Tim Brauch Memorial Contest

12th Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Contest Schedule October 2nd and 3rd, 2010

Details

Saturday, October 2, 2010 (Street) Scotts Valley Skate Park:
8:00 AM- 10:00 AM: Registration and Open Practice
10:30 AM- 10:45 AM: Gromz Heat 1 Practice (12 and under; 20 kids/ heat; (2)45secruns)
10:45 AM- 11:30 PM: Gromz Heat 1
11:30 AM: Gromz Heat 1 Ends; Last call for pre-registered contestants place to be held
11: 35AM – 11:50AM: Gromz Heat 2 Practice
11:50 AM – 12:35PM: Gromz Heat 2 12:30 PM- Raffle
12:35 PM – 12:40PM: Switch out
12:40PM – 1:00PM: Ams Heat 1 Practice (30 kids/heat; (2) 45 sec runs)
1:00 PM – 2:00PM: Ams Heat 1
2:00PM – 2:10PM: Switch Out
2:10PM – 2:30PM: Ams Heat 2 Practice Gromz Awards
2:30PM – 3:30PM: Ams Heat 2 3:00PM- Raffle
3:30PM – 3:40PM: Switch Out
3:40PM – 4:00PM: Ams Heat 3 Practice
4:00PM – 5:00PM: Ams Heat 3
5:00PM – 5:100PM: Switch Out
5:30PM- Awards

Sunday, October 3, 2010 (Bowl) Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park San Jose,CA:
6:30 AM- Begin Set Up
8:30 AM – 10:30 PM – Registration and Open Practice/ Opener
10:30 PM – Girls Open Practice
10:45 PM – Girls Heat 1 Jam – 5 min. warm up – 8 min. jam Street Core
11:00 PM – Girls Heat 2 Jam
11:15 PM – Girls Heat 3 Jam
11:30 PM –- Locals Practice
11:45 PM – Locals Heat 1 Clay Wheels
12:00 PM – Locals Heat 2
12:15 PM - Grandmasters Open Practice 12:15 PM- Raffle
12:30 PM – Grandmasters Heat 1 - Jam -5 min. warm-up – 8 min Shitkickers
12:45 PM – Grandmasters Heat 2 Jam
1:00 PM – Grandmasters Heat 3 Jam
1:15 PM – Pros Practice
1:30 PM – Pros Heat 1 - Jam -5 min. warm-up – 8 min No Use For A Name
1:45 PM – Pros Heat 2
2:00 PM – Pros Heat 3
2:15 PM – Pros Heat 4
2:30 PM – Pros Heat 5
2:45 PM – Pros Heat 6
3:00 PM – Pros Heat 7
3:15 PM – Pros Heat 8 3:30 Raffle
3:30 PM – G. Masters Final – top 6–10 min. warm-up-10 min jam Whiskey Sunday
3:50 PM – Pro Finals Heat 1 – 10 min. warm-up- 10 min. jam
4:10 PM – Pro Finals Heat 2
4:45 PM – Awards
7:30 PM- After party at Wahoo’s in Cupertino

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Art'N'Soul San Jose: Third Times the Charm

Last night we had another Art'N'Soul party at San Jose's Voodoo Lounge. The music was bumpin' nad the action was fast and furious. I really dug the Midtones, who played an early set. On the steel wheels we had DJ RS2 and CoCo.



The headline band was TrashKannon. Those guys were nuts.

Some familiar faces hit the skate ramp along with some newcomers. It took me a few times to get my lighting dialed in for shooting inside the dungeon that is Voodoo Lounge.

Peep the previous results on the blog and on my flickr from the two past events.

5-27 blog|5-27 flickr

6-26 blog|6-23 flickr

Third Time's the Charm











Stepping Outside

TrashKannon was loud as hell. I had to get out side to chill out for a bit.





More Skating

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Bruce's Ramp Jam 8-7-2010

Bruce came into some skatelite left over from the X Games and redid the mini in his backyard. This was cause for celebration. About 15 minutes after the construction was complete, we showed up to document the skate frenzy and BBQ that ensued.





