Clockwise from top left Puter Hewitt stayed focused on skating while the others
slipped into darkness: Big-time stoler at Manly. Photo by Mike O'Meally. The
pack, Wade Burkett is from Australia and he rips: Backside tailslide at Manly.
Coco Santiago was on fire the whole trip, his credo: "Go up to it and roll in.
that way you know what it takes to get to the top. This pool or Balconnen
fast and smooth, and Core powered the onion. The tour guide in Canberra.
Mike D, had all the spots dialed Frontside grind on the Bricks. Salman hates
coffee so he drinks tee. Demo-god Al Petersen blasts a fat backsider over
the hip of Manly. John Cardiel on the way our
grind and zinged his axe right into
Joey's shin, and in doing so, cut it
right to the bone. There was
ng is not a good way to meet the
neighbors. After we got him
inside, nobody felt like skating.
blood al over: The platforms, the The others showed up shortly
coping, bowl, everywhere. Fifteen
minutes in and already a casualty
We kept skating while Joey pissed
and moaned, Ten minutes later,
Cardiel overpowered a frontside
through the corner and sat on his
ankle thought for sure he broke
it Becoming a screaming, spit-
ting, hissing, man in a residential
neighborhood at ten in the mom
thereafter and noticed there was
nobody skating. When they
walked up on the platform, all
they saw was blood and thought
for sure that someone died. It
didn't look good for Cards.
rest of the day was spent at a
small little park called Paddington
just down the street. One day
two victims.
How much is all this stuff
worth?
give it away
After we all cleared.
we boarded another
plane to take us up the
coast to Brisbane. After
fourteen hours, what's
another hour-and-a-half?
Brisbane is an easy-going
place and it was good to
start out the trip like that.
We were all buddies, smil-
ing, happy and exuberant
Who could have possibly
foreseen the hatred and i
negativity to come? We
wiled away our first
night trying to get
used to the time difi
ference while in the
backyard there was a
Sweet wooden bowl
Sun rose early as did
the restless nomads
Three of the others
stayed at another
pad, so the first ses
sion was only half
of the crew. The
sequence of events
that was to unfold
next was straight out
of a horror movie.
Coco overamped
BLACK MASS
After cruising Brisbane for three
days, we were all jonesing for the
road. The next stop was the Gold
Coast and Burleigh Heads. There
are all kinds of spots, they have a
park called Pizzey that has a soft
asphalt street deal and a cement
pit that is just plain gnar. We got
the tour guide treatment from Seb
Steele, Seb showed some spots
while others had to scouted out
by Cardiel on bicycle. He would
come back and say, "This way
and the pack would migrate onto
heaps of all cement stuff with
nobody around for miles. Sound
fake? It ain't. On our third spot
stop of the day, at a little Sadlands