2005 MVP Chris Cole

Thrasher Magazine, Dec, 2005

2005 KOTR MVP Chris Cole destroyed the competition with a personal total of 1,660 points, 220 more than the entire combined eS team scored back in 2003. Switch three flip. Photo: Shigeo

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KING OF THE ROAD 2005
TEAM ZERO
BACK-TO-BACK
2x KOTR CHAMPS

FINAL POINT TOTALS

Zero             4,180
Habitat          3,470
Flip             3,460
Element          2,680
MVP:Chris Cole   1,660

HIGHEST, LONGEST, MOST RESULTS

Longest Frontside Crooked Grind: Chris Cole (20'), Philadelphia, PA

Most Stairs Ollied Up: Chris Cole (6), San Diego, CA

Most Stairs Nollied Up: Chris Cole (4), Austin, TX

Most Stairs Switch Heelflipped Up: Bastien Salabanzi (skatepark 6), Tempe, AZ

Biggest Half-Cab Kickflip: Chris Cole, Philadelphia, PA

Most Stairs Switch Firecrackered: Shane Cross (8), Philadelphia, PA

Longest Frontside Boardslide Fakie: Arto Saari (26' 1"), Ahwatukee, AZ

Longest Frontside Slappy: John Rattray (41')

Highest Slappy: Silas Baxter-Neal (26" 1/4"), Denver, CO

Sherm's Revenge--Best Trick Naked: Fred Gall, fingerflip lien to tail

Phelper's Delight--Most Gnat: Tommy Sandoval, kickflip big 8

Winterberg's Lament--Best Trick Blindfolded: Bastien Salabanzi, Cab flip on flat

Biggest Kickflip: Tommy Sandoval (big 8), Chula Vista, CA

The Burt Reynolds Challenge--Most Make-Outs with Women Over 40: Alex Chalmers (4)

Biggest Backside Noseblunt: Tommy Sandoval (11), Brooklyn rail, SD, CA

Jump for Jab--Highest Hippy Jump: Alex Chalmers (5' 7"), DC Plaza, Kettering, OH

Kinkiest Rail (Most Kinks) Skated: Garrett Hill, five

Hall of Meat--Worst Slam: John Rattray, dislocated elbow

Biggest Switch 360 Flip: Chris Cole, Philadelphia, PA

Highest Air: Alex Chalmers, Louisville, KY

Most 360s In A Row (Classic '70s Style): Chris Cole (8)

Biggest Transfer (Tranny): Alex Chalmers (23')

Most Stairs Wall-Ridden Over (90-Degree Wall Only): Chris Cole (8), Philadelphia, PA

"Fucked-Up" 100 Point Terrain Challenges:

Nollie Heelflip Late Shove-it:

Bastien Salabanzi, Tempe, AZ

Colt Cannon, UC Davis, CA

Stefan Janoski, Portland, OR

Garrett Hill, Austin, TX

Switch 360 Flip Crooked Grind:

Chris Cole, Phoenix, AZ

Switch Kickflip Backside Wallride:

Chris Cole, Durham, NC

Stefan Janoski, Portland, OR

CHRIS COLE MVP

SIDELINED LAST YEAR by an injury half-way through, Chris Cole took revenge on the KOTR in 2005, easily earning MVP status with a mountain of moves that were as varied as they were ridiculous. From Sal flips over spines (which he had never even heard of before he landed one) to 20-foot frontside crooked grinds, Cole pushed the Zero team to the biggest victory margin in KOTR history. Other Cole crushers included ollieing up six stairs, nollieing up four, spinning eight 360s, wallriding eight stairs, launching the biggest half-Cab kickflip and switch 360 flip, fakie heelflipping over a spine, and pulling two of the new 100-point Fucked Up maneuvers: the switch flip wallride and the switch three-flip to crooks.

Pile a KOTR victory on top of his last part in Zero's New Blood and his mind-scrambling 360 flip at Wallenberg and you've got quite a year for the suburbs-of-Philly's finest. Thrasher and Boost Mobile are proud to make him the 2005 King of the Road MVP.