The Russian boneless.(LAKAI IN RUSSIA)

Thrasher | October 1, 2005 | Copyright

Considering that 15 years ago the Russians were molding their own skateboard trucks out of iron and sharing a hand-full of Ron Knigge's discarded New Deal everslicks among the entire nation, you can't really hold it against them that they can't be credited with much trick invention. Even the much-heralded Russian Boneless (demonstrated here by Carroll) was actually first revealed to the skate world by Per Welinder, a Swede. I'm not sure if Per named it himself (though, if he did it probably would have been called something like the "Per Plant" such was the ego-heavy style of ...

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