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y ton in the morning, it was eighty- "My board sucks." With just a hearty
was, after all, in Sacramento, which is
known for its brutal heat. The reason
for being here on this blistering
Saturday, May 23, 1992, was to wit-
ness the aptly named Capitol Burnout
III, the second installment of the NSA's
1992 vert program. Once again situal-
ed at Cal Expo's Water World, the con-
test site was semi-crowded with swim-
mers, scammers and skaters all ready
to watch the best in the business risk
Ife and limb for the ridiculously measly
five hundred dollars first place.
On Wednesday, an NSA tax boasted
over thirty entrants, but when the con-
test started, there were only fifteen. No
wonder vert is dead. When the chips
are down, some on-site pros found a
way not to enter: "My wheels aren't.
right," or "My back hurts." or the worst,
and it was rapidly apparent who was
on and who had done their homework
Veterans relied on the old standards
like big airs and a few reverts, while the
new guard were hungry to adapt street
influences to the tall walls in the gruel-
ing heat, if a rider bailed, he often
would not even finish his allotted time
for a run. The ramp itself was soft, slip-
pery and not one inch of it was in the
shado, adding a little extra heat to the
frying pan.
After a long break at the end of qual
ifying, the names were called for the
main event: Chris Miller, Brian Howard,
Chris Livingston, Neal Hendrix, Bucky
Lasek, Remy Stratton, Dave LeRoux
and Mike Frazier.
It used to be that pros from California
were the dominant force in vert con-
tests. Not today, with ramps every
where it has truly blossomed into a
countrywide phenomena. States repre
sented included Maryland, Florida,
North Carolina, Arizona, Minnesota
and California. With ramp skating
becoming so techno, basic backside
airs and frontside grinds just don't
make it. Today's pilots do one insane
tweaked trick after another. Rarely
doing the same one twice. How do you
judge flawless runs? It used to be if a
guy needed a set-up trick he would do
a rock and roll. Nowadays, set-up tricks
are tailgrab nosegrinds and backside
disaster reverts. Add a first wall rebate
in the finals and you can imagine what
went down in the heat, sand and chlo
rine at Water World. The end results
read like this:
Brian Howard made the out by dish-
ing out long runs, lots of tricks and
uncanny consistency. His tricks includ
ed backside nosegrind reverts, fakio
frontside pivot fakies, disaster reverts,
fake clle disaster backside reverts and
frontside late shove-ts where everyone
was holding their breath. He actually
ground in on one and pulled eighth
A drop-in indy 540° gave Dave
LeRoux enough speed to crank
through noite tailgrab to tails, frontside
nollie disasters, Cab tailgrab to tails.
360 indys, nolie frontside air reverts
and a crowd-pleasing switchstance
Caballerial dismount. When Davo
rides, you really have to watch closely,
because it is hard to tell which way he
is skating. He would have placed high-
er if mid-way through his last run he
didn't bail on a monster eight-foot
frontside air, thus ending his quest for
cash but landing him in seventh.
All eyes were on mad man Mike
TODAY,
KNOCKED
OFF
TOMORROW...
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