george crosland photo blog

Bucky Lasek Egg plant 540. His body gets all contorted like Jim Greco in the Baker 3 video - so sick, especially in a 13 foot deep cement hole. Check his sigh of relief in the last photo. Also, check his arm for scars, Bucky never wears elbow pads - gnarly. He once told me “ther has to be some risk you know”

After all my travelling, time to post something from closer to home. Steven - front 1 in Encinitas

Another view

The Damn Am guys ripped so hard we thought we would show you more

Third Lair skateshop in Minnesota has always been supportive of the Damn Am and they had some skaters to represent! Tom Rohrer gets all tech on the big wall…sick

Litttle Chazz Ortizz was ripping in the semi finals, heres a flip to board

Marques from Wisconsin, he is from Milwaukee, not France so just say Markus

Moose! with a 360 ollie

Another shot of the winner, David Loy, getting super crit on the rail

Colin Hale front 180’s off the platform and over the Halloween skull

Taylor Bingamen skates like a mad man!

Marquise Preston

Ryan Decenzo - Hardflip

Chris Troy - Tre flip

Antoine Asseline barely reels in this Big Flip

The Podium, l-r, Shuriken Shannon (3rd) David Loy (1st) and Cody McEntire (3rd)

The sixth annual Damn Am Finals day just got done at the Volcom facility. Imagine over 200 of the worlds best am skaters with their family friends and spectators all gathering at one location. It was a splendid affair and I was excited to be able to check it out. If you ever get a chance to see the Damn Am in person, do it. It is kick ass, super fun and you see the up and coming talent. The vibe is friendly but the competition fierce. These guys mostly compete against themselves though and not against each other. There are no real rivalries, only friendships. The crew did a great job putting it on, thanks to endless people for making it happen, read on…

Cody McEntire came out all the way from Texas and this nollie big heel shows why he stomped 2^nd place. The top 5 or so guys skated at a full pro level. It was a sick day!

Adam Dyet tried a backside ollie tail kickflip out about 450 times in the best trick comp. He would have made it but it was getting dark. His determination shows why this Damn Am will be his last amateur event

Andrew Pott got a flat tire on the way in to the contest at the Volcom facilities in Costa Mesa, CA and was late as a result but he was not late stomping this big spin

Anthony Schultz skates all fast and bad ass so he fits right in on Black Label- kickflip board. The event was kick ass with great skating and free food for everyone

Antoine Asseline with a pop shuv it down the Red Bull 8, or I guess it is a four-flat-four

Axel is a young buck that came all the way from Belgium. Just shows you that kids come not only from all over the US but the world to compete in the Damn Am

Brendon Keaveny hard flips over the hydrant

Chris Troy with a sick ass tre flip, almost as sick as all the free product that was given away in the product toss after the event

Danny Rosario back lips into 8^th place, that is 8^th place out of 200 skaters so not bad

Event winner David Loy. I think it was his HUGE ollie off the tractor trailer back into the course that locked it in for him

Derek Simon front flips over the round bar

Dustin Figueroa rocks a nose grind and he did not even get in the finals. Pretty much any of the guys in the semi finals could become pro if the eat their Weaties and put in some time

Jordan Williams won the best trick event, here he is with a smith grind not in the best trick comp but at least you get to see the best trick event winner

Josh Madsen with his 5^th place best trick; a roll out to fingerflip in. If you saw it in person you would understand how sketchy this was. The best trick event was a 30 minute jam on the wall ride thing

Max Genin came all the way from France but he got 4^th place: that seems worth a trip across the pond. back smith

Mike with a sick ass blunt after the 30 minute buzzer in the best trick jam so it did not count. The rail jam was 30 minutes of chaos and sickness kids

Riley with a blunt slide, yes that Riley…Tony Hawk’s son. Can he skate? Hell yea he can skate, he made the semi finals

Ryan Decenzo - kickflip board. Doing well in the Damn Am took a combo of consistency and throwing some big tricks here and there

No explanation needed, it is Halloween

Shaun Stulz lips around the difficult c-bar

Shurikan with an insane nollie flip, no surprise he rocked 3^rd place, he was skating at a pro level

Tanner Zalinski – ally oop melon disaster on the big wall

Taylor Bingamen is getting a checkout in Transworld soon that is pretty legit, eh?

Terrell on top of it all

The battlefield

Results
1 David Loy

2 Cody McEntire

3 Shuriken Shannon

4 Max Genin

5 Brendan Keaveny

6 Tanner Zelinsky

7 Antoine Asselin

8 Danny Rosario

9 Chris Troy

10 Ryan Decenzo

11 Anthony Schultz

12 Shaun Stulz

Finals had 12 guys

13 Tommy Werner

14 Albert Madrid

15 Moose!

16 Chazz Ortiz

17 Andrew Pott

18 Alex Mizuroz

19 Riley Hawk

20 Axel Cruyberghs

21 Jordan Williams

22 Colin Hale

23 Ray Maldonado

24 Danny Cerezeni

25 Devin Lynn

26 David Bachinsky

27 Justin Figueroa

28 Marius Syvanen

29 Derek Simon

30 Ryan Yost

31 Tom Rohrer

32 Taylor Bingamen

33 Marquis DeVaughn

34 Chris Awong

35 John Dickson

36 Marquise Preston

Best Trick
1 Jordan William – backside nose blunt

2 Jared – hardflip revert

3 Chris – alley oop front smith

4 Adam Dyet – feeble grind 270 out and endless tries at a backside ollie tail kickflip out

5 Josh Madsen – rollout to finger flip out

Our favorite little ripper - around the anti skate obstacle and into a front 50-50

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