Check the Results Page for Colin Clark's footage of each run in the Finals.
Cristel is working the counter and letting the sauce flow this weekend. Does your local park have beer on tap?
Dylan Perry - smith transfer out
That's Douwe Macare on a frontside nosegrind, everyone's favorite new Euro of the weekend
Jordan Price just turned 15 today. Were you wandering the streets of Amsterdam on your 15th birthday? If I was, I think I'd probably be dead by 20. Jordan's a good kid and he will be just fine, though. Thanks for coming all the way from Florida for our skateboard shindig, Jordan
This sign was posted at the airport when we came in from Barcelona. Are they saying all luggage is lost?
We plugged the printer in and it looked like dry ice was underneath it. Totally fried like a stoner in an Amsterdam coffee shop
Double New Yorkin' it part one: Rachid Addou - nollie backside flip
Double New Yorkin' it part two: Who dat? 360 flip
Double New Yorkin' it part three: Wow, I guess the double roll up isn't so bad when your backside big spins look like that. That's Manuel de Jong
Beer after noon, coffee before noon, skateboarding all day
The Dutch version of the General Lee? Clem is bummed he missed it
Wow, I wonder what busted cut is hiding under that Euro cap. Looks like the old court jester Chad Fernandez-ish type hair. This was spotted in Wok to Walk, a place where we all had about 10 meals in a row. It was far from authentic local cuisine which means it's awesome
There are pole jams everywhere here. Dylan Perry scraped this one while I shot a horrible photo of it. We're currently lost being led by Schaefer on the way to the Bowl Jam
Tykes in full pads - check. 45 year old slashers - check. Beer - check. BBQ - check. Death metal in the speakers - check. Weed burning - check. Yep, it's a typical Bowl Jam. Check out that chill cam converted to film skate videos
That's Central Station that a million tourists a day go through
They like bikes, boats, and trains there. At any given time, you're in danger of getting hit by any one of them if you're not paying attention
If you're ever in a position where you're wondering why someone ended up in a certain place, ask yourself if you really watched the whole contest. The judges watch and document every single run in amazing detail to get their scores and overall evaluation. It's a tough job doing this for over 80 people in Qualifying
The Sexty Sexers on the Volcom Entertainment label put on a good show for us Saturday night. The pit was full of drunk dudes and girls wearing busted gear. What a fun night
Of course DJ Wade was front and center on the stage. When his zombie face tat comes out, I know things are getting loose
Colin Clark, thanks for providing all the skate footage all weekend. Right after this night of partying, I woke up to an email from Colin at 4am where he provided the edited footage for the day before. We need more hard working (and normal/non-tweaker/non-complainer/non-bitch) people like Colin in the sketchy skateboard industry
Vern Laird and DJ Wade have two different reviews of the Sexty Sexers show
Euro mullet and vampire teeth? Thanks for the entertainment
Things were getting loose in the pit. All I need is some more social lubricant (beer) and I'm ready to dive in
Lots of girls have style and dress pretty decent here, but I'm only showing you photos of the wack gear
Jebrane from Volcom, thanks for all the booze. I had to do a foot fetish with his rabbit ears
My man Manuel de Jong rolled his pants back down before coming out to the bar. He and Douwe Macare back there creeping in are two of my favorite new Euros I met over the weekend. Hope to see you guys in the States soon, even with your double New Yorkin' it deal
Those legging things are super popular all over Europe. They're like the double New Yorkin' it of women's wear over there. Looks like Vern's into it
Zumiez guy, due to alcohol, I forgot your name. Thanks for giving out the Destroyer Award at this event
Jan Hofer - bluntslide
Max Kruglov, I would like to visit your country - Russian 360 flip
Adrien Bulard only speeka Engrish when drunk at 2am - 360 flip to 2nd place in the Finals
Tim Zom - 5-0 on the bank/pipe. That thing kind of freaks me out. Too weird trying to skate that
Kevin Vu - feeble
Yet another double New Yorkin' it with the knicker style. That's Tommie Zanders on a feeble grind
Fredrik Naerland - ollie to fakie
