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Tony Trujillo
wins it. Check out
this video of one of his runs in the finals and you'll see why.
I don't think there were any obstacles he didn't hit, including the big rail, all while going 100
miles an hour and with the style that all skaters wish they had. I'm sure you're going to hear
about one other skater in the Contest that didn't agree, so I'll skip mentioning it here. Everyone does
dumb stuff every now and then when they're a kid and hopefully the reason for it was simply that.
Right after the results were read and most of the crowd cleared out of the park, I skated the bowl with
Paul Rodriguez and
Javier Sarmiento. They're both pretty decent tranny skaters. I saw Paul learn ice plants
to fakie during that session - not something you probably see very often.
At the Contest After-Party, things started to get a little rowdy as usual, but then the main instigator
was thrown out of the bar. They changed the music up from punk to reggae or something to calm everyone
down I think. A few of the good photos from the night are also below. I guess they're not too exciting
if you weren't there, so next year we'll see you here.
Rob
Photos And Video From The Contest After-Party
Tony Trujillo finds out that he's in first
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Zared Bassett - frontside crooks on the big rail
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Zared Bassett - nollie shiftie
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Zared Bassett - Smith on the big rail
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One of Tony Trujillo's runs in the finals (5MB MPG file)
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Tony Trujillo and his girl
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Tony Trujillo finds out that he's in first
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The crowd
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Ryan Sheckler - kickflip
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Rodil Jr - switch Smith on the big rail
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Ryan Sheckler - crooked grind to back lip
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One of Ryan Sheckler's runs in the finals (6MB MPG file)
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Rodil Jr - 360 flip
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Rodil Jr - 360 flip
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Rodil Jr - backside lipslide on the big rail
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Rodil Jr - frontside boardslide on the big rail
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Rodil Jr - switch lipslide on the big rail
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Ricardo Olivera Assis - backlip
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Ricardo Olivera Assis - frontside feeble
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Ricardo Olivera Assis - kickflip frontside board on the big rail
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Jeremy Wray - frontside 360
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Jeremy Wray - frontside flip
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Lance Mountain gets the Just For Showing Up Award
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Greg Lutzka - frontside flip over the flat bar
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Guilherme Zollin - kickflip
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Javier Sarmiento - switch 360 flip over the pyramid
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Evan Hernandez - kickflip
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Fabrizio Santos - 360 flip
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Fabrizio Santos - frontside crooks on the big rail
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Greg Lutzka - backlip on the big rail
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Carlos De Andrade - big nollie backside flip
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Carlos De Andrade - 360 flip
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Colt Cannon - big 'ol Cab over the hip
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Too many cooks in this kitchen
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Brian Schaefer and Tony Trujillo during the awards
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Caine Gayle - frontside boardslide
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Caine Gayle - kickflip
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Caine Gayle - crooked grind
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Austin Seaholm - he's about to spin 270 backside out of this noseslide
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Billy Rohan frontside flips the pyramid hip
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Anthony Carnie - how long has it been since you've seen a rocket air?
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Anthony Carnie - stale fish
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One of the judges, Allen Russell, takes and alcohol breathalizer test the mornin...
Anthony Carnie - finger flip lein to tail during the Shorty's Best Trick
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Anthony Carnie - kickflip
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SPoT Employee Afro Jim won the $500 betting pool on who would get first and seco...
Adam Alfaro - 360 ollie nosegrab over the pyramid
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The DVS Crew at Samurai Blue after the contest
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Fabrizio Santos, the es Team Manager, Paul Rodriguez and Javier Sarmiento at Sam...
Jake Brown got trashed - har har - me so funny
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Jeff Lenoce and Tony Trujillo
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LJ and Graham Bickerstaff with some chick that absolutely refused to show me her...
Malcom Watson with the Texas girls - Charla and Celina
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The Quiksilver crew at Samurai Blue after the contest
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Rob Hoovis (producer of the Tampa Am and Pro) and LJ
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Yo Rob Hoovis, only girls are supposed to do that
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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.
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