time machine
Good skating is good skating,
whether it was twenty years
of twenty seconds ago.
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Clockwise from top left: Longtime
Sacto ripper Mako Urabe frontside
slides the back of a bench with style.
and finesse in 1996. If you skated the
keyhole at Del Mar in 1984 and saw a
face-high air, more than likely it was
Lester Kasai. Having pioneered the art
of pool riding, Tony Alva set the stan-
dard by which all shall be judged. This
coping snapback in 1976 earns the
double chaka. Ramps have been
around for twenty-five years and this
garage plywood gnarler gets wrecked
by Dave Hackett in 1977. Roots, man.