LIVE: Dew Tour Des Moines 2021 - Adaptive Street and Park Finals, Men/Women Street and Park Finals

[Music] welcome everyone to men's park adaptive first competition of the morning skies are looking clear ish we got our start list here solid team usa lineup first in justin bishop justin bishop out of las vegas nevada 34 years old first skater of the morning let's kick it off detour let's make some noise frontside disaster incredible sleeper axle stall justin bishop blunt nose pop in for justin bishop so sick rock roll time's still on the clock still 15 seconds left on the clock plenty of time to get one more trick in here 360 for justin bishop that attempt was amazing first skater of the morning let's give it up for justin bishop let's figure out of las vegas nevada here's that replay blunt coming off but got his board right away great run great run to kick it off solid first showing for justin next up we got mike miner mike miner has a really cute dog it's a thumbs up right pop's always joining him on the deck there you got a shot your support staff is dogged max best support staff yeah best support staff you could ask for mike 5050 coming on a little nervous still got plenty of time left on the clock for mike miner miner dropping in goes back gets the 50 50 grind cross pivot up on the flat bank wall mike miner pumping around got some speed what's he got oh looking to grind around that corner that was a great first run for mike miner let's give it up for mike one more time definitely not the easiest to uh shred a ginormous bowl at nine o'clock in the morning here but these athletes are making it happen next gator in chad rivera also from the usa dropping chad rivera in the bowl this kick turn there pumping around good travel time getting to all the walls here getting up on that dew tour island centerpiece 20 seconds left big kick turn up at the coping again and that's time for chad give it up for chad rivera 54 years young foreign chad with a 61-6 on his first run next in mike rogers mike rogers out of cocoa beach florida famous for the grind for life series grinder life's raised over 500 000 for cancer treatment for kids mike rogers is a pillar of the community and an amazing skateboarder big kick turn up on the flat bank wall wall ride frontside grind mike rogers putting it together good run so far frontside grind grinding pool coping there in the corner croc fakie half cab rocks back to regular that's an awesome run for mike rogers give it up for mike solid use of the course there let's check out this replay here a little combo there cab rock nice way to end the run there [Music] he's gotta be happy with that see what the judges say 64066 for mike we got a side by side here the women on the street course [Applause] women's street adaptive is running concurrently right now with the men's park adaptive this is elia knives you're seeing right here about halfway through a run there kick turn goliath rock bakey on the men's park side we got oscar for his first run coming out of downey california no stall oscar going for that kickflip [Applause] we've fakie tracy on street for her first run tracy is the hype woman for women's street adaptive she's so pumped to be out here getting everybody excited early in the morning bringing the enthusiasm all the way from santa monica california cove skatepark local here she's going manual manual firecracker down the double set tracy yeah tracy back over on men's park we've got daniel edmondson from minneapolis minnesota yeah daniel 30 seconds well ollie fakey there coming through back side kick turn nose grab come fakie daniel evanson fakie rock [Applause] a little pop fakey half calf to finish it off just comes off at the end great run let's give it up for daniel he's looking to beat an 80.22 which is held by justin in that first place spot [Music] that is the score to be 80.22 [Applause] you're just arriving at the venue right now what you're seeing is the men's park adaptive going down in the park as well as the women's street adaptive running on the street course brandon white dropping in and a white nice little hand plant trail tail pumping back over mountain dew island front side air nose pick back side eve hopping out here might have some time left oh he's coming off on that side by side you're seeing kiana clay over on the street course starting her run here's that replay front side crail slide way up on the pool coping beautifully done then airing over the mountain dew island straight in to a hand plant dropping in big front side there kick things off brandon white airing up onto the mountain dew island front side air front side rock sorry about that did you see us sardi actually from sao paulo brazil [Applause] 25 years young solid run here for valencia sugar cane kick lebron that was sick let's take another look here denise is that hand plant layback it's another alley-oop and then a frontside flip vinicius sardi great run up next we have felipe nunes super well-known adapted skateboarder just a ripping skateboarder getting set for his park run here felipe nunes also a brazilian skater felipe oh going for that frontside flip to start things off felipe just had a sick ad for independent trucks backside tailing the seattle rail little invert back e backside flip sick rock fakie plenty of time for a few more tricks here cab over the hip backside flip solid first run from felipe here's a recap felipe nunez there's that backside flip there's again that's getting a little unglued at the end there good first run lots of technical skateboarding that'll get him a 71.08 bumping felipe up into that fourth spot current leader is vinicius zardi with the 89.0 which is the score to beat next gator in daniel palettiere looking to beat that 89. daniel pump back forth get some speed up nice fact three tell us here going back fakie we are watching men's park adaptive presented by toyota the final in the park in the bowl as well as the women's adaptive street final both contests running at the same time on a clear morning fingers crossed here at lowridson skatepark daniel scorer dropping at a 68.16 next skater in evan strong from haiku but living in lake tahoe front side 5-0 evan's also a really accomplished adaptive snowboarder probably a surfer coming from haiku too pumping around evan carving through the corner up over the mountain dew island carb evan strong bean plant wow sick so sick those are really scary to come back in on people fakie tail tap nice run for evan strong skater from haiku a strong first run strong first run kim trying to get my dad jokes in early great job evan reppin haiku hawaii he's stoked let's take another look there's evan there's that bean plant bakey wow that's a great way to end it off andy hernandez 33 years old from norwalk california andy hernandez well axe assault got away from him he's got plenty of time left though solid 25 seconds left [Music] feeble that'll be time for andy top three leaders at the moment are venicious justin and evan and one two and three they will be the guys to beat here last athlete dropping here aaron bothering him aka wheels aaron fatheringham well-known skater also out here from vegas 29 years old wheels oh air transfer 360 pivot in kick turning aaron was the last skater in the first round of ones the first round of runs here at men's park adaptive look at this transfer here airing in so sick so frightening that's a steep section of the park there wheels has a lot of experience riding park [Music] and we'll get we'll go right back to the top of the start list here for run number two men's park adaptive final presented by toyota justin bishop dropping currently sitting in second place disaster coming unstuck still got plenty of time left justin justin's sitting in that second place spot the 82-2 kick turning up blunt thank you rock kicking around let's see what else he's got here nose pick popping holding on justin bishop real technical skater here ollie fakie hanging on right at times i'm gonna say that counts that was amazing amazing run for justin bishop here holding it down las vegas nevada a big las vegas nevada showing here the men's park adaptive justin bishop with that last run gonna bump up to the number one split place with the 93. chopping in mike miner 50-50 across pool coping stalling up on the flat bank wall pumping around lots of speed for minor way up rock and roll on the toyota extension still got 20 seconds let's see if he can get that last trick in oh going for that rock again not able to pull it around give it up for mike love the speed puppy puppers is stoked on that run he's ready to drop in [Laughter] what a cute dog just makes the whole contest better if there's a if there's a pup running around though yeah the top making everybody happy all right we're looking at our current standings justin in first vinicius in second evan in third those will be the men to beat here back in chad rivera kick turning up on the wall chad getting up on that mountain dew island rolling in big kick turn up on the wall again chad rivera giving a little love there to the mountain dew can solid second run for chad mike rogers getting ready to drop mike rogers dropping in carving the corner front side grind grime for life front side grind again mike rogers up on the flat bank wall got a smooth style really figured out some good lines to this park right away not an easy thing to do no frontside grind frontside rock stylish another frontside rock is patented frontside rocks rock fakie that'll be time for mike cabrock for the crowd solid second run from mike rogers mike creator of the grind for life series give it up for mike rogers splitting his time between cocoa beach vista california yeah mike a leader in our community dropping in oscar loretta junior axel stahl [Applause] feeble getting away from him nice recovery oscars hitting on a 70.21 for that seventh place spot second run here hustling to get a last trick in can he do it oh kick the fakie so that was so good [Applause] great second run for oscar the score to beat still is justin bishop with the daniel edmondson dropping in rock fakie oh coming unstuck edmondson getting some speed up kick turning around that'll be time for time for edmonton starting off the toyota bank wall that's got here brandon white nose pick into the toyota extension right into a big backside air that is gnarly currently in fourth place looking to break into that top three switch 5.0 fakie pivot front side 50 50. lots of speed here oh nollie popped a nose pick recovers we'll take it pulls it off big big spin back disaster still got about five seconds roll it in one more wall let's see wow [Applause] great run for brandon white that was wild i want to see replay that nose pick into the toyota bank wall the thing is huge [Music] brandon holding on to that fourth place spot next in vinicius sardi from brazil amnesia front side air front side flip airing up lay back boneless air sorry good line working on right now ally bear back d disaster that is time for venezios it's a big spin disaster trying to pull that one off solid a second run for ecos he is looking to knock justin out of that first place spot he'll need a 93 to grab that first spot see if the judges will give it to him so and it's not quite able to grab enough points felipe nunez kick flipping in to start off his run backside flip above coping backside flip tail back side nose blunt felipe nunes overcrook blunt fakie felipe nunez putting together a really good run here super technical skateboarding [Music] 360 flip over the hip frontside flip finish it off perfect run from felipe nunez that kick flip in to start and he never stops brazilian skaters no stranger to dominating skateboarding contests no different here in men's park adaptive finals presented by toyota skaters are currently on their second run danielle pelletier in the bowl danielle coming in fakie oh back three again daniel joining us from waynesville north carolina time for one more wall backside ollie nice [Music] we're looking at our current standings here felipe nunez in first the 96 0-0 justin bishop in second benicio sardi in third brazilians dominating the podium as usual evan strong back in with that sweeper feeble fakie strong at a haiku currently residing in lake tahoe carving around that corner strong oh i think he's going for that bean plan over there again it's got those few seconds left on the clock i think that's gonna be time evan strong next in we've got andy hernandez andy pumping around the balls off to a good start pump fakie thank you rock popping up on to the mountain dew island kick turn oh just coming unstuck just losing right there not able to get that last trick in last skater of the start list aaron wheels bothering him wow really over the mountain island aaron's currently in we're gonna break into that top spot plenty of time left for one more trick [Music] see what he's got that is time for aaron keep it up for aaron wheels fathering him out here from las vegas nevada [Applause] if you're just joining us right now we're looking at the men's park adaptive final presented by toyota we're back at the top of the list here justin bishop bishop third and final run disaster starting it off oh back disaster staying on there one foot kickoff fakey i'm gonna call that a meg justin's currently in second rolling into the big wall justin big kick turn there coming back to mountain dew island front side 360 boneless so sick we wanted it justin's best for 93. looking to bump over 96 in order to steal that first spot felipe next hater in mike miner mike miner on his third and final run oh coming off on that grind miners still got plenty of time on the clock there's third and final run currently sitting in 10 spot dropping in on the flat bank wall let's see what he's got oh my gosh rock and roll got 12 seconds left looks like that'll do it for mike miner let's give it up one more time for mike solid showing we are on our last round of runs here for these skaters in the men's park adaptive final brought to us by toyota pumping around down the little waterfall makes his way around the park here good line vera kick turn up on the wall front side really linking it together here finding his way around this park nice nice flow one of our oldest skaters at 54 years young if anyone thinks they're too old to start skateboarding take a look at chad and mike never too old to start everybody every shape every age is welcome on a skateboard mike getting ready for his last run currently sitting at night looking to crack into those top three spots here we go mike rogers third and final run pumping around the corner smooth style frontside grind up over the mountain dew island grinding with pool coping there just sounds so good pumping around mike rogers front side kick turned in the corner [Music] reaching up there coming in fakie oh thank you good buddy that'll do it for mike give it up for mike rogers everyone legend in our community making things happen for so many folks out here crying for life mike is branded his life for sure he is a lot of these young skaters like jamie foy and zion wright got their start skating at the grind for life series so they could thank mike rogers for that now they're at do tour next in oscar loretto junior oscar kick turn up on the big wall pumping over the hip axle stall oscar rock fakey thank you rock [Applause] oh going for that rock and roll he's doing it for bones out here oscars from downey california gotta kick flip the fake you want to see that that's so amazing yeah oscar a little board sponsor love or grip tape art love great job oscar we are here on our last run in the men's park adaptive street finals presented by toyota we've got a handful of skaters left the guys to beat are felipe justin and benicio's daniel edmondson of course and emma fakeyrock ollie fakie fakie rock hanging on there a little half cap to finish things off daniel dunan from minneapolis minnesota give it up one more time for daniel edmondson this is our third and final run so all of our athletes here looking to lay it all out there nose picking in brandon white big backside hand [Music] oh he's got that like switch pivot grind he's going for brandon currently in fourth looking to break through to grab that podium spot 10 seconds left let me get another trick in [Music] brandon white glass wall rock kick flip ow brandon white solid go for brandon white coming out of floral city florida 30 years young how's the start of that run nose picking in on the toyota wild extension we were saying the other day it was scary to even stand up there let alone go down gator in currently our third place guy benicio sardi big front side corner air frontside flip above coping kickflip head up misuse frontside there again like sugar cane there came unstuck still got 10 seconds left that'll do it for benicio sardi solid run there they'll be looking to grab that first or second place spot he's currently in third round we are looking at the final run for athletes here in the men's park adapter final getting ready to drop as felipe nunes drop it kick come up and in start off the run felipe nunes making a statement there backside flip tail back nose one shove back side