(From page 83) makes them turn real
fast and turn like an airplane.
Concave on the bottom?
Yup. Makes it seriously turn like
an airplane because it has a lot to do
with how jets are shaped.
How long are your boards?
Around here I basically ride a 6'2"
or a 6-footer. I got my 6-foot round
nose trick board now. In Hawaii I
have eight-footers and up.
What was your most death-defy-
ing experience?
Paddling out in second reef
Pipeline when all the outside reets
are breaking and all closed out all
across. It was just so big, like twelve
to fifteen feet, and me and my friend
were going to surf somewhere else
but our car wouldn't work, so we had
no choice but to paddle out in front at
Pipeline. It was huge. We barely
made it out. I thought I was going to
drown because I got caught. Waves
easily twice as high as a ceiling were
breaking over me. I mean, I was
barely getting undemeath them. I got
outside and that was only half of it. I
was trying to catch a wave and I
couldn't. I was just sitting out there
and my friend Justin had caught like
five waves and I was all pissed I
couldn't catch one. It's really hard in-
ing up when you're way out in the
ocean and big mountains are coming
in. All of a sudden a wave was com-
ing to me and he was all, "Go!" and I
turned around to take off and the
wave just went smack! and broke on
my back on the take off. I came fly-
ing out of the whitewash at the bot-
tom, shook my hair because I had
long hair at the time, and tried to
stand up and it was trying to rip my
hands off my rails. I couldn't get up,
so I turned around and looked up,
and there was a solid twelve-footer
doubling up on the inside. I was just
looking up at the lip just going "Oh
no, my back." I thought for sure it
was going to just break me in half.
But instead it threw me up in the air
and brought me all the way back to
the beach on my stomach. I got off
and stood in the sand and went
"Thank God I'm on the beach!"
So you stayed with the board the
whole time?
The whole time. If I wouldn't have
had my board, I wouldn't have
known what to do, I would have
been scared. I already was scared,
too scared to shit in my pants. Didn't
have time for that.
Have you ever had any big slams?
Mostly it's not things like that, it's
just trying to get into the tube in
Pipeline. One day I was getting into
these tubes, and I started getting
cocky and taking off deeper and
stuff. While I was in the barrel. I went
to stick my arms up, and the lip went
boooom! and hit me right in the face
and spun me in a complete backflip
before I even hit the water. Then I
just got worked. Straight down over
the falls again and got trashed.
You've seen how Pipeline looks in
the take offs. I've been taking off and
haven't been able to tum my board
86
at the bottom and had a solid eigh-
teen-foot wave, which is like twice as
high as the ceiling, just come and go.
whack, and break my board in a cou-
ple of places and rip my shorts off.
So you're naked out there?
No, well, I have a leash on my
board so my shorts get trapped
between my board and leg. It hap-
pens a lot in life. You get worked and
then all of a sudden, whoosh, your
shorts are on your leash.
Probably not worrying too much
about your shorts though.
Well, actually, yeah, because I
have that Astro deck all over and you
can get a rash on your tip when
you're trying to paddle back out.
Have you had any major skating
slammos?
Yeah, I've had some good ones.
The other day skating this vert ramp,
I tried to do a backside Smith and I
thought I was making it when all of a
sudden my wheel caught up.
Straight to the bottom, boom! Later
that night I went to the Skate Hut in
Rhode Island; I was doing a lien-to-
tail and I went to smack my tail on
the coping and my back wheels
bounced over the top of the coping. I
hung up. Once again, boom. The
kids I was skating with were tripping
out because I fell like six times on
the vert ramp. I ate shit. I was sore. I
blasted a backside air at Stone Edge-
on the big metal vert ramp and over-
rotated coming in. That is the worst
feeling. My hip was just ridiculous.
For weeks it was totally screwed,
couldn't sleep on it.
Do you prefer vertical?
I like anything, basically, but the
street bores me, except when my
dog's pulling me. I skated every-
where when I was growing up, that's
why. it's a form of transportation. So
after I got a car and drove to ramps, I
didn't need to skate the street.
What about your musical tastes?
I grew up with parents who were
old hippies, so I was listening to
Hendrix, Rolling Stones and them.
Around fifteen, I started listening to
Dead Kennedy's and Black Sabbath.
What are your favorite bands?
Motorhead and Black Sabbath,
Jimi Hendrix, psychedelic. I like
surfing to full speed metal stuff. I like
to see my surfing set to that, speed
metal and punk rock.
What's the deal with your new
skateboard company?
Just the basic shape board, a little
bit longer, made by Christian Hosoi.
It's thirty-two inches. A 15-1/2 and a
16-inch wheelbase setting. I like a
wider wheelbase because I grew up
being a surfer and I naturally have a
wider stance. A lot of kids would
want it a little narrower, that's why
we have two settings.
Are you doing it to make money
or just to have them?
Doing it just to do it, I guess. I
always have a skateboard. I like
skating and snowboarding because
it improves my surfing.
Do you do a lot of snowboarding?
Oh yeah, I started last December
or January. The first time I picked up
a snowboard I decided that I was
never picking up a pair of skis again.
