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• Damn Am Street Contest
  • Event is one advanced division of top am skaters only
  • 160 skater maximum entrants
  • Team Managers, email Rob Meronek to register – rob@damnam.com
• Damn Am Street Best Trick Contest
  • Only for Damn Am Street Contest skaters
  • Prize money: $500 donated by Damn Am
  • All donations, if any, will also be added to the existing $500 purse

• Damn Am Street Semi-Finals
  • Begins at 12pm
  • 28 skaters
  • Top 10 skaters advance to Finals meeting up with top two street qualifiers
• Damn Am Street Finals
  • Begins immediately after Damn Am Street Semi-Finals
  • 12 skaters
  • Three, one minute runs, best run counts to determine results
  • All 12 skaters qualify for Tampa Am (you must still pay for and confirm your spot by November 30th)
  • Top two skaters go directly to the Tampa Am Semi-Finals
• Damn Am Street Best Trick
  • Begins immediately after Damn Am Street Finals
  • Available only for Damn Am Street Contest skaters
  • 30 minute jam on obstacle to be determined during event
  • Prize money: $500 donated by Damn Am
  • All donations, if any, will also be added to the existing

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1st-Chris Cole!!! – 91.75
2nd-Tommy Sandoval – 90.33
3rd-Nyjah Huston – 90.25
4th-Torey Pudwill – 89.58
5th-Ryan Sheckler – 89.25
6th-Sean Malto – 85.67
7th-Greg Lutzka – 85.58
8th-David Gonzalez – 81.42
9th-Paul Rodriguez – 80
10th-Mark Appleyard – 79.58

The final results surely show who was throwing down big time, but the top 3 could have gone any way. Chris Cole deserved 1st place no doubt, but this could have been a 3 way or 4way tie. Nyjah was being Nyjah and one upping everyone’s lines with huge gaps and rail tricks like no other. Word has it Tommy Sandoval was launching HUGE tricks, large, tech and gnar shit everywhere. Chris Cole is the man! This guy must skate with a checklist in his head because he literally does EVERY trick in the book. Cole is so good and now… he is instantly $100k richer, not that skateboarding hasn’t paid up for him already. Young gunner Torey Pudwill won the “video game” award with tricks that normal riders just don’t do, ever. Nollie flip back lip on the fatty four set?!! Maloof Money Cup is the event the big names and the newcomers alike all skate as progressive as they can because the course is so sick and exclusive and there is so much money on the line.

Video killers Filmer X and Duncan Barnes have got the evidence on video and the edits will be pouring in asap. Have you seen the edits on the site so far?!! Crazy, next level tricks going down all over the custom cement course. The Maloof course was designed after famous skate spots the most of these pros spend time filming on, so the size and angles of the features are somewhat familiar for some. We’re stoked on the Maloof Money Cup, stoked that we got some of the first ever videos online on our site and super stoked that we have friends like X and Dunks down there getting it done for all to enjoy!

Semis Heat1
Semis Heat2

A rare sighting of snow in the city

Getting the setup primped and primed!

Free product anyone?

Tour DJ, Kid Couture lays down the tracks

The beer was free, and the VIP was poppin off

Last Saturday, the finals of the 2009 Cricket Campus Rail Jam Tour took over Pioneer Square with an all out shred celebration. Industry folks were downing beer and generally bro-ing, Todd Richards was making fun of people on the mic, and riders were absolutely slaying the rails for $6000 in prize money. Business yuppies mixed with burly street dwellers and snowboarders mixed with meth heads in a beautiful mess of snow and sweat.

Todd Richards kept people laughing with his worst tattoo contest

Two suns?

Stoke factor was high

60 of the west’s top rippers made the trek to Portland to ride with the best amateur snowboarders and get loose on Cricket Wireless’ tab. The three-feature setup was blanketed in 60,000 pounds of glacier flakes from the good people at Timberline and positioned in the heart of downtown P-town. After showering the snow with bags of salt and tapping the kegs from Miller High Life and new brew Lat 44, the event kicked off with a bang and riders dropped some serious hammers on the setup.

Rock solid frontboard

Here comes the 270….

