
Pennsylvania cooked up probably
the most original lines with a fat front-
side air transfer on the ramp to wall,
a half-Cab-to-Smith spine transfer
and a no-handed blunt to May Day
on the quarterpipe, but again nerves
held Barker back, as he made a
couple unnecessary step-offs. Carl
Shulz, from Albany, NY, skated im-
pressively cool and "on" into a
respectable fifth place. Coco San-
tiago attacked the course with clean
handrails and fast San Francisco-
influenced lines. "Coco is bad." The
las: two places in the final went to
Steve Teague of Ocean City who
blazed all over the place and the rad
big boy Jeff Toma who also ripped
impressively.
Ending Note: This will definitely
happen again next year.
VANS JAM
(From page 50) launched into a mega
method-to-fakie while staring off into
the clouds. If Jason hadn't kicked out
on a big ollie bail his place in the top
ten would have been secure. Ken
Park might have done a few notches
better himself had he not suffered a
mid-air slam with Reese Simpson
that took some of the wind out of his
sailing airwalks, judos, varials and
alley oops. Nonetheless he held
together long enough to pull an
Elguerial out of the bag. Mike McGill
may have taken over the nickname
of "la Machine" from Steve Alba but
on this day he had a case of the bails.
An excellent first run, however, was
good enough to get in the finals.
Reese Simpson not only skates with
a devil-may-care attitude he may just
be the dude himself. Starting with a
frontside roll in off the 3/4-extension
as an appetizer, Reese continued on
a main course of fast-to-fakies, 360°
frontside air, frontside 50/50-to-olie
revert and snapping frontside grinds
on the 3/4-egg. Caballero. Do we
have enough room? Witness
nosepicks-to-fakie, feebs-to-fakie,
axle piv-to-fake, airwalks, picture perf
frontside inverts, and at one point
during his flawless first run he did a
cess slide-to-axle stall on the Taco
Bell then unintentionally 50/50'd
backwards down the hump before
turning it back into the transition. Al
Losi continues to roll in a powerful
way. He performed his signature
disasters to front truck and board
lock, ollies-to-axle pivot on the exten-
sion, back and frontside Smith grinds
and feebles-to-fakie. Sergie Ventura
continues to move up through the
ranks with an explosive style that is
not unlike "you know who." Full
torqued sads, lien-to-tail and disaster,
mute Japan airs and basically the
highest airs of the day. Sergie finally
came down to earth, though, when
he hung up and slid down the tran-
sition on his belly. Serge then fell on
the second trick of his second run
and aced himself out of the final cut.
Out of the 10 skater semi-jam
McGill, Caballero, Losi and Reese
Simpson advanced to meet the wrath
of Bod Boyle, Micke Alba, Monty
Nolder, Danny Way, Chris Miller,
Christian Hosoi and Tony Hawk.
They were able to relax a little be-
tween bouts, (remember there were
virtually no spectators meaning a lot
less tit and t-shirt signings), and
maybe grab a burrito and a soda off
the Mexi-catering truck that set up
shop in the Vans lot. There was also
a mini ramp adjacent to the contest
barge that helped the competitors
stay warmed up.
As will happen at these events, the
strategy for most of the boys going
into the final two-run jam was pretty
much just a stay-on situation. Maybe
even more so at this event because
of the ramp configuration. Even after
three days of practice it wasn't the
type of straight ramp that you could
do anything anywhere on. It was a
routine ramp, meaning you needed
a good routine to get you this far in
the first place. All of the finalists were
solid powerful skaters. Even the two
rookies, Danny Way and Bod Boyle,
made up for any lack of bulk with a
good pump, speed to spare and a
gung-ho attitude that will someday
either land them in first place or the
hospital.
As stated only three skaters would
go into the final from the semi-jam
but due to a tie situation that was
overlooked in the scoring Don
Bostick decided that in the interest
of fairness and personal safety that
he would expand the cut and make
it an 11-man final.
Even with limited spectator access
those who were privvy to the action
made enough noise to pump up the
volume. Reese stayed loose as he
again dropped acid of the 3/4 exten-
sion and vaulted around the ramp in
his loose style, bailing his first but
pulling a wild second run that set the
pace. McGill lofted high airs into
McTwists into the stalest of fishes,
racking up quick tricks until he bailed
right off the ramp into the crowd. Losi
stayed on track with frontside Smiths,
back and front disasters, fingerflip
inverts and boardslides a plenty.
Caballero continued to rack up the
trick total and went for high airs but
his two runs were marred by costly
bails, one on his signature Cab twist.
Monty couldn't find the handle and
threw his board away on a Madonna
and a b-side air respectively.
Christian approached the lip with the
confidence to just go in and take the
cake, dropped in and threw up giant
Christs and body jars, floated
beautiful backside ollies out of the
3/4, but got ahead of himself and
bailed into eighth place on his final
run. Micke Alba had placed fourth in
the last four events so wasn't about
to settle for anything less but it wasn't
going to be his day. Micke fell to
tenth. Four skaters put on a show that
made it difficult to even care about
results let alone pick a winner.
Visiting Australian Jason Ellis put it
something like, "I don't care who
wins just to see these guys skate this
ramp is fine with me." Bod Boyle was
blasting backside bombs and big
body jars and backside ollies with a
silly grin on his face. At one point he
approached the lip and went into the
full ollie G-turn front truck grind that
had everyone wiping their eyes. He
finished it with grinds-to-reverts and
laybacks-to-same. Chris Miller pretty
much kept to the "go with what you
know" philosophy and he knows how
to tweak and torque gargantuan lien
airs and backside thrusts. He
performed the highest frontside airs
with legs outstretched and repeat-
edly assaulted the upper quadrants
of the 3/4-section with extended
snapback grinds. Chris' runs would
have to hold up to Way and Hawk
who both simply ripped. Danny
performed 540's with one foot dangl
ing, and frontside half-Cabs-to-
nosepicks. Danny literally topped it
off with a rock n' roll-to-free falling
fakie off the 3/4 lip. AAAUUUUGGH!
Tony Hawk has taken last runs in
many contest and handles the
pressure as cooly as a school of
cucumbers. Although he bailed on
a 720° spin in his first run, he dialed
a barrage of tricks like no handed
blunts-to-fakie, human varials, finger
flips and tricks heretofore unheard of
and untried by mere mortals. Tony's
skating is getting to the point where
the terms goofy and regular foot no
longer apply. When he rocked-to-
fakie off the 3/4, almost hanging up
his back truck and then launched a
540° stalefish McTwist the water hit
the floor. YYYEEEAAAHHH!
For many it didn't matter much, but
there was some cash to be distrib-
uted and when the final tally was in
the judges liked Chris Miller's high
speed and flawless execution over
the twist and contort of the Hawk and
the Way. Final: Miller first, Hawk
second, Way third, Boyle fourth,
followed by Reese Simpson, Al Losi,
Mike McGill, Christian Hosoi, Cab,
Malba and Monty.
Vans were stoked and much
thanks goes to Steve Van Doren,
Dick Leeuwenburg and the Van's
staff who helped coordinate the
event, Jackie Rosecrans, Everrett of
course, doctor Barry Zaritsky and all
the happy campers in the parking lot
who kept a clean scene.
RESULTS
1. Chris Miller
2. Tony Hawk
3. Danny Way
4. Bod Boyle
5. Reese Simpson
6. Allen Losi
7. Mike McGill
& Christian Hosoi
9. Steve Caballero
10. Micke Alba
11. Monte Nolder
12. Mark Anthony
13. John Schultes
14. Jason Jesse
15. Ken Park
16. Sergie Ventura
17. Andrew Morrison
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