Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta Instagram – August of 76. We have just learned “one-wheelers” where three wheels have lost contact with the pool and only one remains rolling on the coping’s edge before you turn 180 and drop back down. Bob Biniak and I are in the shallow end of the Devonshire pool watching Alva hit back to back one wheelers. Tony’s riding a Logan Earth Ski, Road Riders and very loose Bennett Trucks and at one point his one wheel rolls across the coping but then rolls up and over and out onto the flat of the pool’s deck. His body is now completely hung over the deep end while his one wheel is far behind him rolling over the pool’s deck and somehow Tony manages to pull his single wheel back from that position and roll it back over the top of the coping and into the pool. What he’s pulled off is the single most insane thing Bob and I have ever witnessed in a pool. It’s so shocking that Bob looks at me with his mouth agape as if he’s seen a ghost. I will never forget his reaction nor will I ever forget what I saw Tony do. If Tony had failed to pull his wheel back in, his back truck would’ve caught and hooked on the coping and he would’ve been thrown to the bottom and broken his neck because of the forward placement and momentum of his body. He was at that moment vulnerable to pool skating’s most dangerous fall. It was a stunning thing to witness and just as soon as Bob and I recovered, Bob turned to me and said quietly, “don’t let him know you saw that otherwise we’ll never hear the end of it on the drive home.”……..photos Pat Darrin. | Posted on 21/Jun/2023 21:12:49