Pressing to the end

Nose tappy

The 90-degree heat made things interesting, turning the landing into sloppy margarita slush, but that didn’t seem to affect the top finishers as they put on the best show the Tour has ever seen. Third place finisher Seth Hill’s good vibes matched his stylie stunts and landed him some skrilla for his efforts. Kyle Martola’s back swivel 540’s were sending the crowd into a frenzy and must have got the judges excited too. Kyle scooped some benjamins and a new Omatic stick for his creative riding. The man of the hour was Josh Bishop taking the crown as the winner of the 2009 Cricket Campus Rail Jam Tour. Josh was rewarded with a briefcase full of 1,500 $1 bills, some killer headphones from ZAGG and a new board courtesy of GNU.

Getting Tricky on the ZAGG box

Colt Morgan goes backward

Blunts in the big city

1st placer, Josh Bishop with the frozen supermodel

Kyle Martola pops a 5 off the Red Bull box

2nd place finisher, Kyle Martola

3rd place finisher, Seth Hill

(L-R) Seth Hill (3rd) Josh Bishop (1st), and Kyle Martola (2nd)

Josh’s got enough bills to keep the party going for days

In between heats, product tosses meant tug-of-war with the bums, and a chance to dance for swag from Grenade and ELM company. REELcomp was running around with cameras to get the shot for all the peeps stuck at home watching the live webcast. Highlights will be posted soon for anyone who missed it! FUEL TV was also shooting for the Weekly Update, interviewing riders and spreading the love. For those who were taking a break from beer consumption, Red Bull was providing glorious refreshment from the sun and stoking out the homeless with plenty of empty cans to trade in for change.

Insurance salesmen can get hyphy too!

Stacy makes Red Bull look gooood.

The lady rippers had a strong showing at the jam, holding it down with the best of em’. When the fat lady had sung, Madison Blackley walked away with third place and a mix of cash and product. Erika Vikander took second after impressing judges on all three rails. In first place was tour veteran, Miss Ronda Shahin, stepping onto the top of the podium, stoked as hell, ready to party. Congrats ladies!

Gabby Maiden

Madison Blackley, thru the kink

Erika Vikander presses down the shotgun

Ronda gets pressy

(L-R) Madison Blackley (3rd) Ronda Shahin (1st), and Erika Vikander (2nd)

Ronda – Dolla dolla bills y’all!

Well, that’s it! The 2009 Cricket Campus Rail Jam Tour is history! Thanks to everyone for making the Tour happen and helping to promote the amateur shred scene across the US. The Galvanic Design crew couldn’t have done it without all the great support from the riders, schools, and companies that believed in the Tour and their goal of spreading the shred. Planning for 2010 is already well underway, so expect to see some BIG improvements, additions, and new surprises next year. Stay tuned to www.campusrailjamtour.com for summer updates on what we are up to, and where we are heading next. We’re out!

The Study Spaceship

SUNGOD

With 70-degree weather, Red Bull flowing, and Swine Flu in the air, the conditions were perfect for the rare breed of shredding that is the Cricket Campus Rail Jam Tour. Mother nature was able to sit back and rest as the crew brought in a massive “margarita maker” to blow 25 tons of pearly white flakes onto the setup. By the time the machine was near finished grinding the huge ice blocks, a massive sea of people had already gathered around the setup to peep the scene and get their photo taken at the ELM company booth. Cricket Wireless was giving away tons of free shirts and stoking out the crowd. Big ups to Cricket for making it happen!

Making one giant sno-cone

The Setup – Pre Destruction

60 local shreds came out to terrorize the rails and throw down for their shot at some skrill and assorted products from all the fine sponsors. Knife Show’s own Casey Wrightsman took home the win for the men’s snowboard division and walked away with the cash and an invite to the Portland finals. Second place finisher, Colt Morgan, flew down from Tahoe just to qualify for the finals, and that he did! Colt also walked away with a crisp new Omatic board to beat all the babes off him. Eric Singer is no stranger to the Tour, and finished in third with some Skullcandy gear.

