GVK #58: PDX Dew Tour
Got this one out quick, results are just in And it goes like this. 1 S white 2 Bucky 3 PLG. The guys at the Dew Tour give me a pass every year. I wonder if they know I am not the real Media Director at Skate and Annoy. That’s the title I tell them I am branded with. I suppose it could be true I will have to check with Human Resources to be sure. This year I had the honor of being able to film practice here’s what I got. Oh yeah X-games gold medal winner Pedro qualified into the final and fell during practice and dislocated his elbow he did not ride the final. Arm in cast Vicodin in mouth. It was fun as hell to watch him practice. This contest always gets me so excited about Vert let’s build a ramp. GROVER OUT.
UPDATE: The video is back, not quite sure why it disappeared.
Grover’s Video Korner #58: 2010 Dew Tour
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I know this is fairly 1989 of me, but I wish there was a vert ramp closer than five hours away from me. Just saying, it’s been awhile.
The “problem” with vert is that the simplest blasting (black shirt black shorts guy at 1:30) often is the most visually appealing. Which is why I would rather watch – say – the Animal Chin vert scenes than PLG any day (though even a documentary on PLG the person might not be QUITE as corny as the rest of THAT movie). I just wish they’d reward style some… not so that simpler moves take precedence, but so that appealing skating does. It seems like vert skating is behind even olympic snowboarding in this regard, cuz that at least had the good sense to require one “straight” air judged on style and amplitude.
Shawn White was doing inverts. Bucky did some at Pier. It was cool to see that. It would have been cool to see one across that 8 foot gap.
First of all: My hat’s off to anyone who can even drop in on a vert ramp…
But
Because there’s no real forum to discuss it or bring it up (except this one): Shaun White apparently wants to do a “1080″ (or “1260″?) on a skateoard (and on live tv) someday, which will eclipse Tony Hawk’s 900.
When White does his aerial spins, he rotates horizontally, like a merry-go-round or record player, whereas, Tony Hawk spins vertically, like a tire. (Pardon the simplified language…I don’t know the technically precise way to describe it).
So,
Is one kind of spin more difficult than the other? It looks to me like Hawk’s spin is more technically difficult to set up but which can generate the inertia to pull off a longer spin altogether. White’s spin looks easier to set up but more difficult to sustain (getting gigantic air on the snow gives him more time to spin…he does not have that option on a skate, given the limitations.)
Is White’s version easier? The same? More difficult? And should it count as out-doing Hawk when the day comes that he completes the maneuver? Is it a different maneuver altogether?
(And were it determined to be different, would ESPN even allow anyone to claim that White didn’t break Hawk’s record, since the breaking of the record would be one of those planned “spontaneous” live-tv events that Shaun White is probably contracted not to do anywhere but at the xgames…)
Who’s ‘Shaun White’? Sounds like a WWE wrestler to me.
He will not ‘eclipse’ Tony’s 900 because with an eclipse,like a solar eclipse you need a certain number of elements come together AT THE SAME TIME.
Hawk will forever be in the books.
Who cares…
Flat spins should DEFINITELY be called out; they’re butt-ugly. But they SHOULD count at least as much as the 900 that I saw someone attempt at a little bowl last weekend, when he finger-spun his board on its tail while waiting around on the bowl’s deck (this just in: he didn’t pull it).
nobody does inverts anymore
Shawn White has 2 liptricks. A frontside lipslide & the occasional Andrecht invert. The rest of his runs are (I am not underestimating his talents….he is very skilled)just variations of big airs. The bigger airs make for better TV as those seem to be the most “flashy” tricks to the non-skateboarding viewers.
However, I’d rather watch Ben Schroeder rip technical lip tricks than watch the “Flying Tomato” do the same airs over & over any day.
Where’s the link?
OK,thanks.
Move that contest to concrete and it’d get more interesting.
funny you should say that – last paragraph
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/08/dew_tour_white_tricks_his_way.html
I love to watch these guys rip, ramp, park, bowl, whatever… but HELL YEA!
Shaun White=so solid
Diaz=so fun to watch
Parelson=the new Hosoi
Nice way to put it.
Loriface is rad as hell too. Gonna be fun to watch that dude in the next few years.
“This contest always gets me so excited about Vert let’s build a ramp. GROVER”
Likes this
vert ramps are highly recommended as a supplement to a steady diet of round wall.