AUTOMATIC MAGAZINE'S 4th ANNUAL BATTLE OF THE SHOPS
This year ASR invited us to hold our 5th Annual Automatic Magazine's Battle Of The Shops at the San Diego Convention Center during the trade show. The space was a perfect; the ground was beautiful polished concrete, AC was blasting, sound system worked flawlessly, thanks for the space ASR! Thanks to all our sponsors for making it possible. Thanks are also largely in order to the SPOT crew and Brian Schaefer for running it right. Big thanks to Speerco for building the best shit in the biz. Give it a minute to allow all the clips load and enjoy! See you next year!
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TECH CENTER
First up was our Tech Center.
3rd and $200, Went to Street Machine's Nick Tucker Nick is an incredibly nice kid but what was really nice was his inward heel flip manny 360 flip out.
2nd and $300, ZJ Boarding House's Justin Cefai. This was a tough one, the two Justins Schulte/Cefai were retardly close in the points. It could have gone either way, really, but the judges gave Cefai second. Schulte edged out Cefai by less than a point! His frontside half cab nose manny up the wedge to nollie half-cab switch manny down was one of the highlights.
1st and $500,Val Surf's Justin Schulte skated the entire obstacle and banged off multiple manny combos with every switch variel combination possible.
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DOUBLE SET
Our gap was a once again a four flat four double set.
3rd and $200, Pacific Drive 's Adrian Gephart Adrian came in with his guns a blazing. He started off with a kickflip inward heel, than tossed a switch frontside heel, and closed out with a switch frontside bigspin. Gnarly!
2nd and $300 Surf Ride 's Tim Thomas . I haven’t seen Tim Thomas skate in a while and quite frankly I was blown away. He has come up fast! He earned his 2nd on the gap with a ultra smooth switch 360 flip, switch heelflip, nollie flip, and a nollie backside flip.
1st amd $500 Street Machine 's Jimmy Carlin. Jimmy Carlin has only lost the Gap at Our Battle Of the Shops contest once, last year Kevin Romar took it. This year he came back with a vengeance he rattled off so many tricks back to back it was insane, Watch the footage
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TRANNY
This year marked a huge change for our Tranny Obstacle; the previous years we build some weird combination of Quarter pipes and vertical monstrosities for the competitors to attack. This year we used the ASR mini ramp, but we added a "surprise obstacle" the Bird Perch. The Bird Perch was a 12-foot-long-three-foot-tall-box in the shape of an A Frame with coping. We put this thing on the deck of the miniramp and set it back about a foot. The idea was to throw something different and challenging on the mini to separate the men from the boys. There were pluses and minuses to doing the tranny section on the mini ramp. First it was rad seeing "runs" as opposed to one hit tricks but it also meant that a 20 dude barge session would get very hectic and dangerous. It's a scary prospect when you have big dudes like Utility's Justin Gordon and half pints like Curren Caples sharing the ramp and skating at mock speed. The potential for damage is real. Schaefer made the call to break the session into two 15-minute heats. That was a good call. Here's how it went down.
3rd and $200, Momentum's Curren Caples .Curren has such a perfect style. He flows effortlessly around and blasted huge frontside tuckknee airs. Watch it here!
2nd and $300, Active's David Loy. David earned himself a second place with massive tweaked out stalefish grabs, lein to tails, etc, etc but one of the gnarly tricks to go down for the day belonged to David, he got an ollie up to frontside nosegrind on the Bird Perch. Dave Bergthold got the Footy!
1st and $500, Santa Cruz 's Josh Mattson . Josh it seems cannot be beaten on transition of Our BATTLE OF THE SHOPS contest. This is his third contest and his third win. He's got frontside 540s, backside tail reverts, smiths on the Bird Perch, Frontside 360 boneless off the extension onto the Bird Perch and into the tranny. It was insane, there was no debate on this one he owned it.
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RAIL
On the rail it was all about Andrew Pott and Andrew Elliot. These two got savage and it was very very close. Really it could have gone either way. Watch the clip and you decide.
3rd and $200 , Pharmacy's Marquise Preston . Marquise never fails to make the top three on the rail at our Battle Of The Shops Contest. This year he tore into with about a dozen tricks. Think about this for a second, in 30 minutes, Marquise was able to land 12 tricks with 23 other heads trying to get theirs. Astonishing!
2nd and $300, Ninestar's Andrew Pott. Pott totally killed it! In fact there were quite a few heads in the crowd who thought that he should have won, but ultimately it was the judges who decided to give the nod to Andrew Elliot. Every trick Pott did was flip-in. Nollie flip board, big flip boardslide to fakie, etc etc. Amazing!
1st and $500 , Pacific Drive 'sAndrew Elliott . Andrew has arrived! Christ this kid took it apart. He tossed down a pop shuv-it fs 50 and a kickflip front board shuv it, fakie back lip, shove 50 and others.
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