Congrats, Dustin! After the second of three runs in the Finals, Jereme was in first and Dustin knew he had to step it up. He stepped for sure and now Dustin is joining us at X Games Austin where The Boardr Am Finals are going down. Thanks everyone and Modern Skatepark for hosting.
Dustin Blauvelt Wins The Boardr Am at Detroit
Published 4/8/2015 by Rob Meronek
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Half of The Boardr Boys crew goes road trip, the other half goes by air. The road trips involved a lot of scenes like this.
Over on site at the Contest, we ran into Detroit local ripper Dustin Blauvelt with his son Silas and father Tom that we've know for years from them coming to all our events.
It was nice to see a lot of supportive families in the crowd.
Watch for Tim O'Connor's interviews in a separate video. I wonder what he's got for this kid.
Nice to see a fair share of female skateboarders out in Detroit, too.
Dustin Blauvelt needed to step it up to get back into first in the final runs, so he started gapping into everything, like this gap to frontside feeble.
High fives all around in the crowd.
Dustin and his son Silas, who we will see in The Boardr Am in about 10 years for sure.
We landed in Detroit early, but a rainy day had us lost without skating. So, we went into tourist mode and went to Eminem's house he grew up in, now torn down after a recent fire. People take bark from the tree out front as souvenirs.
George has owned Modern Skatepark since long before we were all rolling. We're hyped to meet him and get the tour of the place prior to the Contest.
The shop at Modern.
George has a stockpile of old skate stuff, including this Indy Rollerskate Truck. Wow, I keep forgetting skateboarding roots are in rollerskating.
Speaking of rollerskates, we found this old adidas boot in his pile of 30+ years of stash.
Anyone even know what copers are?
Now we're at the Packard factory for more tourist mission while the rain dumps.
There's endless life advice in graffiti.
Now we're at local B. Nektar Meadery where they mix up tasty sudsy brew and were kind enough to invite the whole crew over for dinner and a facility tour.
And the sign says...
Deep dish delights with ripping brew can't be beat.
Contest Announcer Scotty The Body Conley and Miranda from B. Nektar compare social media notes.
Brad breaks down the passion turned to liquid behind the scenes.
Experimental sauce.
Mandatory crew photo with the B. Nektar staff.
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