Pro results: 1st place: Rune Glifberg. 2nd place: Sergie Ventura. 3rd place: Benji Galloway.

Masters: 1st place: Glen Charnoski. 2nd: Steve Alba. 3rd place: Buck Smith.

Ladies: 1st place: Julie Kindstrom. 2nd: Jessica Starkweather. 3rd place Holly Lyons.

Local Shane Bell (who placed 15th overall) was the second person to make it over the door today, and third person ever! The first two were pros, by the way. (Peter Hewitt months ago and Steve Alba during the Trifecta Grand Masters earlier in the day – C ed) He made his backside, and pulled it off a couple times today, twice in a row even. Rune Glifberg was the third person to make it over the door Saturday. He made it a handful of times as well, both front side and backside. Benji Galloway also made it over, backside as well.

I got this one posted an hour earlier tonight. I even took time off to put my kid to bed, eat dinner with my wife and watch part of a movie. That’s right. I’m a family man.

Taking a quick break from the Trifecta to post a couple of pics. Duane Peters was totally living up to the “Master of Disaster” title, it’s fun to watch that guy ride when he’s on his game.

Except this isn’t the one that he made. Bryce got it though.

Pro: 1st place: Rune Glifberg. 2nd place: Benji Galloway. 3rd place: Mark Scott

Masters: 1st place: Glen Charnoski. 2nd: Buck Smith. 3rd place Pat Ngoho.

Ladies: Sorry gals. I couldn’t remember the names when I got home. I’ll find out tomorrow.

I got these posted four minutes before midnight. Not bad.

We’re looking forward to this year’s Oregon Trifecta, even if it isn’t all in Oregon this year. In fact, I’m getting ready to head out to Lincoln City within the hour. I’m excited now, but I’m sure I’ll be sick of it by Sunday. One thing that is going to make this year’s event even more interesting is the change of venue for Saturday and Sunday. This year we’ll be at Pier Park and Battleground Washington, which should definitely help breathe some life into the series. Until then, you can relive last years stops at Lincoln City, West Linn, and Newberg.

As you know, skaters have been trickling into Oregon and hitting the parks in preparation for the 2007 Trifecta. Earth Patrol Media has a collection of shots from the Pre-fecta to get you in the mood. One in particular is a great shot.

People started showing up for the Oregon Trifecta at the beginning of the week. I ran into Salba (figuratively this time) and Glen Charnoski at Pier Park this afternoon. Damn.

I wanted to make sure I got this posted before the mayhem starts this weekend in Oregon. The small home grown scene is equally if not more important as all the high profile events in skateboarding. It’s the small companies, crews and towns that you’ve never heard of that are (-ugh-) keeping it real. In this spirit we bring you Danimal’s coverage of Albany Oregon’s annual Summer contest. Seriously guys, next year, don’t have it on a Wednesday afternoon and we might be able to make it down there.

Check it out.

UPDATE: It’s back. Ported the old static HTML and updated the link.

Australia’s Herald Sun has an article titled Skaters shun parks for concrete jungle that talks about how kids still don’t want to be confined to skateparks. While Melbourne is upping it’s skateboard deterrent budget to $50,000 a year, the city of Boroondara has an annual budget of $100,000 a year for skatepark development. 100k Australian is only about $86,000 in US dollars, but it’s still nothing to sneeze at. One of the popular street skating spots that kids keep barging is called Docklands, which near as I can tell is a redeveloped waterfront plaza that used to be, well, docks. The article mentions YouTube videos of Docklands, so I did a cursory search. There appears to be a nicely finished pedestrian park as well as a bunch of more industrial areas that appear to be abandoned or in disuse. You can watch a couple vids after the jump.

The Tuscaloosa News has a fascinating article titled LIVING ON THE EDGE – Skate park attracts enthusiasts, competitive boarders. Critical analysis of this thought provoking and controversial article after the jump.