nose blunt one fakie kick turning around felipe nunes front side flip floaty over the hip [Applause] kick turn last wall for that 540 over the hip to finish it off felipe nunes that was an epic run [Applause] felipe is stoked he's defending that first place spot kick flipping in to start it off is so incredible so scary a flat bank wall has got to be like 12 feet above then your kick flipping in to like an eight foot ramp next gator dropping danielle pelletier from waynesville north carolina oh it's here a little backside there kick turning it around back three oh fakie ollie fellatierre turning it off to finish that run that'll do it for daniel pelletier let's give it up one more time [Applause] the strength and dedication and determination is so inspiring from these athletes here this is a massive course i'm scared just looking at it it is all brand new and with all the rain the limited practice time for adaptive athletes as well as the rest of the skate contingent it's challenging evan strong up for the challenge strong frontside smith grind sweeper good style humping around this course bean plant fakie hold on still got about 14 seconds squeezing another trick here oh he's going for that bean plant up on the big wall that's gonna be time for evan strong [Applause] great job evan holding it down for hawaii we've got a couple skaters left here in our final run andy hernandez and he's in pumping around the course from fakie fakie rock kick turning around coming up over the mountain dew island big kick turn on the wall hernandez over the hip whoa trey flip fakey i was not expecting that we want to see that wow and that is time for andy let's give it up one more time for andy hernandez fellow californian and our final athlete here in men's park adaptive no stranger to the spotlight aaron wheels bothering him on top of the toyota getting ready to drop dropping in huge air he's stoked [Laughter] wheels insane wheels still got about 10 seconds left dropping back in invert up on the mountain dew island that was i know amazing wheels out here inspiring a lot of folks definitely check them out on the interwebs interwebs some wild wild footage of aaron nitro circus star lots of love from the crowd here all these athletes he's throwing it down in this epic bowl park course at blue ridzenski park let's check out the highlights so bishop leading it off today all these adaptive park athletes coming out being the weather and the travel international field of skaters from all over the world defying all the odds here definitely there's vinicius that frontside flip felipe kick flipping in strong frontside five owing having really good solid runs too this whole field is like a family they came out here to win the path to get here not an easy one but all of them making it look so easy sleepy again park and street adaptive at do tour 2021 and here are our results felipe holding on to that top spot justin bishop and second alicia sardi brandon aaron evan and oscar following round it out legends mike rogers great to see him out here no surprise there with brazil brazil on top every category felipe nunes a gnarly skateboarder so tech that was a wild contest the lines they picked and the adaptive athletes uh really really impressive super inspirational the dedication and the courage and the passion for the sport this really shines through here with these guys for everyone just joining us fingers crossed for a sunny day all right we got the awards going here vinicius sardi grabbing that third place podium spot reppin brazil vinicius sardi give him some noise guys third place [Applause] let's hear it [Applause] and in second place we've got justin bishop team usa yeah justin doing it for nike sb give it up for our second and third place finalists justin and venicio men's park adaptive street finals brought to you by toyota some epic tricks going down here this morning loving the smiles on the faces and in first place none other than felipe nunez riding hard for brazil [Applause] throwing down a solid bag of tricks snagging that first place podium spot congrats felipe justin and vinicius we're looking at our finals men's park adaptive street presented by toyota what an amazing way to kick off our morning here at laredzin skate park we have a big round of applause for all of our competitors our winners here today adaptive park the stoke is high here it's des moines there's a heated contest all right stay tuned we are watching men's street adaptive finals when we come back from the break see y'all soon uh yes oh skateboarding just family we got along so quick it's crazy it's so you don't see that any other sport it's very diverse it's worldwide you know like every continent on this planet has skaters you can be from brazil mexico south america japan you can be from anywhere all over the world and just come together as like one when you're skateboarding it's always protected that aspect of our diversity has never been any pressure to like force that on people you know everybody skates every gender every race skateboarding has always fought for what's right especially here in the u.s skateboarding has helped bring light to a lot of issues we share from the same passion it doesn't matter like you don't enjoy his style who cares it can't go to those directions with the olympics now you know there's so much more equality and so much more going on for the women's side as well you know there was just a few women skaters now there's a lot there's really not much requirements to skate it's all personal preference and i feel like that draws a lot of people in the world to just gravitate towards it anyone who steps on a skateboard and actually goes and skates and tries to learn and realizes how hard and difficult and frustrating this thing is you form this bond because it's like hardship it's crazy they get so many different races so many different type of people together and one thing that's the reason why i love skating you know it's like it's awesome [Applause] when i was a little kid all my classmates like moms would tell my mom like why are you letting your little girl like go to the skate park like that's where the bad kids go like what are you doing and she's like no like go to the skate park it's not like it's not like that like what are you talking about i think what was so addicting about skateboarding was the fact that you know there's no uniforms there's no rules skateboarding is skateboarding and it is what it is because of that liberty i think the fact that i didn't need anybody at all is what really drew me in and within not needing anyone i was in my own world with skating there's so many different styles like people wear whatever they want they dress how they want they skate how they want like every individual skater is completely different than the next i just really could express myself when i was eight years old and now 16 years old it really just molded the person i am today it's something about it that we just so passionate about this skateboard that like bro it just it gets so many people together you know whatever type of animal you have inside projects onto what skateboarding is for you every day you want to learn something new and to learn something new sometimes you're going to fall and that's part of the game you know i just think that like skateboarding is just like a big tree and like everybody's branched out it's such an individual thing like a wall like this that has been still here for years but maybe some guy comes here and wall rides on and it's like whoa all these different opportunities that i gotta like sit back and think like thank you skateboarding i would not be anywhere where i am like without skateboarding i have to pinch myself every once in a while i'm like what the heck like this is happening right now like where what am i doing like i should be like i'm just skating like it's very very special i'm very grateful skate like a girl provided a place for me to reclaim something that meant a lot to me in my childhood it was the thing i was most passionate about when i was a teenager i stopped skating because [Music] in it for me as a trans person i feel like a girl has provided that space and created a sense of inclusion and skateboarding that i've never really had when you walk into a space like that's owned by ours like wt sesh you'll see immediately that like people are looking out for each other and people are making space for beginners and it's not shunning people from trying new things which i think is the most fearful part of showing up at a space designed for [Music] skateboarding [Applause] so what does it look like inserting yourself into a space like that and like we create a welcoming environment for that to be possible my name is kristin ebeling i'm the executive director of skate like a girl caleb girl is a community based organization that's focused on creating more accessibility in skateboarding what we try to do is take an approach of like who's not really showing up who doesn't really have space and talk to those communities and get their feedback and find ways to create space for them in skateboarding so they can enjoy it just as much [Music] to me scalar girl means community it's also been everything that i've needed it to be at every point in my life [Music] seeing other people who are like me doing sick stuff so i'm like yo i want to do that too [Music] [Music] uh [Music] welcome back des moines iowa to the men's street adaptive finals presented by a toyota we've got the top men here battling it out for the final spot [Music] sunny skies i'm not going to say it though actually i don't want to jinx it clearish skies course is dry we're here making it happen we're about to see some epic epic skating excited i'm joined here in the booth with alex white dc my name is kim woozy how's it going guys going wonderful alex how you doing this morning super happy to be here on this beautiful day and watching finals day go down we made it sunday yeah third and final day kim how's it been going for you it's been going good yesterday was a little wild with the rain but it is sun day so i'm i'm thinking we're gonna have some great weather all these athletes have been out here you know trying their best to get time in on the course it hasn't been easy but you know what these are the top in the world so they're up for the challenge yeah a lot of these skaters just came off the men's park adaptive final where felipe nunes took the win straight in the street yeah i hyped to see what these guys bring to the table out here this morning three run format best runs gonna count 40 seconds per run and definitely hyped on these athletes i've had a chance to see them in a lot of events but des moines it's sunday morning the final day of do tour so just to check in with you guys out there can you guys please make some noise for these men about to take to the men adaptive street finals out here final day of due tour and starting things off out here in style this morning we just witnessed the women's adaptive street finals and what a good show that was i didn't get to watch the park though i could hear everybody cheering over there sounded like a pretty fire event going on everywhere it was wild and felipe is kicking it off right away with a nose grind back three over the bump up oh comes unstuck he's off to a really good start still got 30 seconds left on the clock this is felipe nunez coming out of brazil representing 50 50 grind getting some speed back up back in back tail front smith yes go felipe back nose blunt two seconds left here bleeping going for that front side feeble maybe front board on the tick tock double set rail the one make some noise for philippe nunez yeah first of three runs out there just came off a first place finish in men's park adaptive finals what an adrenaline rush you just won this now go over there and do that warmed up indeed seeing if he can go two for two out here the champion over at the men's adaptive park finals love following this guy on insta always puts out just amazing content called him in multiple adaptive events as well competing over x games two felipe nunes always hyped to see him next up clement zanini coming out of france let's hear it for clement clement starting off that tre flip but he's still got plenty of time to recover saneni 50 50 in front shove oh double flipping down the tick tock double set five seconds left on the clock and there you have it first of three runs in the books for clement zanini representing france 12 athletes out here again three-run format each tearing it up here at the brand new lauraton skate park next to drop we're going to be seeing andy hernandez coming out of norway california here he is dropping in for his first of three runs welcome in andy hernandez andy 50 50 and just came off of skating in the park contest too he's got a mean tre flip fakey front side half cab turning it around ooh maybe like a boardslide pop-out hernandez has that hustle drop him back in trey flipping up final seconds on the clock there hands together there for andy hernandez in his first of three runs [Applause] let's talk about how impressive is to be able to skate park and street oh yeah i think that there's more crossover park and street athletes than adaptive than there are in any other discipline yeah women's are men's it's truly remarkable silver coming in for andy at 70. we are ready for our next athlete to drop in now this is oscar lorento jr coming out of downey california on course now let's hear it for oscar [Applause] slipping out there oscar also just shredded the massive park course jumping right over into the street course no problem six seconds on the clock here for oscar he's got time for another one that air horn means it's the end of the run it's like one of those dj air horns good old classic reggae air horn who does liberating brigade banger let's hear for oscar loretto jr first of three runs yeah oscar [Applause] next up out of las vegas nevada is going to be aaron fatheringham aka wheels doing it for las vegas nevada definitely check out aaron deals on the ig you want to have your mind blown wheels on course for his first of three runs transfer yeah and plan nice one [Applause] so sick 20 seconds to go for wheels turn around getting some speed just got here ollie the gap [Applause] guys let's hear it for wheels out there tearing it up on his first of three tuna for the fans yeah speaking of fans thanks everybody from des moines coming out they've been so strong this weekend showing all the love out there as we look our next athlete getting ready to drop in coming out of san diego california robert thompkins getting ready to take his first to three robert skater from san diego it's good shop we're here for do tour 2021 first time in des moines iowa and it's been amazing the weather's been a little challenging but i gotta say everyone here is so friendly yeah they appreciate the love loving the vibes out here as we have got our next athlete robert thompkins on course let's hear from robert [Applause] transfer [Music] back around manual dropping in rock fakie getting some speed up here [Music] [Applause] diego california epicenter of action sports a little bit more sundown in sd compared to iowa all right we've got the young josh tankos getting ready to drop in next saw this kid just tearing up the mini behind the tower yesterday he was escaping non-stop having a good time out here coming out of st petersburg florida just 10 years of age competing out here at the dew tour and dropping in let's welcome him in this is josh tankos up josh got that grom energy ollying the 11 set evil grind the rail stream backside 50 50 backside 180 out [Applause] tankos [Music] backside flipping oh little stuck there front side 180 down the tick tock double set [Music] that'll be time for josh tankos still going josh tankos ladies and gentlemen his first of three runs only 10 years old he's the same age as my son i love the diversity here in the ages though and in all the disciplines throughout the weekend we've got 10 year olds all the way up to 55 i believe we had a 60 year old in women's street adaptive talking about tracy garrick and next athlete on course now this is vinnie sardi coming out of sao paulo brazil yeah vinnie back disaster sorry you just got third place the men's park adaptive now bring it over the street another atv athlete so much respect for just being able to do it all frontside flip i'm like nollie reveal well that'll do it for the first of three runs there for vinnie sardi let's hear for vinnie ladies and gentlemen [Applause] we've got four athletes left to take their first three runs here in this best run format and next to drop in joey mario local boy coming out of right here in des moines guys let's hear it for joey what are your own the local boy representing out here here it is home park how stoked is joey to have this park in his backyard now this new addition to the city lawrence and skatepark unreal stoke is high for sure wally [Applause] feeble can't wait to come back in a few years and just see skaters like joey and some new names as well getting some time in in this world-class park largest in the country now 