Talent show tough on girl team ams: Carroll, Howard flip script and focus on non-skate skills.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , CA -- Always keeping the am squad on their toes, Girl founding fathers Mike Carroll Mike Carroll (born 1975) is a professional skateboarder from San Francisco who skated for H-Street and then formed the super team, Plan B Skateboards. In a mass defection, Mike started Girl Skateboards with fellow Plan B rider Rick Howard. Carroll is often sarcastic towards people. and Rick Howard Rick Howard is a Canada-born skateboarder who now resides in California. his part in the second Plan B video, "Virtual Reality", is well-known for his advancement of switchstance skating. last week gave their younger riders 24 hours to prepare a non-skating talent show act. "We already know they can skate," Howard said. "We wanted to see their other abilities." The dumbfounded dumb·found also dum·found tr.v. dumb·found·ed, dumb·found·ing, dumb·founds To fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound. See Synonyms at surprise. ams, who were more used to showcasing their kickflips, frantically scrambled to produce a show and had mixed results. Sean Malto tried his luck on a unicycle. After a few "wobbly-ass" seconds on stage, Malto heavily faceplanted. Alex Olson attempted a spectacular juggling routine. He tossed flaming armadillos for a good minute until one of the armored critters was dropped and smashed Olson's big toe big toe n. The largest and innermost toe of the human foot. . The animals, who were at ease with the flaming-shell act in rehearsals, turned on him in a mammalian mutiny and chased Otson into the street. Mike Mo Capaldi took a big risk with a magic/ comedy routine that was described as "ghastly, even by magic/comedy routine standards." Strangely, Brandon Biebel joined the goof troop with a mime act because he wanted to. "We're doing this every year," Carroll said. |
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