Legends of vert.
There’s a big vert ramp with Jane’s Addiction playing over the loudspeakers, and guys like Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Chris Miller, Tony Hawk, Duane Peters, Tony Magnussen, Lester Kasai and Steve Steadham are skating. Is this 1987? No, it’s the “Legends of Vert” demo that Steve Steadham organized at the Summer X Games. The real tip off that it’s not 1987 is the almost total indifference registered by the crowd. Brian Baade tipped us off to some video he took from the judges stand.
Legends of Vert
The YouTube version of this footage is kind of hard to see, but I’ve included it in case his bandwidth for the nice, smooth version can’t handle the traffic.
Hawk, Magnussen and Miller are still killing it.
These guys are like old. Legends of Dirt more like it. When’s the sticker toss?
yeah, they even wear pads and helmets…lame. Don’t they know it’s not cool anymore?
I’ve said it once and and I’ll say it again. Spray on pants are the Rectors of the 21st century. These kids couldn’t give a f*#k about vert skating although nearly everything in today’s “modern” skateboarding realm has been borrowed from 1986. Time to lose the popsicle sticks boys. Have you heard that new band “The Circle Jerks”?