The Scorpion.
Gershon was riding for Human with Andy MacDonald prior to the A-Team. He would move over to Blind at the end of things. This sequence looks a tad odd. The caption reads crooked grind and the third frame agrees with that, but the rest of photos are saying backside nosegrind. I wonder if they had to piece photos together for the ad? It's probably safe to say GMOS landed both a crooked grind and a backside nosegrind at the spot since he was wrecking shop on everything back in the 1990s.
There was a strange bit of symmetry for the A-Team. Based on ads, the company was started in October of 1997 and it ended in October of 2000. The last advert was Rodney Mullen doing some type of impossible off a bench. In November 2000, Darkstar was announced as a board brand and the first enjoi ad that simply read Marc Johnson is a free agent with the a painted out ran.
They only had five pro riders total without any ams. Dave Mayhew was added to the team in November of 1998. I assume Rodney was probably hooking a couple people up with boards.
Of note was a contest where each pro did a trick and you could win cash if you submitted a video duplicating the trick. I believe this is how Chris Cole initially got noticed, if not for doing a trick in an ad, but by sending his footage to Rodney.
There was an A-Team section in each of the Rodney vs. Daewon videos. They featured a lot of hardflips and technical street skating. The part in Round Two had a mild paranoid conspiracy theme to it.
I'm going to do another week or so of A-Team in the near future. I wasn't feeling the company when it came out, but now I'm intrigued by the brand. I'll probably end up piecing together the trick contest and winner ads so all that stuff is lumped together in one place.
RIP Zion Williams.
The sequence is again by Chris Ortiz.
Transworld - March 1998 Volume 16 Number 3
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