Skate Contest

el · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1739 City: The Sea

Shameless self-promotion. I won the intermediate division at a local contest yesterday. Check it out. You might have to scroll down a little ways to see the news article. My friends Jesh and Stu did some sweet stuff too.

http://www.harvestboards.com/harvest.asp?newsid=67#news

stussy · Backside 180 Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 706

what was your lines? nice job

Fredrick_Eisenhauer · Posted: Oct 28, 2003 2:57 am Post subject:

Thats cool man. Good job

el · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1739 City: The Sea

One of the things that scores a lot of points is keeping a nice speedy carving line in between tricks. Highlights that I can remember are (in no particular order): tuck-knee indy (or del mar indy) over the tabletop, 5-0 to tail on the 6-foot quarter, an air and a board stall over the spine, some 50-50's in the bowl, a wall ride up the kinked vert wall, 50-50 over the rainbow rail, board slide up the slanted rail and a big grabbed backside air over the 90-degree hip. It was all a big improvised blur.

stussy · Backside 180 Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 706

sounds nice, i take it your not much of a street skater? I like that, street is so played out

el · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1739 City: The Sea

I am a big fan of the art of transition skating. Not trying to sound like a hippy, but I feel like there's so much more "soul" involved.

Fredrick_Eisenhauer · Posted: Oct 29, 2003 3:05 am Post subject:

Yeah transfers are pretty cool. Id love to be able to do them. You should come here where the best trick on vert would be a blunt to rock to fakie or maybe a disaster. I wish i had the courage to go im comps (not that there many here) but i cant do tricks in front of people coz i dont wanna go arse up sounds stupid but yeah.

stussy · Backside 180 Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 706

im not consistent enough, with living in canada, i have to relearn every trick in the spring