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VIA Challenge #1

POSTED May 15, 2008 BY Bob Kronbauer
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In the coming months we’re going to be issuing challenges where we’ll be giving stuff away to people who meet them. The first challenge comes in the form of this big ball that’s outside of GM Place. I heard a rumor once that Jeremy Wray ollied up onto it and rolled over it in the 90′s but I never saw it on video and nobody else seems to have heard this rumor. Kelly Litz and Brian Caissie at Concrete are saying it’s never been done. SO…

Ollie or wallie up onto this ball and roll over it.

The first person to send us a clip of themselves doing it wins:
- 1 Paul Rodriguez Plan B deck
- 1 Andrew Reynolds Baker deck
- 1 set of Momentum wheels
- 1 set of Baker wheels
- 1 Livestock t-shirt

This thing is pretty huge, but it’s doable. There’s a bunch of them around GM Place, this one pictured is on the Pacific Blvd side.

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E-MAIL YOUR VIDEO CLIP OR ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHALLENGE HERE

UPDATE:
YEAH RIGHT!


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  • Category: Skateboarding,VIA Challenges,Video


  • Cyrus

    i see your decks and raise a livestock tee. who ever does it is the shiiiiait.

  • http://jeffhamada.wordpress.com jeffhamada

    they are bigger in person haha, good challenge Bob!

  • Benoit

    Mr. Spike Jones did it with the help of one of those plastic kicker ramps a while back. Is it really possible? Brett Stobart?

  • http://sradnidge.com S R

    i’ll do it…

  • Jef Choy

    it’d be sick if yao ming no complied it….

  • http://sradnidge.com S R

    Sleep Country Reeves nollied it way back… cause there was a buffet on the other side.

  • Rob Rickaby

    what about barrel jumping it?

  • http://www.mumblemagazine.com Bob K

    Hmmm… anybody got a booby prize to donate for a barrel jump?

  • ben stoddard

    add a copy of bigger and better things, sophomore jinx and young folk to the prize pool.

  • duderdude

    that Jeremy dude, from langley, could’ve done it back in ’99. He was tall and had snap yo!

  • http://jordanhoffart.com jordan

    I GOT THE WORST HIPPER TRYING THIS THE OTHER DAY. SOMEONE’S GOT TO DO IT.

  • http://www.mumblemagazine.com Bob K

    Dude! Send the footage of the attempts!

  • patrick

    no way
    that make is so sick
    i completely thought this challenge would never be done

    great idea for the contest bob



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