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Jason Adams
It was probably like '90, '91. It was the San Jose mini-ramp contest. And
only thing I remember was the Sacramento guys were there. And when I w
at that age, the Sacramento guys were my fuckin' idols. Like Snaggle, Winds
all those dudes. And they were just drunk, so drunk, raging, jumping off b
conies. It was insane. JJ Rogers was skating and he was ripping and he
one of my favorite skaters-just filthy, drunk, and in the top 10.
Ed Templeton
The Münster, the one that got boycotted. It was that point in skateboa
ing when there were all these different factions, like the Girl guys and
heavy metal guys or whatever, and it was the first time everybody
together. The course sucked; it was the same course for the last two ye
and everyone kind of got together like, "This course sucks, let's get toget
and boycott this shit." And then there was this big fight with Mako Urabe a
Mike V and all this shit. All this melee. I just remember Mako
punching a guy and then pandemonium. Mike was punching
whoever touched him. Ian Deacon headbutted a guy. Mike
Carroll's shoulder was fucked up and some guy tried to fuck with
him, and Greg Carroll came from the side and punched the guy
like 20 times. Kareem was kicking a guy. It was aggro! Security
versus skaters. Then we just left. It was the first time the skaters
boycotted a contest.
Lance Mountain
There were these contests called Bowl Cups, and I was still
amateur at that time. We were watching this contest. They
used to have this thing called compulsories where 25 percent
of your score was one run you had to do and 75 percent was
your other run. It was actually pretty terrible. There were all
these rad skaters who couldn't do things. The compulsory
run was you had to do a frontside carve, an invert, a back-
side carve, a backside air, a slide to fakie, a fakie, a rock and
roll, and a rock walk. Everybody had to do this same run. So
Jay Smith was this great skater at the time, but he couldn't
do any of those tricks. So for his compulsory runs he'd just
go frontside carve, frontside carve, frontside carve, and just
shoot laybacks. ERRRRHHHH! We thought he was the best
one. He got all zeros.
Salman Agah
I was in Germany and I had never met people who could make
as much party as Steve Schneer and George Watanabe. George.
and I stole bikes in Münster and got caught by the police and got
stun-gunned and put in the back of their paddy wagon. Then I
saw George Watanabe get thrown off the hood of a moving
vehicle going 50 miles an hour, beer in hand. Beer in hand! That
was the same year.
Brian Howard
The first year they had Slam City Jam, they had it at the Hall of
Nations. The floor was made of wood, which I'm sure was great
for all the street skaters. They built the vert ramp the night before
the contest and it was one of the smallest vert ramps I have ever
ridden. Danny Way tried to drop in and slammed twice. I told
someone that I was going to kill myself on that ramp, and no more
than five minutes later I was alseep on the flatbottom. The para-
medics dragged me off and I woke up and slept through my run
in the van. And, I got beat by Cara-beth.
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Sequence:
Justin Strubing's
twenty-foot-long
bluntslide to mega
pop-out silences dick-
heads everywhere.
Still: With the
mightiest snap-to-
size ratio in pro
skateboarding,
Carlos Andrade
guides a monster flip
into the top ten.
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