Skateboards, Vert Ramps, and TomatoesPosted at 08:11:11 AM
I got your Skate Vert news right here, Bucko. Quit eyeballin’ me wouldya? Alright, so the big news of course is Mister ActionSportsGod/GoldMedal/Snow/Skate/AmexCard (I’m talkin’ ‘bout Shaun White here, genius) already clinched the Dew Tour title with a third in SLC, by like a point. You know you’re pretty much a stud if you can clinch a title with a third with one event left to go. If I clinched the $75k, I’d be sittin’ on a beach somewhere sippin’ on Mai Tais, but that’s just me. Not Mister ActionSportsGod/GoldMedal/Snow/Skate/AmexCard, though. He wants it all, and who can blame him. Just like SLC, he pretty much ruled prelims with a couple nice laps around the U-jump – enough huge spin combos to make your head, er, spin. That’s not where the similarities to SLC end, more on that later. The ever-consistent Bucky Lasek grabbed the number two position with Pierre Luc Gagnon in third. Familiar names rounded out the rest of the final - Andy Macdonald, Jean Postec, and Bob Burnquist. Danny Mayer, Sandro Dias, Anthony Furlong, and go211 Pro Rider Adam Taylor also made the top-ten Finals cut.
OK, so Finals time rolls around and everyone of course is thinking that Mister ActionSportsGod/GoldMedal/Snow/Skate/AmexCard is going to steamroll the comp once again. Well, not so fast, pardner. There’s a new (well, kinda new) gun in town, goes by the name of Lasek . Bucky, the defending 06 overall champ, hadn’t won an event in ’07. Probably because of that pesky knee surgery thingy. What, Bucky? Can’t ride a skateboard with marbles rolling around in your knee? There had been whisperings that maybe the old man had lost a step and was ready to pass the torch. We’ll just see about that.
So, Mister ActionSportsGod/GoldMedal/Snow/Skate/AmexCard got his first run in, but while practicing between runs, he fell and hit his head very hard onto flat bottom and couldn’t return for his last two runs. So that left the door wide open, Bucky and PLG made the most of it, rocked the house with some great vertical skateboarding, and finished one and two, with Bucky grabbing his first win of the season at the last event of the season. And, lest you think that Bucky only won it because Mister ActionSportsGod/GoldMedal/Snow/Skate/AmexCard was incapacitated, think again, Bucko. The Buckster won the event with the highest score of the season, a 94.50. So, there. Bucky, you ever gonna let go of that torch? So where did Mister ActionSportsGod/GoldMedal/Snow/Skate/AmexCard end up? His first run got him a third just like in SLC.  |  |  | | 1st | White, Shaun | 87 | | 2nd | Lasek, Bucky | 85.5 | | 3rd | Gagnon, Pierre-Luc | 83.25 | | 4th | Macdonald, Andy | 82.75 | | 5th | Postec, Jean | 82.5 | | 6th | Burnquist, Bob | 81.5 | | 7th | Mayer, Danny | 80.25 | | 8th | Dias, Sandro | 80 | | 9th | Furlong, Anthony | 79.75 | | 10th | Taylor, Adam | 77.75 |
|  | | | | | 1st | Lasek, Bucky | 95.5 | | 2nd | Gagnon, Pierre-Luc | 94 | | 3rd | White, Shaun | 91 | | 4th | Macdonald, Andy | 88.25 | | 5th | Furlong, Anthony | 83.75 | | 6th | Postec, Jean | 83.25 | | 7th | Taylor, Adam | 82.25 | | 8th | Dias, Sandro | 71.75 | | 9th | Burnquist, Bob | 68.5 | | 10th | Mayer, Danny | 65.25 |
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