El Toro Handrail
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El Toro (also known as the El Toro 20) is a large handrail that is well known within the Street Skateboarding community. It is a twenty stair handrail in El Toro High School, located in Lake Forest, California. The term 'El Toro' may also be given to any other large handrail.
It was first skated by Heath Kirchart in the Birdhouse Skateboards film "The End", in which he frontside lipslid it. Jeremy Klein also drove a van down the stairs in the same video, for which he later faced legal action. Other major tricks include a back lip by Carlos Ruiz of Blind, a fronstide five-o by Ben Gilley of Zero skateboards, a front smith from Matt Mumford of Black Label, a front board by Arto Saari of Flip skateboards, an ollie by Don "The Nuge" Nygeun of Foundation skateboards, a first-try front nosegrind by the now deceased Shane Cross, and the whole stair set was kickflipped by a relative unknown Dave Bachinsky of City skateboards earlier this year. El Toro is one of the most well known obstacles in skateboarding today, along with Hubba Hideout, the Carlsbad Gap, and Wallenberg Four. Skateboarders worldwide reference El Toro in conversation, using it is as a generic term for any ridiculously large handrail.
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