A Good Excuse
For A Contest
TORY BY MATT REASON & JIM HOUSER
Chad Kramer (left), head and antlers above the rest.
Carl Shipman (right) stuck this gorilla frontside 180 flip.
The master of New York, Willy "Ginsu Flip" Santos
(below) on the way to his second victory at Newburgh.
ON NOVEMBER 11TH AND 12TH, 1994,
the second of two pro obstacle contests was
held at Newburgh Skatepark in New York.
The set-up was changed a little, the pyramid.
hips were made steeper and taller, and there
was a new transition to wall. two wedge bank
to banks set up next to each other-
one higher than the other with metal edges,
and part of the bowl was torn out so that
one of the walls could be hit from the floor.
Giving the scene a sense of déjà vu, Willy
Santos skated clean to again take first