The hype-up process climaxed yesterday with an SF skate warlord. Of course Phelps is going to end with John Cardiel. I believe the Bad Shit (Phelp's band) lyrics are, "All Hail Cardiel." Well, we all should hail Cardiel, he's a god damn legend, and he'll be the judge of the event.
Basically, Wallenburg is four really long stairs that were first ollied by Marc Gonzales back in 1990, and since have become that of legend. I know you're probably saying to yourself, "four staris that's it." Well it's four of the biggest fucking stairs you've ever seen. They're longer then they are high, there's a crack right before the top step, and a decline after that crack. Pretty much, if you can do something down Wallenburg, you can consider yourself a man, or if you're Elissa Steamer, a rad fucking chick. She just about ollied them in the 2004 contest, but just couldn't stick it. In the that event all that went down was a: fronside flip (Andrew Reynolds), switch backside 180 (Darrel Stanton) and a heelflip (Lindsey Robertson).
This year we're expecting moves like a: hard flip, nollie, switch flip, backside heel, varial heel, switch heel and possibly a nollie flip. Two of those, a man by the name of, Andrew Reynolds, has, but word is he may be hurt right now and not able to make it, we'll see. Others expected to shine are: Mike Mo, Torey Pudwell, Lindsey Robertson, Cairo Foster, Adam Dyet, Chris Cole, Bryan Herman and some guy named Ryan, or Byran, or something, Sheckler.
There you go, if you find yourself in the Bay Area, and you call yourself a skateboarder, you better be there. History is about to go down. This is the last time they're ever having this event, because the Wallenberg set is being torn down by the city of San Fransisco in the not too distant future. Here's a video where the man himself, Jake Phelps, explains what he's expecting, and shows footage of 2004:
Thrasher Skateboard Magazine
