Jason Lee (above)
broke one board,
borrowed another and
anded up in tinh
place-360 olle flip on
the pump bump. MC
KIT (left), narration for
the masses. A pigeon's-
eye view (right) of the
contest site. Pick your
eyeballs up off the
ground and reinsert
them back in your head
after watching Sean
Sheffey (sequence)
olie late shove-it over
the whole platform.
BLOW BY BLOW
self. Both skaters put on a show
that had many of the sun-baked
skate fans in the crowd doing loops.
Last year's champion, Tony Hawk,
who was barely able to walk on a
bad ankle, skated well enough to
snag fourth place behind hard-
charging 1990 National Amateur
street champion Noah Salasnek.
With veteran streetists and heavy
local favorites Steve Caballero (bro-
ken foot) and Tommy Guerrero
(wrenched ankle) looking on from
the sidelines, practice hinted at a
toss-up between any of the above
and all of the below: Jason Lee,
Tom Knox, Christian Hosoi, Alan
Petersen, '88 champ Eric Dressen.
HEADCHEESE
of Ripple. His eyes
opened in thin slats but
couldn't focus. Nearing
the action, they passed a
green pickup with brown
stripes and a large "My
Other Car Is A Skate-
board" bumper sticker
maneuvering into an ille-
gal berth behind a build-
ing. Three white errand
vans and a brown Datsun
510 with a "Honk If You
Read X-Men sticker al-
ready hogged most of
the corporate parking
ONSE
N