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Here are the results of the rest of the Florida Bowl Riders
Pro:
1. Benji Galloway
2. Morgan Burgess
3. Jimmy the Greek
4. Donovan Rice
5. Mason Huggins
6. Nolan Munroe
7. Michael O.

Masters:
1.Buck Smith
I forgot the rest but Paul Ohara from Pioneers placed 5th.
It was a good weekend for Rye locals!
Next week I'll be in California getting ready for the Pro Tec Pool Party, so I'll post some more skate adventures then!
Amelia

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Hey!

The contest yesterday was loads of fun. The warm up session before the actual contest was even more exciting because it included skaters like Benji Galloway, Mason Huggins, Buck Smith, Sergi Ventura and a ton of other amazing pros. It was really hard to get a run in but eventually everyone just dropped in on one another and simple runs turned into big games of chicken. I loved trying to dodge everyone in between tricks.

Anyway back to the contest. Julie Kinstrand basically just destroyed every inch of coping at the park with some great lines and stylish fs layback grinds and took 1st place. I landed most of the tricks I hoped to land like tailslides and airs in the deep end, air walks to fakie, staple guns, and a bunch of grinds all over the place and ended up in 2nd. Third place went to Marlee Miller who I met two years ago at a contest in North Carolia and she has progressed a lot since. She was throwing a bunch of clean lip tricks and even doing alley-oop early grabs over the hip. Rye local Zack Rose competed in a very intense open AM division. He skated really well and threw smooth stylish airs all over the bowl. I was surprised that he didn't make it to finals, but he definitley had some tough competition.

This morning I went and skated at Oveido skate park made by Team Paine, the same company that made the Cocoa Beach park. It was an amazing park with great flow and a super fun pool with tight transitions and even a death box. Here are some pictures.

Ok I'm going to go watch the pro finals. Cross your fingers for Nolan Munroe!

Amelia

So yesterday I decided to go skate Orlando skate park. (see pictures) It was a really fun park that you could just cruise allllll day in.

After that I finally got to skate at Cocoa Beach skate park! I can honestly say that this park is my favorite out of all of the concrete parks I've ever skated (and I've skated a good amount of concrete parks). I had a really fun session with fellow north east rippers Nolan Munroe, Zack Rose and Paul from Pioneers. A couple of cool Washington guys, Mike and Sky were there too. This park has amazing flow and perfect transitions in the small section and really steep transitions in the pool coping-ed deep end. Everyone was throwing down some heavy tricks, Nolan was going upside-down in the cradle, Zack was boosting huge airs, I was doing crail slides in the deep bowl, and local Z-flex ripper Kieth was launching at least 7ft out. If you ever get the chance to skate this park, you should definitley go skate it, you won't regret it.

Ok I can't sit still any longer I'm going to go skate.

Amelia

Florida!

Hey! The 2008 World Cup skateboarding series is about to start!

I'm in Florida for the Florida Bowl Riders contest and I can't tell you how good it is to finally see the ground again instead of being surrounded by 5ft snow banks! I've never been to Florida before so I'm pretty excited to be here. The contest is this weekend at the Cocoa Beach skatepark. I went over to the park this morning for the early bird special, but the park doesn't open till 4PM! Now I don't know about you guys, but for me the urge to skate definitley takes over way earlier than that.

I mean look at this park!

Ok well I have to go skate something somewhere before I lose my mind, I'll keep you guys updated!

Amelia