Morning Woodward
Catalyst team kid Dave Kahn scrounged up enough for a plane ticket to Woodward and worked/ skated for a month… Thankfully he put this together as a montage of that trip:
OSP with Poptart
Headed out to OSP with Poptart and crew for the day a couple weeks ago working on the upcoming team page. The heat index was around 100 degrees, but we still managed to get a super good session and have a good time. Since I have met Poptart his skating has grown a lot. He is still a little guy, but his tricks have matured. Check out a hard days work from Jake, and look for this ripping video along with photos and an interview from him later this month.
BERT WINS MANNY MANIA
Go here to see the story. Congrats to Bert! He is seriously killing it! We couldn’t be more hyped to have him as part of our team.
Jacksonville Thumbs Up
This past weekend, shop riders Jonny,Kenan, and I braved the 100 degree weather and drove out to Jacksonville to try and get some content for the team page we’re in the process of building. We left in the morning to try and beat the rain, and made it there with plenty of time to skate.
As all Floridians know, you have to drive North to get to the South making Jacksonville a pretty Southern city compared to Orlando. Seeing that it was a Sunday that we visited Jax, everything in the city closes around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. If you ever are looking for a time to skate Jacksonville, try Sunday evening. The whole city is pretty much free game.
KR3W School’s Out Jam @ SPoT
Congrats to Jonny for waking up at the butt-crack of dawn and driving out to SPoT for the KR3W School’s Out Jam. Jonny skated with some of FL’s best in the contest including Yonnie Cruz, Jeremy Knibbs, Robbie Kirkland and others. Surprisingly an Orlando local came out on top at a Tampa contest. For those of you who have been to an all ages contest at SPoT, it is pretty tough to place better than someone at their home park with judges that don’t know you. So congrats to Jonny for getting 1st place and winning a fresh new iPod. Look out for photos and video later this week.
Big thanks to the judges Porpe Angel, Justin Ryan, and Pat Stiener. Not an easy set of judges to please.
Congrats to the top 3. Yonnie Cruz and Jeremy Knibbs are unbelievable skateboarders. I still am in disbelief that Jonny came out on top. Thanks for everything SPoT!
Oviedo Riverside Skate Day
Place- Rippin Riverside
When- June 21st/ Monday
Time- 4-10pm
Food FREE hot dogs and Gatorade!
Best Trick on 2 obstacles!!
w/ real prizes…
FREE entry!!!
Real Skate Music…
RED BULL Manny Mania Orlando
As you all have heard, this past weekend was Red Bull Manny Mania. This event has been going on in FL for the past few years, and this year we were fortunate enough to have the event take place in Orlando. It all went down at Universal’s City Walk unfortunately though, where beers are $10, parking is $15, and the ground is made of rough cement laced with holes. Despite the triple digit heat, the shoddy ground, and slew of tourists, our boys came up big time in the contest!
Bert had placed second last year in Miami’s Many Mania, and came through this year. He easily had the most tricks landed out of the whole day. Here is a gap to 180 switch manny on the lilly pads. These things destroyed people all day. They are way harder to skate than they look.
The crowd got to look on from some nice bleachers, while the rest of us got to chill under the shade in the VIP with free Moes catering. We all got to watch everyone from the state of Florida rip, and try and go for a chance to win a trip out to the finals in NYC. Shop rider Jonny Scianneaux came through with a 1st place qualification getting him into the finals. Out of the 40+ entrants, our shop was the only one to have all three of our riders entered make it to the finals. So congrats to Jack, Bert, and Jonny.
As usual RIPNDIP was there to hook the crowd up. For the first time ever RND got some recognition on the mic from the SPoT dudes. It’s hard to get the SPoT crew to notice you let alone be hyped on you, so getting some support from some of the industry’s biggest haters was pretty sick. Congrats to O’Con.
Bert had all sorts of manny variations throughout the day and used the whole course as a playground. Here is a lipslide 270 to manny down the cheese wedge. It hurts my head trying to think about turning like that while sitting on a curved circle rail.
One of the biggest surprises of the day was by far Jack Moran. He came through big time and had one of the sickest tricks of the day by far. Here is a nollie halfcab fakie manny bigspin out. Jack also came through with a ton of other manny tricks earning him 6th place. Jack easily got the most shout outs on the mic the whole day. We are psyched to have him on the team.
After the finals Jonny almost had a heat stroke and couldn’t breathe. Luckily the Red Bull girls were there to give him some much needed TLC. Hah. We need to get this kid an inhaler or something. In the end, Bert got 1st, Jonny got 3rd, and we all spent some time relaxing at the DoubleTree hotel with some much needed cold ones.
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