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(From page 50)
person climbed in, and it looked
like another five could fit, there
wasn't much need to worry. After
ten more squeeze inside, the
space became more intimate. Still,
there are twenty more souls out-
side, trying to cop a ride.
At this point, Scout can no longer
see events as they occur. His face
was buried into the back of a
French girl's head. At least it
smelled nice. He hears the door
slide closed, and the vehicle
lurches into gear. At the top of the
hill, it is apparent that fifteen peo-
ple, not wanting to be left to a five
mile hike, have climbed onto the
roof of the van and clung on to the
luggage rack all the way up the
long winding roads.
WO MUB ICH AUSSTEIGEN:
The half pipe is down in the village.
The ramp has a four foot channel.
It's fast and everybody seems to
like it. It has about an eight foot
wide extension on one side. The
coping doesn't stick out a whole lot.
The skating is hot. Everybody is
enjoying themselves in the moun-
tains, so they naturally skate well.
Amazingly, the airs are extremely
high for such a small ramp. The
pros and the ams are run together.
There are something like eight
heats taking up most of the day.
Everyone takes two runs, down to
the twenty cut. At this point, the
freestyle event occurs at some
undisclosed location, and Rodney
Mullen rips it up again, thoroughly
dominating the event. Then it's
back to the ramp for the semi-
finals, which ends up, pretty much
being the contest. No real contest
occurs. When they cut it to ten,
Nash, who's been blowing minds
all day, gets eleventh. Grosso
blows a head gasket and stands on
the flatbottom screaming at the
judges. Alllegations concerning
incompetency fly through the air.
From there, they decide to leave
the places where they are. Instead
of having the finals, the skaters
agree to have a demo, in which
anyone skates any way they want.
Kind of a let down in the contest
sense. This decision is taken reluc
tantly. There are some who think
that the judging was pretty shitty.
Christ, who could have fared well in
the finals, must be bummed. He
usually cruises through all of the
prelims, then busts out his big stuff
in a finals' situation. He was only
warming up, whereas Chris Miller
looked almost spent. Needless to
say, Chris Miller did rip in the
event, launching ridiculously high
frontside airs, lien cross bones, and
backside airs. Backside disaster
slides over the channel, a chest-
high frontside ollie over the channel
to Smith slap. Incredible stuff that
gets him the first place. In third
place is Bod Boyle. He does every-
thing, frontside Smith grind reverts
over the channel. Frontside 5-0
grinds off the extension to frontside
Smith slap. There's little that he
doesn't do. Big backside ollies,
inverts, airs. Hosoi, at second
place, pumps big backside airs,
incredible frontside ollie tail grabs
over the channel, a lot of body jars
to set up for the airs, big frontside
nose bones all off the way across
the ramp and frontside r-n-r board-
slides. Phillips still rips, with front-
side boneless over the channel and
Phillips 66. When they called time
on Phillips, he just kept going.
Others who also ripped this day
are Mertz, who qualified but
couldn't skate, because he can't
skate at night, his night vision is
bad. He did a lot of wrap-around
tricks, high airs, mosquito airs, rail
edge grinds, fakies-to-tail then pop
into a disaster. Do a backside
50/50 take his back foot off and
give a little push on the deck. Stan-
ton did that too. Buster didn't skate,
he was hurt from Münster. David
Nielson, he dropped into back to
back McTwists. One-footed slob
airs, late grab one-footed indy airs.
one-footed backside ollies, big
frontside fastplants, all earning him
sixth place. Mike Youssefpour,
face-high tail grabs-to-fakie. Drift-
ing airs-to-fakie going backwards
over the channel. Overhead Ma-
donnas. Big body jars, face-high.
STRABE!: The street style sur-
face is pretty rough, making it kinda
slow. The stand-outs here are guys
who could ride anything, any time,
anywhere. Omar, Jason Rogers,
Danforth, Brian Lotti and Brazil's
Alexander Robeiro all pummeled
the course. Ray Barbee gingerly
pulled down a firm fourth place just
ahead of Ron Allen, who probably
has the fastest line on the course.
A well-deserved third is captured
by Marc Heintzman, whose
pitched-out ollies-to-50/50 down
the handrail blow minds. But it's
Colby Carter who possibly had the
run of the day. High speed 50/50-
to-feeble grind, one-footed ollie
over the hip, a frontside ollie tail
grab on the corner wall, then an
ollie-to-backside axle stall on the
bench, 270's off to fakie, over to a
kickflip on the slant wall. A back-
side 180 ollie roll-in into the quar
ter-pipe, a backwards fakie olie-to-
boardslide on the side of the
middle ramp. He finishes up with a
frontside disaster on the vert wall.
