never_summer: More (for your sorry ass) information.
Actually, there's a recent ON Video that has a bit about it in there. Check it out.
Danny Way was the first guy to do the 900. This was about 1990 or so; I have the magazines from the time, I take them out once in a while- I believe that the October 1990 issue is the one. It's the Danny Way Pro Spotlight, and they asked him if he'd done it, and he said yeah- after 'about 10,000 tries'. Thrasher and TWS also covered the Munster Worlds that year, and they both said that he'd landed a 900 after the contest. In the ON Video, it showed him spinning one- and, he landed it- but then fell rolling across the flat. But, it was pretty widely covered at the time that he was trying/had landed one; it was a pretty big deal. Also, in the 1990 Tenth Anniversary Issue of Thrasher, they interviewed Tony Hawk, and he said 'I caught a glimpse of the 900 the other day (presumably, Danny was doing them)...' He goes on to say that he wasn't trying them because he didn't think his knees would take it. I understand why kids don't know this stuff, and why they'd think that Tony did them first- you guys probably weren't even alive in 1990! But,no- it was Danny that did them first- and, he should get credit for doing so, that's all.
Young fucking know it all bitchs!
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