Decades-old skateboarding trick mixes with virtual reality
![The 50-year-old skateboarding pioneer and entrepreneur is dragging his 360-degree loop ramp out of storage and giving a handful of young skaters the chance to try to nail the near-impossible trick on a live virtual reality broadcast Sunday afternoon from his corporate headquarters in northern San Diego County. (Photo by Stig Nygaard from Copenhagen, Denmark (Birdhouse team in Fælledparken Skatepark) [CC BY 2.0 (https://bit.ly/1SB5GLf)], via Wikimedia Commons)](https://westernnews.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2018/08/25/step_t715.jpg?529764a1de2bdd0f74a9fb4f856b01a9d617b3e9)
The 50-year-old skateboarding pioneer and entrepreneur is dragging his 360-degree loop ramp out of storage and giving a handful of young skaters the chance to try to nail the near-impossible trick on a live virtual reality broadcast Sunday afternoon from his corporate headquarters in northern San Diego County. (Photo by Stig Nygaard from Copenhagen, Denmark (Birdhouse team in Fælledparken Skatepark) [CC BY 2.0 (https://bit.ly/1SB5GLf)], via Wikimedia Commons)
BERNIE WILSON, AP Sports Writer
Originally Published: August 26, 2018 5:55 a.m.
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