STUNTS
LOL Days
14 Hrs 7 Min 24 Sec
This page, top to bottom: After
watching Fred Blood do it on roller
skates, Mike McGill learned the 540° in
Sweden and unleashed it at Del Mar in
1984. Fifteen years ago! The first
frontside handrail at Everett was done
by Julien Stranger in '87. Another first
on this rail was the 50-50 courtesy of
Danny Sargent, also in '87. Neil Blender
takes evolution one step further with a
stalled Miller flip appropriately named a
Jolly Mamba. 1985, bitch. Jump ramps
helped skaters attack walls like crazy.
Aaron Murray is crazy, and he attacked
this wall.
CONTESTS
Rocket air, twist and shout.
Shunder
have
Skate contests will always be
remembered more for the bros from
across the globe you got to see and
who got broke in the practice session
than for who placed where. This page,
clockwise from top left: Gator celebrating in
Kentucky. Chris Miller methods for the masses in
Tahoe before the dead cat toss. All the pros get
together to compare checks at Savannah Slamma
'88. Mile High warzone.
118 THRASHER
Best Pro Names. Tony Hawk Stacy Peralta Lance Mountain Neil Blender Karma Tsocheff⚫ Daewon Son Shogo Kubo Alva ⚫ Steve Steadham Buck Smith Rob Roskopp Torger Johnson
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BEST STUNTS
John Cardiel
Jim Thiebaud
Mark Gonzales
Geoff Rowley
Monk
Peter Hewitt
1. Pat Duffy, b/s Smith, SF State
2. Mark Gonzales, the Gonz gap
3. Bob Burnquist, switch roll-in
Alcobendas/switch channel ollie
4. Eric Koston, backside
noseblunt on Hubba
5. Tony Trujillo, HB contest drop
1. Mark Gonzales double-kink
in Video Days
2. Danny Way's helicopter jump
3. Pat Duffy in the rain
4. Cardiel into carwash bank
5. Pierre, SF to Santa Cruz in
eight hours
1. The production of skate-
boards
2. Tony Hawk's loop
3. Ray Bones ditch ollie
4. Eric Koston's backside
noseblunt on Hubba
5. The ho-ho on vert
1. The Gonz, double-kink in
Video Days
2. Tony Hawk's 900°
3. Danny Way helicopter drop
4. Pat Duffy 50-50 double-kink
in Questionable
5. Tom Penny, kickflip tail revert
in Chicken's pool around
corner,
pads
1. Gonz Hawaii gap
2. Al Partanen, nosepick on fence
above capsule high wall
3. Heli-drop, Danny Way
4. Duane Peters, loop of death
5. Robbie Knievel, Grand
Canyon
1. Loop of death
2. Evel Knievel, Caesar's
Palace
3. Robbie Knievel, Grand
Canyon
4. 17-foot air, Danny Way
Jake Phelps
Jamie Thomas
majpu
1. Neil Armstrong, Moon walk
2. Cardiel, the wall, Burnside
3. Lennie Kirk, switch 5-0 Hubba
4. Pat Duffy, lipslide in rain
5. Coco Santiago, Pizzey on acid
1. "Frankie Hill gap" in Propaganda
2. Jeremy Wray Sports Arena
triple-set ollie
3. Everything Cory Chrysler
ever did
4. Pat Duffy double-kink in
Questionable
5. Mumford Smith grind El Toro
20-stair rail
1. Jim Greco, switch flip the
Carlsbad gap
2. Ali Boulala, switch lipslide UCI
3. Brian Sumner, 15-stair
nosegrind
4. Punk Rock Matt, Sunset
Texa's drop
5. Erik Ellington, biggie
frontside boardslide