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SNOW BOYS
Snowboarding is big
business and the tricks
look a lot like skating a
ramp. Witness Adam
Merriman's (left) stale
flight at Mt. Hood sum-
mer camp. Alas, rich
kids rule the resorts and
poor boys need not
apply. Snowboarding is
like skating mutated
into some bizarre family.
camping trip. Back
country and even back-
yard boarding should
make a big comeback
this winter.
FRESH CUTS
Today's rookie
pro must be a mod-
ern Superman-do
it all and ride it all.
The strictly street
pro of the mid-80s
is over. Guys like
Jaya Bonderov can
get ugly anywhere.
Jaya (right) made
this ollie tail grab
nose bonk over the
file cabinet many
times-tuff. Jason
Brown's ramp-to-
bank slob grab
(top) at Stone Edge
shows the creativi-
ty skaters apply to
any terrain.
THER
COMING OR GOING
Boards are unidirectional
and so is skating. Nose this,
tail that-it matters not as
long as it pops. Outdated
hoards were once dumped.
on unsuspecting foreign dis-
tributors. Not today. The
world market will not buy
the shit from under the
counter. Think about how.
many old decks and wheels
are rotting in warehouses
from San Diego to Seattle....
TS
FLAPJACK
Tricks come and-go. Handplants were
once the pinnacle of performance. Now
even airs are boring. Nollie one-footed
tail grab switchstance shuffle-to-fakie is
the move of the day. Tony Hawk still has
the deepest bag of tricks around that's
why he still wins. Tony (left), flaps a
1985-style tuck-knee for the nineties
crowd in Münster
BACON
BRIGADE
Nothing
stands in the
of the
wheeled treas
except mayhe
the long arm of
the law: It's a
cat and mouse
game, to be
sure, but just
remember, you
camt skate
SWEAT SHOPS
The indoor park explo-
sion is a countrywide phe-
nomenon. Wooden bowls.
hips and spines are every-
where. Don Hillsman
(above) levitates out of
Skatezone's super kidney in
Atlanta. However, when
parents see parks as baby-
sitters and owners see only
dollar signs, who knows
how long it will last? After
the parks are gone, every-
one will complain about
nowhere to skate, skating
will go underground again
and the real skaters will
still rule the wasteland.
INTO THE VOID
For many of you out
there, this is only a begin-
ning. You hold the key.
Unlock the door and roll
into 1992
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