88 000 square feet lots of concrete the final seconds there for joey maria let's hear cork des moines he's one of your own local boy here and he's like don't tell everybody how dope the park is here it's like i want it to myself but kicking out opening up this park in style now i bet you the local skate community definitely hyped for uh everything they get torn down so hyped to have to tour here but also hype to have everything torn down and then just have the whole park really to themselves like when are you guys leaving town and the circus leaves have the park to themselves locals and some of the best parts of the park are actually behind these towers here that we're in a little mini ramp some flat grounds it's a great park for progression and learning so if anyone get out there is inspired to start trying this is the place to do it dan mancino getting ready to drop in next coming out of motor city detroit michigan 33 years of age here he is let's welcome dan mancina from 50-50 kick it off seen ads with dan before it's on the deluxe program yeah he's out here doing it for real skateboards princess mistah yeah dan that is so hard to do [Applause] plenty of time on the clock 15 seconds from ben cena he's got that still got a little time on the clock five seconds let's get behind him deuter [Applause] and he'll have two more runs still dan mancino coming out of detroit michigan hands together for dan and three run format out here two athletes left to take their first of three runs next time we're gonna see mike miner and brandon white will be wrapping up the start order out here for this three run format mike miner coming out of colorado i actually get to see this guy skating around my local skate parks a bunch he's got his dog dinky with him as well he's got his own insta handle at doo tor dinky dinky gets gold medal for best athlete support out here and here we go mike miner dropping in for his first of three let's hear from mike miner oh he's taking a heavy slam again right up back at it no prob skateboarders are tough you didn't already know toughest people on planet in my humble opinion yeah i've seen mike definitely take some slams to get back up no problem let's get here do tour skated the adaptive events at x games as well it's got plenty of competition experience and again see more cracks at it as well so no worries and there's the time for the end of the first of three runs let's hear it for mike miner hands together for mike miner [Applause] and our final athlete will be dropping in will be brandon white coming out of floral city florida here he is brandon white is his first of three runs on course backflip brandon another skater to skate at the park well front 50 50 down the 11th stair hubble we've dubbed six flags magic mountain straight down okay grind brandon my long-lost brother alex white brandon white pack 50 50. [Music] and that's gonna be time there for brandon white and his first of three so hands together for brandon and all these athletes is we're gonna take a trip back to the top of the start order for runs too we are watching the men's adoptive street finals presented by toyota here at detour in des moines and looking at the standings it's felipe nunez in the lead from brazil with 85.43 on his first run followed by wheels in second we'll update the uh leaderboard there for you but it's the best run counts format so again felipe nunez in the top spot 85.43 followed by brandon white with 84 in wheels in third with the 83 83-7-7 so brandon white there last athlete to take his first three runs jumping up on the podium once again for the time will be the one to angle for here he just came off a first place finish over there in park talk about versatility here felipe dropping on the course back three left [Applause] [Music] 50 50. starting off with some different tricks on this one backside tail slide he's got this so good front smith felipe nunes front blunt and there's the buzzer sitting in the top spot after his first of three runs and his second run another banger their hands together for felipe nunes representing brazil oh nagano for being out here with us at the dew tour philippe that smile on his face just said it all stoke level high amazing run there felipe brazil just come in correct on all levels out here at the dew tour this weekend i was just about to ask you dc are you surprised to see a brazilian in the first place slot there not at all you know and i uh eat a lot of acai and i still don't manage to have the skills that the brazilians do i don't know what the secret is for them down there but just producing so much talent that country is known for so felipe nunes sitting up in the top spot there with another amazing run here finishing his second of three runs next to drop coming out of france please welcome to the course clement zanini fenini trey flip like it's no thing casual [Music] front side 50 50 in [Applause] front shove looking like he's going for the double flip down the double set i'd love to see that double your trouble and he's got a third final run still so i really do hope we get to see that i believe that we will cab finish it off and that's clements the nene clement zanini from france excited to see the french state scene grow we'll be headed there after tokyo just a handful of years now 2024 is going to creep up on us real quick next up yeah perry that would be a good time as well of course this event olympic qualifying event for tokyo 2021 andy hernandez now from norwalk california getting ready to drop in for his second three runs getting the go ahead from our starter cliffy here we go andy hernandez run two on course 50 50 in for hernandez currently sitting in that eighth place spot board slot pulls it off see [Music] [Applause] more here best friend counts they're sitting in the eighth after his first run but still with one more to go couldn't find that top three and get a spot on the podium out here this morning at the men's adaptive street presented by toyota and our next athlete getting ready to drop in here at lawrence skate park coming out of downey california 34 years of age this is oscar loretto jr got a few skaters but from sort of inland l.a england area orange county big skate scene there board slide oscar kicking it off grinding up on that quarter pipe still 20 seconds on the clock for you oscar plenty of time buddy rock fakie and back in a few more seconds there's the buzzer oscar loretta junior wrapping up his second of three yeah oscar [Applause] i have the deepest admiration for all these athletes but skateboarding is just teaches so many life lessons because you get checked constantly by the ground and it's really humbling so to be able to take a slam get right back up you can apply that in other places in life as well these guys are definitely showing us that resilience let me apply it to my love life get get knocked down knocked down right back up out there back on course out here dropping into your dms here we go wheels dropping in for his second of three let's hear for wheels on course now nice flared out tweakage and back in wheels [Applause] if you guys haven't checked out aaron on instagram i highly recommend it [Applause] valiant effort there yeah let's hear it for wills he's got a third and final run coming his way looking forward to seeing him get that board side and here in the second of three runs we're going to be seeing san diego's robert thompkins getting ready to drop in you know i'm just pulling out my phone right now to give wheels a follow i feel like aaron was one of the first athletes to come out on the scene and just make us laugh on the internet you know really changing the game and inspiring a lot of athletes to get out there and go for it here's robert thompkins dropping in for his second of three runs let's hear for robert on course now robert skater from san diego wrapping slappies nice making the double set back around lots of speed biggy rock right back up in the final seconds of the second three runs in the buzzer there that's gonna do it for robert they'll have one more to go but hands together for robert thompkins there [Music] we got the grom coming up next 10 years of age coming out of st petersburg florida josh we talked tankos about that age gap 10 youngest age for this event and then we had 60 in the women's street adaptive final five decades of athletes it's inspiring very inspiring never too old to start something new forever young kim forever young all right josh tanko's here kickflip hanging on josh tankos heading for the big devil's head ollie nice kid is fearless people grind across got a little wiggle legs heading for that box but that's okay plenty of time for another trick or two backside flip trying that again [Music] there's the buzzer there for josh tankos on his second of three runs hands together for josh coming out of florida again i was so stoked yesterday off the back of the scaffolding every time i would walk down it seemed like for hours he was session in the mini ramp off the back there the kid rips so excited to see him get a third and final run coming up as well just yet non-stop energy just skating all day i love it we got vinnie sardi from sao paulo brazil getting ready to drop in here's vinnie on court second and third runs vinnie kick flipping just start it off and he's currently in fourth looking to crack into the top three here nice back lip on the quarter pipe hand plant a little bale there but vinnie just won third place over at men's park adaptive calling in sugar cane [Music] [Applause] and kick the timer there for vinnie sardi wrapping up his second of three runs let's hear for vinnie vinnie and many of these athletes definitely put the word adaptable into adaptive as they came right from shredding the park horse and now are just dropping into this massive street horse and next to drop in joey maria coming out of right here in des moines your local boy des moines let's get behind him joey mario representing the local skate scene drop it in here the due tour men's adaptive street presented by toyota looking to maybe get one more trick in here final seconds of the clock there one more time des moines let's hear it for your local boy joey mario you'll have another run third and final run will be coming his way but i love it representing local skate team out here cannot wait to see just fast forward 10 years from now what what kind of talent is going to be produced here by this city lawrence and skatepark already so much talent that resides here now to have a facility like this we look at our next skater getting ready to drop in for his second three runs this is dan mancino yeah dan something cool dan's been working on is a skateboard with braille on it real skateboards first of its kind helping blind and visually impaired skaters out here dan's been really paving the way doing lots of advocacy work just shown us true grit here oh so close [Music] [Applause] so [Applause] one of dan's missions is to transform what it's like for blind and visually impaired skaters he's doing great work out there check out some of his clips on youtube lots of amazing skating out in the streets actually filming some street parts really great stuff dan mike miner currently residing in summit county colorado in the high country there we're about ninth out over nine thousand feet up there some high altitude skateboarding there for his training here's mike miner on course getting that board slide in here to start off his second of three runs stopping the ollie as well 50 getting up to a much better start 50 50 up on the tech deck rail miner recovered really well falling in oh six seconds on the clock for mike miner again shout out to his dog dinky in the house as well you can give his pup a follow at dude or dinky but mike miner wrapping up his second of three runs hands together let's hear from mike miner [Applause] one athlete left to take their second of three runs it's gonna be brandon white if you look at the standings there flipping nudes in the top spot there brandon white we're about to see drop in in second and wheels sitting in third right now best run format here at the men's adaptive street finals deuter presented by toyota and currently sitting in second place this is brandon white dropping it back flip kicking it off brandon white heading towards the 11th set here oh going for that k grind okay grind front 50 50. front side blunt slide stomping it on the double set rail getting it at the buzzer and that's gonna do it there for the second three runs for brandon white again currently in second place has an 84 from that first of three runs looking to replace that to see if he can get up on the top spot but sitting pretty in that second place position right here now position for a podium here at deuter run two 80.15 so he'll be holding on to that 84 from his first of three runs we're gonna head back to the top of the order fresh off the win over at the men's adaptive park contest right before this this is felipe nunez out of brazil also recipient of a cover on thrasher magazine yes felipe back 5-0 back tail slide front 50. still got 15 seconds left currently sitting in first place felipe nunez [Music] continuing to just dominate there front side flip shifty fakie that's insane and sitting in first from that first round with that 95.28 just won the park event showing you why you got to cover thrasher that was the november 2019 issue and that stair set oh my god that he got on that cover so hefty i'd like to see him there's a 16 stair right underneath the scaffolding here i'd like to see him step to that but let's hear for felipe nunez obregado for coming out here and throwing down and parabens congratulations with the win in park this morning and sitting in that top spot right now for street as well he could go with the wwe two wins out here this morning to do tour looking on his way to do that much deserves much respect for felipe lots nunez love and camaraderie from all the athletes out here now we got the frenchman clement zanini on course kim as you're saying france paris be the host city just three years from now 20 24 21 2025 around the corner crazy already talking about the next olympics and we're just working out the qualifications for this summaries yes yeah we've seen a definitely a increase in french skaters and all the disciplines it's pretty cool to see that and there you have it clementine wrapping up his second of three runs representing francis such a strong skate scene over there i've had the pleasure of cruising around that city a couple times and there's a lot of kids slaying it in that city so many spots too you're one of our judges so paul morans shout out yeah just the street skating scene and a lot of the major european countries is just next level andy hernandez getting ready to drop in now coming out of norwalk california here he is andy hernandez on course third and final run andy ollie up getting it kicked off first third and final run going for that big ollie over the mountain dew pallet that mountain dew pallet it's like uh something you'd see at costco yeah lifetime supply there keeping you energized yeah you think they're gonna just leave that here they should just leave it here in laurenson for the kids to crack into that'll last like a day [Music] [Applause] and there you have it show your love and respect out there for andy hernandez saluting the fine folks out here in des moines and loving the good vibes that everybody's been bringing out here and with limited fan capacity can you imagine if it was full capacity out here how loud this event would be this weekend next year next year indeed all right oscar loretto jr now now out of downey california on course for his third final run stylish kickflip for oscar axle saw coming back in heading in switch [Applause] disaster attempt and there's the buzzer so that's going to wrap it up for oscar lorento jr des moines let's hear it for him [Applause] yeah oscar can you go for it oh he's gonna ollie the big cap i want to see it oscar after the buzzer but still just frothing yeah get that one in it goes this is for you guys to mine oh holy on to the toyota i have not seen that attempted yet but you gotta love the showmanship yeah oscar i heard if he does that he gets the toyota ooh yeah excellent use of the course incorporating the car covering the major sponsors big shout out to toyota they're the ones who have been able to make this happen here men's adoptive street along with men's adaptive park which we just wrapped alongside women's adaptive street all right now wheels dropping in here for his third and final run currently sitting in third so he's on the podium right now firecracker down the 11th stair speedy that's insane it's a massive gap five seconds left on the clock his wheels lining up his final trick grind gets stuck on the he's rail for it he's all right you gotta applaud the effort des moines let's hear it for wheels i love the commitment there next to the massive pallet mountain view eric wheels a leader in the scene looks like he bends his wheel i was talking to tia who just uh competed in the women's adoptive stream just wanted yeah she was saying that she got back into it after