Casey Wrightsman – swivnasty

Colt rocks a tie-dye shirt to match his board

Frontside 3 from Eric Singer

(L-R) Eric Singer (3rd) Casey Wrightsman (1st), and Colt Morgan (2nd)

As for the ladies, Nirvana Ortanez took home the W and the infamous jackalope trophy. So sick. Monica Thatcher finished in second and got a ticket to the finals. Congrats ladies!

The Red Bull box is taller than Nirvana

Monica pushes through the kink

(L-R) Nirvana Ortanez (1st), and Monica Thatcher (2nd)

When the sun had set and the winners had been crowned, the crew got their hands dirty and tore down the setup in record time to make it to the after party in Pacific Beach. 50 shred rats in a bar full of bros always makes for a good/interesting time. Now that UCSD is in the books, the Cricket Campus Rail Jam Tour is back in Oregon to host one more event on their home turf, before the final showdown in downtown Portland on Saturday, May 30th. Keep your eyes peeled on www.campusrailjamtour.com for a live webcast from REELcomp!

JOB LISTING:
Adrenaline Garage is looking for a paid Associate Producer to assist Producers with planning, filming and editing a snowboard television show for Fuel TV, producing live events and independently producing other smaller video projects this summer. The ideal applicant is a jack-of-all-trades in video production, highly motivated, hard-working, tenacious, eager to learn and talented. You need to be familiar with professional production techniques in addition to the snowsports world.

The job involves long hours of hard work, but it also includes traveling, working with A-list professional athletes and time on snow. The applicant must be willing to relocate to Winter Park, CO.

Job Requirements:

Ability to ride all types of terrain.
Experience shooting and editing snow sports.
Experience managing video projects.
Ability to compose shots and convey a story through video.
Extensive knowledge of OSX, Windows, Final Cut Studio.
Knowledge of Graphic Design is a plus.
Owning your own equipment is a plus.

Please submit your resume, cover letter and reel to jobs@adrenalinegarage.com.

This is Foo. Weird name, Cool hair

Riders meeting

The spring shred fest was part of the annual “Derby Days” charity event hosted by the Sigma Chi fraternity. There’s nothing like giving back to the LA Children’s Hospital with some good clean snow slidin’. Students were stoked/confused to say the least. Some people seemed the fear the huge mass of margarita spread throughout the street and stood a safe distance, snapping picture on their camera phones. Others thought a snowball fight was the right thing to do. Either way, everyone was stoked on the snow, stoked on the shredding, and stoked to be doing it all for charity.

The massive margarita pile

FUEL TV was on-site gathering footy for the Weekly Update, while Omatic snowboards mastermind Todd Richards kept everyone laughing on the mic. Boarding for Breast Cancer, ELM company, and the Red Bull wiiings team were also spreading the love with tons of free product for all the hungry co-eds.

TR was making fun of people…as usual

With the snow melting fast under the sun, things got slushy and riders got wet. Local rippers pulled out all their bangers without even warming up, resulting in a mix of cheers and carnage. When the fat lady had sung, judges huddled together and put their pens to the paper to score the 60 riders and skiers that came out to throw down. All in all, it was Mikey Radziwon who took first for the mens snowboarders. Mike Brokeoff followed closely in second and scooped up a new Omatic board for his smooth style. Swivel master, Jon Montana, rounded up the pack in third and took home some new Skullcandy headphones. Congrats boys!

Mikey Radziwon and his party pants

Mike Brokeoff is the nicest dude in the galaxy

Jon Montana can ride metal as good as he can edit videos

(L-R): Jon Montana (3rd), Mikey Radziwon (1st), and Mike Brokeoff (2nd)

As for the ladies, Omatic ripper, Alice Gong claimed the top spot on the podium. Bre Wright took home a new Omatic stick for her second place efforts. Third place was filled by Erica Stark after destroying all three rails.

Alice Gong, repping the Omatic family

Bre Wright

Erica Stark

(L-R): Erica Stark (3rd), Alice Gong (1st), and Bre Wright (2nd)

Now that the Cricket Campus Rail Jam Tour crew has successfully spred the shred in seven states, it is time for the guys to head back to Oregon to prep for one more event on their home turf before the Portland Finals on May 30th! Be sure to check out www.campusrailjamtour.com for a live webcast of the finals from REELcomp!