August Best Trick Recap Vans Skateparks
Posted 08/26/2009 01:46:00 by i am vans
Orlando (by Tyler Peters)
On a muggy Spring afternoon we put on our hard-hats, rolled up our sleeves, cracked our knuckles and took out two steps on the main street course. And just like that our new single bank-to-bank hubba ledge and the obstacle for our August Best Trick contest was born. The contest kicked off with a few icebreakers like Brian Upapong's front 50-50 180 out and Jacob Portillo's 50-50 sex change, followed by a handful of random back boards and 50-50's from the peanut gallery. Portillo also walked away with a back crook big spin out that may have won had he made it the entire way across. Other honorable mentions include Fred Tan's HUGE bank-to-bank backside flip, Donnie Williams' kickflip front 5.0, and a "Coulda Shoulda Woulda" front smith kickflip out by Jacob Watkins. For the winning trick local rider Sam Bianchini pulled off the fastest and most Clorox squeaky clean BACK TAIL SHOVE OUT I have seen to date. A huge congrats to Sam and thanks to all who came out and made this contest another success. Until the September wallride...
Orlando
Sam Bianchini
The Block Orange, CA (by Stevie Harris)
We had all of our locals Brian Abraham, Alex Tennison, Vince Martinez, Justin Drysen, Anthony Corillo and Josh Hawksby show up. All anyone could talk about before contest was Vincent Martinez and his 360 flip lip slide he has down the step up rail. That's all anyone said from 6:45-7pm. I started promptly at 7pm after i announced the rules I looked up to where the start was and saw Vince ready to go. This was Vince's first time even trying this trick on the 9 rail and with no warm ups. Kids were firing off tricks like back lip, back smith, front lip, board shuv out. Brian Abraham did board slide to feeble which is very impressive. But the kid that showed up with consistency was Justin Drysen with board shuv back lip, lip to fakie, but what killed it was FRONT LIP SLIDE SHUV OUT. In the end it was Justin Drysen with frontside lip slide shuv out...taking home a pair of shoes and a spot on the plaque.
The Block
Justin Dreysen
On a muggy Spring afternoon we put on our hard-hats, rolled up our sleeves, cracked our knuckles and took out two steps on the main street course. And just like that our new single bank-to-bank hubba ledge and the obstacle for our August Best Trick contest was born. The contest kicked off with a few icebreakers like Brian Upapong's front 50-50 180 out and Jacob Portillo's 50-50 sex change, followed by a handful of random back boards and 50-50's from the peanut gallery. Portillo also walked away with a back crook big spin out that may have won had he made it the entire way across. Other honorable mentions include Fred Tan's HUGE bank-to-bank backside flip, Donnie Williams' kickflip front 5.0, and a "Coulda Shoulda Woulda" front smith kickflip out by Jacob Watkins. For the winning trick local rider Sam Bianchini pulled off the fastest and most Clorox squeaky clean BACK TAIL SHOVE OUT I have seen to date. A huge congrats to Sam and thanks to all who came out and made this contest another success. Until the September wallride...
Orlando
Sam Bianchini
The Block Orange, CA (by Stevie Harris)
We had all of our locals Brian Abraham, Alex Tennison, Vince Martinez, Justin Drysen, Anthony Corillo and Josh Hawksby show up. All anyone could talk about before contest was Vincent Martinez and his 360 flip lip slide he has down the step up rail. That's all anyone said from 6:45-7pm. I started promptly at 7pm after i announced the rules I looked up to where the start was and saw Vince ready to go. This was Vince's first time even trying this trick on the 9 rail and with no warm ups. Kids were firing off tricks like back lip, back smith, front lip, board shuv out. Brian Abraham did board slide to feeble which is very impressive. But the kid that showed up with consistency was Justin Drysen with board shuv back lip, lip to fakie, but what killed it was FRONT LIP SLIDE SHUV OUT. In the end it was Justin Drysen with frontside lip slide shuv out...taking home a pair of shoes and a spot on the plaque.
The Block
Justin Dreysen