Templeton looks unbeatable,
busting out with an ollie-to-tail grab
over the hip, ollie 360° shove-it
over the hip on a corner banked
wall, ollie-to-nose (frontside) on the
bench, the 270 shove-it off, land
regular. He ollies up to the center
ramp and does a quick nose grind,
then ollies one-footed-to-boardslide
down the handrail, wrapping it up
with one-footed ollie variations on
the flat.
ABGEBROCHEN: The week in
the mountains draws to a close,
and the Juggernauts head out to
various points in Europe. Some go
to the south of France for the bare-
chested beaches, some to Paris.
Earlier in the week, a large group
headed to Amsterdam for a little
smokey Joe. The ones who contin-
ued the giant poker games in the
hostel and who have won hundreds
of dollars went who knows where?
Danny Webster led the blokes in
song during the night, making one
up about everybody. Grosso took
over and proceeded to sing the
complete greatest hits of Billy Joel.
Morning finds Buck standing on the
edge of the road. He's been
informed that his traveling compan-
ion, Phil, has taken all of his poker
winnings and gone off to Monte
Carlo. The bus to Geneva is about
to leave. Buck hears they have.
good chocolate.
Vorwarts. Jugend kennt keine
gefahre.■
GAMBLIN' AMS
(From page 69)
The Finals - Vertical
With the mini-ramp finals in the
bag and the weather starting to
threaten again, the vertical event
got underway in a hurry. My indus-
try friend was looking to get even
and said, "Double or nothing on
blue skies."
"You're on," I said, as I felt what I
thought might have been a rain-
drop. I brushed it away and looked
up in time to see Bill Weiss from
Dogtown bust out with an invert
varial, a fakie olie switchstance tail
grab, board backward airs and
some good Cab variations. Throw
in a big, flapping mute grab, one-
footed fakie ollie and you've got
ninth place. Rob Boyce skated
hard, putting in marathon runs
packed with crails, inverts-to-fakie,
body jars, half-Cabs, and large
frontside air variations. Give that
man a hand and eighth place, too.
Seventh place Phil Rouchard
launched some lofty backside air
variations, including frigid and one
to-Indy air that was well-tweaked.
Better than a poke in the eye with a
sharp stick, right? Neil Hendrix,
another mini-ramp transplant, fol-
lowed up his third place finish there
with sixth place in vertical, using
big fat body jars, fastplants-to-
fakie, madollies, lien-to-tail and
270 feebles-to-takie to his advan-
tage. You have to hand it to some-
one who can tear up a mini yet has
what it takes to get the job done on
vertical.
Mike Crum came out firing and
killed fourth place as he unloaded
round after round of crail-to-tails,
huge backside and frontside airs,
frigids, stalled inverts and egg-
plants into the ramp.
Chris Gentry came right off his
mini-ramp victory and got as far as
third on vertical, applying moves.
like McTwists, body jars, and gen-
erous helpings of all kinds of air,
including frontside nose bones,
backside airs and Indy airs..
Dave "Le Ruler LeRoux qualified
first on Saturday but fell short of
the top spot in the finals. Still, he
had nothing to be ashamed of,
using a smooth, stylish approach to
frontside nollie disasters, nollie
pogos, madollies, frontside nollies-
to-pivot, as well as front and back-
side ollie-tail-grabs.
Mike Frazier came out from
behind the second place shadow
and took it all on Sunday. His
loose, aggressive style was remi-
niscent of another era, which was a
pleasant change of pace. It's
always nice to see someone on
edge, tearing into long layback roll-
outs, 180-to-hurricane (Indy grab
in), five o's-to-fakie (as well as hur-
ricanes), a pivot-to-rock-to-lakie,
stale-fish-to-tail and some giant
frontside airs. Is it any wonder the
local authorities took him down-
town for questioning immediately
after the event? The man is a
threat to all comers (or was he
merely another victim of over-zeal-
ous security?)
The End
Alas, all good things come to
end, and the NSA vert finals came
to a premature one as the skies
opened up, precipitation followed
and the skaters had to call it quits
after three runs instead of the
scheduled four. My double or noth-
ing friend was nowhere to be seen
and with the weather getting colder
by the minute, I had my body-
guards pull the car around to the
front. We popped in the just-made
video of the finals and whisked off
towards the bright lights of "The
Biggest Little City in the World," for
one final night of decadence.
Maybe I'll give Rocco a call.
Lazy Boy
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