Ready for action. Photo Jared Souney
It is hard being so awesome at skateboarding. Every time I leave the house I am swarmed by fans, asking for autographs and trying to touch me. I can’t set foot at a skatepark without companies forcing me to take money and product. And don’t even get me started on the annoying bloggers trying to follow me around with their cameras! For this reason, I’ve never done a skate competition before. I mean, if this is my daily existence, putting myself in a place where I was TRYING to show off just didn’t seem worth it.
But since there were two major events this weekend, and I’ve been trying to do new things, I figured I’d give it a shot. Now my decision was to fly to So Cal for the Maloof Money Cup, or to stay closer to home for the Bonfire Pipe to Pipe skate event at Windells Snowboard Camp. I thought long and hard: the chance at 100g’s, or some snazzy new Bonfire outerwear. Actually, I didn’t think that hard, my choice was clear and I headed to Windells.
Sweet talking the judges. photo Jared Souney
Inside BOB, skaters were warming up. I prefer to not warm up, as it will 1) give people ideas for tricks they’ve never even thought of and 2) potentially scare off the competition so the contest then gets canceled. When they finally announced the amateur division was starting, I took my place atop the quaterpipe. I was feeling good, after all, I was the only girl skating it seemed. I was pretty much a shoo in for the best goodie bag. But I wasn’t just about to sit back and collect my winnings for nothing. I did a few ollies. Some very slow, very halfassed frontside boardslide attemps, and I was confident I had this one in the bag.
Totally not a a make. Photo Jared Souney
But then, out of nowhere, another girl showed up. And what was this? She was actually trying. Pushing to get more speed and using the whole skatepark for her maneuvers. By this time, I was already tired from dodging the 25 dudes who were also trying to get rad. When one more girl showed up, I knew I’d still stand on the podium in top three glory even if I didn’t skate anymore. I did a few victory laps around the park and then sat back to watch the pros.
Not James McCoy. Oudalay Philavahauh. Photo Jared Souney
And enough about me, the Pipe to Pipe pro skate competition is actually like a real contest. Two heats of sweet dudes were whittled down to one eight-man final. The skaters included Steve Reeves, Jed Anderson, some twins from Tualatin, a kid who looked like a punk Andy MacDonald, a kid who looked like a confused Gypsy, a kid named Ryan who was trying McTwists, and another person who must not have done anything cool because I don’t remember him.
I don’t think anyone told Steve Reeves that he actually wasn’t at the Maloof Money Cup. That, or he is just that good. He literally did a trick on every surface of the BOB’s varied street course, though from my angle I mostly noticed his floaty 360 over the door in the quarterpipe I nearly fell dropping into because it was so steep. For his efforts he took home a cool $500 all in one dollar bills so it really looked like a lot of money.
As for the others, there were hardflips on to ledges, blunt kickflips, front noseblunts, and many other high tech and death defying maneuvers. The kid who got third, James McCoy, fell so hard at one point it looked like his shoulder popped out of joint, and it very well may have, but he was soon up and back at it. There was no holding back to be had.
Steve Reeves is stoked. Photo Jared Souney
When all was said and done, I’d taken second at my first skate event ever, and the best part, it wasn’t even last place! Now you’ll have to excuse me, after hearing about my performance, the Maloof’s sent their private jet and it’s outside waiting to take me down to skate in today’s Money Cup finals. I go right before P-rod. Check me out on the live webcast!
The glory! Photo Jared Souney.
Now read all about the snow portion of the event.
Final Results
PRO
1. Steven Reeves
2. Oudalay Philavahauh
3. James McCoy
Best Trick
Oudalay Philavahauh “Bigger flip over the hip” and/or “big flip disaster on big bank”
AMS
1. Chris Anderson
2. Austin Visinter
3. Alex York
4. Brody Petulla
5. Ted Shine
Ladies
1. Laura Rogoski
2. Brooke Geery
3. Jessica Avery
wait you didn’t get first place?!
must have been rigged.
blake geis wore that same helmet at the snow comp. Yobeat pride, roll with us or get rolled by us.
they aren’t the same helmet, hers is a rip off of mine. nice try brooke, but i caught ya
Congrats Brooke!
that’s not james mccoy, that’s oudalay doing a nollie flip back tail. james mccoy is a fuckin claimer douchebag and loves to skate with his shirt off so he can impress 12 year old windell’s campers. at the first pipe 2 pipe he would constantly stop by the judges/announcers so he could claim his tricks. this is a verbatim conversation;
james mccoy: WOAH DID YOU GUYS JUST SEE THAT??
some dude: see what?
james mccoy: HARDFLIP 50 DOWN THE HUBBA BRAH
some dude: oh that’s cool, who did it?
james mccoy: I DID. FIRST TRY. **stares longly at some dude desperate for acknowledgement**
oh and p.s. he does nose manny tail grabs. YR CUT, JAMES!
fixed.
nose manny tail grabs? that’s fucking awesomeeeeee
yea laura 802 4 eva…
video?
Dude, you were supposed to call me, I was going to come with, remember? Well, I guess it wouldn’t have been as good if you got 3rd instead of second………….
i told you i didn’t want you to come because you’d beat me. duh
haha AWESOME read..
Brooke, I totally approached you for an autograph and you snubbed me? Thanks a lot. Why don’t you just kick me in the nuts next time?
my bad. i am a total bitch. and really famous.
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