January 14, 2004
Alex Broskow, nationally ranked inline-skater and Lawrence
resident, is...the ripper.
Stories this photo appears in:
Don't Fear The Ripper
Rollerblading stunt devil brings worldwide attention to Lawrence/KC crew
The first time Dave Temple saw Alex Broskow skate a handrail, he knew the eight-year-old kid was going to be something special. "He couldn't jump high enough to get on the rails (because he was so small), so he would skate faster than anybody else so vertically it would be a shorter jump," recalls Temple, who was already a teenager when he and his rollerblading friends started tutoring Broskow. "Nobody was skating that fast to handrails back then; it was crazy."
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