Max Schaaf #14.

"Joe Lopes did a huge frontside ollie. Fred Smith did some incredible handplants and a nice frontside air. But they were struggling, for sure. Because the thing about our ramp is that while it ruled to us, it was actually really hard for other people to skate, especially for pros who were used to skating good ramps. But then Hosoi came over not too long after that and just tee’d off on it. Oh my god, it was bonkers."

Max explains the difficulties of his old ramp.

Is Spitfire switching all their wheels over to Formula Four? I don't really fancy that urethane. It felt weirdly soft and would slide oddly on the couple sets of wheels I rode. Also the Formula Fours don't have the little grooves on the riding surface that the regular 99DU wheels have. Those grooves are the best part of new wheels. They seem to be not offering many 55 or 56 mm options either. I assume most of the changes are temporary supply chain issues caused by the post-apocalyptic world we are now living in. I'm too old to bother with finding a new type of wheel to like.

The quote is from a recent Chrome Ball Incident interview with Max.

Thrasher - February 1997 Volume 17 Number 2