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Good one. Specially nice to hear a PJ story from the WHL days.
I skated that contest. PJ was literally invisible at that contact, he skated behind the q-pipes flat by himself mostly, then dropped in and won. Beat out Bastien on his peak who got second.
Me and a friend somehow linked up with PJ that weekend and skated around Helsinki with him. Had no idea who he was more then that he rode for Element and had won the contest. A week later I was at a skateshop in Stockholm and they popped in the WHL video. Was pretty chocked and no-one believed me when I told them I skated with him last week in Finland.
That's so rad. Do you remember the sorts of tricks he was doing?
He nollieflipped into a quarterpipe from the deck. I don't really remember any other specific tricks but his board control was ridiculous.
Nollie flip into the quarterpipe, 360 flip the pyramid, kickflip down a gap, fs 360 heelflip a hip, kickflip feeble grind a handrail, fs big heel a bank and a hardflip revert on a quarterpipe.
I remember this because it was one of my favorite childhood skate memories and I am a total nerd. I had not sen the the WHL videopart yet, but had heard about it on this very forum. I remember being disappointed because he was nowhere to be seen during practise and I thought he had skipped the contest. But he was just chilling in the corner by himself. And only touched the course during his runs. A couple of the tricks are in this clip
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