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some friends and i decided to build this quarterpipe at an abandoned train station a while ago and it actually turned out to be pretty much perfect.  we parked illegally on the side of a main street, lugged bags of concrete back to this wall, and started slapping it down, not fully expecting the results we got.  we had 6 vertical feet of wall to work with and 5 horizontal feet from the end of a sidewalk to the wall, so i knew that a 5' tranny would be perfect.  i knew it was gonna be a tight quarter.  what i didn't know is that when you've got that tight of a tranny with about a foot of vert on top of it and two huge pillars at the base it gets a little hairy trying to come back into the thing.  you've surely seen photos of tricks done on this thing and if you've skated it, you know how hard those tricks are.

zitzer took to this thing like a duck to water.  i knew he'd have some tricks for it but i didn't know he'd skate it as well as he did.  maybe i shouldn't have been surprised.  being able to scoop backside ollies over head-high on a vert ramp probably helps in scooping them on small, tight tranny.  i guess.

i shot a lot of photos at this spot (difficult because it actually kinda sucked for the types of photos i like to shoot) but this is absolutely one of my favorites.  i'm always drawn to how paul's body is positioned in the air and how it makes no sense that his board is staying on his feet. 

paul zitzer, backside ollie.