At Saturday’s Skate Open (the only skate-only stop on the Dew Tour), TransWorld SKATEboarding will be hosting the Best Trick contest immediately following the finals. Skaters like Eric Koston, Nick Dompierre, Tommy Sandoval, Sheckler, and P-Rod are out already out there, so it should be a banger.
Look for the coverage right here on skateboarding.com or tune into NBC’s coverage on Saturday and Sunday from 4–6 p.m. EST.
Prelims are underway here in Boston at the Dew Tour's World Championship of Skateboarding. Here are my first impressions:
Seeing skateboarding go down on the floor of the Boston Garden is surreal. We're talking about a place where the Celtics play, where Larry Bird dribbled and dunked, a giant among mere mortals. To see skaters out there and being cheered for and embraced by this serious sports town crowd, is pretty cool.
The other thing I'm surprised by here in Boston is the varied assortment of contest pros, skateboard heroes and what I like to call "rando-comandos." Sure Chaz Ortiz is here and Ryan Sheckler and Terry Kennedy. And sure the random Brazilian pros are here who earn a good chunk of their living skating in comps. But the weird thing is the amount of skateboard heroes and rando-comandos that are scattered across the park course. Turn your neck one way and you'll spot David Gonzales, Chris Cole and Nick Dompierre. Turn your neck the other direction and you'll see some Asian, Canadian or South American pro who's never sold a board in the United States. And I mean no disrespect to those guys either; some of them are seriously killing it out there. Here's my quick hit lists of guys I was expecting to see (who are all here) and guys who I'm pleasantly surprised to see
Talk about unexpected. Tony Trujillo is here?! Rad.
Predictably Present:
Ryan Sheckler
Chaz Ortiz
Terry Kennedy<
Fabrizio Santos
Tyler Hendley
Chad Fernandez
Carlos De Andrade
Dane Brummet
The Ramos bros.
Kurtis Colamonico< (who looks like he may have had a sponsor upgrade: He's rocking DGK gear y'all!)
Pleasantly Surprised to See:
Nick Dompierre
Jake Duncombe
Danny Fuenzalida
Peter Ramondetta
Billy Rohan
Dave Bachinsky
David Gonzalez
Ryan Decenzo
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