2007 Toyota Challenge: Park Finals Results - Sure there are a lot of sick skaters on the Dew Tour but according to the young female fans in Salt Lake, there is only one, Ryan Sheckler. After placing second in last nights best trick jam Ryan lived up to
Sure there are a lot of sick skaters on the Dew Tour but according to the young female fans in Salt Lake, there is only one, Ryan Sheckler. After placing second in last nights best trick jam Ryan lived up to his TV fame by winning Street and securing the overall points lead for the 2007 Dew Tour. Even if Ryan is a no show for the final round and the next closest skater wins, Ryan still wins the overall. So, Ryan is king of skate, the TV screen and of the ladies. At one point early on Sunday morning, it was very quiet and all the boys were practicing, some girl in the crowd starts screaming out “Look at his butt. Look at his butt” The skaters tried to ignore the moment; Ryan kind of muttered to himself “I am over it” skated off and signed autographs on the other side of the course. At that moment it became clear that skateboarding has become so big as to transcend the sport it self. There is the real skateboarding you and I do, alone with our friends and the “reality” skateboarding of big events and TV. Love it or hate it, it all brings money into the sport, more parks, and more opportunities to make money doing what you love instead of working in a crypt. I must get back to the task at hand though….
The park event was delayed, due to a thorough rain on Saturday, until Sunday morning at 10:15 am. The early start time definitely was not in tune to the skate lifestyle. Greg Lutzka said “It is hard to skate this early”. The only ones that did seem to be fazed by the early time were the Brazilians. Rodolfo Ramos and Rodil Jr. hit the practice session full speed ahead while Ryan and Lutzka kind of cruised around.
The Brazilians ability to skate early worked for them as they took 4 of the top 5 spots. Even though Ryan won, it came down to the last jam session for Ryan to wake up and take it from Rodolfo Ramos. Ryan busted out a 360 kickflip over the gap, kickflip to front board and other stunts to take it. The Ramos trick list included; switch front 180 board, backside over crooks, front 180 switch crooked grind and more kiddies.
When the dust cleared it looked like this:
1- Sheckler, Ryan 87.58 2- Ramos, Rodolfo 82.58 3- Araujo Jr., Rodil 82.08 4- de Oliviera, Tuilo 81.42 5- do Rosario, Danilo 79.5 6- Seaholm, Austen 76.33 7- Santos, Fabrizio 77.5 8- Fernandez, Chad 76.5 9- Lutzka, Greg 76 10- Therres, Mathieu 73.5 11- Eldridge, Pete 69.5 12- Cudlipp, Chris 68.5
Chad Fernandez melon’s over the hip
Ryan Sheckler – blunt
Greg Lutzka checks the slipperiness’ of the course while waking up
Saturday nights big winner Pete Eldridge
The course – could you rip it?
Drying off after the rain
Here is the line Saturday night, in the rain, after the event was over. These no doubt were Ryan Sheckler fans, no self respecting skater would wait through this, ha.
Danny De Rosario – front blunt
Austen Seaholm tip toes through a 270
Fabrizio Santos – front flip up the euro gap
Rodil Jr. heelflips over the big transfer into third place
Lutzka – half cab to front board
Chris Cudlipp skates a lot of tranny. So what is he doing in a street final? Tranny skaters stay on all their tricks which really counts in a street contest. No 69 tries for one 360 flip down Wallenburg in a contest – you gotta stick everything
Rodolfo Ramos – 5-0 up and out to second place
Ryan stokes out some fans
What does Debra here have to do with skateboarding? Nothing, but this was the scene in my Hotel Room on Sunday morning – no joke, so it is related to Salt Lake City
