52 THRASHER
GREG
HILER
Age: 26
Home: Daytona, FL
Years Skating: 13
Sponsors: Torque, NBN, 187 knee pads.
Why'd you enter? To travel and session with everybody.
What's good about contests? Session with everybody you've
never seen before, and just meet people.
What's bad? All the rules and regulations, not being allowed to
skate this and that.
3 Faves: Hell, all of them.
Immediate goal? Keep on skating, make the best of it.
SAM
HITZ
Age: 23
Home: Milwaukee, WI
Years Skating Vert: Ever since they built the
ramp at the Turf, probably four years.
Why vert? It's all about the flow, man.
Sponsors: Creature, SOL Boarding Supply, Speed Wheels,
Indy, Emerica.
3 Faves: Jon Comer, Rune Glifberg and Peter Hewitt.
Will you turn pro soon? I hope so. That's all up to Kendall.
Age: 22
BASTIEN SALABANZI
Home: Longmont, CO
Years Skating: 12
Sponsors: Zorlac, FKD bearings, Unit trucks, Reaction grip
and Skateworks.
What's good about contests? You get to see a lot of friends.
This one was fun because we got to travel and get a lot of free
stuff from Vans.
What's bad? The nerves.
Why did you enter? I love contests. I enter every one I hear about.
3 Faves: Neil Blender, Mark Gonzales and Natas Kaupas.
Immediate goal? Get out of Oakland, CA.
JACOB
TILLMAN
Age: 11
Home:
France
Years Skating: 2
Sponsors: Axion Shoes, VC
Distribution, Fresh Jive and
Short Brain Skateshop.
Immediate goal? I don't know.