The first issue of Jan Welch's excellent Scum Magazine covered this event. It is preserved here.

This was possibly the first big competition in Texas and the first one I entered. The event took place just a couple weeks before ESPN's inaugural Extreme Games, and shortly after The Hoax II tour made its Rapid Revolutions (Dallas skatepark, formerly Jeff Phillips Skatepark) lock-in stop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EGj3JC-CNE

Arlo, Dave K. Brian, and some of the Scribe guys were already celebs to groms like myself from appearances in The Hoax, Mad Beef, Inline Magazine's Omaha ...

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https://vimeo.com/84052381 Youtube Mirror

FILMED ON LOCATION IN CHICAGO, NASHVILLE, LITTLE ROCK, NEW ORLEANS, HOUSTON, AUSTIN, DENTON - SOMMEREND 2013

Guest Starring: Giraffe, Collin Martin, Hatians, Babies

Camera Thanks: Scottie B, Jordan Williams, BP, BK, Collin Martin, Joe Esquivel, Drew Humphrey, Tall Tone, Cree, Michael Langhausen, Michael Stein...more

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Tractorblade - June 1936 PopularSciene
The Conference has reportedly licensed a patent originally issued to a Japanese schoolteacher in 1936 for a tractor skate frame, which will finally enable aggressive inline skaters with offroad flexibility and allow for full tread grinding with spool heights of up to 90mm. Sources say this revolutionary new frame will "breach the gap" between aggressive, speed, and offroad skate specialties.

Scan via ModernMechanix via June 1936 PopularScience

 

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