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flippers with a style mixing
power and midgetry. Screams
and kicks like a startled house-
wife. 22. Tim Brauch. He just
won
15 grand at the last con-
test so don't feel too sorry for
him. 21. Billy Pepper. An
adult-sized ollie over the
whole new piece to 50-50
down a round rail. I
couldn't believe he did it.
20. Ryan Wilburn. Giant
Jesse Martinez airs over the
super hip and quick Barley
grinds across the flat bar
thing. 19. Moses Itkonen.
Skates for Powell. Was the
only street skater to wear a
helmet. Stale 180 over the
big hip. 18. Reese Forbes.
Smashing runs including a
nose wheelie up, across and
over the pyramid ledge from
flat and tall ollie to frontside
chicken wings over the pen-
tagon. 17. Pat Channita.
Qualified high due to exten-
sive training at a facility
across the street from his
house. 16. Rob Gonzales.
Rob G qualified
fied third with
lines straight from the streets.
Big nollie heels into the bank
and a kickflip to 5-0 down the
pyramid ledge. 15. Eric Bork.
Santa Cruz am and Skate
Street local, Eric qualified
first with solid runs and
switch frontside flip off the
big stage. 14. Ed Templeton.
Ed ruled the flat bar with his
usual arsenal and unloaded
smooth Smith-to-feeble trans-
fers into the bank-to-skinny
ledge thingy. 13. Jesse Paez.
Jesse was on fire and scorched
the pentagon with the biggest
frontside flips of the weekend.
12. Eric Dressen. Attacked
the walls, adding in a Sal flip to
frontside wallride. He also wal-
lied to 50-50 across the flat bar.
Bitchin'! 11. Justin Strubing.
The captain had the perfect
mix of speed, air and flippery.
10. Tony Trujillo. The evil end
of the new pro wave, Tony flew
all over the place, flipping the
gap, bashing a beam to fakie,
Miller flipping in the pocket and
generally menacing the course
and the crowd with his 16-year-old
punkness. Kids were frightened,
dads angered, and grandmoth-
ers clutched their pocketbooks.
9. Mike Santarossa. Santarossa
knows the park better than it
knows itself. His best move for
'98 was an alley-oop frontside
footplant up the big roll-in. In the
end, his skate zone moves failed
him and he had to settle on ninth.
Fuck. 8. Andy Macdonald. Oop
airs over the big hip and runs that
ran everywhere. 7. Chris Senn.
Fuckin' frontside flip to fuckin'
frontside wallride. Brilliance.
6. Brian Patch. High flying aeri-
al antics the babes can't get
enough of. 5. Jim Gagne. The
consummate undergrounder,
Gagne surfaced long enough
with
with
to bash the course
frontside nollie flips on the
QP, nollie flip roll-ins and an
original hometown hero style.
4. Jaya Bonderov. Wallrides
to nollie to Indy nosebone,
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Clockwise from left:
Brian Anderson wasn't in
the finals, but he made
the winner's circle with a
360° flip to lipslide down
the long rail. Colin McKay
flexed his obstacle skills
with speedy crooked
grinds across and down
the funbox flatbar. Owner
of an unstoppable kickflip,
Kerry Getz cracked the top
three with consistency
and tough tricks like this
blindside flip to fakie.
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kickflip melons over the pentagon, speed,
finesse and the fairest cheering section in
pro skateboarding. 3. Kerry Getz. Here's
where the shit gets interesting. The top
three was comprised of skaters none of
whom anyone can call contest goons or
quarterpipe kings-that's right, real
street skaters doing new tricks. Really.
Kerry
Getz is still recovering from a
that
nasty injury but was together enough to
take out the old guard with a
a kickflip
that cannot be stopped. Frontside flips,
backside flips, blind flips to fakie over
the gap and kickflip liens put Kerry in
third. Rumor has it that Kerry is keep-
ing his amateur status for a little while
longer. Jesus, what do you need? A for-
mal invitation? 2. Rick McCrank. Hands
down the most dynamic skater of the
event. McCrank had so many damni
moves. After the contest he did switch
hardflip to late backside 180° over the
whole pentagon and switch frontside
feebles down the handrail. Anything
and everything. 1. Arto Saari. After
rocking the European contests this sum-
mer, Arto has begun his American siege.
Kickflip backside lipslides and frontside
boardslide, precision nosegrinds, frontside
feebles and backside lipslides and a huge
kickflip to frontside air over the big hip put
first place on ice for the 16-year-old Finn.
He rides for Flip and has a style that many
would describe as flawless.