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Adrian Lopez
into the shoot of the pool and he would
do airs on his back and land them. He
could do handplants on his back. He
All my contest memories have to
with Sheffey. I always like to see wh
he's going to do. Maybe he's going could roll into the vertical pool on his
try some crazy shit and slam and nback. He got third.
give a fuck. Maybe he's going to thro
his board at Andrew Reynolds or thro Geoff Rowley
going to do. I love it.
Preston Maigetter
an obstacle around. It's sick to s It's a Lewansea contest in England
Sheffey. You never know what he about eight years ago. We were all staying
there overnight, under all these.
makeshift canopies and stuff, and it
starts to piss down rain. We're getting
At the Radlands contest, Sheffey ansoaking, soaking wet. It was miserable.
Fernandez fell in the same corne So there was this big wooden fence that
Sheffey gets up first, Fernandez is st went around almost the entire park. We
on the ground. Chad puts his hand took it down and built this enormous
so Sheffey can help him up. Sheff bonfire with it. The next morning the
just looks at him and then throws owners came and there was absolutely
board at him.
nothing left of the fence. We'd burned a
couple people's boards as well. While
they were alseep, we took their boards at
Before I was even sponsored, my old random to keep the fire going. We had
brother Joey used to skate on his bado; it was freezing.
John Lucero
coffin-style. He could skate on his fe
but he could do all these tricks on
back too. So there was this ASPO co
test at Del Mar, and at 15 seconds
would come up the shoot of the po
and get on his back. I'd push him by
helmet, as fast as I could, back do
SHOCK
LIB
Clockwise from top:
Stacy Lowery's giant looming
head can't stop the Tempster
from getting best trick with a
cross-traffic frontside 50-50 to
backside feeble grind.
Canada's master of air and
flair, Alex Chalmers, torques a
fat fish. Caine Gayle caught
the business end of the
cyclops, and got hauled out.
Arto plays around shortly
before laying around...in a
pool of blood.
An
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