SPoT Life: Damn Am Atlanta - Day 2
Photos and words by Marino Nicastro.
Zach Saraceno
Sunday started off with semi-finals, and Zach Saraceno had these switch frontside flips better than his regular ones.
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May 12, 2014
Photographer: Marino Nicastro
Pat Schaefer
Florida native Pat Schaefer caught this switch flip no problem.
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May 12, 2014
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Niko Howard
Niko Howard blasting around the course lofts a big frontside alley-oop.
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May 12, 2014
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Nick Wallace
Nick Wallace, one of the other younger rippers here, backs that up with a huge boneless in his run.
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May 12, 2014
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Ronnie Kessner
Ronnie Kessner threw this front nose blunt down getting the judges attention.
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May 12, 2014
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Dalton Dern
Dalton Dern started off the finals right with the back 270 lip slide.
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May 12, 2014
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Ish Cepeda
Ish Cepeda has a stylish nollie crooked grind every try.
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May 12, 2014
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Jon Cosentino
Jon Cosentino was ripping all weekend throwing down the switch frontside heelflip whenever he wanted.
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May 12, 2014
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Christian Wood
Christian Wood made the cut to the finals with his unique style, the back 270 lip here is what he started his run off with.
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May 12, 2014
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Tyson Peterson
Tyson Peterson blew minds with a backside 270 lip slide to fakie!
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May 12, 2014
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Markus Jalaber
Markus Jalaber from the SPoT team represented all weekend with tricks like kick flip lip slide on the high bar.
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May 12, 2014
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Kadian Maxwell
Kadian Maxwell with a nollie front board.
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May 12, 2014
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Alex Bowers
Thank you DJ AlBow for the tunes.
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May 12, 2014
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Zion Wright
Zion Wright was a destroyer with this half cab back crooked grind!
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May 12, 2014
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Zion Wright
The crowd loves Zion!
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May 12, 2014
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Markus Jalaber
Markus also has a phenomenal fakie back nosegrind, securing him a medal.
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May 12, 2014
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Uncle Sam Bellipanni
Uncle Sam Bellipanni, front feeble.
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May 12, 2014
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Casey Wayne
Casey helped out all weekend with setup and judging he is a boss!
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May 12, 2014
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Jon Cosentino
It was a tough call but Jon took the title with tricks like this hard flip crail grab.
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May 12, 2014
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Chad Poore
Right after finals ended they heard straight into the Independent best trick where Chad Poore did a fakie 270 to front blunt down the hubba to win 1st place.
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May 12, 2014
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Jona Owings
A big thank you to Hazard County Skatepark and Jona for hosting us and the contest.
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May 12, 2014
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Zion Wright
Congratulation to Zion Wright who won the Zumiez Destroyer Award for destroying it all weekend long.
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May 12, 2014
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Jon Cosentino
Congratultions to our top three; Jereme Knibbs 3rd, Markus Jalaber 2nd and Jon Cosentino winning 1st!
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May 12, 2014
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Brian Schaefer
Thank you to all our sponsors Matix, Supra and Independent and everyone for coming out! From Brian Schaefer and all of us at SPoT thank you and hope you had a good time at Damn Am Atlanta!
Date:
May 12, 2014
Photographer: Marino Nicastro