Someone Kick-Flipped Wallenberg

This was a very gnarly artical the the recent issue of Thrasher Magazing. Frank Gerwer set the record at the infamous four-set at Wallenberg.

Gerwer was the first to ever land a kick-flip down this gap. This trecherous stairway is made of four stairs two feet tall and five feet long. A total of an eight foot drop and a twenty foot ollie.

The race to be the one to set the best trick down this gap started in 1990, when Mark Gonzales did a frontside grap over it for his part in Blind's "Video Days". Next came the ollie, then the frontside 180, then backside 180. But no one had ever gotten close to landing a kick-flip.

On the morning of October 27th, 2001, Frank Gerwer went down to the four stairs with a friend of his to watch him ollie the set. After seeing his friend ollie the set, he decided to try and ollie it him self. The first couple of times he hung up on the bottom step but he eventually landed it. So he decided to try and tail grab or nose grab but it didn't work. So he finally just kick flipped the board and after about seven tries he landed it clean and rolled away.

Afterwards the mayor invited him to his office for lunch, got a shrimp cocktail and a table dance from the secritary, and had his PG&E bill on his house loward as a result of this.