The first day of the trifecta

Hey!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, the past few days have been very eventful.

The first contest of the Oregon Trifecta was in Lincoln City, my favorite of the three parks.

We arrived at about 9AM to warm up. Luckily, I figured out a couple more lines and tricks right before the contest started. Right around noon the park became a zoo and there were about 10 people skating the bowl simultaneously. The contest is jam format which consists of about 6 people skating the bowl at the same time for 10 minutes. The ladies division went first and I happened to be in the first of three heats. My heat was really really fun (except when I crashed into Gaby's stray board) I did really well and landed a good amount of tricks including frontside airs onto the vert extension, frontside rocks on a really quick vert wall, airs over the spine, and one-footed blunt stalls. I basically skated the entire 10 minutes (which is a really long time to be skating hard non-stop!) and when the heat was over I could barely catch my breath for at least 5 minutes. When all three heats ended, I was excited to find out that I placed 2nd and qualified for finals. Unfortunatley, I hate finals. Right before the finals heat I got a little stressed out and didn't skate as well as I wanted to. I ended up landing a bunch of tricks, however, they were linked by many many MANY slams. I crashed into Amee Jay Papallaro as well as Nicole Zuck. Somehow I made it to the end of the heat in one piece (or so I thought.) Right after finals I felt as though I could pass out at any moment, and thought that I was just dehydrated. (When the feelings of nausea, dizzyness and lightheadedness continued into the next two days, we figured out that I got a concussion during the finals heat, but I'll get into the details of that later.)

After the contest, I was given a bunch of decks from Jim Gray, the owner of Scarecrow Skateboards, who skated in the masters divisions of the contests. Also, I was picked up by War Horse wheels and bearings. Then I tried to rest up in the car for a few hours.

Later, I decided to emerge from the car in order to witness the destruction of Lincoln City skatepark by the skaters in the pro division. These guys skated amazingly and executed a countless amount of tricks on the vert wall including back crails, back disasters, front disasters, front smiths and inverts. The level of skateboarding, especially in the pro finals, was just mind-boggling.

Here are the results!

Ladies:

1st: Annie Sullivan (she broke her elbow at the very end!)

2nd: Jodi Mcdonald

3rd: Me! (I was very surprised by this, but still excited)

Masters:

1st: Glen Charnoski

2nd: Buck Smith

3rd: Pat Ngoho

Pro:

1st: Rune Glifberg

2nd: Benji Galloway

3rd: Mark Red Scott

I'll let you know about the next two contest days next time!

Amelia