Some of the comments below that video.
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Pretty good summary for the young generation I'd say. Here's my personal sighting: at the first Lausanne contest in 96 (I think). He got fourth after Koston, Chris Senn and other heayweights but what struck me is that 1, he was drinking beer (a lot....) during the contest and 2, he never warmed up. Like he would sit on his board for 45 minutes, get up when he was called and just do his run and rip the course, with no warm-up whatsoever. Also him and another pro (Kareem maybe ? I’m not sure) did a sort of hippie jump over the car that was on the course, with the board flying through both windows. The other pro ate shit a few times but Penny landed it like perfect the firt time he decided to commit. A few years later I saw him again at a demo in Paris (Glissexpo) and it was pretty much the same show all over again. Living legend for sure.
ha that was my comment! And yes it was Clyde Singleton, I wasn't sure. The line-up was so epic for that contest: Petersen, Donny Bradley, Koston, Carroll, Rick Howard, Burnquist, Hufnagel, Chris Senn, Fred Gall, Tim Brauch (RIP), Kareem, Singleton etc etc... it was nuts watching them all on the course!
But that hippie jump was at Lausanne Switzerland, not in the UK. Or did he do it twice?
anyways here's the 411, it starts at 25'21....but the hippie jump is unfortunately not included
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60o2bYZEATc