BOUNDING OVER A SEATING
OBSTACLE LIKE YESTERDAY'S CURB,
ERIC DRESSEN (ABOVE) THROWS
A TAILER. HAS ANYBODY MISSED
THE BONELESS? MONTY NOLDER
(RIGHT) FLAPS A TOEY ONE.
PUTTING HIS BEST FOOT FORWARD
CHRISTIAN HOSO (FAR RIGHT),
KICKS A BRICK-BREAKING BACKSIDE
JUDO. TELLING SOMEBODY TO GO
SHOVE-IT USED TO BE FIGHTING
WORDS. JOVANTE TURNER
DEMONSTRATES HIS MASTERY OF
THE BACKSIDE BOARDSLIDE-TO-
SHOVET RE-ENTRY AT
EMBARCADERO WHILE A PAIR OF
HAPPY FEET DANCE AN OLLIE-TO-
ONE-FOOTED TAILSLIDE. AN
UNKNOWN SOLDIER (RIGHT
SEQUENCE) CHARGES A ONE-
FOOTED OLLIE.
"Even old
farts can
cross-foot nose rides on a Sunday
morning in the parking lot before
church lets out. MIKE VALLEY: For a
long time, manuals where you ollie
up a curb and lock into it. Any
trick has its moments. NEAL HEN-
DROC Fastplant. I couldn't do it for
so long. I finally learned it and
could do it all day. MARK HONZT-
MAN: Heel flips, trying them on
Good grind
to ramps. Jer ADAM G
learn to
slappy a
curb."
carve in a pool.
Ever made up a trick yourself?
Skaters, ever so humble, are
hard to pin down on this matter.
Parallel evolutionary theory, or.
Peralta's Law, states that for every
new maneuver being done it's
exact duplicate is being done by
someone else on the planet. A trick
just can't be pulled off before it's
time. That means when Bucky
Lasek recently wired the
blunt-to-tailgrab-to-nosetap-
to-fakie, somewhere else on
this blue ball, another kid was
throwing his hands up after
pulling the same trick, yelling "1
did it!"
Some tricks and their inven
tors are well-documented. No
one who was there will ever
forget Bobby Valdez developing
and trying the inverted handplant
during practice, qualifying for the
Hester Series #3 at Newark, CA,
and then finally pulling it off dur-
ing the finals to beat local favorite
Rick Blackhart. Legend has it that
when Mike McGill finally pulled off
the first 540 McTwist, there was
nobody there to see it. The rest of
the guys had already gone inside
for dinner at the Eurocana sum-
mer camp in Sweden. Tony Hawk's
not the kind of guy who just
throws himself into an untried
maneuver and hopes to make it.
You can bet he made a few of
those 720° spins before unveiling
it in competition. It was his knack
for saving them until the last trick
in the finals of a contest and then
making it, that carved his name in
stone alongside that maneuver...
JAY ADAMS: Which one? TOMMY
GUERRERO: Me, nah, I'm pretty use
less. I helped introduce olie-to-
grab. KEVIN HARRIS: Flamingo (one-
footed G-turn where board slides
instead of wheels being off the
ground). JAKE PHELPS: Angel of
Death (Fakie nollie one-footed tail
slap). STACY PERALTA: Fakie-to-
frontside lipslider as seen on the
Ray Allen show. Exc NASH: Nothing
worth mentioning. Jer Grosso:
Well, maybe the roast beef. But it's
called the Grossman. Andy Roy
does them best, I suck. BRIAN
BRANNON: Fakie hood ornament
(one-footed fakie rock grabbing
back foot). BRETT THOMPSON:
Frontside 540'sweeper. Scorr
DUNLAP: Backside pipe flight at
Pipeline. STEVE KEENAN: Maybe
beanplant-to-disaster. It's pretty
ugly. PUPPET: Frontside rock walk
rock 'n' roll fakie. Mouse: Touching
my nose with my tongue. SALBA
360'rock/shuffles, grind reverts.
Frontside air reverts. TIM GALVIN:
360 pivot, frontside air to air-to-
360'shove-it axle stall, 360°ollie.
STEVE DOUGLAS: Fakie-to-layback
roll-out. Pop rocks-to-fakie (half-
Cabs to fakie). SALMAN AGAH: I
think Henry Sanchez and I started
doing late shove-its. CRAIG STECK
Can't remember. Cross-footed
hang-five kick-up. MIKE VALLEY:
港
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