What do you get when you have 50 Park riders, slippery ramps and lots of sun? You get people slipping all over the place, riders colliding into each other and sunburn. But you also get one hell of a contest.
With 50 riders, I had to feel sorry for the judges. In the qualifying runs each of the competitors only got one 75-second run. In the finals it was the 25-minute jam format that everybody seems to love. There was so much awesome riding going on.
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| John Taylor |
Jon Taylor made the trek from England to make it into the finals where he did a handplant over the spine. Corey Martinez had some bike trouble but he still managed to pull off a rad line. He barspun to manual to sprocket grind a ledge on the deck and then hit a handrail that went behind the ramps. It was good to see Bruce Crisman at the contest going for huge transfers. The man who constantly has different hair styles, Mike Ardelean, was doing crooked grinds across the flat rail.
It seems like Dirt jumpers are getting more and more into the Park thing. The next two guys are known more for Dirt, but they proved they have more skills then just getting dirty. Ryan "Biz" Jordon tailwhipped a wedge hip and 180 barspun onto a box to 180 barspin out. Chris Doyle rode well in qualifying but thought he didn't make the cut so he was headed to the airport to go home. After some phone calls though he was back at the park where he ripped it up on Brian Foster's bike. He proceeded to do one of the craziest tricks of the contest. He 540 tailtapped the subbox on the eight-foot quarter pipe. Sweet. John Heaton showed that he has more than backflips to manuals, he was tailwhipping wedges and over channels. Chad Kagy had some rad lines going on, he would manual to barspin the huge quarterpipe and did a grind to barspin out on the subbox. Colin Winklemann started his year off well by flipping the street spine, footplanting the subbox then grinding to icepick down the rail.
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| Chad Kagy |
The king of this weekend though was Rob Darden. He tailwhiped to tailtap the eight foot quarter, did a sick tailwhip transfer and was all over the park like white on rice.
Man this was a good contest. The riders made due with the slippery ramps and I had a great time with my sunburn. That's it for Round One of the CFB. Two more to go and I can't wait. These contests are always a blast.
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