I know all of you are wondering what went down yesterday.....well here is the brief update. At 2PM it rained like a hurricane and destroyed tents and flooded the site. We thought it was going to let up....but it didn't. At 4:30 with it still raining we had to make a call to call the thing or not. The County said that there was a large rain system that had lightning that was following the system that had just passed and that is was going to come in another 45mins. So with that said we both agreed to cancel the event. Then it started to clear up and everything was looking good....and it looked like we could pull it off.....so we went back to the County to try to tell them that we wanted to now GO FOR IT!!! However....they stood firm on their decision and kept the event cancelled for safety reasons. We could do nothing about it. You can't fight mother nature or the County when it comes to public safety!
So......we decided to move the whole thing to the Paradise skatepark in Merritt Island where our other shop is. My brother Jake came up with the quick idea to throw a bench at the bottom of the six stair and just do a best trick over that. The skatepark was packed! The 45 min jam sesh went down....and when it was all over our boy and VRS team rider John Cornell took third place and $250 with a backside 360, Brent Sowinski from Westside took second and $500 with a switch backside heel flip, and our boy Matt Fink (who took 2nd last year in Big Riggin) came back this year to get his switch tre.......well he did....and it took first place and $1000.
In the end it turned out to be a pretty good GSD '08. Big thanks to all the reps for sponsoring the event and kicking down the product for the product toss, Element Andy for coming out, Dennis at Paradise for letting us use the park at the last minute, Jim and his boy that filmed for 411 for coming out, Kevin from Calvary for letting us use his PA last minute....and I can't forget my whole crew that worked for months trying to make this whole thing happen...Joe, Jimmy, James, Bobby, Jake, Sam, Tommy, Josh, Justin, Nate, Ricky, Erik....and everyone else that had a hand in this thing - THANKS!
Stay tuned for more pics and video as we get it.....Dan Q