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The Wallenberg Four
In anticipation of Thrasher’s “Back to the Berg” contest (5/30/09), let’s reminisce the history of the huge San Francisco 4-stair.
Back in 1991, Mark Gonzales ollied Wallenberg in Blind’s Video Days. That’s 18 years ago for all you math wizards. The stairs became a staple in skate videos throughout the early-mid 90s, with most people opting to skate the set sideways and use the stairs as ledges.
Since then, a lot of big names have landed their signature tricks down it. Andrew Reynolds frontside flipped and backside flipped it, and Chris Cole 360 flipped it. In 2004, Thrasher held a contest called “High Noon at the Big Four” where lots of hammers went down, including Reynolds’ frontside flip.
Here’s a list of notable tricks done down Wallenberg:
- Mark Gonzales - ollie (1991)
- Diego Bucchieri - backside 180 ollie (1998)
- Danny Gonzalez - kickflip melon (1999)
- Frank Gerwer - kickflip (2002)
- Tony Manfre - switch ollie (2002)
- Tony Manfre - switch frontside 180 (2003)
- Steve Nesser - pop shove-it (2004)
- Darrell Stanton - switch backside 180 ollie (2004)
- Andrew Reynolds - frontside 180 kickflip (2004)
- Lindsey Robertson - heelflip (2004)
- Chris Cole - 360 Flip (2005)
- Jeremy Reeves - pop shove-it melon (2007)
- Andrew Reynolds - backside 180 kickflip (2007
Wallenberg map and info
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Which tricks do you want to see go down the Wallenberg four?
Tags: andrew reynolds, chris cole, gonz, san francisco, thrasher, wallenberg
Tory, lets see the nollie flip!
In case you haven’t been following along Phelps has been doing little couch interviews on Thrashers site about the contest. Today they had Cardiel on… check it
Thrasher Skateboard Magazine
I’d like to see Herman hardflip it
i think someone is going to switch heel it
herman should hardflip it!
reynolds should varial heel that ****
Mike MO switch Flip!!!!!
Furby Switch Heel or Moose Back 360
Antwan should nollie heel flip it
inward heel
id like to see a 360 boneless over it
it’d be pretty sick to see someone big spin it
fakie full cab flip sheckler!
switch tre P-Rod
Switch big heel Billy Marks
I AGREE I WANT HERMAN OR MALTO TO HARDFLIP IT AND MIKE MO TO SWITCHFLIP AND SWITCH HEEL IT THAT WOULD BE HELLA CRAZY!!!!!
kerry getz should double kickflip
mike v should boneless or fingerflip.
Lutzka shud 360 fs flip it
Chris cole swetch fs flip and bs 360
Jeremy Wray FS 360! That would be tight since he did it down the Love gap!
tom asta should switch heel