BLOW BY BLOW
Rudy Johnson, Ray Barbee and
Kris Markovich, who rounded out
the final cut.
Rookies Markovich and Johnson,
held their own with the power ollies
and speed flow demanded by the
street/bank/bowl course. Ray
Barbee qualified third on Sunday
with incredible footwork and credi-
ble ollie grabs, then slipped back to
eleventh in Monday's final. Eric
Dressen couldn't hang onto his near
perfect qualifying routines either,
but showed why he's won here be-
fore with frontside ollie tail grab
nose grinds, backside ollies-to-tail
over the hip and long stand-up
grinds through the bowls. Alan
Petersen took second last year and
threatened to repeat it with a run in
the finals that included landing a
backside one-footed 180 ollie over
the gap to front truck lock, feeble
grinds-to-frontside rocks in the
bowls and one-footed ollie-to-ollie
blunt, but the judges saw him to 8th
place. Christian Hosoi turned on the
afterburners with speed and raucous
HEAD CHEESE
lot. A skater in a white "Bo
Knows Your Sister" T-shirt
slappied the only unoccu-
pied parking block left.
Loud slides announced
Jerrster and Larrman's ar-
rival at the fair. Rather
than hang outside and
flip their decks with
the kids, they
checked their boards
at the gate and
headed inside. Be-
neath an orange
tent, enchanting
ladies in multi-
colored scarves
wove dances
of the belly to
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Day Way (sequence) must have eaten his Wheatles to make
c-to-backside sides every time. Noah Salanek (above)
was borning the course the fastest of all in the blink of an eye he
was gone, 180 frontside over the fang cooler en route to third
For Jason Rogers Deft), it was another day at the office-give
ha hip and be wit do melon-to-takie bindades no problem
Danny Way (inset). "What do you mean I got second?"
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