It’s hard to believe that this is the first Monday Cover for this week’s featured skater, Troy Sliter. Our bad. If the name sounds familiar, chances are you might have seen Troy pulling his best Per Welinder impersonation in the ever popular Santa Cruz video, Wheels of Fire. It turns out, Troy is just as comfortable in the big stuff (see 50-50 in the deep above.) Check out some more shots of Troy killing it back in the day after the turn.
Congratulations Troy!
Mute at Joe Lopes’ ramp
Backside Ollie. Literally. Check out those shorts.
Frontside ollie
Looks like a Smith grind to us
Full frame of cover shot. (click on image to enlarge)
Tight short shots courtesy of Jeff Hedges.
Yeah Troy. You need those ollies back, but leave the shorts in the drawer, for all of our sakes.
I’ll get you for this Rich!! No really, thanks for the props, but still!! Oh, and it’s Wheels of Fire! I’m in the jury scene only in Streets on Fire (guilty! guilty! gulity!).
Of course it was Wheels of Fire. Sorry about that. Post all better.
where the hell is the ffej these days?
Yeah Troy! Let’s see more of those mute airs! Maybe you need to bust out the shorts at Pier to get them back.
Is that San Jose shot actually a painting on velvet? Looks weird.
Love the coping in those older shots. That was pretty common back then.
that’s not san jose, that’s Joe Lopes’ ramp. PVC coping, …soft on focus 😉 it was standard to cut PVC down the middle and nail it over the edge of the ramp at the time.
the other oldie shots are at the Newark ramp from around the same era. at least the one where troy got all b-smith-ish is. not sure I even took these photos, I just had em in a stack from back in the day.
‘scum’, I’m in san fran, working too much, being a dad, and hardly ever getting out to ride 🙁
Good stuff Rich/Troy. Top pic is Lope’s. Don’t recognise the “green house” ramp, yet the 4th one looks like Les’. Troy, you need to bust out those shorts again.
Killer!
the light post ramp is erin evans in hayward i believe
It was great catching up to you guys at Pier Park. I think that was Les’ ramp
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