ASR Mini-Ramp Jam Presented by Volcom
Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Ryan
Words by Ryan Clements
Footage by Colin Clark
Photos and Captions by Rob Meronek
2010 was off to a mellow start, but that all ended with this year’s first trip of many to California. The reasons for this trip were multiple...the ASR Trade Show, CrossRoads (which was right next door to ASR this year), and of course the Damn Am Awards 2009.
I’ve probably mentioned this before, but a few years ago we used to have a lot of free time at ASR. Nowadays it’s meetings, seminars, and work, work, work. From the time I land in SD to the time I leave, there is never a moment where a meeting isn’t planned or an event isn’t being set up. Not complaining…just saying.
So we’ve been working with ASR for over 10 years and always try to come up with some sort of skateboarding event to break up the monotony of heading booth to booth. This time around we paired up with Volcom and came up with a $10,000 purse. How do you come up with a $10,000 purse for a mini-ramp jam? I’m not quite sure nowadays, but ASR and Volcom made it happen.
The plan was no plan at all. We were just hoping that some legit dudes would show up and skate. But Schaefer did a damn good job of recruiting heavy hitters from next door at CrossRoads and it was on. There were actually more rippers than we expected and the idea of splitting the skaters into heats was thrown around, but soon decided against because Jake Phelps and the Anti-Hero crew was in attendance and we knew that they would think we were kooks if we made it less gnar.
In addition to handing out 50’s and 100’s to anyone that pulled something sick, there were jams on the plastic barrier, Volcom Stone, and overall ramp. Here’s who got what:
Footage by Colin Clark
Photos and Captions by Rob Meronek
2010 was off to a mellow start, but that all ended with this year’s first trip of many to California. The reasons for this trip were multiple...the ASR Trade Show, CrossRoads (which was right next door to ASR this year), and of course the Damn Am Awards 2009.
I’ve probably mentioned this before, but a few years ago we used to have a lot of free time at ASR. Nowadays it’s meetings, seminars, and work, work, work. From the time I land in SD to the time I leave, there is never a moment where a meeting isn’t planned or an event isn’t being set up. Not complaining…just saying.
So we’ve been working with ASR for over 10 years and always try to come up with some sort of skateboarding event to break up the monotony of heading booth to booth. This time around we paired up with Volcom and came up with a $10,000 purse. How do you come up with a $10,000 purse for a mini-ramp jam? I’m not quite sure nowadays, but ASR and Volcom made it happen.
The plan was no plan at all. We were just hoping that some legit dudes would show up and skate. But Schaefer did a damn good job of recruiting heavy hitters from next door at CrossRoads and it was on. There were actually more rippers than we expected and the idea of splitting the skaters into heats was thrown around, but soon decided against because Jake Phelps and the Anti-Hero crew was in attendance and we knew that they would think we were kooks if we made it less gnar.
In addition to handing out 50’s and 100’s to anyone that pulled something sick, there were jams on the plastic barrier, Volcom Stone, and overall ramp. Here’s who got what:
Overall Ripping
- 1st – Brad McClain - $800 – who is this dude?
- 2nd – George Evans - $500 – kickflip from extension into ramp
- 3rd – Shawn Hale - $300 – killing it
- 4th – Gershon Mosley - $200 – bs heelflip 360 two feet out
Barrier
- 1st – David Loy - $1,500 – fs blunt on barrier and lipslide from barrier to lipslide on extension
- 2nd – Willy Akers - $1,000 – fs tailslide to fakie on barrier and fs smith on barrier to tailslide on extension
- 3rd – Timmy Knuth - $500 – fs nosegrind pop-out on barrier
Volcom Stone
- 1st – Shawn Gutierrez - $1,500 – Consolidated’s finest did a fs 5-0 off the Stone
- 2nd – Andrew Langi - $1,000 – fs smith to fakie on the Stone
- 3rd – Div - $500 – straight from Scotland to bs tailslide off the Stone
Colin Clark Footage from the CrossRoads Best Trick
Colin Clark Footage from the Volcom Mini-Ramp Jam
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