Last Man, Trevor Johnson. Photo sucks but winning $500 and being backed by Denial doesn't.
In short, there's too much to say about the comp from the ups and the downs but it still went down with quite a bang. Trevor Johnson was the Last Man Standing and $500.00 richer after throwing several disaster spin tricks on an uncertain down box that held its own amidst the hammers.
Franco; moments before he suffered from head trauma.
Franco Cammayo took an early fall at Spot 1 that devastated the 100+ crowd leaving everyone speechless for several moments. Thanks and much respect to Franco for always giving it his all and never holding back when he skates. Big thanks to Timothy Ramos, fellow skater and EMT who always carries a set of supplies for these situations. Franco did go the hospital eventually and is now recovering nicely in the comfort of his friends and family and says that he should be back at it before long.
Hyper Mike_Bank to Fish to Fakie
Amidst the massive gathering one could find Matt Andrews, Davee Blair, Mike "murda" Johnson, Billy "fish" O'Neill, Alex Nunez, Ramelle Knight, Mikey Cancel, Ray Mendez, Julian Bah, Ralphy Herrera, Rob G, John Stephens, Sam Grimm, Tato Gonzalez, the Brown Brothers, Jon Ortiz, Ryan Jacklone and countless other NYC originators that I have not had the pleasure of meeting. Joey Graziano was also on site handing out free "Casualty Killers" T-shirts, and the ohh so lovely Red Bull Girls made several rounds throughout the afternoon until their little vehicle was cleaned out, so big thanks to these Free Promotions. NYC local and Puerto Rico native, Josh Diaz or Jose also kicked in several free items from his budding clothing line that can be seen at PyskoClothing.com and Craig Benabu was around sporting and hustling the hot new foil "I Roll NY" T's that should be available soon through http://www.myspace.com/irollny.
Craig Benabu, wondering where the ball went?
Host and founder Victor Callender out did himself this time around with help from MC, Rah and go to guy, John "fry guy" Ortiz, not to be confused with Jon Ortiz. Product tosses were held several times throughout the event allowing loads of kids to get their hands on some new threads, wheels, frames, backpacks, and many other items. Heck, a shirt practically flew into my arms during one of these sporadic product tosses.
right to left: Victor w/ his child, Rah, & John.
Though Trevor won all, several skaters deserve notable mention for their efforts & for pulling off some difficult shit. Among these guys I can recall Julian Bah with a deep gap from the ramp to the rail to drop, Robert Guerrero, Tato & Ariel Suron skated extremely fast and clean, Justin Benson had a lofty 'kindgrind from flat' at Spot 2 and Lavelle Wimberly cleared Spot 2 with a massive 180ยบ, mute, i believe. Evan G was also reported to have been getting more than just air by gapping to the ledge at Spot 2 with tricks like fishbrain and sweaty. Some other key skaters were Mike Kazberuk, Will Torres, James Perez, Hyper Mike & a few others who's names I failed to catch, so sorry if I missed you.
Julian Bah, with biggest stunt of the night_Launch from ramp to Royale on rail to Drop.
Thanks to all of the supporters and sponsors including Rollerblade, Razors, Eulogy, & any others that I missed.
Thanks to Victor for putting this together and for all those that made it out.
Thanks to all the skaters that paid to enter and busted their ass to represent Rolling.
Here's a link to more photo's: http://photobucket.com/LastManStanding2008
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Thanks to Craig Benabu for getting the Julian Bah "gap to rail" sequence as well as the Hyper Mike "fish" and countless other shots in my photobucket album.
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