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JUNGLE RULES
Taming and training wild animals is not exactly
the safest way to make a living, but it's the only way
for David Tetzlaft. At 28. Tetzlaff is best known in
his area of expertise for training the largest group of
performing leopards (10) in the US and his tiger
act, featuring six full-grown man-eating Royal Ben-
gal tigers. Indeed. Tetzlaff has nerves of steel and a
keen sense of reality. He obviously enjoys a good
thrill, which is why he skates.
Tetzlaff started skating at thirteen. "I was young
and crazy," he says. "I dislocated my shoulder
jumping over a Fiat. I used to skate under ele
phants as part of my dad's animal show. Elephants
don't like anything underneath them, and they
could have reached down and slammed me into
the middle of next week. The trick is getting the
trust from the animal so they let you do it."
He says skating and training big cats have sim
larities. Skating isn't some team thing with a bunch
of goofballs. You're on your own, and that's the way
it is with animal training. When there's a trick you
want to do, you just do it until you get it right. Skate
boarding taught me patience. Training tigers takes
a lot of practice and repetition.
Do his leopards skate? They like to play with it,
roll it around. But it would become a novelty if they
played with it every day. They like to chew on a big
cow-bone skateboard its more nutritious."
But, for all their playfulness, Tezlaff says the
tigers are dangerous. "The only thing predictable
about them is that they're unpredictable. They don't
know their own strength, they could accidently snap
your neck. Nature designed tigers to kill and eat a
1.550-pound water buffalo, so they are not going to
have any problems with a human-John Stain
CARS OF THE STARS
Learn to drive? Which prominent
rolling assassin recently took out a
new BMW while driving Rodney
Mullen's Camaro? Keep in mind all
of this was done under the influence
of a learner's permit. The answer
shouldn't be Sheffey? Things were
so bent and extreme that even in-
dulgent industrialist Rocco promptly
locked up his Trackmagic go-kart,
forbidding factory spins. Mr. Steve
then split to his 25,000 square foot
hat factory and then to an undis-
closed location, home of the world's
largest Tomy train layout. While
rumors percolate about Steve's
amazing ability to get six Tomy's
running simultaneously, the world
awaits hard photographic evidence.
No doubt motivated by increasing
luge activity, Malibu Mountains high
way patrol types seem to be intent
on nailing any and all "illegal" road-
skate activists. Meanwhile, numer-
ous luge types continue to attack
the famed Mulholland Drive and
peak speed claims of one hundred
plus are heard. Perhaps the most
noted in this area are the Max Metal
boys such as the Pereyra brothers
and Ken Kinnee. Legends of Glen-
dora Mountain talk of a winner-take-
all/open-to-all luge meet in the im-
mediate future. Elsewhere, Redding,
California's, Team Speed assault
spokesman Alln O'Brocklin plans
to run Clipper Street hill in S.F. for a
new record.
BAD BOYS
Has Shaun Palmer, the banned
bad boy of Mt. Hood, the World Cup
tour and the PSTA, legally changed
his name to the Cadillac Kid
as rumored?
Word has it that Palmer's
back tattoo of a V-8 Cadil-
lac logo in flames is the
stylistic high point of the mod-
en snowboard world.
Odder than in, inner than
out. What else can you say
about Abe Powell (son of
guess who?) who was seen
lately assaulting the New
York City spots of choice
astride his Shut skate. Is it
R&D, is it rebellion or is Abe
just a man with his own agenda?
Chris Miller seen doing
backside laybacks in the tube
at Blacks Beach.
Jason Rogers has been
skating unhinged lately
(not to be confused with
Dan Rogers, who is also
on fire). Equally non-
confused and aggro-
forward is what's currently
being said about Rob.
Dotson, Pat Brennan and
Eric Ricks, who round this
month's consensus of
rowdy rollers.
The world attended a
large party at Block and
Pat Ngoho's downtown
L.A. loft. Cochrane was
flexing while the fire mar-
shals kicked hundreds out
into the streets. It was as
close to a jive event as you
can come. Entertainment was
via Cypress Hill.
Dr. Rick Blackhart has been
viewed towing his race car with
a sleek F-350 Ford
Craig Johnson
(below) makes a
brief fashion
statement. Tony
Magnusson (left)
hitches a ride in
Münster.
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