seeing aaron on youtube and some of the footage that he was dropping was just wild all right next to drop in now this is robert tompkins from san diego california encore hey gap to flat robert something about san diego skaters they just uh they love the big gaps big stuff lots of historical skate spots skate parks yeah another big san diego in the house it's the best love out there ten seconds left on the clock robbery plenty of time capping the double set really good run robert [Music] and that's gonna do it third and final runs hands together for robert thompkins and your standings it's felipe nunez sitting in that top spot still after the win in park this morning looking to go double gold out here and win street as well 95.28 that score to beat up to be up on top brandon white in second and 80 with the 84 and wheels sitting in third right now you see robert having a discussion with wheels over there talking it over showing the love respect to one another and robert's gonna wrap up in seventh right there next to drop in here at the men's adaptive street final here at dotour this men's adaptive street final presented by toyota a beautiful sunday morning final day of due tour des moines and again your standings right there felipe nunes sitting up in the top spot with that 95.28 a very commanding lead there definitely dominating love seeing aaron and robert just give each other support there that's really what it's all about out here all these events going on everyone's competing for that top spot but also here to support their friends speaking of support let's show some support and love for josh take us on course right now our youngest competitor just 10 years of age people grind right to the back 50 50. off to a good start backside flips sticking it front side when any down the tick tock double set kid's got some skills two seconds and this is gonna be for you des moines as he's lining up something big here catching some air on the fly out nice backwards while it's here for mr josh tankos our youngest competitor just 10 years of age competing out here at dude tour des moines here if you're just joining us we're in the final runs for men's adaptive street presented by toyota yeah josh hyped on that kid the grommet all right next to drop is going to be vinnie sarty part of the brazilian storm coming out of sao paulo brazil and drop it in let's welcome it for his final run vinnie sarty can't flip it and start it off for sardi front knows what it's okay recover getting lots of speed here [Applause] to get another trick in here looks like that's gonna do it there for vinnie sardi oh yeah i think i don't believe he was officially sent maybe it looks like from the conversation down there reading the body language from our starter cliffy and now getting the thumbs up so here we go that was all just practice now vinnie's already for real let's welcome him vinnie sardi this is his third and final run okay cleveland just started off kick flip back front side backside lip slide it's a solid run here for minnie and there's the buzzer so for the fans those one after the buzzer there for the fans indeed and speaking of fans des moines show you love let's hear it for vinnie sarty third and final run all right to get up on top ooh josh tanko's jumping up onto the podium with his third and final run that bunk wheels into fourth but josh tanko's our youngest athlete out here this morning with the 83.95 that put him up on the podium [Applause] so we see a little mix-up in the standings awaiting the score for vinnie sardi who you just saw there we'll have four athletes left to go to take their third and final run vinnie sardi currently sitting in fifth with an 82.18 from his previous shredding out here ryan scheckler checking in with vinnie now give him love down there and score coming in 83.97 so that'll bump vinnie up onto the podium so big sitting up in third now josh tanko shout out to the grom was sitting up on third for just one run there and then vinnie coming up and being like brazil in the house and now we got joey maria the local boy des moines let's hear it for him he's one of your own joey maria of course now i think the real win for joey is he's gonna get to skate this park after we leave and have a whole place to himself and local hero local legend now is the only local athlete from des moines competing here in dotour this weekend i have a feeling that's going to change the next time we come back for real gonna be a lot of talent coming out of this i mean there already is a lot of talent in the city you've definitely seen some uh some of the local skates and local skaters were out until late last night yeah big shout out to sup sex local shop here definitely stop on by yeah have you had a chance to make it down there i haven't yet but i highly recommend it yeah maybe after we wrap up here definitely looking forward to cruising over there and checking it out super important to support our local skate shops keep the doors open it's nothing like a community vibe with friends at the shop hangout spot here we got dan bensina stopping that 50-50 to start it off had dan dan is a advocate for blind visually impaired skaters really committed to changing how people see mentioned earlier doing lots of great work with real skateboards as the clock winds down there for the third and final run dan mancino's hitting six previously but hands together for dan mancino representing the blind skate community out there throwing down here that do tour here at the men's adaptive street finals presented by toyota run three score coming in at 70. so not cracking up on the podium but a great showing out here for dan mancina and all our athletes we have mike miner currently sitting in 90. holy lipslide hanging on coming out strong not able to ride away there [Applause] there's dinky his dog you can follow him on inside the door dinky such a cute pup checking in on his owner mike miner there with three seconds left [Music] 50 50 to end it [Applause] at the buzzer let's hear it for mike miner ladies and gentlemen impressive the balance there staying on his board thank you and let's hear it for dinky as well excellent use of the course dinky it's really uh getting all over there judges love seeing that right alex yeah dinky use of course handling all the features and score coming in third final run at 81.18 that'll put him up at six but a strong show in there for mike miner thank you for being with us out here mike and our final athlete dropping in third and final run here of this men adaptive men's adaptive street final presented by toyota this is brandon white out of floral city florida currently sitting in second guaranteed a podium spot can he get up on the top spot better than 95.28 held by felipe nunez we shall see frontside 180 50 50 attempt from brandon white it's a gnarly trick down that steep hub okay grind it's got those on lock front board [Music] right before the buzzer there let's hear for brandon white what a great way to finish that run that was just wild so solid such a strong finish and let's hear for all our athletes is that wraps up third and final runs for all our athletes out here at the men's adaptive street final presented by toyota here at due tour des moines what an amazing start to this sunday fourth and final day well fourth to final fifth day of competition though yeah it's been a couple days huh dc yeah it's all a blur the 56 then it just flies by though but yeah quite a quite a blur the sensory overload with all the action going on so brandon white was sitting in second see if that was enough to get him up on top as we await our final results what a great way to kick off this morning here and there's your final resort results it's vinnie sardi walking away with that third place finish brandon white we just saw there coming with a second place finish and felipe nunez brazil in the house representing brazil with two brazilians on the podium felipe nunez not only winning park this morning but street as well what a morning for that young individual two for two i don't think anyone has ever done that before it's remarkable winning park and street god very impressive making history showing you why he's got a cover with thrasher felipe nunez just dominating this morning out here but shout outs to all our athletes check out some highlights from the park earlier that uh you guys were on the call for that i was bummed i was over here i wasn't bumping i was on women's street and could hear the hoots and hollers from the park sounded like such an exciting event i have to see some replays right now it was really exciting especially that moment from brandon white nose picking into the toyota extension there's vinnie with a huge frontside flip felipe kick flipping in to start his run this is what it takes to win men's park adaptive great showing from evan strong [Music] here's wheels insane that drop in back flip tail felipe nunes put on a show men's park adaptive final [Music] yeah there's your winner for street felipe nunez who then backed up that winning performance with the wind here on streets all right the wind from park and from street and uh speaking of street just witnessed let's check out some of the highlights here and there's your champions front nose grind up there so much strength front smith he's no stranger to big hand rails wheels invert young josh tanko's our youngest competitor just 10 years of age you'll be seeing him skating around all day and hanging out down for the groms for sure 10 years old fourth place not a bad finish not at all [Music] cena 50 50. there's miner taking a couple major slams out there but getting right back up no problem brandon white back left showing you he's an atv as well skating in park and street in the same hour backside 180 front blood all right well it's time to award our winners out here for men's adaptive street finals presented by toyota here at dotour des moines all right and there you have it your official results in third place representing brasil let's hear it for vinnie sarty [Applause] the big congratulations parabens vini sardi and obrigado for being out here with us at lawrence skatepark here for the men's adaptive street finals presented by toyota one more time hands together for vinnie sardi in third place and in second place coming out of florida let's hear for brandon white brandon white representing the deaf skaters of the war of the world coming away with second place finish backing up an amazing performance over on park as well this morning let's hear it again one more time for brandon white second place and your champion going back to back this morning here at deuter representing brazil felipe nunes winning the men's adaptive park and then hustling on over here to the street course to put on a clinic and coming away victorious congratulations bottom ends and hands together for your champion felipe nunez and your podium out here for men's adaptive street presented by toyota [Music] [Applause] yeah congratulations to all our adaptive athletes and thank you for being with us when we come back women's park final here at the do tour um so oh uh when i was a little kid all my classmates like moms would tell my mom like why are you letting your little girl like go to the skate park like that's where the bad kids go like what are you doing and she's like no like go to the skatepark it's not like it's not like that like what are you talking about i think what was so addicting about skateboarding was the fact that you know there's no uniforms there's no rules skateboarding is skateboarding and it is what it is because of that liberty i think the fact that i didn't need anybody at all is what really drew me in and within not needing anyone i was in my own world with skating there's so many different styles like people wear whatever they want they dress how they want they skate how they want like every individual skater is completely different than the next i just really could express myself when i was eight years old and now 16 years old it really just molded the person i am today it's something about it that we just so passionate about this skateboard that like bro it just it gets so many people together you know whatever type of animal you have inside projects on to what skateboarding is for you every day you want to learn something new and to learn something new sometimes you're going to fall in that part of the game you know i just think that like skateboarding is just like a big tree and like everybody's branched out it's such an individual thing like a wall like this that has been still here for years but maybe some guy comes here and wall rides on and it's like whoa all these different opportunities that i gotta like sit back and think like thank you skateboarding i would not be anywhere where i am like without skateboarding i have to pinch myself every once in a while i'm like what the heck like this is happening right now like where what am i doing like i should be like i'm just skating like it's very very special i'm very grateful [Music] yeah wipe out and get right back up get up wax the ledge we can't get stuck courage on deck like two trucks hop on and do what you want yeah true freedom they need us to stunt backside 180s to front yeah and we know struggle like we knows grind hustle for runs all in due time repetition repetition might switch stance but not the mission much more than a competition we risk it all to get these tricks in sacrifice ain't nothing given skater d.i.e how we living scrapes scars bruises lessons pain joy victory blessings from the block to your skate spots kick kick push and flip skate cops love parked to your skate shot got ollies with more pop than gamestop skate for justice we all land skate for change like blm yeah probably take a knee on my board ghetto kids all day shout out to the boy this that thunder in your heart 45 seconds to go right at the park that go harder go harder yeah that go far or go farther that five-ring camaraderie four-wheel polyurethane world society and all eyes on we and all eyes on goal all praises be united we roll peace and welcome to championship sunday here in des moines iowa it's due toward 2021 as we get set to crown champions throughout today's competition we'll kick things off with the women's park final we have got eight women competing for those top three spots on the podium the competition throughout these five days has been nothing short of sensational weather looks to be good throughout the day as you get a look at our olympic qualification overview there's 20 athletes per discipline there's max three per country and that's where it gets a little interesting five participating continents must be represented so it'll be 19 plus one african continent will get the final 20th bid on there and uh if you're an athlete from team usa team brazil team usa uh japan it's gonna be very difficult to make that squad competition format for today you'll have eight athletes now we bump it up to four runs 40 seconds or until fall and of course the best one counts that's out of a possible 100. and we say good morning to you from the banks of the des moines river here in des moines iowa todd harris alongside paul zitsa we're excited to get started here on the women's competition paul you talk about the progression that's taking place during the pandemic what has happened over the last two years since we were with you at due tour in long beach it has been nothing short of amazing yeah it's so beautiful to see the women in the bowl today are we've watched them all weekend long it's been incredible you're going to see so much great skating so many different styles coming from all over the world all right we talked about team usa and of course the three spots that are available still some things to be sorted out but team usa looks pretty strong as they get ready for tokyo coming up in less than two months we'll take a look at the starting list and who will be competing today who gets those final four runs today best run counts jordan barrett leading things off kisa nakamura kokono haraki and bryce wetstein of course sky brown competing for great britain and musugu akamoto those are the elite eight that are competing they get four runs so paul that opens up things just a little bit takes a little pressure off because you can let things flow early back when it was two runs not so much but with four runs yeah style that's true but the level goes up too because you got to stay on and you got to do your best work and you're competing with the absolute best skaters in the world to put your name on that start list that that means a lot todd safe to say that could be a final at the olympics in less than two months yes absolutely sky brown is a talent uh that comes from the states but lives in great britain representing london just 12 years of age and the level of talent here is so amazing for so much youth youth will certainly be served here as the average age in the women's park final is 16. and you look at the talent that comes out here so they are in for the next two olympic cycles easily if not more but they will let you know no question about it they are here they are ready to skate it is all about