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(From page 46) park for two final runs.
We'll start with Danny Way, mid-
way through a frontside nose bone
over the extension. Then he 360°
indy grabbed over the spine into a
stalefish ollie grab. Danny continued
with a rollout then nollied into the
bowl, got some speed working for a
big tail grabbing ollie blast over the
chasm but lost his grip. Once back
up he fired off a method air high over
the spine, had problems keeping his
feet in place, then a fakie 180°-to-tail-
stall over the spine, a 360° varial and
a fakie-to-nose stall-to-revert over the
spine. Whew! Danny seemed a tad
over-amped, as he will get, and his
carving program was a little weak.
Tom Knox ollie tailslid up the
extension onto the pool coping, then
ollie grabbed-to-stalefish, pulled a
lien-to-tail over the spine, ollied-to-
Smith grind, ollied-to-axle from the
flat island spine to sharp spine. Tom
didn't exactly work the bowl for all it
was worth, but he managed ollie-to-
tailslides at will. We all had to agree
that if Tom decides to start skating
vert seriously again, he will rip.
over the canyon in a backside air that
slammed him on his butt, a cheek
spreader, on the metal-tipped spine.
It was the first time in a long time
anyone could remember seeing pain
on Reese's face. Then he looked
pissed, grabbed his board and
dropped in, full of hatred, to try it
again...only this time air to FAKIE!
But he couldn't pull it off as he had
in the semi-finals. Reese then dedi-
cated himself to pulling the air-to-
fakie over and over again, but never
made it after five tries, and nearly
kabonged his team manager Jamie
Mosberg upside the head. Finally, he
simply picked up his board and
smiled that big Cheshire grin like it
was all just a regular day in the life
of Reese Simpson. It probably was.
Buck Smith, hurled himself over
the gap in a honkin' Indy air forma-
tion, then smoothied through the
mini-ramp to a frontside roll into the
bowl for roundhouse speed line
carves. He pulled a frontside ollie
from the rollout deck onto the far wall
of the mini-ramp. Buck was on with
ollie grab stalefishes over the spine,
stalled inverts and a hellish half-Cab-
to-chink-chink. Back in the bowl he
stood up on top of high speed grinds
through the bowls then finalized it
with a thick Indy air transfer into a
spinal tap. Buck is fired up and the
Jacksonville, Florida veteran is
skating the best he ever has in his
long career. Look out.
Jeff Phillips represented the home
ramp advantage and was the man to
beat in this event, doing just about
everything imaginable with effortless
Eric Dressen got his run into
serious overdrive with a footplant-to-
tail out of the bowl, planting on the
"skate at your own risk" sign, then
to-tail back in. Then he went back
into the mini-ramp and immediately
threw an ollie-to-tail up the extension,
a slob grabbing backside tailslide
into a backside body jar on the
extension to a roast beef grab-to-tail
and then a backside ollie-to-board
pivot on the corner of the extension-will. Jeff's run began with an early
total death move. Later, when Eric
tried the same ollie up the extension
he miscued and his foot came all the
way off his board but he somehow
pulled it off. Eric has a knack for
always knowing where his board is.
He pulled off a similar save-a-bail
from an air over the flat spine that
had everybody banging their heads
Eric was sketchy but oh so gnarly
and stayed in the hunt.
Mark Roach played it mellow but
stayed on and had some of the nicest
and smoothest lines through the
bowl. Mark proved to be a Smith-
master, grinding either way through
the corners of the bowl and mixing
those with high speed feeble grinds-
to-fakies from a figure-eight carve
line. On the mini-ramp he soared
floaters over the flat spine into front-
side rocks up on the extension. Look
for Mark to develop into one hot shoe.
Reese Simpson started out sure
enough with a few G-turns on coping
then transferred out of the bowl and
grab frontside air out of the bowl into
figure-eight carves everywhere then
reverted to backward carves then did
a frontside boneless back into the
spine and on to a 180° air-to-fakie
mixed with other madness, then a
boneless back into the bowl for a
speed and power surge into a front-
side air back into the far end of the
mini-ramp and an invert over the
spine. In his second run, Jeff started
with a frontside roll-in off the exten-
sion coping to an air-to-flatbottom
over the spine, a tweaked frontside
air over the flat island and came back
over the spine only to fully lock-up
his back truck, unintentionally, but
make it. Then he double hopped a
boneless back to the bowl while
laughing and tried to finished with a
huge ollie attempt over the meat of
the platform but throw it away.
Because Jeff did twice as many tricks
as anyone else, he repeated some
moves two or three times, but his
large frame and (Continued on page 90)
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