The ‘mute grab’ to become the ‘Weddle grab’ after first person to do the move in 1981
: “Around 1981, a deaf skater and Colton skatepark local named Chris Weddle was a prominent amateur on the competition circuit.”Weddle, he wrote, had been the first to do the new trick, and so some proposed that “it should be named after him. They referred to him as the ‘quiet, mute guy’. So it became known as the mute air, and we all went along with it in our naive youth.
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