Story and Photos by Holly Walker

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree," so the old proverb goes. The expression in Argentina: "De Tal palo tal astilla." Rough translation: "The sliver comes from the stick."

Words by J Dogg. Photos by Jordan Manley. Video by Paul Cotton.

You're sitting innocently at the top of the terrain park, fixing your goggles and prepping for your all-too-serious new trick. You hear 'Rapid Fire Chain Gang' yelled behind you as a pack of 30 freaks in jeans, pink stretchies and garbage bags come barreling into the jumps, all within feet of each other, and a majestic display of spraffies, twisters, flips, spins, froggies and flicketies unfolds.

You're enjoying a casual stroll through the village when some dude with a mohawk comes skiing past you down the pan pacific stairs.