Wallie...

Dear Readers,

Backside wall rides were one of my favorite tricks. The first time I ever saw one was Mike Vallely in the INXS Devil Inside video. (see 4:55)


I can remember trekking off to downtown Wilmington with Bret and Bill to learn backside wall-rides over the stairs in park adjacent to the state building.

The next progression of that was the Wallie, which was basically a backside wall-ride off the corner of a building, where after riding the wall you'd launch into the air, level out the board the roll off victoriously. These were my all time favorite tricks. So much fun, and such an amazing feeling. While I have no muscle memory of the time when I could actually do a Wallie, I do vividly remember the feeling of doing them, and that second of floating you felt coming off the wall. Sometimes I dream of skateboarding, not the park cruising I do these days, but of when I could really skate and that's the sensation I vividly experience.

While I recommend the entire clip, skip to 2:00
yeah that left me pretty speechless..



that's all I have to say about that...

love this shot that Tom Burrows got of Monkey, John and Mr. Joe after Monk's race...

photo Tom Burrows

thanks for allowing me this journey down skateboard lane.
Thanks for reading.

respect
fatmarc