etnies Goofy vs. Regular: Street Finals
Posted on Monday, October 24, 2005 by Ryan
etnies Goofy vs. Regular: Street Finals
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Photos and Captions by Rob Meronek
I remember wondering when I was a kid, “Why is it called goofy when you skate with your right foot forward?” I mean, it’s total pot luck which foot ends up towards the front of the board when you first step on a board, right? You’ve got to also realize that when I started skating that there was no switch skating at all. The idea of switch kind of throws a wrench in the whole goofy/regular argument, doesn’t it? We all skate both goofy and regular nowadays anyway. Regardless, etnies has a really good concept here, so we decided to check it out.
Here’s how the format was broken down: There are two ‘teams’ obviously…goofy and regular. The goofy team was represented by Dave Swift of The Skateboard Mag and the regular team had the legendary Jake Phelps from Thrasher for their team manager. Each team manager got to choose five skaters that automatically made it to Sunday, the finals. The rest of the skaters that wanted to be in had to skate on Saturday to qualify for Sunday’s finals.
For the finals, each skater got two, one-minute runs. Then there were two jams for the goofy skaters and two jams for the regular skaters. All of the scores of the runs and jam combined were tallied together for a total that declared the champ. In addition, there was a goofy champ and a regular champ to be crowned.
There were a lot of superstars in attendance, so I’m sure that the kids watching were stoked. Not to mention, it was totally free for anyone to roll up and check it out. There was also a cool area close by that housed a bunch of tents and vendor booths. etnies had everything dialed to assure a fun time for the average spectator.
Rob just said to me, “Those jams were some of the best skating that I’ve ever seen.” He’s right about that. Here are some highlights from those jams:
Regular
- Kurtis Colamonico – he started out and then Braydon Syzfranski subbed for him.
- Bryan Herman – he was going for the nollie inward heel over the big barrier for a while, but it just didn’t happen
- Chris Cole – Chris did the trick of the year with his bs 360 ollie kickflip down the 11-stair. He left everyone shaking their heads in disbelief
- Ryan Sheckler – little Shecks is a true ripper. He did fs flips and full cabs down the 11-stair
- Tony Tave – style doesn’t get much better than Tony’s, and his bs tailslide to fakie down the big hubba was classic
- Dennis Busenitz – I don’t think that Dennis was feeling it in the jam, but his skating was amazing all day long
- Mark Appleyard – he couldn’t nail the nollie bigspin back tail on the huge ledge (damn), so he wasn’t feeling it. Nyjah came in to sub for him and proceeded to destroy the course
- Nyjah Huston – switch heel down the 11? Big spin front board on the flat bar? Nyjah is unbelievable
- Nilton Neves – he started and then Jereme Rogers came in to help out…not only did Jereme help out, but he did switch 50-50’s and switch feebles down the 11-stair rail along with an assortment of ridiculous flat bar tricks, too
- Ronnie Creager – how is he switch hardflipping down 11 at 32 years of age?
To top it all off, I bet $100 on regular to win. My skateboarding gambling isn’t going so well right now. In August I lost $600 at the X-Games and now I’m down another hundo at GvR to one of the main men at Sole Tech, Don Brown. But I’m sure that I ate and drank $100 worth of free food and beverages this weekend, so we’ll call it a wash. Thanks for the good time.
Ryan
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