I've skied all my life. All it took was
one run. Big stalefish, more air on a
snowboard than you get surfing and
skating together. I go out there with
Damian and Steve Graham. Unbe-
lievable watching those guys. This
year they're having a PSTA; that's
the same people who do the surfing
tour, so I think I'm going to have to
enter a few contests just to have fun.
Do any other guys surf your style
or do as many different things?
I don't think they do as many dif-
ferent things, but that just might be
me. I haven't seen people doing
stalefish or lien... actually I have
seen a few lien airs before, but a lot
of the guys who do them don't even
know what they are.
PUNJI
(From page 65) deal out drifting airs-to-
fakie, backside disasters-to-revert,
body jars, fastplant-to-tail-10-revert
and blunt-to-air-to-lakie in. Jason fin-
ished at the bottom of the top ten at
Kona, but the only place he'll go from
here is up.
Chris Livingston, who barely made
it out of the semis, improved his lot in
the jam to 7th place. Chris continued
to damage both board and coping.
with brutal frontside air-to-board
slaps, frontside hurricanes-to-revert
and backside crail-to-varial re-entry.
Justin Lynch, with a few too many
falls and first wall rebates in the jam,
found himself in 8th after qualifying
3rd on Saturday. When he was on
his board, he could be seen doing
enormous ollies-to-fakie, seriously
contorted airs-to-fakie, frigid air body
jars, alley-oop backside Smith grinds
and Cab tail grabs.
Mike "The Machine" McGill put in
some of the longest runs of the jam,
but untimely falls relegated him to
sixth place. Mike's marathon includ-
ed inverts and eggs, crail-to-revert,
Andrecht fakie, alley-oop gay twist-
to-front truck grind and an innovative
half-Cab-to-nose-to-cess slide fake.
Mike Crum and Buck Smith were
the only two semi-final skaters to
crack the top five in the final jam.
Crum finished ahead of Smith with
backside and frontside ollie tail
grabs-to-front truck grind, alley-oop
pivot grind, gay twist tail grab-to-tail
and pivots-to-disaster. Buck Smith
couldn't stay on his board as much
as would have liked, but still made
the loud ones proud with h-i-g-h
frigid liens, stalled Andrechts,
Madonnas-to-disaster and 360°
feebles-to-fakie.
Omar Hassan continued to carve a
niche in the pro ranks with a third
place finish, pounding the ramp with
gay twist varials, 360 frontsides and
a McTwist-to-fastplant fakie combi-
nation, as well as an assortment of
airs that got higher with each run.
Omar went home happy and will no
doubt come back hungry next time.
If a skateboard ramp was an oper-
ating room, then Chris Miller would
be the chief surgeon. Chris cut
clean, precise and stylish lines all
over the ramp, performing lien alley-
cop-ectomies, fastplant-al probes,
backside ollie-to-frontside Smith-
bypass (and vice-versa) and
exploratory Twist surgery. This made
for an altogether successful opera-
tion and second place.
It has been scientifically proven,
time and time again, that the human
mind is capable of everything from
monster truck racing to quantum the-
ory. Suffice it to say, Tony Hawk is on
the quantum end of the scale. Tony
continued to expound on and rede-
fine the upper limits of skating with
Cabs-to-backside disaster, melan-
chollie-to-lakie, one-footed backside
ollie 360's, blunt-to-frontside 180's
and a plethora of other tricks, includ
ing three kinds of McTwist variations.
You figure it out. First place.
Immediately after the finals, the
judges convened and all present
shifted their attention to the snake
run and bowl area, where some wild
crashing and burning was going on
in preparation for the cross country
event. The course would take the
rider on a preliminary carve through
Kona's big bowl and over into the
snake run, exiting the serpent
halfway to, through and around the
mogul area, through the big bowl
again and over to the snake run to
pick up where they had left off,
crossing the finish line at the bottom
end of the snake. Danny Way
demonstrated a technique for bowl-
to snake transfer that wasn't going to
win any trophies but was definitely
winning crowd approval, busting out
six-foot plus, twenty-foot-long trans-
fers that could make you believe that
man was meant to fly. When it came
time to see who was going fastest
between point A and point B, Buck
Smith utilized his intimate knowledge
of the terrain to cinch first place hon-
ors. Aussie Adam Luxford bombed
out in the halfpipe but bombed down
the cross country course into second
place. In third place, with style and
speed to spare, was Christian Hosoi,
followed by Hawk, Chris Miller and
Blaize Blouin
It had promised to be a long day.
and it most certainly was. With con-
siderable lack of ceremony, the
results were announced, a few auto-
graphs signed and most movers and
skaters disappeared down Kona
road in search of the much-heralded
backyard barbecue and pool party. I
seized the only chance I'd had all
weekend to skate and was just get-
ting acquainted with the right hand
kidney bowl when a sudden thunder-
shower put an end to our relation-
ship. I bid farewell to Kona and
caught a taxi back to the hotel. It was
only later when I looked at the
receipt that I noticed a few words
scrawled across the bottom of the
card: "SHE KNOWS ORB". I had the
haunting feeling that it wouldn't be
long before I knew Orb too....
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