Savannah Slamma Contest (1988)
Savannah Slamma Contest (1988)
Long before the X-Games and Street League was Savannah Slamma, a series of contests organised by Thrasher to showcase the emerging street-style movement in skateboarding that attracted all of the biggest names in US pro skateboarding at the time. Whilst most of his contemporaries were still fannying around doing G-turns on the flat, Gonz was already throwing out switch method airs off jump ramps and frontside boardsliding down contest rails.
Mark’s infamous Savannah Slamma run is above, and to get an idea of how far ahead of the curve he already was at that point – watch the full contest video here.