Word: hillsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with offhand censure, "That was totally lame." But get it right, and the same comment or a close variation ("You're such a dweeb for making that") will be offered, but delivered this time with an admiring irony. "Basically, it's a fun thing," smiles Competition Skater Don Hillsman of Atlanta. "But harassment is big with skaters. I mean, this is not a 'nice' sport like golf...
...course, it probably doesn't matter. "To have fun, we have to break the law," says Atlanta's Don Hillsman. "Skaters don't like rules." What they do like, when something like the Fallbrook ramp isn't right handy, is swimming pools: big, high-sided, kidney-shape swimming pools -- drained, naturally, to allow for the most radical coasting up and down the sloping concrete. Skaters aren't much on giving out awards, but there is one sure way to reckon the most bio (for bionic, meaning best) skater in the neighborhood: count the trespassing tickets received for skating empty pools...