#TBT: Andrew Reynolds - The End
Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2015 by Paul
In the 20 years since the first Tampa Pro in ‘95, exactly 14 people can say they’ve won it. Lakeland Florida’s Andrew Reynolds is one of them. He took it twice in fact, back-to-back, 1997 and 1998. He could very well have made it three in ‘99 but opted out because he didn’t want “to be that guy.”
Andrew has always been the rare breed of skater who could win contests AND film video parts worth rewinding. Case in point, every part he’s ever had since The End, the Birdhouse Blockbuster from ’98, which in my opinion was the one that established young Drew as a tour de force, being that he’d just sort of put that whole little kid thing to bed and figured out his frontside flip. The End was unique in that it was the rare video that could actually be called a film, plus it had Tony Hawk doing a loop in a bull ring, that Jeremy Klein / Heath Kirchart Reservoir Dogs section, and a van going down El Toro. With the fake skate sounds mixed in after the fact, marginal skits, and slow-mo OD, the video isn’t what I’d call perfect, but it ranks up there in the pantheon of ground breakers with Reynolds part taking the cake. And his kickflip melon out of the Bro Bowl? The gap’s still there, try to ollie it once.
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