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"FacebookPinterestjackson3.png\n\n It is maybe appropriate then that Richard Stephen Lawrence Jackson should come along and contradict his sport's clich\u00E9 with such lethal flamboyance. Richie Jackson turned pro at 22 by combining moves no one had seen in 20 years with impossible twists no one has yet to imitate.\n\n But he got our attention because he looked like a cross between Oscar Wilde and the Mad Hatter. The first time we saw him, he was wearing stovepipe-striped trousers and a dark vest over an acid-trippy pirate shirt and a knotted kerchief. When we got closer, we saw details: buffed, pointed boots, a huge bright buckle, and gaudy but sparsely placed jewelry. His wad mustache curled symmetrically and a peacock feather stood tall in the band of his stiff brown riding hat.\n\nFacebookPinterestjackson5.png\n\nYet nothing about him was ironic or disrespectful. His velvet waistcoats and matching blazers fit him\u2014because he's had them tailored to fit him. His (rather lovely) shoulder-length hair, thick and clean and combed, makes him look more like a nobleman than a renaissance weirdo. And his collection of antique hats would impress the young Andre 3000.\n\n But he didn't stop there. Early footage of him doing tricks comprehendible to very few (wallride bigspin flipout, halfcab nose manny nollie bs) was accompanied not by typical beats or punk, but by Pentagram, the 70s doom metal band (from Virginia). When a reporter asked \"What's your deal?\" the young Aussie revealed that he was at once honest, articulate, and didn't care what anyone else thought:\n\n I believe in psychedelicism. Not just psychedelic music, but everything. A psychedelic experience is characterized as the unveiling of perceptions previously unknown \u2014because the brain unfettered from its usual constraints. To me, it's all there is, and certainly all that's worth doing. I find no worth in that which doesn't surprise. Anomalies, irregularities, deviation from the common rule \u2014because that is all I will ever care for.\n\n He does his own thing. And he does it well. We wish him luck.\n\nFacebookPinterestjackson4.png"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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