BLOW BY BLOW
style doing tail grabs over the chan-
nels and frontside lipslides through
the bowl. He tried to cap it with the
low squatting G-turn, but the judges
escorted him to seventh, Tom Knox
cruised to sixth with a constant bar-
rage of blunt-to-backside disasters,
one-footed ollie tail grabs over the
hips, and plenty of flatland shifts
and shoves.
Jason Lee rode to fifth with a smile
and big Japan grabs, backside blunts
to disaster reverts, backside 180°s
over the railslide and precision
kickflips-to-tail in the judges' faces.
Tony Hawk spent most of his down
time in the medical tent. He certainly
needed no sympathy after his nearly
flawless final runs which included
melon-ta-fakies, frontside ollie blunts-
to-frontside rocks through the twin
bowls, 360 stales over the hip, back-
side nose grinds, ollie impossibles and
ollie-to-tail shave-its off the quarter
pipe lip. Tony just barely hung up
going over the plateau on his last run
and fell to fourth, Noah Salasnek
pulled the nollie-to-tailslide every time
he tried, backside tailslides, and put
a.
HOLIDAY SPECIAL
SKATE PUNKS
LOADED
ZONE
anned on
TAB
"Cowabunga shouted Cook
ie Monster as he pumped down
the street in search of a session.
Cookie knew that the rest of his
crew would be raging at the in-
tersection of Hurricane Alley
were challenging his position as
top toy seller in the skate divi
sion of team Muppet
Ollieing up a curb, Cooke
Monster thought of his longtime
buds who had been reigning for
years on the toy circuit. Some
thought they were past it
prime. Snoopy had been with
and Impossible Way With Christ
mas just around the corner, a
whole new crop of skate toys
PHOTOGRAPHY GEOFF VAN DUSEN
SET BUILDING KEVIN ANCELL
United Features Syndicate for
over thirty years and had the
most models of any skate toy.
Lately, Snoopy was getting lazy,
hanging erosind the dog house
with Woodstock Meanwhile,
Cookie's buddy Bart Simpson
blew his wed when he started
wearing that lame Bartmen
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