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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BACK IN THE DAY: HUBBA HIDEOUT&amp;#8217;S FIRST GRIND&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;em&gt;Wade Speyer&lt;strong&gt; &lt;\\/strong&gt;breaks down the crooked grind he did in 1991 that kick-started one of the most iconic skate spots of all time.&lt;\\/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;From our April 2011 issue.&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;strong&gt;Words by Kevin Duffel&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"alignnone size-org wp-image-1000135262\\\" title=\\\"wadehubba\\\" src=\\\"\\/files\\/2011\\/03\\/wadehubba.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"wadehubba\\\" width=\\\"400\\\" height=\\\"574\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;em&gt;Wade Speyer crooked grinds a virgin Hubba Hideout in 1991.* &lt;strong&gt;Photo: Kanights&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;strong&gt; &lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How&amp;#8217;d you find out about Hubba initially? Was it just because you were in the area skating EMB?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nWell yeah, obviously we used to skate at Embarcadero and we&amp;#8217;d jump down the seven stair. But then we&amp;#8217;d always go over and jump down the Hubba Hideout stairs. Then one day I thought, &amp;#8220;Shit I wonder if I could do this nosegrind down it,&amp;#8221; you know? So I called Bryce [Kanights] and set it all up, and that was the first time I ever tried it.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Had you heard of anyone else stepping to the ledge before that?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nIt wasn&amp;#8217;t even Hubba Hideout at that time\\u2014it might have been, I don&amp;#8217;t know\\u2014but no, nothing.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So nobody had waxed it before or anything like that?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nNo, nothing.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you do make the nosegrind pretty quick?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nI think it was two or three tries, I&amp;#8217;m pretty sure. I didn&amp;#8217;t try that many times because I remember I had to make it because I really didn&amp;#8217;t want to fall [laughs].&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Had you skated ledges similar to that before?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nNot really. I mean, we skated handrails and stuff like that, but we never even thought of that. And then when we saw it, it was like, &amp;#8220;We&amp;#8217;ve gotta try it.&amp;#8221;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you feel like skating sort of changed after you skated it? Like your nosegrind pushed skating into a new level?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nThis is funny. I used to hang out at Embaracadero all the time, and so I&amp;#8217;d hang out with all the local guys there. I think when they heard that I did that, they almost couldn&amp;#8217;t believe it because those guys were all a hell of a lot better than I was. It seemed like, at the time, that wasn&amp;#8217;t really a hard trick, but it was a hard trick because on that, it was so big and tall. Right after that, like every week, someone was doing some newer, crazy trick down it. I couldn&amp;#8217;t even believe it. I&amp;#8217;m sure people did that same trick [backside nosegrind] down it no big deal. Then people started trying harder stuff on it. I remember that being hard, and I couldn&amp;#8217;t imagine doing, like three or four years later, what people were doing on it when I could barely even ollie into a nosegrind on it. That thing&amp;#8217;s way gnarly.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was your favorite trick ever done on Hubba?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nI&amp;#8217;m pretty sure I&amp;#8217;ve seen some video of Karl Watson doing a frontside noseslide to the hard way 270 out. That&amp;#8217;s pretty sick.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you feel now that it&amp;#8217;s completely demolished?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nI don&amp;#8217;t know. I actually don&amp;#8217;t even think about it. I always heard of people who tore the little things [knobs] off. I really can&amp;#8217;t believe, seriously, that didn&amp;#8217;t what&amp;#8217;s his name do a switch backside lipslide?&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yeah, tons of crazy stuff like that. People did switch heelflip backside 50-50, nollie heelflip crooked grind&amp;#8230;&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nOh yeah. It&amp;#8217;s beyond. I remember when I did what I did on it, which is actually nothing, that was like &lt;em&gt;so &lt;\\/em&gt;hard for back then.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anything else you want to say about Hubba?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nA funny story is, remember the spot Mini Hubba across the street? Remember all that steel that was above you? This guy Dave that I lived with does demolition and stuff like that all the time. About a year ago, he got the job to demo all that steel. He called me and said, &amp;#8220;I need your help.&amp;#8221; I didn&amp;#8217;t even know what it was. He said, &amp;#8220;Yeah it&amp;#8217;s right around the corner from Hubba.&amp;#8221; And so I went down there and I torched all that steel out of there. It took us three days. And then you know the pillars that hold it up? We jack hammered all that out too.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So it&amp;#8217;s like you started Hubba and then destroyed Mini Hubba. Too bad you weren&amp;#8217;t the one to demolish Hubba Hideout too.&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nOh, I wish I would&amp;#8217;ve known. That would&amp;#8217;ve been awesome.&lt;em&gt;&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wade&amp;#8217;s nosegrind is at 1:28&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/embed\\/V-MpdrdAYL8?enablejsapi=1\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"360\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;em&gt;*Way back in 1991, Wade&amp;#8217;s crooked grind was actually called a nosegrind. Shortly thereafter, Dan Peterka coined tweaked (crooked) nosegrinds as the crooked grind. People also called &amp;#8217;em K grinds because Koston made them largely popular, too. For simplicity&amp;#8217;s sake, let&amp;#8217;s call Wade&amp;#8217;s a trick for the record books.&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n&lt;strong&gt; &lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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