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No one has swagger like Chaz

By Alyssa Roenigk
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, September 24, 2009

The following story appears in the Sept. 25 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Click here to download the full insert. It's an hour after skateboard street finals at this summer's X Games in LA, and Chaz Ortiz is locked in a game of Skate 2 in the PlayStation trailer. Ortiz, 15, repeatedly tries to land a trick he dreamed up about five minutes ago -- a superdupe backflip on a megaramp. He is close, but he can't quite get the board to touch down wheels first. His opponent is Jon, a 14-year-old fan who ...

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