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Come on, man. Let me do it, just one time.
Okay. But you gotta promise you'll jump off
before you hit the intersection.
My brother never did have
the greatest respect for
my intelligence.
But he showed me
how to get started
anyway. I climbed
on and damned if.
my older brother,
my friend, who
had expressed
such deep concern for my well being
just a few seconds before, gave me
a shove down the hill.
I went about thirteen
feet in the time it
takes to piss your
pants and dove
with grasping
PAPA OLLIE
(DADDY HIGH FLIGHT):
Here is the king of all rolling ver-
min. There is only one Pops, and no
one ollies as high as he. Pops measures
the height of his ollies in floors, not feet. He
invented the allie-method-720-to-revert off
an unpainted curb in the red light district.
Although Pops was popping no-hand-airs 1
before boards had kicktails, few people
have ever seen him sail one. After all.
Pops doesn't think it's dignified to
show the young ones up.
outstretched
First Tricks/Tricks Now
Petersen: Olio-to-grind. / Kick-
flip late shove-it-to-railslide.
Barbier: Boneless, sweepers
and fakie 360's. / Switchstance
and nose blunt stuff. Carroll:
Boneless and allie. / Switch-
stance shit and pressure fips.
Stranger: Stink bug rail grab
(Continued on page 76
claws for the nearest
greenery. It didn't last
long, but man, it was
wonderful.
This time don't shove
me, okay?
Before long I was mak-
ing it about a third of
the way down that long
hill before I was going
so fast I was afraid the
wind was gonna suck
the air right out of my
lungs. The screaming didn't help either. So
when I got back up the hill, I told my brother,
I could do better if it wasn't for the damned
screaming I kept hearing.Continued on page 74)
Launch
ramps are now
called quarter pipes
again. Matt Beach (opposite
page) pulls a 360' heel lp,
unconcerned if someone will run
him over from behind.
For years Rodney
Mulles (top) has
been head and
shoulders above the
competition. In 1986, he
laid down the impassible for
all to see. Where is skating
going? Watch Rodney, he knows.
Steve Rocco did handplants on carbs
as a mockery of the park robots.
Then, street contests happened.
Joha Dettman (left) boasts a carb
hazard in Santa Barbara. Long
before dreads and baggy pants, Ron
Allen (below) was asking for volan
teers to oille in 1986. Yes, that is
Brandon Chapman in the middle.
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