Natas Kaupas

Streets on Fire, Santa Cruz, 1989 The fire hydrant is the moment everyone remembers: Natas Kaupas ollies onto it and spins a full 720 on top, a move that became known as the Natas spin and later turned up in snowboarding and the Tony Hawk's games. The rest of the part matters just as much, because Kaupas treated walls, benches and street furniture as terrain at a time when most pros still lived on ramps. Watch it to see street skating being invented in real time.