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10th Matt Beach looked like he was asleep
through the whole thing, but managed to stay
awake long enough to noseslide the spine and
launch to tail hard over the hip.
9th Phi Shao was sporting a bum knee from
an earlier handrail mishap, but he put on a com
mendable effort with switchstance frontside olies
over the hip, nollie to tail over the spine and assort-
ed blunt madness to make it to the top ten.
8th Chet Childress styled his way hard and
strong. He had one flawless run and locked to to
be the man to beat, but his second run mishap
put him out. Nonetheless, he flowed backside
Smith to lipslides, Indy to tail over the hip, huge
lien melon to rail over the hip out of the vert ramp.
and some monstrous frontside ollies to rail.
7th Danny Minnick is a fuckin' madman. Watch
this guy go to work and see what skating a mini-
ramp is all about. Cab pivot shove-its, switch
stance frontside ollie nosegrinds, olle 5-0 fakie
over the hip, frontside shove-it frontside rocks and
some crazy fakie nose taps over the spine. Minnick
does it like no other. After the contest some ass-
hole stole his board. He is in for a hell of a sur
prise when he rides it
6th Eric Jay is a mystery. Where he comes
from and where he goes nobody knows, but he
skates in a hybrid way that leaves you scratching
your head wondering. 5-0 noseslap fakie, back
side 360° ollies over the hip, blunts of every des
cription and even a boneless 180" to the delight
of the crowd.
5th Zac Martin is a local boy done good, a lit
the man that wears glasses, remember this name
'cuz he rips it hard. Fat half-Cabs over the spine,
alley-oop 360 over the hip, big frontside late
shove-its and the usual blunt-o-rama made sure
he was in the top ten.
4th Joosef Itkonen is better known by the
gnarly will eventually pop up. Backside nose-
name Moses. Whatever you call him, the word
and the trick of the contest, an olle noseslide to
blunts, ollie nosegrind noseslide over the hip,
noseblunt over the spine that had the crowd
screaming for more.
3rd Bobby Kuhns is America's Most Blunted.
His set up tricks are half-Cab ollie blunts and crazy
shit like that. He pulled a kickflip to rail over the
spine, 360" shove-it to tail and half-Cab to nose
revert over the spine. Everything he does is strong
and confident.
2nd Andy MacDonald was hard to beat. Fat
airs, funky tricks and the ability to stay in the clutch
ensured him a top slot. Body varial to tail over the
spine, 360' over the spine, one-footed frontside
grinds, Cab lipslides over the spine and a Christian
method into the vert ramp. If he hadn't fallen in
his second run, he would have won
1st Jeff Taylor tore that ramp to shit. He had
runs that you dream about. Staying on and getting
lucky made him the mini-ramp champ of 1992.
Frontside tailslide to 5-0, Smith grinds, backside
tailslides and a 360' tailgrab nose tap over the
spine that was the clincher
It was close to four o'clock in the afternoon, and
it was time to go to the other park for the vert con-
test. We got to the park and watched some prac-
tice but it took too long to get it off the ground, so
we split for the airport and the long trip home. On
the plane I asked the stewardess if she had any
extra meals and she brought out the wheelbarrow.
When we landed I headed straight for the barf
basin. Over and Out.
Vert results in On Board on page 76.
AIN'T RIGHT
4-9 All eyes are on Rick Howard when he rides.
A supreme technician who handles any environ-
ment, Rick was right at home with frontside pivot
form. The kids all watch and dream, but few can
fakies, alley-oop backfoot kickflips, alley-oop
noseslide reverts and big kickflips over the plat-
match the master.
7-8 Chris Senn had the run of the contest with a
frontside slider on the bar, backside lipslide
reverts, switchstance noseslide 360° shove-its and
an unbelievable 180° nosegrind noseslide takie on
day. With fifteen seconds left on his second run he
the edge of the fountain that was the trick of the
called time. Maybe that ended his hunt for the
green.
6-7 From Sacramento, CA, Mako Urabe threw his
hat into the pro ring and qualified easily. Some of
the tricks that set Mako apart from the rest were
360° rock and roll reverts, manuals, Sal-flips to
fakie and fakie clie nose pivots on the nugget. It
all added up to one hundred fifty dollars.
12-6 San Diego homeslice Oscar Jordan was
his usual cocksure self, and strolled to a payday
by launching late shove-its off the nugget, manu-
als to kickflip into the bank, noseslides and even
G-turns à la Scott Oster in front of the judges. OJ
turned on the heat in the finals and took it down.
8-5 Give Wade Speyer anything to skate and he
slaytanic angel. Starting his run with a monster
will. Speed, determination and gusto describe this
360' from the spine to the platform launch, he con
tinued to blaze opposite-footed frontside ollies,
noseslide to fakie on the steps, 360" frontside
blunts and all that other shit, that Wade does,
made him a crowd fave and money-maker.
15-4 The Cinderella story of this contest was
Shawn Martin. He barely joonted on page 7
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