Mike Vallely #7.

Tailplant.

I watched a couple of Mike's video parts a few weeks ago. Some of the tricks caught my eye so I decided to rewatch them again and do a post about it. The first was his part in 1281, the New Deal video from 1991. The second was his part in Suburban Diners, the Powell video from 1994. His skating from that time still holds up and each part has aged fairly gracefully, except maybe for some of the late shove-its in 1281. In general, you get Mike blasting a lot of big ollies on the streets and transitions so that remains timeless skateboarding. Grabs are thrown in rather liberally, but not always. Although given how high up in the air he gets, you maybe would want to hang onto something mid flight. These were the highlights that I picked out, mainly because they are tricks you tend not to think of Mike doing.

1281:

• Backside 180 to fakie manual on sidewalk, pivot around to regular manual. He also does one without the pivot.

• Nollie backside lipslide on a slider bar.

• Frontside 360 ollie off a launch ramp.

• Fakie ollie to backside tailslide on a bench.

• Frontside 5-0 grind to backside 180 out on a bench.

Suburban Diners:

• Properly popped and caught 360 flips.

• Big kickflips.

• Fakie kickflips.

• Half cab kickflip to fakie on a large and steep bank.

• Long frontside bluntslide on a curb.

• Kickflip backside 50-50.

Thrasher - May 1999 Volume 19 Number 1