The boys walked in to a standing room only crowd. In this is pic from left to right are: Javier Sarmiento, Bastien Salabanzi, Eric Fletcher, John White, Ray Barbee, Rodrigo TX, & David Gonzales.
This crowd was huge and hyped!!! and when I say huge I mean the biggest crowd I'd ever seen down here and when I say hyped I mean there were doing the wave!!, yes literally doing the wave.
This is Mark Appleyard getting warmed up with a Nollie Crook. He started ripping after his first run. He skated fast and hard while going deep into his bag of tricks.
Eric Fletcher is a midwest ripper. Thats right, he's from Iowa and he's an Am for Flip. You might remember him the 2004 Damn Am. This is a Nose Grind BS 180 Out
Oh my god, its's Ray Barbee!! Yes, he was here!!! and he killed it!! Ray skated hard and he kept up with the young guns - no problem. This is just an elegant Kickflip BS TS.
An Am but not for long - Danny Gonzales is gifted. He looks so natural on a skateboard its almost ridiculous. He's 15 years old, with spaggetti noodles for legs. No, he's just skinny as heck. He just stomps this Kickflip 5-0.
Here's Geoff Rowley getting warmed up on the banked extension. Just a quick little BS Grind to TS to get the feel of it. Then after this he friggin owned that thing.
Another AM ripper that was on the F'east Tour was John White. Here he powers through a BS Overcrooks. He skated well on this demo and has a good, smooth syle.
The last Am to round out the pack was Danny Cerezini. He's been making a big name for himself as of lately. I've seen alot of coverage and I got to say that I'm impressed. A super high catch on this BS Flip.
I only one good pic of Tom Penny and this is it. A Switch FS NS that he just glided into with ease. It was cool to see this legend of skateboarding in the flesh. I got to say hi and he seemed real nice.
Here's the rest of Geoff Rowley's annilation of the banked extension. Next up is this BS Noseblunt that he just ollied up two feet above the lip and bashed into his nose, popped off, and just nailed the landing through the kink on the way down.
Just replace the BS on that last sentence with a FS.
He also thru in a BS TS for good measure.
Appleyard wasn't afraid of the banked extension either. This is an effortless Blunt to Fakie.
The last banger that I got from Appleyard was this BS Big Spin. Super sick board control and nails the landing with style. That's Ian in the camo jacket - one of the
Flip guys
Ray Barbee got right into the over-the-barrier session with this 360 Flip and you know he was smilin' when he rode away.
David Gonzales has a big pop for a little kid. This Nollie 180 was pretty sick and the crowd loved it!!
This is another shot of Geoff Rowley's FS Noseblunt. I like this one too because its
got a view of all the spectators that were
here to show their support.
Then all the spectators were rewarded with
a nice product toss and every single one of them got a poster, a post card, and autographs of all the riders.
Click on this last pic to see some more spectator shots and the meet & greet...
