No, don't worry, you're not on the ESPN Skate Page. You're in the right spot. Over the last year or so, there's been some public controversy surrounding why surfers make up names for moves that there are already names for. Yes, surfing did spawn skateboarding and snowboarding, but with these other boardsport disciplines, the names of moves and airs are pretty much interchangeable.
Take the McTwist, which is essentially a backside 540, named for Mike McGill. When snowboarders started busting them out, they didn't call them "whirlybirds" or something. They called it a McTwist. Surfers have been known to come up with names when all they had to do was ask a snowboarder. Hopefully when Ry Craike does one someday, he will just be happy to refer to it as a McTwist.
You see where I'm going with this?
Aussie Matt Wilkinson recently nailed this air-reverse "somewhere" in Indo, on a Rip Curl Search trip. Looks a lot like a handplant!
Perhaps the the coping on this Indo "miniramp" couldn't really hold enough of his weight to really be a legit handplant, but we'll give it to him for not calling it a "clownslap" or something like that.
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Jon Coen
Jon is from New Jersey and continues to reside there with his wife and dog—which means occasional empty barrels and the occasional session in the snow.The state isn't as dirty as people might think, but he'll let them keep believing that.
Jake Howard
Jake lives, writes, and surfs in San Clemente, California. He spent his formative gremlin years surfing points north of San Francisco, and for the last 10 years has been contently surviving behind the Orange Curtain.
Kimball Taylor
Author of Return by Water, as well as books on Jeffreys Bay and Pipeline, Kimball drives a red hot Camero, and back in the '70s, he used to party with your Dad.
Daniel Ikaika Ito
Daniel surfs like a hippie, but dresses like a homie. The Native Hawaiian originally hails from Hilo, but now resides in Honolulu. He enjoys twin-fins, new sneakers and being ESPN's "Cuz On The Scene" in the 50th State.
Jason Kenworthy
About as majestic as a turkey vulture, when he's not shlepping his lens around the world or looking for road kill, Jason can be found at home in Dana Point tending to his growing brood.
