By Giancarlo Zavalaga
Everything started Thursday when I picked up my friend Danny aka “Legañita” from the Tampa airport. I haven’t seen him in a while and we had a good time catching up talking about all of our friends in Lima. Then we Skated at the park by my house before going to eat at a Peruvian restaurant where the food is really good, when we finished eating we headed to the Skatepark of Tampa for a night session. Friday was the team manager’s contest and I couldn’t make it because I was working but I was able to go to the after party at Czar Club in Ybor City, which was insane. Saturday, I arrived at 4 o’clock and all the pros were already there; Colin McKay, Peter Smolik, Pat Duffy, Ronnie Creager, Eric Koston, P Rod, Scheckler, T Pud and many others. This year wasn’t as good as the previous year but was still worth watching. After the contest ended, we went to the Reservoir Bar which is where everybody hangs out for now until the Skatepark of Tampa (SPOT) opens its own bar called “The Bricks”. The finals were on Sunday and this time I made it out early to watch the whole contest. I wanted to see Luan Oliveira doing his crazy tricks again, he turned pro this year and he definitely didn’t disappoint. He did all his tricks perfect especially the switch heel bigspin 540. P Rod was doing a perfect nollie 180 backside front foot flips on the pyramid like it was nothing; he had really good runs and was this year’s winner. Second Place went to Nyjah Houston and Third Place went to Keegan Sauder, the Best Trick Award was given to Matt Miller for a crazy ass backside noseblunt.
That was all for this year, hopefully next year will be even better. Next up is Maloof in NY and I can’t wait to be there.
Here are some pics from the contest. CFL!!!!!
