Damn Am NYC Day 2: Qualifiers
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2014 by
Getting a New York City Damn Am stop has been a long time coming, and now that it’s happening we wish we could have lined one up years ago. The Nike SB funded LES Skatepark in Lower Manhattan is where things are going down this weekend, and if you like butter ground, perfect ledges, tons of space, whippy transitions, and hanging with BA, (and who wouldn’t?) you might never want to leave. New York was also kind enough to import San Diego’s weather for the weekend, so it’s been almost too good.
Qualifiers on Saturday consisted of 75 plus skaters from all over the world, Mexico, Australia, and Columbia being a few spots that come to mind, plus half the dudes from Tampa including the two with face tats. Seeing the LES locals skate is rad too, kind of like watching the Supreme video happen in front of your face. Kevin Bradley and Tyshawn both skated and killed it, KB making it straight through to the finals with the 2nd place Golden Ticket. But the surprise of the day was New York’s Antonio Durao, who smoked everyone with what looked like relative ease, and THEN you find out he was doing everything switch. Yeah he’s one of those guys. Switch smith grinds, switch tres, switch 180 nosegrinds. Remember when you watch the footage to remind yourself that he’s goofy footed. Semi-finals and finals are guaranteed to blow minds on Sunday and from there hopefully the New York stop becomes a Damn Am tradition.
-Paul Zitzer
Words and photos by Alex Uncapher
Video by Jean-Luc Vida
I've seen a lot of kickflip front boards but this heelflip front board by Jamel Marshall is a lot more rare.
This dude is one of the most fun to watch in the whole comp, Keith Hardy with a high speed alley pop wallride on the fence.
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