Clash @ Clairemont 7
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VANS PROTEC POOL PARTY 2007
Top 10 finishers:
Pro Division:
1. Rune Glifberg
2. Bucky Lasek
3. Omar Hassan
4. Bob Burnquist
5. Benji Galloway
6. Andy Macdonald
7. Bruno Passos
8. Joshua Borden
9. Lincoln Ueda
10. Sergie Ventura
Masters’ Division:
1.Chris Miller
2. Lance Mountain
3. Steve Caballero
4. Duane Peters
5. Steve Alba
6. Lester Kasai
7. Ben Schroeder
8. Buck Smith
9. Micke Alba
10. Glen Charnoski
Womens’ division:
1.Carabeth Burnside
2. Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins
3. Mimi Knoop
4. Julie Kindstrand
5. Jodi McDonald
6. Apryl Woodcock
7. Nicole Zuck
8. Holly Lyons
9. Mandy Esch
10. Cressey Rice
Media division:
1: Garret Shigenaka-SK8Session.com
2: Brian Fick-Every magazine under the sun?
3 Scott Taylor-Skateboarder Magazine
4 Jim Murphy-Juice Magazine
5 Buddy Carr-ConcreteWave
6 Dave Swift-TheSkateboardMag
7 Mike Cottrell-SoCalSkateparks.com
8 John Fudala-Fork Burns
SLAM CITY JAM 2003 RESULTS/PICS
George Crosland threw in a couple pics to go along with the results for Slam City.
Bucky Lasek Spotlight
Vans continues to take a deeper look into its team riders and music/artist collaborations through their ‘Spotlight’ series. Discover the life of Bucky Lasek through pictures, video and the story of a skateboarder who says he’s "a little bit of old school and a little bit of new school."
PROTEC PARTY 2009 FINAL RESULTS
“It’s about f’in time! I have to give it up to Pro-Tec and Vans and all of you lively people out there. Let’s go get drunk,” – Bucky Lasek
PRO
1) Bucky Lasek
2) Omar Hassan
3) Rune Glifberg
4) Pedro Barros
5) Bob Burnquist
6) Sergie Ventura
7) Josh Borden
8) Josh Rodriguez
9) Michael Brookman
10) Nolan Monroe
(oops, sorry, I posted Evandro Menezes (16th) in 10th place originally, it has been corrected)
MASTERS
1) Chris Miller
2) Christian Hosoi
3) Nicky Guerrero
4) Steve Caballero
5) Steve Alba
6) Tony Mag
7) Pat Ngoho
8) Eric Nash
9) Lester Kasai
10) Josh Nelson
WOMENS
1) Julie Kindstrand
2) Lyn-z Adams Hawkins
3) Megan Brown
4) Prescilla Lee
5) Allysha Bergado
6) Alex Harper
7) Elise Dabby
8) Lea Taylor
9) Elizabeth Amanto
10) Erin Wolfkei
11) Jennifer Stranko
Block$ for Ca$h:
Slide n’roll – Steve Caballero
Anaheim B3 – Greener Pastures
Now that I have been to a few of these ESPN events over the last few years I can say I know what to expect. It’s there formula to bring you skateboarding on television by the best pros out there. They do this (competition format) and it works out well for them to give what the general public wants to get interested in the sports involved. Show some footage of the best (Usually only the top 3 finishers) and get all excited about them for the on-air broadcast.
But what I’m seeing and the fans in attendance are seeing is so much more than what you get to see on the tube that it comes down to 2 different versions of what’s going on: The Real Version and the T.V. version. Here are a couple examples,
In the Real Version (being there) you get to see a pretty chaotic snake session in progress. You may have Chris Senn wanting to hit the same ledge Pat Channita does. Both skate at different speeds and are coming at the ledge from 2 different angles. Sometimes both will pull away if they see each other resulting in no attempts at dialing their tricks. Sometimes maybe Chris Senn will be moving mach 10 and only to see Channita double heel flipping to 5-0 on the ledge. He can pull out in time again losing a shot at the ledge. Maybe Channita will see Senn barreling down on him and decide to pull back and make room for Chris to fly by. Only when he pulls out Chet Thomas is in mid flight and going to land right where Channita suddenly changed direction to. Slam! (This didn’t really happen but it’s a similar version to reality each event). On T.V. you don’t get to see what happens in between runs. You’ll see Chris Senn (who got 1st place) ripping unobstructed throughout the course like it was easily orchestrated to be able to practice his lines.
In the Real Version you might see some new guy bust out a 900 on the vert ramp and it’ll blow you and everyone there away.
On T.V. you’ll never even see the 900 because he placed 25th and the cameras weren’t rolling on the practice session.
Because of this we seldom bring you the ESPN version of the events and bring you the down home version. In the photo gallery and video clip we’ve got scenes from the practice sessions and some from the finals. We weren’t there to bring you up to the minute play by play. We went to watch the top skateboarders perform and bring back some photos and video of guys you may or may not get to see much of. ENJOY!
Andy Macdonald – Indy Air
Bucky Lasek – Frontside Invert
jesse fritch -kickflip indy
Christiano Matteus
Neal hendrix
Tony Hawk – Tuck Knee Invert
VANS VERT CAMP W/ BUCKY LASEK & FRIENDS
The Vans Skatepark in Orlando will again be hosting the Bucky Lasek/Vans Vert Camp with the multiple X Games and Dew Tour gold medalist. The camp will last two days, Thursday, May 31 and Friday, June ,1 from 8am – 12pm and is geared to intermediate/advanced vert skaters looking to fine tune their skills. Beginner skaters are not recommended for this camp. Cost is $150 for members and $175 for non-members. Sign up today because last year’s camp sold out fast with only 30 spots available. Vans Skate Park Orlando 407.351.388
The LG Skateboarding Championships
Hey vert jocks! You are getting paid to skate. If you don’t want to get $30,000 to skate, go home.