Tampa Pro 2007.NIKE SPONSORED this year's Tampa Pro, and the purse came in caliente with 100 grand. MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. crews followed Dyrdek and Big Black around, Fuel TV's crew was there, free Pabst Blue Ribbon blue ribbon denotes highest honor. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 127] See : Prize flowed all weekend, catered food tent, chiropractors and massage therapists on hand, roller skate chicks in fish nets, and even a porn star lurking around--shit--the X-Gaymes got nothing on this contest! And the skaters don't even have to wear helmets. For more in depth coverage, go to Skateparkoftampa.com [1] ERIC KOSTON Eric Koston (born April 29, 1975 in Bangkok, Thailand) is an American professional skateboarder. His family moved from Bangkok to California when he was 8 months old and he settled in San Bernardino when his parents divorced. skated like he was dorking around--but killed the contest. Looks like he has fun the entire time he skates. Eric went straight to the finals for winning a previous Tampa contest. 360 flip noseslides on the bank to ledge, frontside flip fakie Fakie is, in skateboarding, a synonym for riding backwards on a skateboard. When used in conjunction with a trick name, like "fakie ollie", it means that the trick was performed while with your normal back foot as the front foot on the nose of the board, rather than the back of the nose manual up the step-up box, nollie crooks on the bank to ledge, back Smith and back lips on the big rail, switch heel on the double set, and even an invert in·vert v. 1. To turn inside out or upside down. 2. To reverse the position, order, or condition of. 3. To subject to inversion. n. Something inverted. and a judo judo (j  `dō), sport of Japanese origin that makes use of the principles of jujitsu, a weaponless system of self-defense. air on the big quarterpipe to boot. A real pleasure to see
him back in Tampa. When he heard he won, he stage dove into the crowd
and chugged what was left of the champagne that didn't get sprayed
all over him, Jereme, and P-Rod.
[2] JEREME ROGERS makes me glad I wasn't a judge at this contest; it must have been close. Jereme's a smooth skateboarder all around. Frontside bigspin, fakie flip, switch tre flip down the double set, switch tailslide bigspin out on the bank to ledge, switch back tail down the hubba, and switch crooked grinds down the big rail every time. A very deserved second place. Came up on 15,000 dollars, and even got a free tattoo at the contest to add to his collection. [3] PAUL RODRIGUEZ For Rodriguez's son, the professional skateboarder, see . Paul Rodriguez (born January 19, 1955 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a Mexican American comedian. was another contender for first place with switch flips every time down the double set, bigspin boardslides on the smaller rail, and switch tailslides on the big rail. His first run was off the charts. Paul rolled his ankle at the end of his second run, though, and couldn't skate his final one. [4] NICK DOMPIERRE's first contest entering the pro ranks, he skated consistent the whole weekend. Blunt variations and frontside crooks down the big rail, he ollied the whole entire manual pad from flat and earned himself fourth place. Nice work. [5] RICK McCRANK Rick McCrank (born January 23, 1976 in Peterborough, Ontario) is a professional skateboarder. He was voted Best Street Skater by TransWorld Skateboarding Magazine in 2000. He runs Anti-Social Skateshop and co-owns Momentum Wheels. can skate just about any type of terrain, and he skates faster than most. McCrank is a definite favorite amongst the crowd. Frontside disasters up on the big vert wall, frontside flips on the quarter, long, smooth 15-foot back tailslides through the bowled corner, ollie up to nosepick five-feet above the quarterpipe, and back 5-0s across and down the hubba. [6] GREG LUTZKA Greg Lutzka is a professional skateboarder from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He started out riding for Beer City Skateboards. Then he went to Tampa and got discovered by Al Partanen, where he turned pro for Illenium Skateboards. couldn't get his fight out of Milwaukee due to weather, so he and his father packed up the car and drove 20 hours straight to Tampa. He made it about an hour before his run in the semifinals. His dad slept out in the car during the whole contest. Now that's dedication, which got him plenty of gas money for the ride back to Milltown. [7] ROB DYRDEK Rob Dyrdek (born June 28, 1974, in Kettering, Ohio) is an American skateboarder and star of his own reality tv series entitled Rob and Big with his personal bodyguard Chris "Big Black" Boykin. He currently resides in Hollywood, California. brought the MTV crew and Big Black with him to Tampa this year. Steve Berra Steve Berra (born May 10, 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri), is a skateboarder and aspiring actor. He lives in Burbank, California, and has been skateboarding since he was 13. At the age of 18, he turned pro for Blockhead Skateboards. and Rob had a personal bet between them: whoever did better, the other had to kick down a whopping $5,000. When all was said and done, Berra got 30th, and Dyrdek placed ninth in the finals. Berra paid up in cash. I assume five Gs is a drop in the bucket compared to Rob's bank account, so he ended up throwing all the money--in ones--off the vert ramp A vert ramp is a form of half-pipe used in "extreme sports" such as skateboarding. Another form of half-pipe is the mini ramp. Vert ramps are so named because they transition from a horizontal plane (known as the flat-bottom) to a vertical wall. after Bill Weiss Bill Weiss is a baseball historian and statistician. He has served as the official statistician for the Pacific Coast League, and edited a weekly newsletter for the California League for over thirty