Rye Recap

There's some good ass photos Jody shot at the Rye contest up on there site. The contest, despite being “run” by Aaron and myself, was pretty much a success. Things got a little hectic trying to watch and judge everyone flying around at the same time. However, I definitely saw some bangers happen. Everyone was going nuts but a few standouts were Rory doing the biggest barspin rye has ever or will ever see. Ian Bresnahan dispite not having pegs managed to do and barspin over-to-ice grind on the A-frame rail, he used some other kids bike which made it twice as nuts. Chris Z did some crazy tech shit including going down the rail, then manualing over to some ledge to tooth-hang 180. It was a close 1 2 and 3 spot but Craig “pampers” Passero came out on top, and deserved it too. I think he managed to truck driver every bank in the park in a single run, and then proceeded to truck off the middle island over all the ledges, not those pussy ass steps.


When it was all over and done with, Craig got first, Rory got second and IanBresnahan ended up with the bronze medal. That’s not to say other kids weren’t killin. Matty Long despite being lazy and too cool to take runs did a tooth hanger ET down the rail (which might have been the only down rail move all night)… nuts. Some kid named Dylan did some crazy shit on the middle island including a manual 180 down the steps. And to top it off Fids came out of nowhere to blast a huge crankflip in everyones faces.

So that’s the trick list. I think everyone had fun. Thanks to the sponsors and Charlie Combs for his crazy announcing skills. Go check out the AOTC blog, all those kids were killin it, and apparently have a video coming out that should be good. Oh, and Jake Frost got last place.