Due to rain, the Vert comp had to be postponed for a day. Once it got underway, the weather was clear and hot and the Vert riding was awesome. There were 18 guys in the class, which was cut down to 10 for the finals. For the finals, they had a 20-minute jam format, which the riders liked.
There were some new faces in the finals, like Mike Mancuso. He was going high and busted a big 540. Joe Tecca had a lot of variations and good lip tricks. John Bristol rode the ramp like it was trails. He did some cool berm slide airs and had good style. The youngest Vert competitor, Josh Harrington, showed he has a big bag of tricks when he pulled out double barspins, peg grind to barspin out and one-handed stovepipes. That kid is good.
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| No Hander by Dave Mirra. |
Lip Lord Jay Eggleson has been making the finals for a while. He was doing high airs, 540's and no-handed fakies. Injuries stop some people but Koji Kraft would fall, get hurt and be back a few minutes later. He had some crazy variations like x-up rocker airs to no-footed can-cans, lookbacks to switch-handers and opposite 540's.
All the way from Germany was Stefan Geisler otherwise known as O.B.G. (one big German). He does some stretched topside no-footed can-cans, no-handers and 540's, landing so hard one time that he popped both his tires.
All-American Kevin Robinson flaired, switch-handed and no-handed 540'ed his way to 3rd. Jamie Bestwick rides the ramp like you carve a Thanksgiving turkey, nice and juicy. Flairs, downside tailwhips, lots of variations and going both ways for 2nd place finish.
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| Koji Kraft |
Every time I watch Dave Mirra ride he always has new stuff that blows me away. This time he did a flair about seven feet out and carved a great deal of the ramp. But that's not all, he also had a no-handed 540, keeping his hands off most of the rotations. But wait there's more. Tailwhip to x-ups and a super smooth double tailwhip about which he said, "I'm the happiest person on this ramp right now." Dave didn't care whether or not he won, he was just stoked to do stuff like the double tailwhip. But he did win.
This was the first Vert comp of the year and if it's any indication for the rest of the year then anyone with a heart condition might want to stay at home.
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