Impromptu Best Trick Contest in Salt Lake Dew Tour - Skateboarding is about adapting. The Cops kick you out from one spot – go find another, skaters have been adapting since the existence of the sport. It should come as no surprise then that when the
Impromptu Best Trick Contest in Salt Lake Dew Tour
Skateboarding is about adapting. The Cops kick you out from one spot – go find another, skaters have been adapting since the existence of the sport. It should come as no surprise then that when the skatepark finals were delayed on Saturday night due to a Salt Lake City rainstorm that a bunch of the skaters just went inside, commandeered, the BMX park course and an un-scheduled best trick jam ensued on a BMX step up or massive Euro gap from hell!
This contest was not on the schedule but when Dave Duncan saw the skaters throwing hammers on the gap he was like fuck the rain, let’s throw a contest right here, right now. Total spontaneity, like skateboarding itself. From the getty Austen Seaholm, Chris Cudlipp, Chad Fernandez, Pete Eldridge and Ryan Sheckler were looking very strong. Sheckler did a kickflip indy 180 up the gap. About halfway into the jam Greg Lutzka showed up and slammed down a frontside kickflip 3 to handle 3rd place. Sheckler followed with a massive gap kickflip off a twelve foot high platform. Some website say it 17 feet high, I would say twelve but fuck it, it was huge. Sheckler actually did it before the “contest” started, just for fun. The gap was so big that every time he bailed people wondered how he got back up. All that, and Ryan got 2nd place. Pete Eldridge locked down first with a nollie 360 up the gap. A little controversy followed; many thought Ryan should have won. Either way is fun, you decide the winner; a huge kickflip or a nollie three, brawn or grace?
Every cloud has a silver lining. The rain that shut down the street finals led to the best trick jam
Greg Lutzka – Front kickflip 360 with mad freakin style
Here is Shecklers massive kickflip in the finals
Here is Shecklers massive fickflip in practice, yea you get to see it twice
Pete Eldridge warms up for his wining trick with this front 3
Chris Cudlipp – big spin lien grab, I believe
Austen Seaholm – varial tailgrab, by the looks of the monster gap, just getting up it took massive
cajones
Warm up with a kick flip 180 indy grab
Lutzka, Sheckler and Duncan
Shane – collecting his loot for a dare to streak (in his underwear, ho hum) around the arena
Like the Beatles were there – Shecklers insane fans
Event winner Pete Eldridge
Results:
1- Pete Eldridge – nollie 360 up 2- Ryan Sheckler – gap kickflip down 3- Greg Lutzka – front kickflip 3
Podium, l-r, Austen Seaholm (4th), Ryan Sheckler (2nd), and Greg Lutzka (3rd)
