On Saturday, August 24, "Those Folks" held their first skateboard contest at the Venice Beach Skatepark. A "Best Trick" contest on the 8-stairs/rail section of the park. A small informal fun contest, about a dozen skaters were split into two heats throwing down their best tricks to get into the finals. Leandre Sanders 360 ollied over the rail landing in 2nd place, while Matt Lemond took 3rd, and Jesus Esteban , who won the Bassride Bank-To-Wall Contest a few weeks earlier, chalked up another 1st place. (Scroll down for the video)
Jesus Esteban
Leandre Sanders
Product Toss
No skate contest is complete without the infamous product toss, and Those Folks did not disappoint, they did two product tosses. Clothing, sunglasses, shoes, skateboards, and even some trucks were tossed to the crowd. Check out the highlight video posted below.
For some more photos of the contest, check out the:
Every Labor Day, the San Antonio Canyon Town Hall holds the annual MT Baldy Run-To-The-Top Trail Marathon. It's an insane 7-mile trail run from the base of the Mt Baldy Ski Lifts at 6,000' to the 10,064' summit of Mt Baldy. Most of the trail is a dirt fireroad, then comes a very narrow portion of the trail properly named The Devil's Backbone. As seen in the photos, there are steep drops on both sides of
the trail.
The Devil's Backbone
The Devil's Backbone is where I set up to shoot photos of all the runners last year, and will be again in the same spot for this years race.
