AmsterDamn Am 2008: Sunday Finals, Monday Recovery
Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Photos by Rob and Jake the ATM with the BTM
Captions by Rob Meronek
Rob Maatman finished up his amazing run with this giant, slow motion frontside big spin over the slant eye gap
Louie Lopez was looking like he could win it this weekend, but fell off on both of his Semi-Finals runs. He definitely won practice with stuff like this giant frontside big spin, though
Kris Vile is one of the many kids that checked in for the Contest with a beer in hand. This is a frontside bluntslide fakie on the handrial
Wow, Woody got super good from last year. 360 flip over the rice gap
Nelson Mosikili has skated AmsterDamn Am all three years. This year he made the cut to the Semi-Finals. That's a big backside flip over the chopsticks gap
Collin Provost got 12th in the Finals because he didn't skate due to a folded ankle during practice right after this frontside feeble front 180 out
Collin Provost - smith grind frontside 180 out
Madars Apse had a good chance of winning it also. He made this smith grind kickflip out on the rainbow ledge during Best Trick
Collin Provost pulls these lein noseblunts in even when he lands a little crooked. Scary trick
Chris Gregson - frontside flip noseblunt
Kris Vile - feeble gring back tail on the bank to bar with some one foot flair thrown in
Mario Matabele is now with the Creation/Satori family. He is skating super good these days. That's a 360 flip over the bank to bank
People were comparing Eniz Fazliov's style to Appleyard all weekend. That's a frontside noseblunt slide for the crowd
David Loy - airwalk over the Hello Kitty gap. I spy Tony Trujillo
If you were in this crowd, thanks for coming to our skateboard shindig
I can't remember this kid's name, but Vern on the mic kept saying he was going to steal him for Listen. That's a 360 flip over the bank to bank
Dylan was about to shut down Best Trick with a giant backside 180 nosegrind over the 12 foot deck to hubba but then nearly sliced his finger off and had to sit out
Volcom hooked up some bikes for first through third place
Thanks to all the companies that sent stuff for the product toss. I spy a very unmacho baby Euro string strap backpack
I don't know how DJ Wade gets around with all his records on that bike. We're on the ferry back now. See you next year, Skatepark Amsterdam
Freddy Tan! Straight out of Orlando to the sketchy streets of Amsterdam. He got hurt and couldn't skate this weekend
Brothers from different mothers, Euro Manson and DJ Wade. Euro Manson is the first person I've met that has topped DJ Wade with tales of extra weird adventures he's been in
Daryl Angel requested this photo on his skater profile on the site
David Clark and Justin Brock are sharing gloves. It's freezing out here in Amsterdam and I haven't had a jacket for five days
Monday after the Contest was a full work day for most of us and a mellow night of recovery at our hotel. Right now we're taking a break for some Euro mexican food - Brian Schaefer, Roberto Aleman, DMPF and his new lady friend, Clint Peterson, and P-Stone. What a tight crew to be globetrotting with
I guess that awards shows can be greeted with different emotions. Some think they’re cool; others think they’re lame. But we just wanted to have a good time...
After AmsterDamn Am, Jenna and I stayed to be tourists for a few more days. Here are some pics that she shot throughout the weekend and a few words from me explaining each one.
Looks like the Kiddie Course isn't going to be done until tomorrow. Here's some photos from our first session on the main course and some random bar antics at Skateboard Industry Night in St. Pete: A New Course and a New Bar Scene.
You can get a fisheye's view of the completed street course on the SPoT Facebook Page. If you're a fan of SPoT on Facebook, you already know that we sometimes do special sales and give out coupon codes there. Maybe there might be a special just for Facebook fans next week? Who knows? Maybe. The kiddie course isn't done yet. Photos from that coming up in a bit.
On the Win an All Expense Paid Trip to Tampa survey thing, I should have added, "Stay away from the Skatpeark of Tampa Party Team" as one of the options to prevent your skateboard career from derailing. When you come to Tampa, it's easy to get spinning in the party tornado, especially when 200 of your homies are all in the Ybor hotels or the Ho Jo. If the sauce is not your scene or you're trying not to make it your scene, a nice hotel for a decent price just a few minutes up the highway from SPoT is Days Inn. If you're just looking for a lower price room, a cab ride from there to the tornado in Ybor is probably about $15 or so. There's also another Days Inn on Dale Mabry that's across the street from Mons Venus. They don't serve booze there, just boobies. Boobies never hurt anyone's career. Anyway, you have some time left to enter the Tampa trip giveaway which comes with a hotel room and $500 spending cash, among other things. Since you're not skating, we will see you at all the parties that you get passes to.
I went out to shoot photos of the Kiddie Course construction and spotted Kris Markovich hanging out. Here's what things look like as of now. Gotta go, I have a conference call with 25 people from Fuel TV. 25 people??? Yep, mindblowing. It's about the live HD webcast for Tampa Am. They should put this phone conference on live webcast.
If your company has products on our site, you're welcome to a free ad in our banner pool. On your company's product page, only the ad from your company will show up. On all other pages like articles, photos, and skater profiles, your ad will display randomly from the pool of ads. The size is 970x100 and no animation is allowed. You can update it as often as you want. Email them to me at rob@skateparkoftampa.com. Below are some samples from a few companies that have sent some in already.
The main street course is done and skateable today. The kiddie course should be done late tomorrow or Saturday. Check out some construction progress: Street Course Construction and Completion 2009.
If you're in St. Pete tomorrow night, join us at Durty Nelly's for an event that The Finest Skate Shop is putting on called Skateboard Industry Night, appropriately abbreviated as SIN.
The winners for the Globe Cruiser completes have been picked. I know at least one of them is a local - Yonis came out on top. See you on the Booze Cruise this Friday. The first $600 worth of sauce is all on me. The trucks on these boards are called "Slant" as in my eyes. Sick.
What song is this in this Tampa Am promo video? That one dude, you know, the guy who will be at Tampa Am 2009 on December 3 at SPoT then
on Friday, December 4, doing a show in Ybor for our 17-Year Anniversary Party at Czar. Yeah, him. Oh, and there could be a little bit of ripping skating going on.
Today the staff at SPoT got started on putting together all the skateboard parts collected in the Shop all year long. Through your discarded skate stuff and contributions from your favorite skate companies, we build as many completes as we can and give them away to as many kids as we can find in the underprivileged neighborhoods in our area. We call this charity Boards for Bros. Check out a few photos from what we did today: Boards for Bros November 2009 Assembly.
If you haven't entered the Globe Cruiser Board giveaway yet, you have one more day for that. Tomorrow, all the emails go into a spreadsheet and get sorted random. The top two get a Globe Cruiser complete. On Friday night for the Booze Cruise, the first $600 of sauce is paid for by eBay shoe nerds who bought some of my old Dunks.
One commenter suggested we change the website every year like we do the street course. As soon as we get one of me for every construction dude out there, we can make that happen. Check out some street course construction that just started. In case you don't know, we have completely changed the street course every single year since 1993 when this place was born. This is the first year we've had a slab of granite, however.
Stalker Steve took some nice chill shots at the Harvest Jam this weekend. The skate ones are sort of like the bennihanna of photography, not that mine were any good either. I know we both can do better than that. Check them out: Stalker Steve at the Harvest Jam 2009.
A known hater on the Skatepark of Tampa Facebook page also has photos from the Harvest Jam. Thanks Kirk Hallinan. I'm putting you on the next cover of Frontside Grind Magazine.