youth in the women's park movement [Music] all the young ones are coming in hot it seems like the generation's just getting like younger and younger these young girls are like coming in they'll fully put their pads on and stuff and you're like all right like she probably skates good and then she'll go up and do like a six foot high 540. when i was 15 i was super carefree i was just like oh we're just skating in a contest and nowadays their mentality is to to win i just want to do tricks that boys are doing you know it's not like their own division where they can't compete with the guys we're all fighting for the top spot and wanting to be the best but behind all that we're really good friends definitely the progression is going to go way up i mean women's skateboarding the past year has progressed so much that probably more than the past 10 years i think that's pushing a lot of us to like kind of step our game up a little bit she's crazy skye brighton lucrecia from italy poppy from australia kiesa mommy literally it's just insane to see how friendly they are and cheering each other on but also so aggressive at the same time watching all the girls ripping it skating with them is fun [Music] [Applause] i see i was not doing 540s when i was 12. that's for sure so be prepared to be amazed as you get set to watch women's park final here at do tour 2021 on the final day of competition so here's what it's what's at stake for team japan and paul we've crunched a lot of numbers this may be the most competitive team to make with the talent that they're bringing oh there's absolutely no question about it you're seeing the top the top names on the board at the bottom of your screen that that list could go on and on too todd there's so much talent there that is by far the hardest team to make well the battle for third rages on with kisa nakamura kokono hiraki and mami tazuka they all still have a shot to get in there but it's going to be a game of numbers you got to finish on top or in the podium and hope that the other person doesn't fit ahead of you and then the numbers will be crunched at the end of the day you're right but numbers aside todd this is going to be super fun for us because this is going to be an amazing event we're going to see great skating on our way to all those numbers what do you think has fueled the japanese resurgence especially when in women's skating i i i don't know japan has always been a country that supports skateboarding but i don't think they ever had the number of skate parks that some of the rest of the world has i think they recently very recently they have started to build those parks and that's why the women's field is so young because the older generation did not have access to the facilities i think that's the difference and they just support skateboarding they support the entire culture it's interesting when you hear someone like jordan barrett who's just 22 years of age saying the young guns are coming i'm like you are a young gun you're just 22 but she is dead on because you look at the list and ages in here there's 14 year olds there's 12 year olds they're 17 year olds and they are so good i've been i've been looking at instagram and seeing six seven and eight year olds ripping from japan it's it's it's going to be a game changer in the next few years see a lot of stars and stripes and the land of the rising sun trying to get to tokyo in less than two months as skateboarding makes its debut at the summer olympic games and this will certainly be a hot ticket for those wanting to watch something really special jordan barrett will kick things off here remember it is a four run final 40 seconds until you fall and jordan barrett just has has a really cool style a great approach she has a surf background so you see that flow and her skating around the bowl and bowl skating requires use of basically every feature you can't you can't skip the corners and the hips you can't go back and forth you got to be carving you got to be doing hard tricks though at the same time using the corners using the hips and she does come off with the final five seconds so the 22 year old out of encinitas california jordan barrett has the honor of going first to talk about a pressure pack situation what preparation this will be for tokyo in less than two months you're absolutely right but sometimes at least as the first skater in in the finals you just came up you came off warm up so you're feeling loose and good and you can carry that straight into your run that's a frontside boneless on what i've labeled the frontside boneless bank of the weekend popular trick on that sure we'll see more of those today backside air in the deep end jordan's going to want to stay on kisa nakamura now 20 year old out of kobe japan set to drop in she is in a very tight battle for that third and final position on team japan she's sitting around 33 000 points but she's got kokono haraki and mommy tuzuka right behind her so depending on what happens in this final it's really going to determine who's that third member of that team japan she has to come out and put it down right here and i think for kisa she needs to do her best work but again it comes down to staying on for 40 seconds and there's always the question what strategy to use she takes a tough one was that stall that intentional that long do you think or anything she got hung up no i it's hard to say maybe we'll take another look and see what happened it's kind of a tough angle to see from we want to get right up in there see if the truck was on the coping maybe she was leaning too far over her front foot apparently on the way in here we go front truck her back foot looked a little loose i don't know looks like she was just leaning too far over her front foot on the way in there was a lean to tail as a setup for this front side nose pick yeah it looks like she completed you just don't have a re-entry i don't see anything too terribly wrong about that kisa nakamura have that 15-4 so that becomes a throwaway score for her remember it is four runs here in the final only your best run counts as we turn our attention now to 12 year old coconut haraki out of hokkaido japan you're going to see a lot of subtle difficulty in kokona's skating i i love the way she skates very technical lip trick focus too like that front side nose grind perfection big front side kick turn on the plexiglass windshield lean to tail over the hip you see what she's doing she's working the bowl hitting the different features not leaving it up to the judges saying hey i'm doing everything required the tricks using the ball blasting in air the hard way over the centerpiece this is a really great run here for kokona coming off on the front side blind final three seconds she comes off so haraki who's in that battle for that third and final position looking for a good score here you know of all the japanese skaters she has such focus i was down on the deck early watching practicing she's not smiling she is locked in today you know it's funny you mentioned that there is a lot of smiling and a lot of fun being had down there especially by the younger skaters i feel like they're just they're just psyched to be here rightfully so but great skating for about 42 seconds from kokona look at that backside nose grind frontside air disaster a great amount of variety and the front side blunt front foot slips off on the way in it's a hard trick on a bank like that at the very end so she gets the highest score we've seen so far a 43.13 and she'll look to runs two three and four she is in the big battle we know one thing she has to be on the podium if she wants any shot of being on team japan she's got to be on the podium at the end of this final and she can get there but again we need to start with 40 seconds of clean skating and she's got a great approach to lift tricks we saw the backside smith right there aka the monty grind frontside people brian around the corner so she has the lip tricks unlock we might want to see some some heirs for mommy there's a nice hand plant but the judges are looking for a huge amount of variety she delivers classic mommy skating um we'll see what they where they place that so a full pull for her top to bottom finishes completely and that's how it is the community of skateboarding congratulating one another this is a great run look at classic mommy front side smith grind locked in back truck on rail on the coping and there's the backside version the monty grind and the backside ollie over the hip keeping the flow going and here front side feeble through the corner that that's the biggest trick of of her run right there in my opinion the 50 50 grind over that rainbow rail in the center and a nice invert finish it off so mommy looking for something good here they'll put her into first place for the time being a 49.89 with three runs still to go that's halfway through the women's park final of the eight women we are four down four to go and the next four are sensational so i expect to see the scores go up as mommy tuzuka leads the way with that 49.89 now at sakura she's 19. [Music] she is a super technical skater and has such a casual smooth style very calculate look at the flow on that front side ollie that was beautiful if you've seen sakura escape you are an immediate fan no doubt about it she makes everything look so easy front side lip slide through the corner this is great skating a very like slow motion feeble grind around that corner really working the bowl backside nose front reever insane technicality on that one todd yosuzumi with a full pull top to bottom you know you talked about her style everything that her good friend sky brown giving her some love you know she skates so much differently than some of the other japanese girls because she's a little more upright upper body hardly ever moves you're right it's it's the lack of motion that shows you how good she is she's in perfect control great balance style for days over the centerpiece and a huge backside air there she's the full full package todd look at lip slide around the corner fantastic look backside nose blunt the whole board up on top of the deck there wheels behind the coping and taking it to backside revert it's tech and scary dangerous too judges are going to like this we'll see do they move her into the first position the japanese team still trying to battle out to see who will take that third and final spot right now kisa nakamura looking very good but they have got so much talent and there's a 5304 for sakura yosuzumi so she goes into first place but remember we still have three more rounds to go here in the women's park final down to the final three competitors here in run number one and it is all japan right now in the top three positions two americans here in the final jordan barrett has already gone she currently sits in fourth place bryce what stein now dropping in 17 years of age out of encinitas california the top three american women all coming from that north county san diego area yeah and and the reason is there's been skate parks there forever and everybody skates so it's a it's a large pool of talent and bryce is just one of these skater skaters she's awesome she looks so good on a board and she has a cool selection of tricks like that cab pivot could have gone to feeble hard to tell from that angle but bryce is very unique and that's unfortunate the air over the center piece is typically a setup trick so you don't want to see somebody bail that set up for something more as bryce wetstein now looks to runs two three and four still a smile on her face a 20 17 year old from encinitas so the four run final todd gives skaters like bryce a lot of room to to improve over the next three runs that was awesome the front side boneless on that bank but taking it to disaster mixing it up a little bit i like that so bryce is going to be looking to the subsequent runs that 2818 becomes a throwaway for her that takes us down to the final two as you take a look at the current standing so far here in run number one from des moines on a beautiful day i'll tell you what the sun is out we've had a little bit of everything and it'll be sky brown the 12 year old prodigy out of london representing great britain you'll notice she does not have quite the same accent but she is decided to represent the motherland sky brown marketing gold i tell you she rips on a skateboard and we've seen her improve so much over the over the past two years so she didn't get to skate in 2019 due to her due to injury it's great to see her out here in 2021 looking so strong on the board and she really can do it all she learned mctwists last year she's been skating with tony hawk you know that can't hurt that's not a bad thing look at that hand plant in the deep end going front side there using the whole goal grind definitely a fan favorite this guy drops in [Applause] everyone loves to see her skate and she's she's one of these that's always having fun yeah having a blast positive energy that helps marketing gold right am i wrong look at the size of that backside air over the the centerpiece into a nice mute air that's a technical technical air in the deep end and going alyu turning backside but in the front side direction over the hip and a frontside 360. that's going to be a big score for sky she did it all love the hand plant remember folks she is just 12 years of age and she will certainly be someone to keep your eye on as the olympics approach [Music] i don't know if i've ever seen her with a frown on her face or you know disappointed or angry see what the score comes in for for young sky she goes into first with a 57-1-4 and still has three runs to go i like the surprise there i mean really she skated pretty insanely great it's like christmas morning oh my gosh i get a 57. it's a good thing when you're 12. life is good so here she is the 14 year old say a project because we've said that so many times but it's true okamoto she is dominant she is the queen and she gets the announcer's curse as she comes off early here in the final remember she has three more runs well i want to see what happened there i think it's it i think it started with the air over the centerpiece we could call it the twinkie or whatever you want to say todd but i think she didn't quite get the speed that she wanted on the landing there you see her hanging up a little bit on the top not getting quite the speed and pump into that mctwist yeah she knew this trick she's she's the only women we've seen over the you know the past year or two or ever being able to throw the mctwist in competition consistently and she's so good because she recognized i don't have the pop i don't have the height for this and she kicked out so that was all by design so she will look to runs two three and four as sky brown the 12 year old takes the lead into runs two of four with a 57-1-4 sukuro yes kumi is in second and mommy tuzuka currently sitting in third well sky brown may be representing great britain but it doesn't matter what flags in front of your name sky brown has made friends with everyone all our competitors around the world and that helps her skate even better it does get dead i really look up to her she's really good yeah she more than she wants to win she wants to land the trick like show people the trick she's doing yeah she doesn't know but she wants to inspire more people especially in japan when people see what she does hopefully they will you know try hard and believe in their self and do their best [Laughter] [Music] kids just having fun out there as sky brown takes the lead into run number two with their good friend kisa nakamura she is just she makes friends everywhere she goes speaking of making friends you know when you have the opportunity to bring in a legend to help you out on the call it's always a wise thing and i'm not talking just about paul zitzer of course lizzie armando joining us did you know it's paul's birthday yesterday shut up todd let's talk about lilly yeah i mean i knew she wanted to give you a look lizzy you've been around this game for so long you've seen the progression what do you think about what we're seeing today in in run number one it's amazing like all these girls they've come up so fast and to see the level that they're skating at with like the trick selection and the powers it's insane who do you think is the hardest skater to beat out there for real you've skated against all of them um i mean they all like have their own thing obviously masuka's been like really strong like she's just like every time she skates she like puts out her run um and all the other honestly i've been like really impressed with like seeing like coconut like her her bag of tricks is crazy because she's so technical how about as far as just being a skater and a fan of skateboarding who's sort of your favorite and you'd love to see him just put it down here and take home the win i'm rooting for mommy like i really just want her to put her run down like that she has in mind lizzy we're gonna put you to work as we get back to the competition as jordan barrett's sitting right now with a pretty decent score she had issues first off at 3113 but the four run