Skate Competition 5/2/09

We had a skate competition saturday at the Boys and Girls Club. It was a lot of fun and everybody killed it. I cant believe how good the 12-15 group is getting. Joey O'brien is crazy. He was doing noseblunt slides on the down rail second try. Everybody in the 16-18 group was killin it.

It ended up being Joey Christoffers in first, Jeff Colombo in second and Collin Bauder and Pat McCullion tied for third. Some stand out stuff was Joey Airing on the quaterpipes and just skating everything in the park, Jeffs nollie 360 heelflip over the hip and his tailslide and 5-0 180 out on the down rail, Pats manual 360 flip out on the manny pad and Collin skating the quaterpipes and just putting together lines during the whole comp. Jeff Colombo ended up winning the best trick contest over the hip with a nollie big heel and a nollie heel 360. Thanks to everybody that came out and thanks to Erik for bringin for donating mangalwood stuff for prizes.

Joey Christoffers Melon Grab

Collin Bauder and Pat McCullion getting their third place prizes

Jeff Colombo got Second Place and got a set of Ricta Wheels and a deck for best trick

Joey Christoffers getting his first place mangalwood deck and skating his new Rayskin board.

We didnt really get to skate much this weekend because we had the contest Saturday and Sunday it rained. Heres some old clips from when we were filmin for "Collective" featuring Joey O'Brien, Kerry Getz at a Habitat Demo, Pat McCullion, Erik Mangal and Brian Panebianco.



Joey is a crazy little kid. We were at that tombstone park and he was just launchin tricks off the hip. He did like 3 or 4 tricks off of it. We went to a Habiat Demo in philly a little over a year ago. Getz was killin it the whole time. That was a really fun trip. The clip of Pat is from before he cut his hair haha. He asked me the other day why I let him look like that for so long haha. sorry pat. Before Erik went into the hospital we were trying to get as many tricks as we could for "Collective". We were trying to get this line at wedge before it got dark and of course the one he lands warren just got right in between us haha. He saw us coming but he was like a dear in headlights. He said after "I tried to make myself as skinny as possible" haha. thanks warren. The last couple clips of Brian are pretty sick. The fakie heel lipslides were just warm ups for his ender trick in the friends section of "Collective" and the last clip of Brian is from a month or so ago. He was trying tailslide 540s haha. He said hes done them before but I had to go to work before he could land a good one. Pretty crazy stuff.