Loaded Qun
A photo essay on
Bob Burnquist
Words by
Mike Frazier
long as you're skating what you want
because you want to? I have had so many
people in the past year tell me how glad they
are that vert's not "dead" anymore. That's news
to me. I guess living in Florida, it took me a little longer to
hear it through the grapevine that vert died a year ago or that
it wasn't cool anymore. Well, guess what? It's back now.
AUTHENTIC
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What goes around comes around... Right?
What was cool today will be weak tomorrow,
but don't worry-soon enough it will be the
newest, coolest trend again. It seems like that's
how skating vert has been for a lot of people
lately. There are skaters who skate street or
pools or vert-whatever, who gives a shit, as
At eighteen years old, Bob Burnquist is
a relative unknown from Brazil who is such a
skateboard master that when you ask him if he can
do 540's he'll say, "Which way?" Bob is humble,
loves to fly and is always more than willing to take
a beet
eef. For
or those who don't know, Bob is regular
foot. The frontside stand-up at Max's (right) and
lien air (top right) at Jake's are both switch.