format at least i got to ask you how much more comfort level does that give you when you have four runs only the best run counts oh my god it's so much better this format like especially after this giant break we've had in competition like two runs is just so stressful so jordan having some problems there on run number two she still has two more runs only the best run counts as team usa gets themselves sorted out looks like brighton soyner of course bryce what stein and jordan barrett looks to be a pretty good position to be representing the country over in tokyo lizzie i'd have to ask you 20 years ago when when you got into skateboarding serious did you ever think hey the olympics is a thing i wasn't even skateboarding 20 years stop it first time you put your foot on a board um i was 14 when i started i over i was stressed on that one but i don't know in a few ten years ago in a few more years i will i'll hit 20. okay how about this this park how did you feel like it was it was welcoming good just easy to adapt to and skate or there is it a struggle trying to adapt to like that giant plexiglas you know i'll be honest i hate the plexiglas thing like it sucks it's slippery it's like awkwardly tall it's like awkwardly steep like not steep like you know vert but like just awkward it's just so weird no that's why no one's touching this obviously how about let's take the windshield out of it the rest of the bowl the rest of the park's pretty awesome i think it's just a matter of like time like a lot of people didn't have the same amount of time on this course right okay so nakamura now on course on her second run of four sky brown leads away with a 57-1-4 more than likely that score is going to get dropped but everyone has so many opportunities as lizzie pointed out four runs makes it so much better you can really let things flow a little bit more take some chances right and and lizzy if you have a four run format do you just decide to go all out straight away and hope to put your best run down one time or do you try to build on a first first run that's a safety a little bit i feel like it's always good to just have a safety run and you saw that from like all the girls they just like put down something and now they're they're building off that and i think that gives you the confidence to like be like okay that's in the bag i want to do this so what you're saying is basically tune in for round four no question yeah for sure like that's the that's the craziest front we're gonna see or like out of all of them nakamura in that battle for that third and final team japan spot representing the home nation to the olympics and here we see her making the front side nose pick on this run that's what took her out last time so an improvement kisa is a powerhouse the way she skates is like she can go from no speed to like somehow back to where she was at like she she's all power and strength and she does things that i'm like i i would not come back right how about a miller flip can you miller flip not yet okay we'll get there she finished strong there it is keith's second run better than her first a 40.13 that bumps her up she'll continue to build with two more runs still to come current standing still jordan barrett jumping out in front skye brown stood on the 57th that is such a crazy trick to be like your first trick on right she's baseball she's so consistent with the lip tricks nose grind champ right yes that hit that she went over that's like the hardest hit in this bowl like everyone everywhere else is pretty mellow and like straightforward nice frontside air disaster how about airing over that centerpiece is that you feel like that that's a trick or is that more of a setup for a trick or a little bit of both it depends it depends if you really do something it it becomes a trick but it's easy just to go over it and call it like a day i don't know honestly the giant fly box in the middle reminds me of those kids that go to your local park and they just do fly outs all day that you're you're like damn it come on do something you now front side nose grind you saw ollie over the centerpiece setting up for the front side air smacking it to disaster and her signature moves front side and backside nose grinds every try i want her to get that that front line it's so cool when she lands it got two more tries waiting for something to drop here sky brown leads it with a 57-1-5 yo zumi in second and suzuka sitting in third place it's a battle within a battle as team japan trying to sort out which three of these athletes will represent the country in women's park they've got as paul said five six seven maybe ten could is there any challenge to the friendship lizzie when you're all battling for one spot into the olympics can that get in the way of a good time good job i think everybody's all just having a blast and high-fiving each other and hoping for the best there's some there's some stuff going on let's be honest here tell us more i don't know yeah i don't know anything she says nothing sky brown the watching on and the rest it's hard like like it's not like obviously each girl wants to do their own best and then like i don't know you bring in the parents you bring in the pressure from the federations you bring in the pressure from like your hometown crew like there's so much stuff so a little politicking going on yeah and that's like it's it's crazy the people that like care now and i don't know things change right it's it's turned very serious quickly here with the olympics on the horizon so i'm team finland and lisa and lizzy when the scores take this long to come down is that a good thing in your mind are you like going come on um it can be a good thing it just depends like what are the judges like figuring out he's certainly taking their time do you feel some extra pressure having sort of taken the the finland route now you're representing this country as you know and it's like hey we've kind of adopted you as our own and now you're going there representing them is there any of that or am i making that up no i feel like i'm like being welcomed to the family like it's like everyone's been so cool and like finland they're so passionate about like yeah their culture is so passionate about sports and like you know finland it's not a summer it's not summer there much and you know it's they're known for winter sports and so i think they're more than happy to have me like with the family and how and how is your finish by the way um finnish is such a hard language i was going to say it's one of the hardest lifestyles to learn like if you hear a lot of the times if you hear someone that like grew up speaking finnish you hear it in their english because the accent is like so heavy i'm sure you're gonna you're gonna protect you're gonna perfect that no question about it mommy suzuka now one of lizzie armando's favorite and she goes down early and it's four runs 40 seconds until the fall so that becomes throwaway for her there's a lot of pressure on mommy too well there's so much pressure to make this team team usa there's so much talent so few spots for more on that we check in with tina dixon oh yeah you know and todd i'm standing on the deck of the final olympic qualifying event for women's park and like you said if you're one of those japanese women the pressure is on now throughout the week there have been so many smiles down here but those smiles have transitioned into focus and determination and one thing i've noticed is the women have been looking at the scoreboard more than usual down here todd now no question about it points are at a premium right now especially for team japan we talked about it with okamoto and yosuzumi pretty much locked in for them but then you have the battle between nakamura hiraki and tuzuka all trying to get on that third and final transfer position as we move on to sakura yosuzumi lizzie have you seen a change over the last year not seeing some of these skaters for a year a lot of improvement here from a lot of them right yeah new tricks what's it called there's like some girl like some of the girls have grown like they're different they have more weight and like they have to adjust their skating to that too because there's so many like younger kids and i feel as if skateboarding can become more difficult as you get bigger for sure right 540s for example little kids have a much easier time than big kids other other tricks too carrying more weight that is definitely a thing and i feel like all these girls that are in the finals they've like really they're managing the change pretty well so sakura finishing off her run again the obligatory hug from her friend sky brown you go back to 2019 at the dew tour she was in the final as the elder statesman with a 10 year old and a 12 year old on the podium her skating is just so polished and she's so consistent and there isn't she doesn't get sketchy she just puts it down clean hard tricks any weakness would you would you point out any weakness lizzy um i would say that sakura's biggest like improvements could be like i don't know like the way she does them they're very controlled and like it it looks you can see that it's controlled like on her ollies like you want to see her get loose yeah add a little style like it doesn't look like she's ever like going for it because she's so controlled and sometimes that translates as and this is easy right and then you get started getting judged against yourself which is another like not fun place to be so sakura moves into second place guys with a 5509 as we do a little housekeeping before we get set to watch chris is like a new skateboarder crazy and going back to 2019 the detour you were on the podium lizzie armando so i'm not robbing you from that position what do we see what do we see from bryce that you like the most backside going from a backside ollie at that angle is like crazy like she has to ollie but so much feeble fakie it comes out of it super strong um bryce has been like her control is so much different than it was a year ago oh i love that body burial disaster also bryce has a very peculiar vocabulary i hope you guys get to talk to her she makes for an interesting up close and personal interview bryce right now focused on this run and that fall comes after the clock hit zero so she should be in good shape currently sitting in seventh place after that get off early in run number one with a 28.18 i expect this to bump up but uh yeah certainly her own style the way she rides out there is awesome oh yeah it's been incredible i agree and i agree that ali backside ollie is just a thing of beauty and she's cutting the rock and roll up on top of the plexiglas she's she's the only one to start off her run like that which is a bold move i mean mommy she just tried it but right we talked about how it's so hard to show up somewhere you know what tricks you can do but then to adapt them to the course that they give you and make it all work that that's tough and then with limited practice too right skating in contests is so much more than just the the 40 seconds it's the whole build up the preparation working it all out on the way yeah nice improvement for bryce west stein of 41.33 that puts her into fifth place here in the women's final of the women's park competition sky brown continues to lead with a 57-1-4 and there you see the wow look at all the japanese flags in the top ends so crazy yep a lot of talent on there masugu okamoto not many times you see here sitting in eighth place but remember she still has her runs to go so skye brown if you didn't know she lives in california dad of british descent mom of japanese descent here she is competing for great britain she's all international she can skate for anyone yeah that's true lizzie is she making the right call i mean not judging but is she making the right call going and representing great britain i mean it's stacked being in the japanese like camp or crew but you know she would by her ranking she would be in so no matter what country yeah it's kind of like wherever you feel like is gonna empower you and like you're gonna get the most support and that's honestly how i made my decision but it's tough i don't know like skateboarding's never seen like pick your country yeah exactly skateboarding's never been about like who's your team it's like what do you bring to this session this is comfortable with that decision so skye brown with her second run looking very good and the smile on the face yeah skye just handling it right another session out of the park she did so much mute air and not just hanging on tweaking it showing the judges she's in full control of what she's doing lean to tail up onto that steep bank straight into a back tail slide that that's a weird line there's a lot going on there and sky front side nose grind showing she can do airs blasting the front side 360. she's got the lip tricks hand plants she's tough to beat and give her two more months to prepare for the olympic games and you know she's gonna go back to work is there any lizzy any area of improvement for skye where can we nitpick um i mean she's a little kid she doesn't have power like she looks like powerful because she's smaller and so you know she can do a frontside air you know like let's say she does a front side or a foot high someone else a bigger stature does a front sitter at foot height it doesn't look the same right right so she she's definitely in that place of like she's just trying to like get as many tricks in it's a physics thing as skye takes the lead by a few more points pads it to 58-5-0 mosul okamoto now remember she had that fall early on in the first six seconds of her run of 40. she goes now for run number two and i imagine she's not going to have another mistake like that we wouldn't expect no but still working hard our betting man i would say it's not going to happen twice i wouldn't bet against you todd back three same setup this time sticking the five and she didn't clear the twinkie again though that's why i was wondering if she's gonna have the speed to do it yeah now i wonder that may be what she's trying to do she may be regulating her speed by landing on top like that i think you're right because going into that five it's like it comes up quick and and like you said todd she is in a safe position too right to be skating in tokyo not officially but she just wants to put in good work here finish strong as she moves on that body jar was sick she it's so cool to see because like so many people like you don't do that trick unless you like mean it right you gotta commit yeah otherwise it's bad it can end bad that's what i mean it's not that it's bad somebody hung up a body jar this week and it was not pretty you know i'm sorry i don't oh that's the worst thing that stuff yeah masuga with a very strong pulse start to finish clean precise what we expect from her that's the body jar as he's talking about you got to slap your tail on the coping and it's it there's a game of inches probably the only girl in this heat that'll do that your body jar yeah okay i feel like a lot of girls like are like this will be a huge improvement as masooka was sitting in eighth last place with a 9.06 sushi takes the lead away from sky brown and that 58.50 as we get set for run number three so halfway through the competition skye brown leads the way best swell so far sukuro yosumi in second and mommy tuzuka sitting in third place the battle really right now is for team japan who will be that third and final competitor representing the home nation mitsuko okamoto has pretty much done it sakurai is sumi and how about that up 57 so okamoto goes right into second place with one run and that's with a safety run according to lizzie i'm not saying it no i'm with you nobody be politically incorrect that's why lizzie gets paid the big money to take those chances and make her statement known she takes that and she's got two more runs to go so we'll certainly see some more from misuglu okamoto just 14 years of age sky brown 12 years of age the youth movement in women's skating has been sensational but this is a progression we talked about it lizzie everyone taking that year off for the pandemic last time we saw really a lot of great competitive skating was it 2019 where you finished on the podium in long beach california does that seem like forever ago when i think about all the things that have happened since then it really feels like ages ago but then when i think about like it was only like a year two years ago it's not that we've lost track how far ago all right thanks to lizzie armano for joining us here at the women's park final sky brown leads after two of four runs a 58-50 misugo okamoto jumps into second place with a 57 and third it's sakura yosa's zoomy so the battle is on two more runs here at the women's park final at the due tour 20-21 the sun is out on the banks of the des moines river it is a beautiful championship sunday here in iowa so now oh hey do that again [Music] here for good beautiful day in des moines iowa it's due tour 2021. todd harris paul zitzer with you glad to have you as we get ready for the second half of the women's park final on championship