Happy holidays in December 2011 were about: slippery road trippery, winter storms, trees falling, smashed buildings, cut wires, frequent blackouts, waking up in the darkness, and of course shredding between heavy Christmas meals.
Am I a regular dude living in a goofy guys body? Or maybe the other way around?
Have I been lying to myself all these years about my stance? This switch bs 360 was so much easier to do than the regular one. I mean goofy.
I guess it’s totally acceptable these days..? Things have opened up quite a lot since the 80′s.
I hope that the most of the people that have learned to know me as a goofy person don’t have a problem with my regular behavior.
I grabbed Mute, held it long enough on the way down, hoped for the best, and the Twist came around perfect. Mega stoked!
Thursdays usually can’t go wrong, it is in deed the peak of the week. Landed another Indy 540, which means I “can” do them now. This 360 Ollie was extra. I didn’t use any help of a motorized vehicle with this one.
I took about 12 go’s. The hike up the hill between every try actually worked. It made me think clearer.
Many Thanks to Brian Fick for the camera work.
This is the cover of The North County Times on November 14, 2011
Every skater knows: It’s impossible to get all the details right when your local newspaper is making an article about skateboarding. That is just how it goes every time, in every article, with every journalist, world wide.
On the bright side of all this: The photo is incredibly good, the story says it all and just one letter went wrong when spelling my name. Korh-omen est omen, as the old Latin aphorism says.
Unfortunately the Backside 360 is the one-and-only Lincoln Ueda, not me.
I don’t think it would be possible to confuse Jussi Korhonen and Lincoln Ueda in person. But when you’re making an article for the local newspaper about skateboarding and Bob Burnquist’s backyard Megaramp…
Changing the way you’re grabbing your skateboard while spinning in the air makes it a whole new trick.
I had been trying this trick on vert for a few years. Never really went for it before this day, but it had felt like it was about to happen very soon…(You better hurry up when you are already 36 years old!)
The greatest thing about this learning process was that, in stead of making it on a normal vert ramp,
I ended up making my first Indy 540 on Bob’s Megaramp. The last time I learned a variation of a Bs 540 was in 1996! This was also the first ever trick for me that I have learned in California.
Big Thanks to Adam Taylor for filming”the one more go”.
The Christ Air is one of the reasons why I started skating ramps at the first place.
Thanks to Bob Burnquist and Megaramp for the incredibly fun weekend. Pure inspiration. This run is…
http://skateboard.tv/video/10171/burnquist-surfs-30-foot-mega-wave
I wonder if my BMX friends realized that I had just learned an opposite flair?
The wet skatelite didn’t matter for the BMX hardcore and Vince Byron is the Crossover Champ 2011
This is what I was wearing + Shoes and the actual skateboard.
Gold=Guld=Kulta=Aurum=Geld
The 4 finalists: Elliot Sloan, Adam Taylor, Rony Gomez, and the PLG
This in deed might have been the coolest event I’ve ever been to.Thanks freestyle.ch 2011!
