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Clockwise from left: Rick McCranked it up for
the crowd. Backside 180° nosegrind. Colin keeps
an eye on the tranny as he twists a tailgrab 540°.
The cameraman's face says it all: Lincoln Ueda.
Westfallenhalen. What do you expect in a
land where there's nothing to drink but beer?
Also, it seems some of the visiting.
Americans forgot to check.their exchange
rates when unloading gear-a mistake that
created some amazing bargains for the chil-
dren of Europe but made it extremely diffi-
cult on some American journalists whose
travel budgets were dependent on getting at
least ten bucks for a t-shirt. Oh well, what
are you gonna do?
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20. Geoff Rowley. Lookin' good until he
hesitated on a tre flip lipslide down the nine-
stair rail. 19. Chet Thomas. Frontside flip
grabs over the big pyramid. 18. Brian
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son we went to Scotland was to skate the leg-
endary Livingston skatepark-a 22-year-old
concrete park featuring a pool and halfpipe,
hips, wall and launchers. I asked a local named
Cubic if he could do a write-up on the park.
"Just a couple of paragraphs or something," I
said. "A couple of paragraphs will only cover the
time Tom Groholski came," he replied.
Livingston is a top-rate park, well worthy of a
road trip or a stop-off on a UK or European tour.
The place has something for every skater, reeks
of history, and the locals are the type of real
skaters we all wish we could be. The weekend
we were at Marseille (June 25th and 26th), they
had their annual skate party at the park, which I
hope to be able to attend next summer.
The CLOBE WORLD
championships
-DORTMUND, GERMANY
I had always heard about the grand pilgrimage
which is the Münster World Cup event: how
thousands of kids from all over Europe would
make the trip to Münster each year, take over
the town and buy product off the visiting
Americans for ridiculously high prices, and then
cheer, smoke, and skate their way through the
weekend. Well, this year Münster booted the
World Cup from their town and it relocated to
the nearby city of Dortmund. The kids did all of
the aforementioned, but then got to experience
the onslaught of 500 or so of Dortmund's riot
police in a late night tussle behind the
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But I'm an Artist
KATER-ON-MEDIA VIOLENCE showed its ugly face
at the German event, with video guys being
tossed off pyramids and cameras being ripped from hands and
thrown high into the air by frustrated skaters. With a crowd of
wayward, swarming media that often seemed to outnumber
the contestants, it's no wonder things got hectic. Skateboarding
is the only sport where the photographers are allowed on the
field while the game is being played. You can imagine how an
NBA player would react if his slam dunk were messed up by a
fat dude sticking his camera in the net. Note to media: don't
stick your camera a skater's face or fire flashes at them in
the middle of their run. Note to skaters: skateboarding is not
the NBA.
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Patch. 17. Pat Channita. Crushed | bank to feeble down the nine-stair rail.
the roof gap with backside flips, 360°
flips, and then some. 16. Eric
Koston. Hounded by the video
droves, Koston couldn't even attempt
to skate an obstacle without a mini--
mum of ten dudes setting up camera
camp. He nollie flipped the flat gap
and fakie 5-0 fakie flipped the bump-
to-ledge all weekend long. 15. Stefan
Lehnert. The German champion. 14.
Paul Machnau. He can do many,
many tricks involving a pyramid and a
small rail. 13. Boris Petkovic. From
Slovakia. 12. Mike Santarossa.
Sweet noseblunt slides down
the pyramid rail. 11. Andy
Macdonald. 10. Omar
Hassan. Went from the
9. Jaya Bonderov. 8. Mike Vallely.
Rocks to fakie on the bank-to-wall. 7.
Rogerio Soares Manosa. 6. Caine
Gayle. 5. Arto Saari. 4. Ed
Templeton. Fans wore t-shirts that
spelled out his name on one side and
Toy Machine on the back, when they
sat in the right sequence. 3. Andrew
Reynolds. Qualified first with big
flips. He wore the same all-black outfit
for his entire trip as a part of some
kind of bet. 2. Rick McCrank. Tied
together a flurry of pyramid and rail
tricks with fakie hardflips to frontside
180 on the quarterpipes. 1. Brian
Anderson. Most everyone wanted
him to win, and with bail-less runs
spiked with solid moves like feebles
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