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one-footed tail grab. Remember
Eddie Reategui vaulting over a car
and several spectators in
Sacramento, Mark Gonzales rail
sliding a fancy fender during a
downpour in Eugene, Oregon.
How about the stories of heroics
that will never be told because if
you hadn't been there to see it.
you wouldn't believe it?
JAY ADAMS: Invert. "When no one
else was doing them, I was first."
TOMMY GUERRERO: "I saw Cab do a
backside 540'grab. Danny Way did
a double-cllie flip-to-grab on vert.
I saw him try a 900'." KEVIN
HARRIS: Tony Hawk, olle 540.1
first saw McGill do a McTwist in
84. He busted out with it in his
final run; he didn't do it in practice.
JAKE PHELPS: Rogair off a diving
board at Cambridge pool. Stacy
PERALTA: Frankie Hill, three-kinked
rail with hand dragging all the way.
A week later, a five-kink rail with
hand in front, low to the ground. I
laughed hysterically. ERIC NASH
Crazy things like Neil Blender's
longest carve, Schneer dropping
off a piece of plywood. Christian
doing 11- or 12-foot airs. The
McTwist, etc. CHRIS ROBISON: 1
Everything totally sketchy that you
pull off when you think you're
going to slam. ERIK JUEDEN: Brian
Brannon riding down a slide into a
pool's shallow end doing 100 miles
an hour. McKE ALBA: Puppethead
layback. BRETT THOMPSON: 900.
SCOTT DUNLAP: Boardslide on step
handrail, three five-foot sections.
PUPPET: Boardslide 20 coping
blocks by Jesolowski at Cherry Hill
skatepark. SALBA: Chuck Hults.
backside Smith over death box.
TIM GALVIN: Olson doing the chan-
nel at the Big O contest. hanging-
up and making it and winning.
BRIAN BRANNON: Salba over-vertical
frontside thrusters seventy feet
under the city. STEVE
DOUGLAS: Lee Ralph
jumped at least an
eleven-foot gap from
ramp to ramp at
Visalia camp. SALMAN
AG Tail grab 540
by Sluggo. CRAIG STECK:
Peralta was doing edgers at
some pool up in the hills
that was hanging on a cliff.
and each time plaster and
dirt would fall about 300
feet to the canyon below.
Duane Peters "El Rollo
in the Loop of Death.
Blackhart driving Schneider's
mom's car through the desert.
NEAL HENDRO: At a Skateboard
Connection contest two years ago,
Brian Howard did a backside air-
walk that looked like he was going
to throw it away and bail. At the
last second he grabbed his board
put it under his feet and made it.
LANCE MOUNTAIN: McGill learning
540's in 1984 at the summer
camp. MARK HONZTMAN: Natas ollies
out of a mini-ramp-to-frontside
wallride on a house, ollies off
house over platform, frontside
180' to fakie re-entry, BRYCE
KNIGHTS: Probably Sluggo's tail
grab 540 or Eddie Reategui's
bomb drop off the roof to back-
side air at the HP ramp. Frankie
Hill's ollie mute grab off of the hill
(in the parking lot) in the Propa-
ganda video was comparable to the
Grand Canyon. JOHN FABRIQUER: It
would have to be the 540. JEFFREY
HEDGES: Christian Hosol's one-foot-
ed tail ollies and McTwist tail grab.
Early Jason Jessee Andrechts and
air fakies. SuwN NUNEZ: 540'.
DANNY MAYER: Double kickflip indy
air by Danny Way. DANNY WAY:
Body varial McTwist by Danny
Meyer, STEVE SAIZ: The first time
Tony Hawk made a stalled 540.
OMAR HASSAN: Backside ollie revert.
TONY MAGNUSSON: Mad Mark
Baker's frontside air, no pads,
sketchy ass trucks, Stockholm,
Sweden. Danny Way's 900. Chris-
tian Hosol's airs. RAY UNDERHILL:
Double olie kickflip indy grab on
BEFORE THE MINH-RAMP CAME THE BROWN BOWLS
AT MARINA SKATEPARK. STACY PERALTA (BELOW
LEFT) PULLS A MANEUVER CALLED A DISASTER
TODAY, BUT A FRONTSIDE LIPSLIDE BACK THEN.
YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY, CHRIS SENN
(RIGHT) GUIDES A SKATEPARK-BORN MANEUVER
THROUGH THE HALLWAYS OF
EDUCATION. MIKE MCGILL (LEFT
SEQUENCE) TWISTS A SIXTH
ANNUAL 540' ON VERT. THE
QUESTION OF THE NINETIES:
How MANY 360 OLLIES CAN
YOU DO? CHRIS SENN
ROTATES OVER A CEMENT
STREET OBSTACLE.
"My friend did
a railslide for
fifty yards."
vert by Danny Way. MARK PARTAIN: Venice Beach
wall frontside grinds by Aaron Murray/Scott
Oster. At least ten feet of vertical with seven-foot
transitions. STEVE CABALLERO: McGill's 540' at Del
Mar contest in 1984. JOHN LUCERO: Duane Peters'
invert revert with nose hang, front truck/back
truck hang-up. Toco CONCELLIERE: "Top secret,
dude. Mike YouSSEFPOUR: An invert under coping.
CHRISTIAN HOSO: Tail grab McTwist, 900's. DARRYL
DELGADO: Christ's frontside carve grind over shal-
low end steps at La Mesa Roman end pool. STEVE
SALSIAN: My friend did a railslide for 50 yards. It
went forever. Anything Ben Schroeder does.
Christian Hosol's air every day of the week.
What trick feels the best to pull off?
Even street kings who ollie houses for a living
said that there is nothing like a long manual
wheelie to soothe the soul, or a raucous downhill
driveway run that uses every move in your book
and teaches a few you didn't have yet. That's fun.
Many board pilots will always fall back on the old
standbys to get their kicks, like a backside
method air or a frontside stand-up grind. After
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