This photo was taken about 4 years ago when I was 53.
I was practicing early grab backside airs in this bowl - and this bowl was PERFECT for this.
(Early-grab is when you ride up the transition already tucked - not quite as cool looking as late-grab, but I'll take it!!)
This bowl was at Vans Skatepark in Huntington Beach, CA. (sadly, they bulldozed this bowl and the amazing Clover bowl to make way for a "competition skatepark course"...)
Anyway, on this day, I was really wanting to get a high air out of the bowl, so I kept going for it, little by little, higher and higher.
It started with airs under the coping, then I got them at coping level and then I started pumping more as I went up the transition.
As I got more and more comfortable with getting higher, I really went for it on this one.
I got an extra hard pump on the face wall and then just compressed and kinda bounced on the way up this wall.
With one big pump, suddenly I was higher than I'd ever been and now the trick was to land it.
This photo shows the highest I got.
My friend Joe, used the burst mode on the camera and he got a great sequence out of it.
Here's the video of the sequence:
I was pretty psyched that I was able to get a backside air out of the bowl for the first time in decades... (even if it was an early grab... LOL!)
I really thought my backside air days were way behind me, but this was the perfect setting and setup for it and I'm still stoked about this photo.
That's incredible man
Thanks!
Killing it man! Big bs air!
Thanks!
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STOPwow that´s a 10 out of 10 🔥🔥🔥
I been skating for many years and still can´t figure out how to fly tricks that high!
even if it´s a early grab is dope!!👏