The skate surface was fast and furious.

Mike hooked up some new Skidmark Skatemag buttons. We discussed Skidds origins and poor spelling over beers in between laps on the ramp.





Jesse spent time coaxing his grom buddies to drop in on the ramp, rolling blunts, and throwing down feeble grinds.




Three local youngsters showed up to sample the new goods. To be honest, they skated harder and faster than most of the older dudes. Here's Justin, Jesse, and Tanner.









The fastest and most aggressive runs of the night belonged to Jack. He was rippin' as usual. Here's a deadly backside feeble.



Thanks to Bruce and the VS crew for inviting us to help bring in the new ramp in style.

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Stonegate Skatepark Overlooking East Bay Hills

In my early quest to meet skaters in the area, I found myself deep in San Jose at Stonegate Skatepark. I immediately loved the place. It is a bit hood. On one visit, a portly park goer tried to sell me a video camera. He was wearing an ankle monitoring bracelet.

This time around, the only folks there were riding BMX bikes or skateboards. Here's some of each.

Matt, on the Smith




Indy Grab Bowl to Bank




B/S Noseslide Down Hubba



Scott BMX



F/S Rock

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Breakin' my Vert Cherry

I've been on a vert ramp before last night. Once. Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, backyards were for BBQ'ing and goofing around. The plots were largish, certainly large enough for a skate ramp, but it wasn't something you saw. In the summertime, those with means would head over the state line into Wisconsin to chill. Later in life, making friends with WI natives, I was introduced to the term FIP or Fucking Illinois People. We just called them ched-heads and got on with it.

My family would go to Lake Geneva to hang out with our neighbors at their summer house. I had a Vision board and I would take it with me every time. Our friends house was on a huge hill and i enjoyed hill bombs down it and would periodically wipe out and leave skin all up and down the road. That was about the extent of my skate prowess. Our friends whispered that there was a half-pipe across the street. We snuck into the neighbors yard and saw it. It was HUGE. I couldn't believe it was skateable. The thing had to be 8 feet tall. I think it had a little roll-in section because I remember being confused about how you would deal with that. I never got up the nerve to take my board onto the ramp. Rather, I just remember being in awe that anyone could skate that thing. I would have to use my imagination, though, the neighbors were nowhere to be seen.

I got a last minute call from Tony who wanted to head to a vert ramp in Richmond to meet a friend. I quickly agreed and we were off.



My first impression? Holy shit this thing is big. It dwarfed my memory of the Wisconsin ramp. I learned it had recently gotten an upgrade to make it even taller. One of the first tricks: Ffej on the Sweeper.



John



Jeff clearly had this place dialed. He is the master of the invert.



Jeff took more runs than anyone else with the possible exception of Greg who owns the ramp.







Oh yea, Greg can do inverts too.



Before too long, Brad McClain showed up. He took his skills honed at 6TwentyOne's mini to the vert ramp with no issue. He probably got more air than anyone else that night.

FSA



Boneless



Front Rock



My favorite trick of the night: Crailslide



There were also two youngsters in the house that night. Their mom let me know it was the first time on the ramp. Here's the youngest, who can't be older than 6 droppin in on 11 feet of vert.



And the older brother, reaching sweet coping at the other end.



Okay, more inverts.





After midnight, we wound it down.







Special thanks to Greg for letting us barge in on the session. I hope these photos do some justice to the spot.

And that's how I finally broke my vert cherry.

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Giro di Peninsula

Before reveling im all the fun at Nor Cal Death Match #2, Jodi and I had small task to accomplish: a 55 mile bike ride along the Crystal Springs Resevoir and back. We've done the Giro di Peninsula together 3 years running now and I had done the ride once on my own previously. The route was fairly hilly, but nothing too bad. This made a good warmup to the Livestrong Challenge coming up in two weeks.

Here's the route:


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Jodi Smiles as She Races Away from the Frothing Peleton



West Coast G

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