Monday, October 14

Triple Crown Finals - Skateboarding

By George Crosland
EXPN.com

Thugs, strippers and Marines are the primary inhabitants of downtown Oceanside. Well that's not entirely true, but O-side is one of the rougher towns in San Diego's North County. This very same event site was also host to skateboard contests in the 70's and 80's till a riot pretty much ended all the fun. But maybe it's the water because now people are mellower and the good times are back in town and once again Oceanside is a great place for a contest, really. The entire area is made up of laid back surf towns and is also home to skateboarding's most influential people - Hawk, Burnquist, and other legends live in the area. Not to mention Transworld, DC Shoes, Nixon, and Spy are a few of the local companies that help shape skateboarding daily. So it's no surprise that the world's best street rippers and vert jocks showed up to compete for top honors in the final round of the Vans Triple Crown. This event is about as big as the X Games with a huge vert ramp, a vert bowl, dirt jumps and a street course for bikes and skate were all set up within view of the pounding surf. There was some hot skate action going down and the crowd was feeling the action, so it's good times folks. Here are some highlights.

You may think, big deal it's a backside air by Bob Burnquist, but no way it's switch buddy.

Chris Senn won the street comp big time. He used the whole damn course, did not fall and pulled mega tricks. He got a well deserved first place. He said the street course was "good, it's fun."

1 out of 3 of the street finalists came from Brazil. What's in the water down there?

The vert guys seemed to like the ramp. In the middle was a giant channel with an extension/bridge over it with pool coping. It was a must make situation, if someone missed it, it was a 14ft drop.

Bob's fist two runs were full of bails but his third run was insane. He did most of it switch. Andy was very strong, but hey, Bob's run was switch.

Anthony Furlong was the overall vert champ for the three rounds. Austin Seaholm was the overall Triple Crown winner and got a truck.

The Street Best Trick contest was split into three parts. The riders were given 10 minutes to session a specific part of the course. Then they moved on to another section for 10 minutes, three sections total. Awards were placed for each section. The session was pretty much 15 bails and one make for each trick. It was pretty hectic and cool and Rodolfo was the most consistent.

The Soul Bowl was there. Three competitions took place on it: Women's Bowl, Young Guns Bowl and Masters Bowl. The crowd seemed to enjoy it.

Chris Senn - 540 slide. At this point he had his prelim run wrapped up so he took an 80's run - boneless ones, foot plants, inverts and slides... yeehaw.

Ladies Bowl Jam Results:
1.) Cara-Beth Burnside $1,000
2.) Jen O'Brien $600
3.) Jessica Starkweather $200
4.) Mimi Knoop $200
5.) Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins
6.) Holly Lyons

Ladies Street Results:
1.) Amy Caron $2,000
2.) Jaime Reyes $1,000
3.) Lauren Perkins $600
4.) Alexandra White $500
5.) Vanessa Torres $400
6.) Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins

Young Guns Bowl Results:
1.) Omar Hassan $3,500
2.) Chris Gentry $2,000
3.) Brian Patch $1,500
4.) Jake Brown $900
5.) Bruno Passos $700
6.) Matt Moffett $500
7.) Chad Vogt $300
8.) Renton Millar $100
9.) Brian Howard

Masters Bowl Results:
1.) Mike McGill $2,000
2.) Tony Magnusson $1,000
3.) Eddie Elguera $600
4.) Kevin Staab $500
5.) Nicky Guerrero $400
6.) Jake Piasecci $250
7.) Dave Reul $150
8.) Mark Partain $100

Street Results:
1.) Chris Senn $18,000
2.) Rodil de Araujo Jr $10,000
3.) Austin Seaholm $7,000
4.) Daniel Viera Guest, no $
5.) Dayne Brummet $4,000
6.) Tony Trjillo $2,500
7.) Micael Simoetto Guest, no $
8.) Rodolfo Rumof $1,700
9.) Mike Santarossa $1,500
10.) Ryan Johnson $1,300
11.) Wolnei dos Santos $1,200
12.) Omar Hassan $1,000
13.) Fabio Siemen Guest, no $
14.) Caine Gayle $900
15.) Colt Cannon $800
16.) Tyrone Olson $300
17.) Eric Koston $300
18.) Pat Channita $200
19.) Andy Macdonald $200
20.) Wagner Ramos $200
21.) Dave Duren $200
22.) Dan McFarlane $100
23.) Fred Kaehler $100
24.) Carlos de Andrade
25.) Adam McNatt
26.) Malcolm Watson
27.) Greg Lutzka
28.) Josh Evin
29.) Patrick Melcher
30.) Fabrizio Santos

Street Best Trick:
Zone 1:
1.) Austin Seaholm - Frontside flip to late 180 $500
2.) Wagner Ramos - Nollie flip into bank $300
3.) Daniel Viera - Switch 360 flip up the step up $200

Zone 2
1.) Wagner Ramos - Switch 360 flip up the step up $500
2.) Rodolfo Ramos - 180 to switch krooks "flat bar" $300
3.) Daniel Viera - Kickflip boardslide "flat bar" $200

Zone 3
1.) Malcolm Watson - kickflip frontside noseslide down the hubba ledge $500
2.) Daniel Viera - "perfect" 360 flip $300
3.) Wagner Ramos - Switch heelflip down the double set $200

Vert Results:
1.) Bob Burnquist $18,000
2.) Andy Macdonald $ 10,000
3.) Bucky Lasek $7,000
4.) Rune Glifberg $4,000
5.) Anthony Furlong $2,500
6.) Pierre-Luc Gagnon $1,700
7.) Jesse Fritch $1,500
8.) Max Dufour $1,300
9.) Chris Gentry $1,200
10.) Jake Brown $1,000
11.) Mike Frazier $900
12.) Lincoln Ueda $800
13.) Tas Pappas $300
14.) Omar Hassan $300
15.) Darren Navarette $200
16.) Neal Hendrix $200
17.) Renton Millar $200
18.) Phil Hajal $200
19.) Buster Halterman $100
20.) Matt Dove $100

Vert Best Trick:
1.) Rune Glifberg Backside Kickflip Crooks over the Channel
2.) Bucky Lasek Backside 540 rodeo
3.) Renton Millar - Kickflip to late shove it over channel

XBOX combo winner:
Bucky Lasek - Nollie heelflip revert to heelflip frontside gay twist

Vert Overall Champ:
Anthony Furlong

Triple Crown Champ:
Austin Seaholm

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