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Bob Burnquist's lines were
incredible all day. After this slob
revert he went to mute gay
twist to humongous 540°. The
kid is bad. Buster was bustin'
Ishit like this lien les twist. He
had the lines and made some
cash. Mad Max took the nail-
gun approach to huge alley-
oop kickflip backsides slapping
heavy sheetage.
A
cting as a kind of anti-X Games, the Judgement Day con-
test at Armageddon Distribution brought shit back down
cheese fest that had stained skateboarding's psyche the week
prior. If the sight of Danny Way's gargantuan vert ramp wasn't
enough to wash the foul taste out of everyone's mouths, the free
beer and buffalo burgers did the trick quick.
The ramp is big-thirteen feet three inches tall with eleven foot
three inch trannies, to get it on the nose. It also features several exten-
sions, including a sixteen foot wide section that has an even bigger
transition and more vert. It's also over sixty feet wide. If a normal vert
ramp is a plastic bench, Danny's ramp is Hubba Hideout.
A ramp this big makes the half-steppers take a step back.
Though some Famous Amoses were noticeably absent, the crew
at the coping was heavy:
Buster Halterman - The comeback kid and number one qualifi-
er, Buster revamped some of his old barn runs and threw in some
extra power and complicated combinations. One-footed frontside
inverts, overturned sugarcane grinds (both ways), frontside les
twists, 540's, oop lien crossbones, backside lipslides, slob plants, lien
slob varials and lien to slob body varials all got assembled into flow-
ing runs that had everyone wondering why Buster ever left in the
first place. Fifth place.
Max Schaaf
Dropped in off the seventeen foot tall extension into
drifting alley-oop kickflip b-side grabs and scraped backside tail-
slides up, across and off of the tooth. Max ollies out of all tailslides
and can make his Smith grinds stand up at the drop of a hat.
Jake Brown The thing is, Jake Brown can do all the standard diffi-
cult tricks (ie tailgrab 540's, flips to grab and crookedy lip tricks), but
kicks them to the curb during contests for the more difficult (but hard-
er to land) technical path. He can also do lien airs about ten feet out.
Jason Ellis A contest crusher, Ellis swung orangutan style from an
overhanging beam in the middle of slob airs. He's also the biggest man
to dare pull out shit like varial flip Indys. Long ollies to precarious
frontside nosegrinds up the extension rounded out his runs.