sunday right now is sky brown leading the way with a 58.50 okamoto jumps into second place with the 57 and yo zumi in third those are the current standards but there is a battle paul within as team japan is still trying to sort out the three women that will represent that country in part competition that's right but but mommy mommy's doing what she needs to do right now she's she's up there mommy needs to finish on the podium kisa currently sitting in third kokono still has a shot at masugo okamoto and sakura yosuzumi pretty much locked in there it's that third position that it's at stake and our hearts and thoughts go out to the family of kisa nakamura her father passing away just over a month ago so she is out here skating her heart out representing her family her father and his memory is a tough spot for her to be in but she's going to give it her very best as we check in now on the deck with tina dixon yeah thanks todd now after that two runs it's actually given a chance for the competitors to sort of settle down catch their breath and feel comfortable in this park especially with so much on the linus on those on that japanese side now i did speak to mommy tazooka's manager who said you know what it is business as usual down here so they're just focusing on skateboarding but another thing to mention this is the final event before those tokyo games so some of these competitors are actually testing their lines and their tricks against the rest of the field as they continue this preparation todd and tina i was going to ask you you've been around a lot of skate competitions you were obviously there in 2019 at the dew tour do you sense a different feeling a different vibe knowing that the olympic spots are on the line absolutely i mean yeah there's always smiles right and we're gonna see that but there is a feeling of pressure and intensity that i have not felt before at a park event and as tina pointed out earlier they are all watching that scoreboard and you know some people are doing some serious math to figure out so we now enter run number three of four only your best run counts jordan barrett at encinitas california looking for something big here yeah and she's got it she just needs to put it all together she has such a such a great flow and a great style she's gonna make her tricks and i'm gonna say the wisdom of paul zitzer stay on your board that is obviously the key yeah that's just job one you know but when you when you come to a contest that's the hardest thing you you know how to do the tricks it's can you keep your mind focused and keep the nerves in check because sometimes they'll just sabotage your whole day so let's look at the highlights from jordan barrett as she comes in here to start things off everything's so clean her grabs are always nice she locks it in and this one just how'd that get away from her i think she may have pulled out too far off the wall and sometimes if if your weight's a little forward and you're going to land low it is not going to end well if you try to put it down sometimes it works a lot of times it does not and there's times you don't want to find out no question about that kisa nakamura now set to drop in on her third run of four i can't even imagine what it's been like for her after losing her father and now traveling to the states here in des moines to compete in this global qualifier to try to get herself onto team japan she is in a battle right now currently in that third and final position wow so far so good for keisa taking some chances staying on i feel like she got a little loose but judges like to see that sort of go go for it type thing just go make it happen stay on over the center huge backside air there time for one more trick oh yeah hurricane there and that's time before that miller flip great great run for kiesa she's currently sitting in seventh place would do herself a lot of good to lock up that third and final position as her best friends come over sky brown's everyone's best friend i think it's i'm surprised she didn't go over and hug teen after you're right so if if keisa can finish ahead of kokona and mommy she she's setting herself up really nicely and and coming into that run she is behind both of those skaters so this this is going to be a huge score for her front side nose blonde on that steep bank taking a huge chance there and it's going to pay off and the backside tail didn't really get a slide but that's all good she kept the run going mute air over the center big backside air in the deep end great great variety keith is just a few thousand points ahead of kokona iraqi for that final transfer position for team japan and with the points that are available here this is gonna be huge so her third run does pat it a little bit of 4207 and she will bump up to sixth place but right now she's not really so worried about the position on the leaderboard she's worried about the points and where she's going to finish i would agree with that haraki we've spoken about already just 12 years of age already on course what lizzie armani was talking about about just the size and the girls growing and getting getting some more weight getting some more physics on their side they gotta work so much harder to generate the speed right we talked about this a lot the the smaller and younger you are there's there's pros and cons if you're tiny you have the advantage you have a lower center of gravity you're probably going to stay on more you have better balance as you get taller it's harder to balance but that said yeah lack of speed and it's hard to be very stylish when you're when you're tiny you know style comes with size and experience and we saw that's what lizzie wanted to see the front side blunt right it's been giving her trouble so kokoda will look to run four as we wrap things up here on run three for her so much great skating on the lead up to that front side blunt the the front nose grind trail slide on that steep bank and of course i mean backside nosegrind those are her specialties she's the best at that best in the world and you think about the longevity of her career is as there's going to be two more olympic cycles before she hits 20. after japan so she's still going for the front sight blunt up on that steep bank i'm not sure it looks like maybe just a lack of commitment which seems surprising to say yeah so she's gonna stick with run number one 43-1-3 and there are the current standings right now in the midst of run number three with fourth run still to come sky brown leading the way 58-5-0 masugamoto doing what she needs to do pretty much a lock for team japan as is sakura yasuzumi mommy tuzuka now she needs to go this has got to be a huge run for her not to put all the pressure on her fourth and final she's put it down in an amazing way so far todd but she has to bring a little bit more she needs to finish top three on the podium and she can do it backside tail slide barely getting your tail on the coping though that makes it even harder when you don't do the trick all the way frontside feeble she is great at that trick in the corner very technical lip trick oh oh wow you saw her feet got hung up on the rail board off she was committed though so mommy currently sitting in fourth place with a 49.89 as time runs out she needs to be on the podium she's got any shot representing team japan in tokyo hey no matter what happens for mommy though you can't take away that frontside smith grind that is just the best front tail up on the steep bank keeping the run going with the ollie over the hip and there there it's just fantastic and her skating in the open qualifying and in the semis as we see where she came off there it was sensational i mean she's just wow and she's one of the only women here hitting the rainbow rail over that centerpiece the board just came off her feet before she even left the coping i'm not sure what happened that's skateboarding it's not attached 38-47 throw away she holds on to the 49-8-9 she'll be back one more run for mommy that's going to be a crucial role yes it is currently sitting in third place on the overall standings second place for team japan and i i like what lizzie was saying about sakura i love that about her style how casual and calm it is but she makes a great point where it might look too easy but what a great frontside ollie she's able to do i love the tweak on that air and a 540. she comes off as she was making the transfer she got robbed todd oh my she just threw that 540 out there like nothing so the big trick she lands with the transition back to the next wall where just the board here's what we say about that todd only in a contest yeah it's like a full mysterious invisible banana peel yeah it's one of those things you just you can't prepare for it there's just nothing you can do all of a sudden you're flying off your board for no reason so she put down a beautiful judo air lean to tail way up on top of that you heard lizzy talking about how annoying that thing is to skate right okay front side ollie just perfect this run this run was was gonna be it look backside melon grab 540 perfect landing it just gets high up she was looking to the next trick and not looking under her feet which why would you she knows what she's doing she knows what's going on out there and and that bump just kind of caught her off guard she kind of hit hit two different competing transitions at the same time ah what a disappointment what could have been no question about it 55.09 she'll stay with that yo suzumi with one more run to go price what stein will be the next to drop in the 17 year old from encinitas california the american situation is a little clear it looks like that bryce is going to finish in that first position for team usa brighton zoider looking really good in second place and jordan barrett looking very strong for a third now crazy if things have happened but right now that looks to be the team that's going to represent team usa yeah and jordan was the one in the in the tenuous zone she's here in the finals that's that's what she had to do did herself a favor making the final here she is bryce what stein now coming in with the big rock and roll on the annoying bank going alley-oop there in the deep end yes the crowd responding to bryce and you see i love just the different approaches you know and and the japanese skaters have a very unique approach and so too do the americans and especially bryce wetstein how long has bryce been running the red suspenders i don't know has that been a part of our program since as long as you've seen her escape she's well she's just a character she's always mixing it up and throwing us surprises great best surprises are the tricks she does though coming out with all kinds of craziness caballerial there after the clock runs to zero so bryce gets a nice full pull there we'll see what the judges think of that always a smile on her face she's currently sitting in seventh place right now with that 41-3-33 needs a 55-10 to put herself in a podium position all right taking another look way up there rock and roll one of the few women doing tricks on top of that toyota box front side boneless oh i didn't see that with the hand flip todd she flipped it surprises wow bryce give it a surprises yeah that's that's where bryce excels just doing things you don't expect and that is really hard to do in a final and there's so much pressure and there's that last attempt with the caballerial it's okay great run for bryce and her score comes in it's a slight improvement of 42-5-2 but she will stay in that sixth position for the time being with one run to go final two competitors here at the women's park final run number three of four sky brown who is currently sitting in first place with a 58.50 that it'll be misugo okamoto who sits in second place sky representing great britain nation of her father she gets ready to drop in here on run three i would say a lot of pressure on this one for her maybe distance herself from second but i don't know if she ever responds to pressure she just seems to it's another run yeah and and it's one of those things where you feel as if maybe a as a young competitor who comes in here just having fun that puts her at an advantage because without the pressure she can just go out there and just do her best and that's exactly what she's been doing here this weekend just been unstoppable oh backside lip slide for she really has developed so many new tricks and she has so much variety and of course [Music] an ability to use every part of the park oh it's sky brown at the very end prize for the 540 comes off sitting at the bottom of the park with a smile on her face wow i love the fact that she's going to end with a really hard trick not just fold it in for the final five seconds i'm gonna give the judge just something special to think about and and lizzie mentioned how the only maybe weakness disguise game is that she doesn't have the the strength of power yet so there's nothing she can do about that right now except just keep doing what she's doing and grow into it and then watch out but watch out right now she can do it all so far it's working for her with a score of 58.50 she has the lead with one run to go it'll be interesting to see what the judges do with this one it was at the very end of a run when she has the fall she was going for a big trick but she did have the fall yeah but she did so much on the lead up and she yeah the frontside 540 that's a tough trick that's wow great skating here today this guy's got one more run to go we'll see what the judges do with that as she sits on the deck her score comes in not an improvement so she'll stay with run number two's 58-5-0 bryce what stein just in front of her just chilling hanging out watching the friends skate final competitor akamoto second run was her best 57. i get a feeling she's building to something bigger all right she's back in wow getting sketchy on that 540 but staying on front side tail slide in the deep end oh i like that a lot of people do the front side boneless on that bank but they don't transfer it back into the ball taking a big chance yes she was going for the win yeah plenty of time on the clock for that one so as paul pointed out that was a high risk high reward maneuver for mizugo sitting in second place and one more run to go a calculated move yeah and that's one of those tricks if it goes right it's not it's not the most difficult but it's just typically an inconsistent type trick here's the 540 mctwist she landed so high up the transition on that that's a dangerous spot to be it's it can be good but i think it came the landing came up a little fast for but she hung on and she kept that run going nice frontside air there [Music] and here we see the kickflip indy i'm not quite sure it looks like maybe she just wasn't over her board when she needed to be unable to get that back underneath there so she stays like sky with run number two and they all now have a third fourth excuse me and final run here in the women's park final wow what a show as lizzie pointed out you're gonna definitely want to watch this fourth and final run as the women start to take bigger chances sky brown leads the way by a margin of one and a half points over masugo akamoto sokoro yosuzumi sitting in third place with mommy tuzuka doing what she needs to do she needs to be on the podium if she wants to make team japan and there is the battle within the battle with masook okamoto okamoto and tsukuro yosuzumi already pretty much locked in for team japan there's one spot available the american situation looks like bryce wet stein is going to have that top spot for team usa with brighton joyner in second and jordan barrett making the final here pretty much locking up her position in third so what's one more run here in the women's park final this is encinitas jordan barrett the 22 year old dropping in for her fourth go around the final opportunity here in des moines yeah coming into this final run in eighth place she just wants to stay on put it down and ride out of this due tour feeling like she had a great weekend in a successful final frontside boneless on the steep bank following it up with the backside air in the deep end we want to see some big tricks there nice eggplant with the tuck knee she has great style on that trick taking [Applause] with a very strong final showing that's the way you want to leave a competition on a high note like that yeah that has to feel good it's a heavy competition you may be seeing a preview of what you'll see in tokyo in two months time in the final all right there's the nice frontside air up on top of that plexiglas followed up by crail slide so a great variety for jordan there's the stale fish that's a very technical grab grab behind the heels and therefor there's a frontside boneless on the steep bank so a lot she brought a lot to the table and there is the eggplant tuck knee grabbing around both knees that's extra style points judges love that look both knees on one side of the arm good skateboarding tuck knee i like that nowhere to go but up as jordan barrett's 410 her best run but it's not enough to get her out of eighth place right now smile on her face so she did