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Damn Am LA: Qualifiers & Best Trick Photos

Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 by Matt Shail

After a long day at The Berrics for the Damn Am Qualifiers, the Ams were able to find their second wind when they found out $1000 was on the line for Best Trick down the 10!

Photos by Bart Jones
Ginwoo
Gin Woo spends his morning taking a moment of peace and solitude before an onslaught of mayhem.
Xavier
Xavier Miller gets it poppin’
Christiana
Christiana Means and Schaefer reminisce about simpler times back in Florida.
Joao
DVS is still a thing?! Joao Criscuolo represents with a Heelflip Noseslide.
Frank
Filmer Frank, just waiting for his set.
Jimmy
Jimmy Bueno is a cool ass name.
Arthur
Damn Am!! A place to make friends!
Deng
Deng Tear on a dang terror!!
Maurice
Maurice Jordan, down and out but still in high spirits.
Lucas
Past Damn Am winner Lucas Alves pulls out one his sigs, the Tre Lip.
Brian
Brian goofs, Paul works, and Monica mean mugs.
Jake
Jake Yanko strikes a pose.
Jagger
Q: Does 3rd place olympian, Jagger Eaton attend Damn Am?? A: Yes, duh of course!!
Jake
Purple pants and a Lipslide dance.
Hurvey
All beard no cares, Hurvey Haskins
Sena
Heelflip Frontlip seems tough, Sena Watanabe has got 'em down.
Trappers Delight puts the security to work.
Ginwoo
There’s our guy! Ginwoo Kickflip Backtails.
Too much posse!
Raimu
Raimu Sasaki killed it and got the 2nd place golden ticket straight to the finals.
Gabe
Lots of staring into the camera and throwing up the peace sign, this kid in the middle opts out with a distant stare and a hangloose.
Jake
Got Angles? Jake Yanko poses One-Foot for the fans.
Brian
Brian pulls a reverse product pillage.
Daiki
Daiki Ikeda puts up a picture perfect Kicky Backtail.
Ginwoo
Ginwoo didn’t mess up in Qualifier and copped the first place qualifier Golden Ticket!
Raimu
Congrats Raimu!
Ginwoo
Yeaaaaaa Ginwoo!!!!
Ginwoo
Congrats Ginwoo!
Cass
Cass Hecht gets the Scandal Best Trick Contest started with a Kickflip Grind.
Anderson
Anderson Stevie pulled this Switch Frontside Flip a few times, this one for the best trick contest.
Gary
Hardly ever seen this one before! Gary Lemmons shows us his Early-grab Backlip.
Marc
Marc Arias shows class with a Gap Backside Noseblunt amidst all the flippy-dooda boolshit of the best trick comp.
Kent
One-n-done, Kento Urano breaks out the Kickflip Gap Nosegrind in best trick and goes back to shredding the rest of the park.
Jake
This is a confusing photo, but use your imagination.. Jake Yanko grinded that whole ledge then gapped to Backlip, it was cool! He got 5th place in Scandal Best Trick!
Arthur
Arthur Cardova Gaps to 4th place in the Scandal Best Trick Comp with a Switch Big Heel.
Raimu
Looks like a Salad Grind but that’s just the result of our shitty photographer, it’s actually Raimu Sasaki’s Switch 270 Front Blunt Slide; that got em’ 2nd place in SBTC.
Jonathan
Jonathan Henderson took a nice one right to the nards before nailing this Tre’ Lip Bigspin Out.
Billy
The judges deliberate on who took all the marbles in Scandal’s Best Trick Comp.
Jonathan
The people had spoken: Jonathan Henderson made himself a 1,000 bucks richer taking first in Best Trick brought to you by Scandal. Dig into the depths of SPOT website for more Damn Am Coverage coming soon!

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