doing pulled backsides onto the big wallride. Most people were
skating pretty intensely and having a lot of fun. Chris Senn even
got his son. Anakin, to skate during one of his qualifying runs.
Ron Allen was happy to qualify tenth, skating so good. The man
was doing frontside rocks on the wallride, damn.
A splinter group headed to Hubba Hideout for extra illness on
the chest-high ledges. Gershon Mosely ruled with half a dozen
variations that he landed third or fourth try. Kareem Campbell
decided he could frontside nose manual down it and even tried
kickflip backside five-o grinds, coming so close. Eric Koston tried
nollie crooked grinds until he landed and then left. Steve Olson
threw backside nosegrinds on the ledge until he jacked his ankle.
People were bummed he couldn't skate in the finals the next day.
The second day of the contest was a little brighter and there
were less people all over the course. Nonetheless, this didn't dis-
courage people who didn't make the cut from not skating it. Mike
York, who is still supposedly an amateur, was flowing around the
course with many flip tricks and a smile from ear-to-ear while
being yelled at by Greg Carroll to get off the course. Rick Howard.
was the worst about it and nearly disqualified himself.
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Taking a noseblunt in off the desk,
Ed Templeton (opposite left) didn't need
no stinkin' ferris wheel. Street obstacles
don't get any more authentic then a fire
hydrant and Phil Shoo (above) did it
justice with a frontside 180. Poised in
shifty downlood position, John Cordiel
(left) comes in for a landing over the
steep fun box hip. Chet Thomas
(opposite bottom) goes from switch
mute to frontside air on a hip transfer.