Chris Miller Upland Pipeline Slam

[jrstreets]

fag



[tbird7542]

If miller makes that backside air, he win that comp.

He owned that place...

[Beachcrib]

No disrespect to those Alba brothers.. They cant skate like a Chris Miller can .. Very few could . Watch the guy for 5 seconds. But god damn .. He took a hit on that one!

[Gokudo13]

I was there when it happend, and felt it from the background, but Chris was a bad ass grinder. I really miss the Pipeline. I was a member from 1980 to when they closed down to put in a bussniess park.

[HellenicWarrior10]

i tell you what.. the sheer beauty of the air is what strikes me.. if he fell, well, that'sunfortunate. but u can tell he had the confidence & he surely had no problem doing the trick.

[coronelius]

pues a mi me ha gustado

[TheTimHesse]

He broke his collar bone on that slam if I recall correctly.

[TheTimHesse]

He broke his collar bone on that slam if I recall correctly.

[qone1200]

did he died? lolol just kidding. lol @ that ballin ass manager

[jessmanco]

thats charing it, Respect

[bloopy78100]

i did that in a 7 foot bowl and it sucked and that ones twice as high

[skater1098]

ouch what a slam.

[chrisgellroy]

Saw him skating at KONA in the mid 1980's, one of my favorite rippers,

Rob Craver

[beverlyskates]

Probly one of the most epic slams in skate history without a doubt the most memorable of the 80's

[aw91730]

I was there that day... insane. My opinion, Miller had better style.. and could get insanely more air than the Alba Bros. Alba Bros were classic old school.. carving around that pool tile, you could hear it from the parking lot... zzzzip... swoosh...

[surfdog70]

Best Upland Skater ever........

always heard about that slam............so sick

[islingtonlad]

would you rate him better than Salba at Upland??

[lemonite1]

With no disrespect to Miller or Salba, Micke Alba skated this pool the best.

[eddieoe12]

yes miller was better then salba, and alot cooler then him, salba was a fucken prick in those days, i couldn't stand him, but malba was really cool.

[lemonite1]

I have this contest on video. Tony Hawk won it and he couldn't even get over the coping. Actually, apart from Miller, Steadham rippped this pool as well. Lester was good but was injured and kept bailing.

[KuntreeRetardScandal]

BARRY.. first one on the scene yo... where is that dudes props.. he's the god dam skateboard doctor ya'll.. dam chris..shit man what the fuck.....and miller is king in that joint...

[vertsk8n]

yep Barry was the man and Chis Miller is the god of style

[Boshingtang666]

moustache compress to groin pull

[BackRoadsWine]

I remember watching him rip that place. I do remember how tight the tranny was. Damn, I miss that place. I wonder if people still cruise by there. I heard it's a housing development now.

[eddieoe12]

i live right down the street from there, it's actually a industrial park now, the old skate shop building is still there, but no skate shop, oh and they took the pipe away too. dam i miss that place.

[nosojdjos]

That's what happens when you hang up

[andree1001]

he underestimaded the curve thats a gnarly hangup

[BackRoadsWine]

Chris said he always gets asked about that slam. He ripped 99.99% of the time and people should remember that too.

[cerebrix]

well theres a reason for him getting asked about that slam all the time. its the slam that set the tone for the future. at least a lot of people see it that way.

this contest was the NSA amateur final that pitted tony hawk vs chris miller in their last years as amateurs.

upland was chris' home park. he skated there weekly. he was a HUGE favorite to win the whole thing because of this.

So the way a lot of people see it, if he had not hung up the skate would would be a very diff place today

[vertsk8n]

I remember reading about this in Transworld. And there was Barry Z. the medic of all skaters to the rescue.

[lemonite1]

Micke Alba ruled this pool.

[PlanBskater87755]

clippage?

[SPHeavens]

That pool wasn't that fun to skate, it was rough and big with small trannies... looking back on this slam it wasn't all that terrible... at the time we thought it would never be topped for a slam. Too bad, Miller would've won that contest, too.

[jdebruhl2]

Uh...it knocked him out. Id be willing to bet if you asked him, hed tell ya it wasnt fun.

And unfortunately, most pools I ever skated had tight trannys. Of course, most were made for swimming. Still.....VERY fun.

[SPHeavens]

It knocked him out for 1 second, & I wrote that it wasn't that fun for me. I forwarded this link to Chris and he said of course it was fun... And if you skated any of the other parks of the era then you'd know that Upland was bigger with smaller trannies than most. Primarily because it was built earlier and it was kept open longer than most. Pools like Winchester, Campbell, Marina, Whittier, Del Mar and others all had pools with bigger trannies, less vert, and were more fun to skate.

[jdebruhl2]

Uh, The "SLAM" wasnt fun ding dong. Of course the 'park' was fun.

The only parks I skated were Kona and Ocala. (Florida Boy). We did the backyard and motel searches in the winter for our pools. And of course built ramps.

Again, I wasnt saying Chris didnt think the park was fun, I was commenting on you insinuating the slam wasnt all that terrible. Id hate to see your terrible. Besides all the recent mega-ramp slams, this rates right up there. I broke my collar bone on a slam very similar.

[sk8rgurl96]

wow...that pool looks so fun to skate...nice slam..lol

[chefmolar]

that pool was GNARLY!! The few times I skated it, there was so much vert it was insane...not for the weak of heart.

[Superandrd]

how far out was that coping?! that is fucked up...

[yournamehere832]

that pool looks so fuckin gnar i heard its easy to kill yourself though

sounds sick

[GBJPhotoWorks]

Definitely the sickest slam of it's era. Some of the stuff happening on today's mega-ramps is pretty sick too, but this one was GNARLY. Chris was out for awhile.

[outabounz]

Rage at Badlands! Yah Millers Gnarl he blazed the sickest lines ever in combi!

[krisisrad]

wow..see i tell people that miller's gnarly. think about this pool too, it's 4 ft of vert, 8 ft tranny..no lie, miller said himself.

[OPTIKPRODUCTIONS]

Is that Joy Division playing in the backround?

[SPHeavens]

999 playing in the background

[sirfinks]

WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS!!!???

[SPHeavens]

this is from the Vision series of contests they put out on video... this, Del MAr, Trashmore, Georgia, etc.

[sirfinks]

I remember the series, I just want a copy of the NSA contest's they used to rent at the pipeline.  I loved those vids!

[drummerboy52587]

I read about this in Tony Hawks book.

[oliverohaver]

that got like 3rd gnarliest slam ever on an ES blog recently

[StickyMike]

I'm not 100% sure, but wasn't this in Skateboarder Magazine's list of bad slams? I have been looking for it for a while.