Thrasher’s Paul Revere Bust or Bail Rail Jam in SF
Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 by
By Brian Schaefer
I was fortunately staying really close to the event, but far from the wedding location. So I put on my white suit and skated over to the Paul Revere School, which is where the 16-stair rail was resting and awaiting damage. Upon my arrival the Contest was in warm-up mode. A few of the no-name guys had three tries to break something off to make the cut so they could skate the main event or get ripped to pieces by the host of the day, Jake Phelps. Needless to say there weren’t many people that could hang and make it to the main event. In the middle of the cut-maker the Contest got kicked off prematurely, but very appropriately, when Mellow Jay took the sack of the day including the scorpion dismount.
Check the Thrasher video footage here.
With the likes of so many great skaters in attendance, here are my quick notes and the final placings…
From the event I went on to perform my wedding, which was super-fun. More fun that we had DJ Wade assisting with the ceremony and of course the reception with some good tunes. In the mix filming the wedding was our good pal P-Stone. After the wedding we were even able to catch the Thrasher After-Party where we got to see the 2 Live Crew perform.
Great event Thrasher, Nike SB, Independent, and Plan B. See you at the next one, and remember, my crew and I will be happy to host your future wedding.
I was fortunately staying really close to the event, but far from the wedding location. So I put on my white suit and skated over to the Paul Revere School, which is where the 16-stair rail was resting and awaiting damage. Upon my arrival the Contest was in warm-up mode. A few of the no-name guys had three tries to break something off to make the cut so they could skate the main event or get ripped to pieces by the host of the day, Jake Phelps. Needless to say there weren’t many people that could hang and make it to the main event. In the middle of the cut-maker the Contest got kicked off prematurely, but very appropriately, when Mellow Jay took the sack of the day including the scorpion dismount.
Check the Thrasher video footage here.
With the likes of so many great skaters in attendance, here are my quick notes and the final placings…
- Sierra Fellers - attempted switch heelflips with no makes, but a good show
- Chad Fernandez - ripped it with front noseblunts and front lipslides, but never seems to get any love
- Moose - he killed it with several tricks, but making the back 360 was one of the highlights of the day. Hopefully Jake gave him some money
- Justin “Figgy” Figueroa - front feebles and other stuff I can’t remember
- Terrell Robinson - had a hard time, but was able to throw down his nollie boardslides
- Darrell Stanton - nollied and switch back 180’ed the stairs. I didn’t get to see it, but Thrasher filmer P-Stone told me he cannon-balled the stairs and almost rode away. For those that don’t know the cannon-ball, it is where you just grab the nose and tail at anytime together, but in this case with speed towards the stairs and hanging on until you hit hopefully the bottom below the stairs
- 1st place / $10,000 - Ryan Sheckler - backside lip, backside lip fakie, hardflip, backside flip, 360 flip
- 2nd Place / $5,000 - Andrew Reynolds - frontside flip over the rail and varial heelflip
- 3rd Place / $3,000 - Andrew Langi - frontside nosegrind, krooked grind, front blunt to fakie, feeble grind
- 1st place and only place for doubles / $3,000 - Justin Figueroa and David Gravette with a double front 50/50 down the rail
From the event I went on to perform my wedding, which was super-fun. More fun that we had DJ Wade assisting with the ceremony and of course the reception with some good tunes. In the mix filming the wedding was our good pal P-Stone. After the wedding we were even able to catch the Thrasher After-Party where we got to see the 2 Live Crew perform.
Great event Thrasher, Nike SB, Independent, and Plan B. See you at the next one, and remember, my crew and I will be happy to host your future wedding.
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