Ragin' Asian Bayview Invasion Day One - Satruday, August 30, 2003

I just wached the sickest best trick contest I've seen in a while. Ten grand was on the line for the winner. From where I was standing, you can't really tell there's a 12 foot deck on that bank to bank. Some damn good moves thrown down included:

• Steve Nesser - kickflip melon, pop shuv, varial flip - all over a 12 foot deck with an extra few feet to clear the step up on the other side. A varial flip over that? Damn. Sorry I missed filming it.
• Harold Hunter - remember that ASR stunt where he almost took his head off on his first trick out? He pulled that move again - first trick out he rolled across the deck and attempted to roll over the step up and down the bank, but instead hung up on the step up and slammed right to flat. That must have sucked - the whole building was laughing after the heckling he got on the mic.
• Jon Allie - they're not announcing the winners until later tonight at some bar which I'm skipping because I'm a little partied out, but I think it may be either Jon or Steve Nesser. He kickflip back lipped the rail and also killed the hubbas.
• Alex Trainwreck Gall - he's a possible winner also. He only skated maybe the first ten minutes of the 45 minute jam, but he came out swinging with back tails to fakie on the hubbas, switch front boards on the rail, and switch 50-50's on the rail, which was supposed to be square but ended up being round which made it pretty scary.
• Corey Duffel - wow, he rips for a trashy white dude. He's another possible ten grand winner. After doing pop shuv frontside 5-0's on the hubba, kickflip frontside 50-50's on the hubba, and gigantic crail grab ollies over the whole thing, he spent the remainder of the time attempting kickflip frontside 50-50's on the rail.
• The Natural Concept dude - sorry, can't remember his name. That sucks because I've actually hung out with him - I have a bad problem with names that I need to get fixed right away. Anyway, he did stuff like backside 180 melon grabbing the whole thing and almost killed himself attempting to Sal flip the thing.