Damn Am Minneapolis 2010

Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010 by Rob

By Rob Meronek

Dylan Perry's Chill Cam Footage

Jason Rothmeyer, our head judge, took the classic fall back in the leaning chair spill to start the day off. Good morning.
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James Capps is here from San Francisco.
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It's only going to be a couple more years before I finally stop getting Tyson Bowerbank and Alex Longcamp confused. This is Tyson and he's growing up and getting damn good.
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Miles Canavello from Warp Skatepark - front crook on the bump to big ass barrier.
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Ethan Loy is following in this brother David's steps, but doing it without talking as much.
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Tabari Cook - 360 flip.
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How long is it going to be before DJ Wade uses iPads, too?
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Dylan Perry - frontside noseslide on the bump to big ass barrier.
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Glassy ears, part one.

Glassy ears, part two.

Glassy ears, part three.

Steve Nesser says, "Yes, I was here."
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The Lair.

Dalton Dern pumped his life away to get speed for this.
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Thanks to Red Bull, Indy, Arnette, Mob, Transworld, Dean Guitars and Swiss for helping us not lose as much money as we could have on this Contest.

The Dean Guitars were sick. I think with my metal ass hair, I should be entitled to one of these.

Next door at JJ's, we all got roped in by the Minnesota pull tabs. They're the northern redneck lottery tickets.

What were we thinking renting this party bus?

Colin Clark brought the entire city of Boise with him.
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When we arrived downtown from that party bus, there was nothing organized going on, so we just wandered around and ended up in some club where we don't belong. There was a fashion show and girls weren't wearing pants. At least that was cool.

If you end up dancing by yourself at the jock star club, you probably deserve to lose your phone.
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If you'd rather dance with a strange dude than by yourself, well...
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Yes, we had to go. Colin loves these Japanese tourist photos like this where you just stand in front of something.
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Markus Jalaber has a tribue to Steve Nesser and Emeric Pratt with this kickflip meron.
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DP's got a history of bloody hands at Damn Ams.
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David Loy had the pileup of the weekend.
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The fakie 360 shuv is a classic old guy move, usually done on flat with no pop if you're over 30. Paul Hart shows you how to snap it and make it look good.
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These days, a good sign of growing up is when you start flipping out of tricks other than 50-50's. Tyson Bowerbank demonstrates.
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