Sixty minutes after I got to Woodward, I did something to my left hand - either cracked or bruised something. Worse yet, we didn't have any film for the camera. I'd like to thank the makers of "Aleve" for letting me come back the next day and take some shots, including my first-ever one-hander, seen above.
My readers often ask me how to do a 360, as if I would know. I tried to learn this weekend. Here's one where I made it...
...and one where I didn't. Keeping my feet on was the problem.
The 180 x-up was a total success. So I tried to extend it a bit...
...and it didn't quite work. Hoffman pro rider Kevin Robinson asked me if I was trying to do the world's first 180-X-up-tailwhip combo. Then he probably went off and did it for real somewhere, since I gave him the idea!
Every jump is huge at Woodward. The one indoor box ramp they had was over eleven and a half feet from lip to lip. But I can do the same dorky X-up anywhere.
...and this cross-up, taught to me by Joe Wood in 1985. Of course, we used to do them off curbs.
The kids call this a "turndown", but to me it's still a Leary.