Darius Krzyminski had to endure Vern on the mic calling him a Marine and asking him on if he was AWOL during his run
A smoking skate mom, literally and figuratively
I wonder who Kenny Hughes is laughing at while writing down scores. Thanks to Matthieu Tourneur, Jason Rothmeyer, and Kenny Hughes for the judging all weekend
Everyone was expecting Eniz to win it, but a few bails in the Finals kept him from the top spot. That's an alley oop backside ollie over the Alex gap which was later renamed to the Kenny Huges gap due to Kenny's complaints. We do what Kenny wants and everything stays on track
After seeing Spencer Lau's first run, I thought he might squeeze into the cut with tricks like this backside tailslide over the Kenny Hughes gap. He just missed it by a few places
Tom Harrison - 360 flip
Jordan Price - 360 flip. I wonder what new things in life he learned while spending his 15th birthday in Amsterdam this weekend
Leander Geelhoed - FSBS on the big rail
One of the only man-ams in the Contest, Chris Oliver - frontside feeble grind over the Kenny Hughes gap
Rachid Addou - nollie heel
Just a few hours prior to this switch backside 50-50 on the rainbow rail, Peter Molek was hammered at the bar
Dan Wileman, sorry it's not hot enough for this kit. At least Lutzka keeps his shirt on. Oh well, Dan was ripping all weekend. That's a crooked grind on the rainbow rail
Louie Lopez probably learned a lot of new things this weekend in Amsterdam, too. Not skateboard tricks, though. That's a frontside flip over the long pyramid
Thanks to the SPoTlight Productions staff for making this a great skateboard shindig
Ricardo Paterno - frontside feeble grind to 1st Place in the Finals
DJ Wade on the 1's and 2's, thanks for not sucking at music life
When Vern speaks his mind on the mic at the Contest, people get a good laugh about it. When I speak my mind on the internet, people get upset. What am I doing different?
During Best Trick, this girl was cruising around the course. I'm surprised Vern didn't stop the Contest and clear the course so we could get a 20 minute solo demo from her
Chima Ferguson won the Zumiez Destroyer Award for ripping the hardest all weekend. He was one of the first ones at the Contest each day like a little kid
Martin Pek won Best Trick with a fakie 5-0 fakie flip out on the concrete hubba
Before the weekend was over, my double New Yorkin' it Euro pals had me converted to the knickers
After the Contest was over on Sunday, we all went to The Minds, where we proceeded to become out of our minds. Kenny Hughes is already in there when we arrive sweating so bad you can stick Euros to his head. He's several shots deep and the night has just started. Think he's going to miss his 8am flight?
Wow, I thought only pro lesbian butch skater chicks wore the Beetlejuice socks. That's Schaefer in this foot fetish with a pair on and someone wearing a new Stefan colorway
Michael runs the Park and lets us take over during the weekend of AmsterDamn Am. Thanks!
Elske also runs the Amsterdam Park with Michael. Thank you for letting us throw this skateboard shindig there for the fourth year in a row. Kenny, try not to tackle the staff please
David Bow is repping Iceland with a tat of his homeland
They got a wacky bartender at The Minds
More tights on girls, this time with a matching weird ass sock? Thanks to everyone in Amsterdam for the hospitality and fun times. See you next year for the fifth. Bring some ice
Amsterdam Chill Cam Footage: DJ Wade Loves to Party
The Sexty Sexers on Volcom Entertainment played last night at the AmsterDamn Am party. Mixed drinks with no ice. Wow. No one here ever looked at the ground in winter and thought, "You know, we should put some of this ice in our drinks?"
Dylan Perry at AmsterDamn Am
Dylan Perry has some some lines in the park filmed by Colin Clark...see you here.
Douwe Macare at AmsterDamn Am
Colin Clark has more footage of Douwe Macare during Friday's practice. Here's a few clips ending in kickflip frontside boardslide shuv it out on the rail. Damn, Douwe!
The 2nd Annual Damn Am Canada went off in beautiful weather and pretty much no hassle with us getting into the territory occupied by our friends in the great white north...
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.
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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.
