The only boneless was Ben Schroeder’s when he tried to boneless the channel. So you watch the video and there are tons of tricks that no one does. Tony Hawk came up backward and did a fakie ollie to backward 50-50 and then reentered switchstance on the other side. So a lot of people were trying to do lipslide spine transfers. Like Steve Douglas, all those skaters doing lip tricks, Tom Groholski, it was that era where it was lip versus vert. You know, it’s so weird, watching the video-I watched the video the other night and it was the era when lip tricks were super popular. You could fly airs over the hip and then transfer. In ’89, was the Y ramp a really big deal since it had a spine, a hip and a gap? Was that groundbreaking at the time?

He took it frontside over the Y but Wallows got the backside boneless via Gonz-then he and dhis family went swimming with turtles. Seemed to work ’cause he put a beating on the streets! Upstream boardslide to 270 shove it

Metal-free backside noseblunt to fakieĮvery night after dinner, Donta Hill would hit the gym, sneak in a workout and do some shadow boxing. Gonz and Daewon soul skating over the MOK holeĪlec Majerus got some hardware removed from his foot before the trip. Hello! You just took a nasty spill and thought nothing of it. I was someplace else doing something entirely different and it dawned on me why it was hurting. It was awesome, until later when my wrist was hurting. The ramp was more wet than I had thought and I slipped out and went completely upside down and landed on my head. I did a backside boneless and a few ollies and then went to jump the channel really low. It was drizzling but the sides of the ramp seemed dry. It was a small board with Krux and cool leopard-print griptape. One of the men working on the ramp, his son was skating it and another older guy let the kid ride his BMX bike as I rode his board. When we went to see the ramp and how it was coming along, it was pretty much completed. The man himself sent over some words about the event, so we’ll just shut the hell up and let Gonz give you the scoop.

And, of course, they invited Mark and a stocked crew of legends, up-and-comers and current hot shoes to rip the ramp (and the surrounding streets of Honolulu). Two-thousand-eighteen marks Gonz’ 20-year anniversary with adidas, and to celebrate, the three-stripers teamed up with Thrasher and called in Team Pain to rebuild the iconic Y ramp on the shores of Waikiki Beach. If you were skating in 1989, you undoubtedly saw photos and/or footage (or at the very least heard about) Mark Gonzales’ jaw-dropping channel ollie at the NSA mini-ramp comp in Hawaii that year.

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