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There's no room for phro
sequence) as Mike calmly does a
switch shove it Indy to fakie on the
metul vert ramp in Santel, Switzerland
Control in motion (middle sequence)
on a shove it noseslide to fakie. How
about a nolle tailslide revert (bottom
sequence), just for good measure? If
Mike (portrait) wanted to, he could
have been a brain surgeon, but as a
skateboarder he fixes your cranium
with way-bent slobs. If this was Salba
it could have been a fat slab, but Mike
is very skinny so nevermind.
freaks, whatever, and some gid
was with was fucking with them,
pinching their asses, like, "Hot
studs and they were six years
older than med started pashing
me around, "Why is your girlfriend
taking shit?" And I was all, She
ain't my girlfriend, duce. One guy
slugged me and I got chased down
By like five dudes, just kicked by a
bunch of meatheads. To all the
meatheads out there, "Fuck off!"
What about going to jail with Tas
and Ben Pappas?
It wasically because of the
retards Got in a fight in
Encinitas Bill slappedja dude with
his shoes, and we all jumped in
started kicking this dude ass, and
for some reason when I'drink beer
think I'm tough too. I have no idea
why, but I do. Got in a fight it got
broken up, the cops came, and Ben
and Tas were gatting arrested, Tas
got maced and got the shit kicked
out of him by the cops, And I went
to see where they were being taken,
and I got into an argument with the
cop, and so he took me to jail with
them as well. It was a nightmare
But Bill got let off the line as usual,
and we wept to jail for him.
How does vert skating com
pare to street skating from an
audience point of view?
Wert's way core of a spectator
sport because there's a lot more
to relate to Like, "He's going in
there, he's slamming, whatever,
it's easier for people to felate.
Street, they don't know what
the fuck a hardflip is, Going
switch stance, they even don't
know. A bardflip or a 360 air off
a jump rang they'll say the 360
air is better Or if someone does
a crazy manual trick, they don't
know that that's good
Who would you like to thank?
I'd like to thank my sponsors,
Prime and Circuit. Circuit is this
new wheel company that I'm
on. Lance, Ben, Tas, Danny and
Chet ride for them. I'm stoked
I'm thrown in there because
they're all amazing. I'm stoked
to be a part of it. I'd like to
thank Markovich for all he's
dona, Joey from Independent.
Ruben, Max, Bob, Schaefer for
keeping the vert dream alive,
Jeff Phillips-rest in peace, Sean
Miller-rest in peace, Mike Ter
nasky-rest in peace, everyone
out there who's skating vert.
keep it up, Bill Weiss and the
Conklins rule. I'd like to thank
all my friends from Dallas, Jason
Keene, Jeff Taylor, Richard,
Chany, all the Planet Earth guys.
Danny, thanks for letting me
skate, XYZ for giving me a part
Thanks to ADX, my parents,
Billy Smith is a ruler, thanks for
keeping the park open when
you did, I know you went
through some rough times dur
ng the Phillips shit, but you
stuck with it, hopefully you're
doing good, thanks Billy,