{"id":312,"date":"2007-11-18T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T09:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/18\/platform-views-close-goshen-comp-report\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T19:46:45","slug":"platform-views-close-goshen-comp-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/11\/18\/platform-views-close-goshen-comp-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform views close Goshen Comp report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mike<\/a>
\nI wince when I look at this. You can scarcely see the pictures. Look at the results, though. So many names which still seem familiar: this period produced some legendary skaters.<\/p>\n

My, Wingy has definitely improved and was skating really well. In the picture he’s doing a varial tail-grab. He did plenty more: mellies to fakie, long feeble grinds, big Indy air (wearing a big helmet).
\nMike Manzouri skated fast and smooth with frontside rock-slide, backside lipslide, killer nose bones and, as you can tell from the picture, big melanchollies. Unfortunately Mike was so stoked by Jocke’s skating that he wacked the coping too hard with his board in applause and broke his truck. He had to borrow Laja’s board for the rest of the final. Mad. Neil Danns went very high and very fast and was very good. Frontside hand-plants, rad stalefish and this weird kind of Christ air to tail thingy. He got fourth place.
\nThe picture I’ve chosen of Rocker is a 360\u00c2\u00b0 varial to fakie. He got a well deserved third. He did a lot of tricks, leaving you thinking “I didn’t know he could do that…” But he could. He did nose grinds, tail grabs, mute to fakie, fakie 360\u00c2\u00b0 Ollie one foot, mellies to fakie and a lot more.
\nYeah: that’s a rad picture of Jocke. A backside nose bone, isn’t it? Jocke’s name was a name on everyone’s lips that weekend because of his big, big backside Ollie tail grabs, backside nose grinds and method air to fakie. And yes, he does McTwists. Jocke rules.
\nPete Dossett won, and not a soul complained. He skated so well with mind and leg bending tweakness. He’s the best vert skater in England, easily stalling inverts for so long, tweaking airs this way and that, doing 360\u00c2\u00b0 varials, doing body varials, basically just doing so much. Oh my God: he nearly made a 720\u00c2\u00b0, landing then falling off. So rad.
\nThe competition finished, people collected the prizes Death Box had donated and even the mini was sessioned. Everything ended so fast. But so what? So long…
\nRESULTS
\nUnder 16
\n1\tSean Ward
\n2\tCarl Shipman
\n3\tChris Hudson
\n4\tDave Ashton
\n5\tWarren McReady
\n6\tJock Milne
\nOver 16
\n1\tPete Dossett
\n2\tJocke Olson
\n3\tRocker
\n4\tNeil Danns
\n5\tMike Manzouri
\n6\tWingy
\n7\tAndy Williams
\n8\tStuart Hoyle\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wince when I look at this. You can scarcely see the pictures. Look at the results, though. So many names which still seem familiar: this period produced some legendary skaters. My, Wingy has definitely improved and was skating really well. In the picture he’s doing a varial tail-grab. He did plenty more: mellies to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-96-may-1991","category-skateboard-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}