adidas Skate Copa NYC Regionals are a wrap. Check the Qualifiers Results here and the Finals brackets progress below. Congrats to the Labor Skate Shop crew that gets an all expenses paid trip to The Berrics for the Finals in July. Next stop for adidas Skate Copa is Atlanta on May 31. I've got some photos for you here and HiDefJoe has the video recap below.
Rodrigo is here with the adidas team warming up at LES before they hit the streets. Check the sequence of this bolts nollie backside flip.
Profile: Rodrigo TeixeiraRodrigo's got it bolts both ways. What do you say? Nollie frontside flip or nollie half Cab flip? I say nollie half Cab flip to give Cab the credit.
Profile: Rodrigo TeixeiraA friend of ours told us about this burning ritual where you write down your biggest goals for the future, then set them on fire. Clements is giving it a try. I wonder if it will work. We'll check back here in about five years and we'll see.
Profile: Ryan ClementsHiDefJoe is putting together a quick coverage edit for the day. adidas and The Berrics are coming soon with edits going more in depth in each city that we go to.
Profile: Joe Pelham aka HiDefJoeRyan realized you can't really ask anyone to go into that sketchy water and dig through the drain, so he went Huck Finn and did it himself. Two drains cleared of cans, bags, sticks, and other sketchy garbage, and the course is on its way to being dry. Thanks, Ryan!
Profile: Ryan ClementsCheck-in was a little busy with most people getting here Saturday morning so I didn't have too much time for skate photos. I snuck in a few here and there, though. That's Keith Hardy with a frontside nosegrind.
Profile: Keith HardyJudges on this one were Jason Rothmeyere, Pat Stiener, and Dan Pensyl. Jason has a nice interview on Jenkem about judging skateboarding contests.
Profile: Jason RothmeyerGonz is here with his new baby, just two months old and already lurkin' the skateboard shindigs. Congrats, Mark! That's Jascha from adidas and Tia his girlfriend with him.
Profile: Mark GonzalesPiro is a recent resident of NYC. We seem to have the same schedule of bouncing around from northeast to southeast lately.
Profile: Piro SierraSkateboarding's mayor of NYC, Steve Rodriguez, and Jim Anfuso from adidas are long time friends that caught up here in the city. Being in NYC, especially at a skate event, gets you back together with a lot of old friends.
Profile: Steve RodriguezMarkin' out on Mark, part two. Someone brought an old Gonz Vision board for him to sign.
Profile: Mark GonzalesRyan Clements and Billy Rohan in a nice circle of skateboard business chatter. Billy has a million ideas on new ventures.
Profile: Billy RohanPlay the sequence to see how popped that exit is on Mark Schwartz' feeble 360 flip out. At each stop, we're picking a few special award winners to get $250 for things like this. Mark came up on one for this trick.
Profile: Mark SchwartzJordan Gesko with NJ did this 360 flip 50-50 a few times as they advanced through the Finals brackets.
Profile: Jordan GeskoSome of the special awards we give include random things we'll make up as the day goes on. Nate Jackson got Best Old Dude and $250.
Profile: Nate JacksonLabor Skate Shop right around the corner in Chinatown won it at this stop. They get all expenses paid for a trip to the series Finals at The Berrics on July 11.
Profile: Keith HardyAll photographers had to stop what they were doing when Gonz started skating the tranny to fence with his fake hand.
Profile: Mark GonzalesJake Keenan got the Skate Better than you Look Award. They were saying he's like the Euro Ryan Clements that can skate good.
Profile: Jake KeenanThanks adidas for buying this pizza tower for not just the skaters in the Contest, but everyone on site hanging out. Thanks Porpe for all the help not just today, but in the pre-planning for setting all this up. He has amazing stories on dealing with cities for permits and all the other gub'ment red tape you deal with in having an event like this.
Profile: Jorge Angel aka PorpeWe're hoping to have Tim on the mic at every one of these stops. Get the full schedule here.
Profile: Tim O'ConnorLater that night, we randomly ran into Austyn on the streets of NYC. It seems New York has a real small town feel to it when things happen like that.
Profile: Austyn GilletteIf you're flying in or out of Laguardia, make sure to get a seat on the left side of the plane. The view is pretty amazing. Thanks everyone for coming and thanks adidas for putting together this super fun shop vs shop event for the whole country to participate in. By the time we're done, we'll have met and skated with over 100 shops across America. Next round should be Earth, not just America.
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