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GREAT CONTEST MOMENTS
At the 1985 Mile High Melee contest at Lake Tahoe, a sticker toss
escalated into a dead cat toss. Someone from the crowd ups the
ante when a fresh roadkill cat was chucked, guts and all, into the
"product"-hungry crowd assembled on the flatbottom.
Armed with an arsenal of lipslide variations, stylish underdog
Chris Miller whoops reigning NSA champ Tony Hawk in a
drained Arizona water park, and New Zealand terror Lee Ralph
takes fourth in his first pro contest. To quote Ralph: "I could do
no wrong."
At the 1987 Duel at Diablo contest in Tempe, Arizona, renegade
skate photographer Dan Sturt took a slam with a fake blood sack
hidden under his shirt. After scared medics realized the hoax, Sturt
got up and darted off.
At the first pro mini-ramp event, Mark Gonzales ollies a
12-foot channel.
Pete the Ox storms the Tampa vert top 10 with bizarre moves including the
one-footed frontside 50-50. A disgusted Mathias Ringstrom remarks, "Who is
this fucking ox?"
• Feeling his routine was a little lackluster, Todd Congelliere wet his Cherry Hill, 1979. Kevin Day vs. the egg bowl. Fourteen feet deep, four feet of
pants mid-axle stall at a contest in Kentucky.
Steve Salisian bomb-drops into a vert ramp off the top of a
stepladder at the same Kentucky event.
pure concrete vert. High air contest, two tries, winner take all. First hit: 29.5
inches on a little board, early release. Hangs it out to dry. The cry was heard all
over South Jersey. The contest went on and the names were read. They called
Kevin's name again, feeling certain there was no way to even walk after the slam
he had taken. Before they could scratch his name off, he was dropping in.
• Jeff Phillips whips Hawk at the 1986 NSA Finals in Anaheim with- Blasted 30 inches, let go, clicked in, and pulled it. He won, got the trophy, and
then crawled into a packed van and cried the whole way home.
out the 540 and on acid.
Steve Schneer tries to wallride off the end of the vert ramp onto
a 14-foot-tall wind-blocking wall in Houston. Finale includes a
naked ho-ho.
Bob, Slam City Jam, 1995. Known only as Bob Gnar, a 19-year-
old Bob Burnquist serves up the vert world on a platter by
taking switch backside tailslides and first-hit bluntslide kickflip
Indys to fakie to the winners circle. The man arrived with a
bang. Bob who?
Above: Bob corkscrews into another gnarly variation: the 360°
ollie to slider to fakie. Can you please come up with some shorter
names for these, Bob?
Right: An unfiltered frontside ollie from a smokin' Elissa Steamer.
Below: A kickflip frontside nosegrind from a man whose name is
synonomous with best trick-Danny Way.
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