Photo: Transworld Cover – February 2005
Mike O’Meally

Skater: Shane Cross
Trick: Frontside Nosegrind
Spot: El Toro
Lake Forest, California
United States

Footage: Flip, “Extremely Sorry” (2009)
Lee Dupont

Additional Notes:
skately – El Toro High School
Mike O’Meally on the trick, from Transworld, “Shine On, You Crazy Diamond” (2007):
“The first time I realized Shane was special was when he was talking to himself. Now, a lot of mentally gifted (and mentally challenged) people have been known to chatter away, but the difference with Shane was that his one-man monologue took place in the middle of a midnight Smith grind down the legendary El Toro handrail in Orange County. He was yammering to himself about who knows what, and then, within minutes, he was poised perfectly on a nosegrind and landed it in one try-no bails and no worries.”