of the quarterpipe to vert wall.
back over the spine with a big ollie
disaster, an ollie-to-high speed
nose wheelie on the sidewalk, then
kickflips on the banked curb wall,
a backside disaster revert on one
of the quarter pipes, a backside
ollie revert on the spine, then a
360 kickflip on the bank to curb.
From there he hits up the vert wall
with an ollie-to-tail, goes over to
the Fun Box and does an ollie to lipslide down the
handrail, comes back to do a 50/50 on the vert wall,
then back to the Box with a BIG ollie to mute grab over
the hip.
Danny Way's run is most remembered for his giant
stalefish 180's-to-fakie over the Fun Box and quick
kickflips on the banked wall to curb. Combining that
with an amalgam of other high-speed, bigger-than-life
maneuvers, he placed himself in a strong third place.
Eric Dressen, who had qualified in first. takes home a
hard fought second place. He starts off his run with a
few giant pushes across the course
and busts an ollie tail grab over
the hip, over to a backside crail
grab on the vert wall. Coming back
to the vert wall, he hits it with a
big stale fish then, on the same
wall again, he does a 270' ollie-to-
nose coming in fakle, then across
to the Box where he ollies off the
hip then 50/50s down the
handrail. Towards the end of his
run, he gets really pissed at some
cameraman and threatens to clob-
ber him with his board.
irst place goes to the man who came in from the
dark. Ed Templeton, who had just finished kicking
streetstyle butt in England, repeats his perfor-
mance. Ed opens with a one-footed ollie-to-
handrail that purely devastates the crowd, a 360° ollie
shove-it on the banked Curb wall, an ollie-to-nose
wheelie across the sidewalk to 360° shove-it off. From
there he pulls an ollie disaster on a quarter-pipe, an
ollie on a hip, a bunch of flatland
wizardry, shove-it variations, and
closes it with a stunning ollie-to-
nose grind down the handrail.
Taking a practice
flight through thin
mountain air. Chris
tian Hosoi (left).
place at Le Grand
Top to Bottom: Reg
Over at the big ramp, the action is
rebounded to second building up. Long time vet, Eddie
Elguera, rips so very hard. El Gato
Viejo skates.
like he is still
16. pulling
unit reverts
the way he
used to. Adam
Luxford skates
like a son-of-a-
bitch. He goes
fast and high.
lots of revert
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smoke aboard coach
#3. A crisis arises.
tanks into position.
The Rhodedonderon
sighs with relief as
the juggernauts
vacate.
stuff. He makes the ramp look fast
while everybody is whining that
it's too slow. Bryan Pennington
Jarred jugulars when he popped
boneless-to-fakle on the extension.
Lance Mountain spins McTwists
all over the ramp and sails his
patented long frontside airs to
facial contortion and frontside.
inverts-to-fakie on the extension.
He doesn't seem to be into sad-
plants these days, which is a surprise. Frontside fast-
plants, good eggplants, good lien airs, Lance cruises it.
Ffej skates out some burly 360 varial handplants, big
Andrechts and frontside disasters. A lot of handplants.
good airs.
mar Hassan is one of the brightest hot shots in
the vertical world today. Big mute airs...big
everything, big ollie tail grabs-to-fakie, big
Madonnas, big body jars, cruisin' fast, big air-to-fakie.
And then there's this Jason Rogers guy. Backside disas
ter backside revert, coming out fakie. Ollie blunts on the
extension, mosquito grab-to-fakie.
Buck Smith piled a hot run
together highlighted with big one-
footed lien airs, Madonna disas-
ters (Madasters). fakie frontside
air-to-disaster, fakie half-Cab-to-
frontside lien pivot fakie. Nosepick
disasters, no-handed. Frontside
tuck knee disasters, flexing the
board quite a bit when he lands.
Al Losi, the fourth place winner.
dredges up the lip like a backhoe.
then powers his way overhead.
Third place winner Danny Way combusts at eye level.
twirling like a 'Cyclops Helicopter. He attempts a 900°.
but just can't seem to pull it all the way down. A few
witnesses swear that he pulled at least one in practice
the other day. To simply sum up the power of Chris
Miller, the second place winner, 'He needs a bigger
ramp'. He almost grinds the edge of the flatbottom on
every pass he takes. His airs are, for the most part, all
overhead, and stretch from one side of the ramp to the
other. Unfortunately he falls on both of his final runs,
leaving the door open for somebody to come walking in.
That somebody is Bod Boyle.
t
aking the initiative. Bod runs with it. Blasting out
of the chutes, he pumps a backside air to a huge.
big backside ollie, into a Indy fingerflip, to invert
varial. He shoots across and does a tail grab.
varial, then a Smith grind, follow-
ing it up with a 5-0 grind-to-rock-
n-roll, ollie grind up the extension
and across to the other extension
where he lien plants off of it. A
stall to invert rounds off his
planned run, so he continues to
cruise for the rest of the timed
run. The freestyle contest is won.
hands down, by Rodney whose
runs are simply impossible to