years. pulled the infamous naked 540. Kids and grown-ups stacked their pockets with one-dollar bills. I think a good amount of people came up on a couple hundred dollars each. [8] JOHN RATTRAY Scotland based John Rattray skates anything and everything. Whether it is an old stair set to a backyard pool, John skates it all. Born and raised in Aberdeen Scotland, he never had the best skate spots. hails from Aberdeen, Scotland. John is a real pleasure to watch fly around the course. Body jars and backside airs on the large quarter, 50-50 body varial A Body Varial is a freestyle skateboarding trick done on a skateboard where the skateboarder jumps up and rotates 180 degrees and lands on the skateboard riding in the opposite stance i.e. changing the front foot from left to right foot or vice versa. out on the bank to flatbar, and ollie off the quarter to slider A block of material that holds the read/write head of a magnetic disk. See flying head. fakie on the vert wall. He even made it to Schaefer's after-hours party that night ... a real trooper. [9] MIKE PETERSON Porter Michael "Mike" Peterson (born June 17, 1976 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American football Middle linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. Also played for the Indianapolis Colts from 1999-2002. is no stranger to a contest at Tampa. 2 Live Crew during his runs kept his style loose as always. Skating fast and having fun is what Mike is all about. He qualified first in the semifinals. Blunt kickflip to fakie on the quarterpipe, back tails down the rail, and finished up his last run with a blunt fakie on the big vert wall--by far the gnarliest thing to go down on that wall. The whole place went nuts. [10] TOMMY SANDOVAL is a caveman on wheels. It was rumored he even had a caveman suit with him. Where was it? Backside flips down the double set, frontside pivot to fakies on the big quarter, frontside 180 nosegrinds on the big rail, and he even threw in kickflip manuals on the manual pad. Tommy had the best hat at the contest with pot leafs all over it, and was also a key figure having a good time at Schaefer's after party. [11] BILLY MARKS is the Skatepark A skatepark is a purpose-built recreational environment for skateboarders, bmxers and aggressive skaters to ride and develop their sport and technique. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, quarter pipes, handrails, trick boxes, vert ramps, pyramids, banked ramps, full pipes, stairs, of Tampa's official gambling team manager. Kickflip boardslides on the rail, kickflip lipslides on the bank to flatbar, and locked in back Smiths on the hubba. [12] NILTON NEVES held it down for Brazil. Nilton missed a few tricks here and there but skated with a lot of style. BEST TRICK BEST TRICK THIS YEAR was on the rail and two opposing hubbas. For 30 minutes there were flying bodies and spinning boards coming from all directions at a shot for the loot. Jereme Rogers broke the ice with a switch inward heelflip noseslide down the hubba, which began the contest, after he backed it up by taking it down the rail and also nailing a switch bigspin front board. Greg Lutzka had a frontside half-Cab flip front board to fakie. Billy Marks was in there with a switch big heelflip lipslider down the rail. Adam Dyet came through with two tricks on the rail, a nollie bigspin heel back lip, and a kickflip backside tailslide bigspin out. Gailea Momolu came clean on a nollie heel back tail on a hubba and took second. Stefan Janoski snatched first place, and got that Nike money with a buttery switch flip crooked grind on the rail. TOP 10 THINGS WRONG AT THE TAMPA PRO: 1. A porn star lurking at the contest with all of her clothes on the entire weekend 2. Weiss with his clothes off 3. Dude shooting photos and getting in the way during the contest--with no media credential and no place to run his photos 4. A bowl troll by the name of Will Power in the street contest jumping off the upper deck into the quarterpipe during Rattray's run 5. Weiss receiving a Schaefer tattoo on his ass 6. Schaefer paying him $300 7. Schaefer receiving a Weiss and Canadian flag tattoo on his calf 8. Schaefer kissing the tattoo on Weiss' ass in front of everybody in the park 9. Me getting none of the loot that Dyrdek threw out off the vert ramp 10. Me not making it to a strip club while in Tampa good energy means good On every Shift bottle cap there's a code good for one Shift Rewards point. Redeem points for iTunes downloads, organic clothing and accessories, magazine subscriptions, and other cool stuff. Each time you enter a code you'll be eligible to win prizes like skateboards, bikes, and a trip for two to Hawaii to see Jack Johnson Jack Johnson may refer to:
Plus, for every prize awarded, Stonyfield Farm Stonyfield Farm is an organic yogurt maker located in Londonderry, New Hampshire, in the USA. The company makes the number-one selling brand of organic yogurt and number-three overall yogurt brand in the United States. will offset some of the C[O.sub.2] emissions you generate every day from using things like your iPod, laptop, and cell phone. Make the shift to good energy, good prizes, and a good planet at shiftenergy.com. RESULTS STREET: 1. Eric Koston, $20,000 2. Jereme Rogers, $15,000 3. Paul Rodriguez, $10,000 4. Nick Dompierre 5. Rick McCrank 6. Greg Lutzka 7. Rob Dyrdek 8. John Rattray 9. Mike Peterson 10. Tommy Sandoval 11. Billy Marks 12. Nilton Neves VERT: 1. Pierre Luc Gagnon, $7,000 2. Mathias Ringstrom, $5,000 3. Buster Halterman, $3,000 4. Anthony Furlong, $2,000 5. Neal Hendrix, $1,500 BEST TRICK: 1. Stefan Janoski, switch flip crooks/rail 2. Gailea Momolu, nollie heel back tail/hubba 3. Adam Dyet, kickflip back tail bigspin out/rail 4. Greg Lutzka, frontside half-Cab flip front board fakie/rail 5. Billy Marks, switch big heel lipslide/rail |
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