Steve Nesser's Rock Adio part is introduced by him doing a kickflip melon over a huge bump-to-bar in Las Vegas, which blew my mind the first time I saw it because before then, I'd always thought of Nesser as more of a low-impact skater. Part of what makes him such a legend is that he could skate practically any obstacle quite well. Huge rails, big gaps, ledge lines, crusty street QPs, bump-to-bars, the list goes on and on.
The kickflip melon appeared in a two-page Birdhouse ad in the July 2004 issue of The Skateboard Mag, and was shot by Jeff Taylor. When I posted this scan on my Instagram page last April, he commented that this was "one of the raddest things I ever witnessed. He did it in just a couple of tries as well."
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