Blasting into the void.
My best guess is Ben is skating a street course setup and doing a lipslide from the ramp to what is probably another a ramp. The caption said it was a lipslide, but I can't exactly figure out the approach and landing. Nobody was doing flyouts to a straight ledge in 1989 so I don't think it would be that. It could be some type of mini ramp that was being taken apart or put together, too.
It was a dry and calm 34˚ F yesterday so I got to skateboard at the park for a little bit before the sun set. I retired my Ventures with the orange hangers and have been skating a new set of trucks. This set has silver hangers with orange baseplates. They are much of an improvement for grinds and ollies are more stable. The only catch is that they don't catch on coping so axle stalls and feebles are kind of dicey until I get them broken in. The upcoming forecast looks damp, but maybe the weather will skew to the mild side.
Note: I photoshopped out a page number, a caption, and the bottom of edge of a Jason Lee picture for the sake of a better photo to use.
The photo is by Dan Sturt.
Poweredge - April 1989 Volume 2 Number 3
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Figure on posts for Monday, Thursday, and Friday for the holidaze week.
The set-up looks pretty strange - the 'ramp' looks a soldered together metal structure or possibly moulded, the thing he's ollieing onto, who knows. Perspective is weird - almost looks like he's riding a mini board. Trust DHS to do something a bit.... different.
You should post your set up.
I was thinking it was a quarter from a street course, but you're right that it doesn't look like wood. I wish the cropping wasn't so tight so you could get a sense of what was going on. It very well could've been an accidental photo that Dan submitted to the mag anyway.
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