Words by Steve Skrzypek

Photo’s by Convoy Skateboards

My last blog, which entailed my crew’s rained out journey to D.C. to shoot and maybe even compete in the Convoy Skateboards Ten Stair Challenge did not actually feature any of the contest because well it rained. With soggy shoes and a heavy heart we returned home thinking that no skateboardrev hype would be brought to the contest and our collective quest for interweb domination would be ruined. The guys at Convoy however were nice enough to keep some skateboardrev.com hype alive, by putting up a banner for us, giving some shout outs, and even giving away some stickers I left with them. The Contest went down on November first and here are some photo’s and the results from the event. Congrats to the winners and I hope you spent that cash well!

Intermediate:

1st place- Imoh

2nd place- Kevin Tomlinson

3rd place- Ryan Herron

Advanced:

1st place- Manny Law

2nd place- Rob Fall

3rd place- Jonas Durney

-Skateboardrev.com repping hard!

-Kevin Ha, kickflips the ten stack, he also double flipped them… go figure.

- Little Imoh stepping to a backside 50-50

-Someday a skatepark will put a foam pit at the bottom of their stairs to avoid Imoh’s “uh-oh”

-The stairs, skater free.

- Jonas Durney getting his feeble to back 50-50 on and landing in third place.

-Waiting to catch that stuntboard

-5-0 down that there hubba.

-Eric Johnson gets rowdy with a fs willy grind down the rail… that’s confusing.

-Flippy spinny!

-Eamonn from Convoy getting all official on the mic. I think he’s saying see you next year.

The video for this event is available on youtube and it’s definitely worth a watch. So check out all the action from Convoy’s Ten Stair Challenge from Adam Turrisi HERE, and then ask yourself why you thought you were too cool to go.

-Skateboardrev.com for President!

A couple weeks ago while searching the interweb for companies to make top secret alliances with in an effort to reign supreme over the world I came across the company Convoy Skateboards.  Convoy is based out of the Washington D.C. area which is nice because there is a ton of sick skatespots down that way.  After speaking with their leader I learned that there was going to be a best trick contest at a ten stair over that weekend.

-The flier for the contest.

After a couple quick calls, a plan was made in place to load up the good ol’ Outback Sport and head down for the weekend to shoot photo’s and cover the contest and bring all kinds of hype back to skateboardrev.com for your special eyes to see.

-The good ol’ Outback sport partially loaded.

We arrived in D.C. around 11pm on Friday the 25th of October, and to our dismay found that our fine nations capital city was dealing with a pretty nice storm system.  After checking into our wonderful hotel which had an awesome doubleset right out front, and a business complex that only used marble in their ledge building process we looked to the sky and could do nothing but ask “why”.

-Rain

We awoke bright and early on Saturday in preparation for the contest which was set to kick off around noon.  However at 11:45 the sky was still plotting against our skateboarding and hype bringing and the contest was called off.

- One mandatory sight seeing photo?  Check.

Some of the kids who skate for Convoy were kind enough to hang out for a little, and shoot some photo’s at a double set that was somewhat sheltered from the rain.  I use the term “somewhat” very lightly in this scenario as it was still very slippery to skate under the awning that was covering the stairs.  Think about landing a trick down a double set onto a sidewalk block, then instantly cruising onto an ice skating rink.  The boys went to work though, and some tricks went down… by the end of the session everyone had lost some skin and some blood to the covered stairs of D.C.  I hope you enjoy the photo’s and have a great day.

-Getting ready to get rowdy.

-Alex “Switchmode” Davis.  Short run up, slippery landing, Switch Ollie.

-Steve from Convoy has frog legs.  Big ol’ back 180.

-Chaz Martinez kickflips like a demi-god, this is first try.  He landed, rode about ten feet, powerslid  on the ice-crete for another ten feet, then bashed his elbows.

-Frog leg monster mellon!

-Jonas, this is my public apology for losing the sequence I shot of you.  Sorry.

-If you see Alex, tell him to change his clothes. ˝