GE
it, ollie airwalk, ollie finger
flip, ollie-to-backside grab,
manual shove-it, handflip,
360 ollie, ollie double kick-
flip, 180 grab, one-footed
360' ollie, ollie impossible,
360 body varial, and that's
just to name a few. Rodney's
first run was even better.
Back in the bowl arena, a
skate hockey demo was in
progress. Dick Wagon, Jaks
spokesman, skate hockey
veteran and all-around
skate pirate, described the
idea behind this clandestine
street sport. "We'll use the
channels as goals. Usually
we use cones or whatever's
handy. We'll change sides
often so there's no advan-
tage and we've gotta drink
a puck. (The Jaks league
uses an empty Foster's
Lager can as the official
puck of choice). While the
Killer Clowns and the
Sharks went at it, NSA
president, Don Bostick
made some attempts at
crowd control: "Spectators
must get off the course.
before the city will let us
begin." Some of the more
agile went to the treetops
for a better view. Skip Con-
rad, Executive Director of
the fair tried his method:
"Green bands, red bands
and no bands must stand
behind the barricades. Our
insurance requirements re-
quire that you must move."
Skip said later he had most
of his security on the various
holes in the perimeter fencing
that was leaking skaters with
boards into the fairground.
As the crowd settled in
and the top ten were ready
to throw down, announcer
Dave Duncan summed up
the weekend. "Major ragin',
great crowd response, the
weather's great. The course
took a lot of pros by sur-
prise at first because there
weren't any small curbs or
whatever, but there are
enough obstacles, banks
and flow to get some high
speed and burly tricks
going. We saw the skaters
adapt even more on the
second day during qual-
ifying and really getting
into a groove. And here on
Monday, we're at the very
cream of the crop. More
tricks are being pulled over
the 6-foot gap of death.
The spine and channel are
being played with in a way
that says these guys are
not afraid of going all out."
With that, Double D. an-
nounced Noah Salasnek's
first run of the finals. "Air-
to-fakie, frontside crail-to-
tail, stalefish over the
canyon, ollie blunt-to-fakie,
nollie tail grab over the
spine, fakie 180' ollie back
over the spine, backside dis-
aster at the whistle."
George Watanabe - "A
stale-to-tail over the chan-
nel, big backside air-to-dis-
PSYCHO
TE
aster over the spine, shove-
it on the bank, 180' air up
to the sidewalk, feeble-to-
fakie over the channel,
frontside feeble-to-fakie-
to-revert and ollie blunt-to-
180° at the bell."
Alan Petersen "A one-
footed lien-to-tail over the
spine, air-to-fakie over the
channel, 360° nose-grab-
bing air over the spine,
fakie stalefish grab 180",
one-footed backside disas-
ter, ollie-to-feeble, one-
footed ollie over the bridge.
of death.... while some in
the crowd wet their pants.
Tom Knox "Tom bails a
frontside over the channel,
remounts and ollies-to-front-
side grind, feeble spine.
transfer, olie kickflips on the
big bank, air disaster over.
the spine, blunt 180-to-tail,
air-to-feeble and a frontside
ollie-to-fakie" just as the
buzzer sounds.
Ray Barbee "A one-
footed ollie on the bank,
bio ollie-to-backside air
over spine, 180' air-to-fakie
over the spine, frontside
grind-to-revert, feeble.
transfer, frontside board-
slide and a frontside slide &
roll" as a gang fight erupts
over on stage left.
Tony Hawk "Big Japan
air over the whole spinal
area, backside ollie over the
canyon, frontside ollie on
the judges' bank, slide &
roll into Smith into front-
Over, under, sideways down. Ray Barbee (opposite)
and Tommy Guerrero (left) flipped, flapped and
flew into the money, while George Watanabe
(above) scraped, scuffed and sky'd out to fifth place.
For Omar Hassan (sequence) it was wham, bam,
thank you m'am, until he ended up in fourth
THRASHER