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If it would have been a long jump
contest, Donny Barley (above) would
have taken it anyway. Mike Maldonado
(opposite) went Neil spelled backwards in the corner.
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STORY
BY BRAN
SCHAEFER
PHOTOS
BY ADAM
WALLACAVAGE
RANK
There was a lot more to this weekend than just
another contest. It just so happened to be the
third anniversary of the Skatepark of Tampa,
which included three very talented bands, five
kegs of beer, skateboarding and about four hun-
dred people. The whole celebration started a lit-
tle bit early due to the arrival of Peter Hewitt,
Tom Penny, Rune Glifberg, Jordan Richter.
Donny Barley and Matt Moffet. They were sup-
posed to do a demo on January 8th, with the
contest stretching from the 15th to the 21st. The
demo went on as scheduled, so I would have to
say our what was planned to be one week of fun
automatically turned into two, since it has been
a cold winter for us over here on the East Coast.
People Who Didn't Make The Street Cut
To begin with, the final cut was sixteen skaters
out of forty-one. The cut consisted of two one-
minute runs, best one counted.
Kevin Taylor took the 17th spot with consistent
skating-backside noseblunts on the 6-foot tall
quarter-pipe and K-grinds down the handrail.
Rob Beasley, who dislocated his jaw and took a
nice chin split, did backside 180 nosegrinds,
backside 180' out.
Chris Keeffe: backside 50/50 down the handrail.
Cairo Foster: nollie hardflips and nollie frontside
5-0 the handrail.
Jesse Sorensen: backside 180' kickflips, switch
frontside Smith grinds.
Ellisa Stemer was the only girl who entered
the street contest. She took a few hard falls and
still gave everyone a lesson with nollie switch
K-grinds and nollies over the pyramid.
The Street Cut
16th-Tim Kulas: solid runs, big transfers, could
have done better but want to the beach instead
of skating in the finals.
15th-Matt Branson couldn't skate in the finals
due to a knee injury during the preliminaries:
powerful skating, big backside 180's, blindside
ollie to fakie from quarter-pipe to vert wall.
14th-Peter Bici ollied over everything and
surfed the tidal wave.
13th-Neil Urwin: big pop shove-its and con-
sistency all the way from Newcastle, England.
12th-Steve Young: frontside tailslides through
the corner.
11th-Bam Margera.
10th-Aaron Mitchell.
9th-Allen Russell: smooth lines, fakie ollie
backside nosegrinds.
8th-Neal Mims: switch frontside 180° flips and
kickflips over the pyramid.
7th-Brian Childers: salad grinds and nose-
grinds down the handrail, 6-foot frontside airs.
6th-Mike Maldonado: backside lipslides down
the rail, backside bluntslides to fakie on the box.
5th-Phil Hajal: consistent runs, alley-oop
frontside ollies from bank to bank.
4th-Kenny Hughes: backside lipslides down
the handrail, frontside kickflips on the quarter-
pipe and pure powerhouse skating.
3rd-Sean Mullendore: kickflip backside 5-0
grinds on the box every time, powerful ollies
and great style.
2nd-Brian Seber: switch wallrides, super con-
sistent and extra-large kickflips to fakie from
bank to bank.
1st-Donny Barley, the winner of the street
style competition without any doubt: big trans-
fers over the coping monster, full speed ahead
frontside ollies over the channel to frontside
Smith grinds into the bank and, to put the icing
on the cake, frontside 180 switch Smith grinds
down the handrail.