what she had to do she made the final and that was mission number one here in des moines it shows you the depth of the competition though when you stay on do what you want to do and still remain in eighth here we go it is go time now for kisa nakamura of japan the 20 year old she needs to stay in a podium position so she starts to run in a very similar way that jordan just did with the front side air on the plexiglass and then going into the deep end coming off that just opens the door she was in third place for team japan to make the team and now she's allowed an opportunity for someone like a mommy tazooka or a kokona hiraki to jump up nakamura gingerly making her way out of the bowl we've talked about losing her father a month ago comes to des moines trying to secure that third and final spot for team japan and just not her day her best score is at 42.07 so she'll have to stick with the 4207 which keeps kisa nakamura in seventh place so a great opportunity now for kokona hiraki she's got to put it down here it's time to stay on for 40 seconds and that is a beautiful start again front side nose grind around the corner front side kick turn setting up for the lean to tail over that hip lizzy mentioned how hard that hip is to skate backside knows grind kokona doing what she does best very technical difficult lift tricks hanging on here lean the tail that's the second clean the tail of the of the run though front blood so she does get the full time so kokona stepping up in a pressure pack situation and what a performance for the 12 year old as she knew what she had to do while she stayed on her board and put down some amazing tricks she really did she's setting herself up nice for some big scores oh this is nerve-wracking mommy and fourth kocona coming into that run in fifth place front side nose grind around the corner that's all front truck balance you got to lock it in precise hitting that steep bank and here we go the backside version front truck only backside nose grind here the front side blunt popping that one in the back foot got a little loose but she wasn't letting go of it [Music] so clean look at the relief when she gets towards the end knowing that she did the full run exactly what she wanted to do what actually what she needed to do there you see the current state of sky brown still leading the way 58-5-0 okamoto's second and it will be an improvement as she bumps into fifth place with a 47-point so kokona haraki sitting now in fifth with mommy tazooka coming up next this is the battle for team japan you've got okamoto and yo suzuki yo suzumi excuse me already locked in pretty much on positions one and two each nation three positions so the pressure's on mommy she's gotta make it on to the podium top three which means she needs better than a 5509 to get herself a podium position and her last run was fantastic [Applause] see if she can add something to it and here's yosazumi will have the option to go after her so she'll get the final say to up the ante all right here we go backside tail slide i don't know how she made that it was just the tip of the tail on the coping but she hangs on and keeps it going front side feeble grind again through the corner working the bowl there we go front side 50 50. staying on this time into a nice ah she lost a lot of speed on the landing of that front side air huh the clock goes to zero so now was that run worthy of a 55-10 in your opinion wow todd todd you're leaving it leaving it to the judge it was great skating i i would have to i would have to re-watch sakura's run to really give you an honest breakdown we'd have to go trick for trick look at every section of the ball i love what mommy did out there is it better than what sakura did is it better than masugu oh right there that backside tail slide there was almost no contact she was levitating but this the front side 50 50 that's huge but we stopped i mean sakura finished to run so strong i don't know that i don't know that we got that from mommy i think there's a nice element there's a chance that those that those rankings stay as is that's as much as i'll commit to todd there's a chance so you're saying there's a chance we'll see what mommy says skye brown's 58-5-0 continues to lead that's not the story it's team japan and who is going to make that team in that third and final position the battle is on and it's a 51-3-7 so mommy does not jump into third place she needed better than a 55-09 which is great news for kisa nakamura who is in jeopardy of being knocked out mommy says i did my best so yo suzumi now still with a shot as she sits in third place second overall for team japan kisa now she's the one that's doing the the number crunching trying to figure out am i in am i not in survey says we'll find out yeah a lot happened here with sakura yo the 19 year old from wakayama taking a long time taking a look at this kisa nakamura am i on team japan or not yeah and sakura has already done so much i'm curious to see what she might add to that run this could just be this could be practice for tokyo love the style on that air there we go she sticks the backside grab 540 and makes the transition all right this is this is exactly what we want to see from sakura that casual feeble grind through the corner backside nosebleed oh she does it that was the run the full run it included the backside grab 540. it finished with the nose blunt revert which is such a strong trick and it had every element in between she was already in second place for team japan and that's pretty much going to lock things up for her because that was a stellar run sitting on a 5509 in this competition in third place lizzie doesn't like it but man sakura does way up there that thing is so tall she makes it look easy air over the center and the backside grab 540. little little bit of a delmar squat there uh hangs on oh just skye is psyched biggest cheerleader she wants she wants to go to the olympics with all her friends yeah she wants a complete posse there in tokyo sounds like a good time sakura one of her best friends yeah this was just an amazing 40 seconds of skating yeah and she came into the this run in third place you know masuku did great work sky brown did great work it's almost as if they could all be interchangeable it's just you know it depends what the judges are most focused on sometimes is it big airs is it variety is it used to the park there's so many factors they're they're studying each element oh look at this into first place for sakura yosuzumi [Applause] 61.71 and the skater she supplants and that is sky brown was the first person to congratulate that's awesome great work there for sakura and it's because she she really did did it all yep she didn't leave anything off the table so we'll see if the 61-7-1 stands up to the final three competitors here in the competition her mom making the trick to des moines not an easy place to get to especially from japan louisville is another story but from japan it's not easy final three will be bryce wetstein sky brown and masubu akamoto these are the three you're going to want to watch as bryce is currently sitting in sixth place now we've talked about it before team usa the pitcher's pretty clear with bryce sitting in that first position olympic qualifier with bright zoner in second and jordan barrett making the final here pretty much locking up that third and final position [Applause] you know bryce wants to go out with a great showing yeah oh backside disaster way up there into the alley backside ali that's what's great about bryce oh her ability to mix it up going for that hand flip again [Applause] you know she's gonna ride up these final seconds i think you know what the ball is mine yeah no pressure cavalier 360 kick turn hard to tell from this [Applause] angle going back for that front side boneless oh taking it to tail what's she setting up for diesel grime thinking just for the crowd yep fan favorite bryce wet stein out of ncd's california [Applause] keeps skating and finally shuts it down so she'll stay with that 45 unfortunately that'll keep her in sixth place 45-5-2 [Applause] she's a skater that kind of shows how fun skating is too it's it's competitive it's difficult we love to see this and that but she's out there having fun it's awesome so recently removed from first place is sky brown the 12 year old she's getting bumps to second from sakura yasuzumi her 58-50 is not the leading scorer as a one is the new mark to beat two competitors left in this competition it will be sky brown followed up by masugo akamoto both them pretty much locked in on their respective olympic teams so we'll see what skye does here yeah curious to see i don't know what she's going to do she want to take her best friend out and or she's going to just you know let it ride she's going to go for it come on he's going to go for it just because it's more fun to be out there shredding big backside air for sky i like that alley-oop over the hip that's traveling one direction while turning in the other direction ali classic skate trick from way back oh coming off on the back lip slide tough that's a very difficult technical lip trick she had no problem with it earlier but so the worst sakura yo suzumi will do will be second place with one skater to go skye brown locking up a position on the podium musugu akamoto will be the last to drop in saving the best for last no question about it as she's gonna put on a show sky still putting on a little bit of a show for the fans here in des moines got off to a bit of a rough start and i i feel like that's affected the rest of her finals so one more try she's in a good spot now she can really just let loose their third place is nothing to scoff at todd sugu is guaranteed a spot on the podium with sakura yosuzumi and skye brown what position will it be we're about to find out the final competitor here in the women's park final from des moines due toward 2021 there's been a long road to get here with a disruption of the pandemic the olympics should have taken place last summer they're now on for this summer and here we go masuka akamoto all right 360 over the centerpiece there she nails the 540 mctwist now coming into the deep end smooth and clean frontside tail slide taking the front side boneless back into the ball beautiful massive frontside air so we're seeing masugu do what she does best kickflip indian it doesn't happen again todd and that's gonna be it for masugu she's gonna remain in third place with that what a run for masuga okamoto but she comes off towards the end she will be on the podium but it looks like sakura yoso zumi is gonna win due tour 2021 in women's park final sky brown more than likely finishing in second with masuko okamoto finishing on the podium in third place as all attention now turns to tokyo and the olympic games wow what a performance and doing some quick math it looks like coconut haraki has out pointed kisa nakamura she was only 2 000 plus points behind her but that fifth place finish was enough to give her the points ahead of kisa who finished in seventh that's the story and that's what we were talking about coming in was the battle within the battles japan had two positions pretty much locked up with okamoto and yosuzumi but it was going to be between kiesa kokona and mommy for that third and final position as we take a look as the final results as sakura yosuzumi wins the women's competition by way of that fourth and final run a 61-7-1 sky brown finishing in second place with msu okamoto finishing in the third position with a 57. kisa had to stake ahead of mommy and coconut to hold on to that third and final position coming into this event it didn't happen mommy surpassed her coconut moved up into fifth so she'll grab that third position and tina dixon is standing by with the winner of today's competition sakura yosuzumi thanks todd i'm actually with sky brown as well who will also translate for us uh two skaters out here representing two different countries but aligned in skateboarding and really pushing each other out here uh sakura i'm gonna ask you how would you describe your emotions after landing that fourth run [Music] she's never done a five in a contest so when when she landed it she was super happy an amazing day for japan and you really fled the charge out here uh what kind of what does this mean to you to be able to show your sport in your home country [Music] um she's gonna try her best and her in the olympics so she's really excited we are all really excited too and skye i just have to ask you to show the sport of skateboarding on the world stage you showed us some big tricks out here what does that mean to you mean i'm super stoked yeah i am so happy to see like so many girls pushing boundaries and closing the gap for you know boys like and it's just so cool to see she inspires me so much and i had a really fun session i'm so happy congratulations to both of you thank you todd thank you tina congratulations ladies akura yosuzumi getting the win sky brown finishing in second and masugo akamoto finishing in third place here at the women's park final due tour 20-21 from des moines what a showing paul zitzer the progression continues and what a battle for team japan right the last time we saw a women's event here at the dew tour there was one skater doing 540s now the game has changed sakura yosuzumi shutting it down here there it is backside grab 5 40. you heard it this is the first event she's put that trick down and i mean she's the only one doing the backside nose blunt reaver look at look at the sheer joy love that 61-7-1 on the fourth and final run when we return to des moines we will have the awards ceremony and still become the women's street final is yes we'll be right back so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so there's so many rad sensations within skating grinding is one of the most cool sounds probably in this world the grinds and the ollies the snapping of a tail this is skateboarding this is fun this is rad [Music] so stoked that's perfect good right there yeah yeah so why are you getting the mermaid today um i don't have a good answer for that it works i grew up on the north shore of oahu one of the best places in the world to grow up with your want to be a surfer i always loved surfing i loved the water but i was never competitive in it and all my friends that are still pro-service to this day like they were so good at like age six when i started skating i realized that i have that same passion that they have for surfing that i have that for skating and that's like really where i found myself and like i found my people i found what i love to do and this is my thing this one back here my first tattoo with you yeah still probably one of my favorite tattoos ever it's so good that's awesome so sick and then and then we did the camera [Music] yep [Music] a lot of skate videos that i've watched over and over and over all from like the 80s looking back a lot of the tricks i do i don't even think about it but i do do a lot of their tricks and stuff like that watching these 80s skaters skate in the 80s and also now and that's kind of like where i get my inspiration from [Music] since i became a part of team usa i'm training but i'm also like make sure i'm having fun if i'm not having fun there's no point skateboarding is to have fun at the end of the day in my eyes like and that's it the brazilian mexican japanese american everybody in the end are truly united to be able to represent america and represent hawaii as well would be really special i get to compete for great britain but be in japan i mean that's just that's just a dream the olympics is an opportunity to well ladies and gentlemen it is time for our award ceremony out here for women's park final here at do tour des moines and before we bring our pudding finishers up to the podium i would like to thank nicole peterson from toyota for being our award presenter thank you nicole and with no further ado your top three out here for women's park final in third place in 2019 she was the du tour long beach champion backing it up today with another podium here in des moines let's hear it for japan's masugu okamoto one more time please put your hands together for your third place finisher masugu okamoto and in second place her first deuter podium representing great britain let's hear it for sky brown [Applause] ladies and gentlemen please put your hands together again for sky brown your second place finisher and your champion here for deuter des moines 2021 on the road to tokyo utilizing a 540 for the first time in her win out here today let's get loud and proud for sakura yosozumi your champion and one more time put your hands together congratulations omertoga zamas to your champion sakura yosozumi in a round of applause one more time for your podium out here for women's park final and all the athletes competing in the final and we've got more action from the women coming up next with the women's street final here at dotour we love you des moines [Music] yeah wipe out and get right back up get up wax the ledge we can't get stuck courage on deck like two trucks hop on and do what you want yeah true freedom they need us to stunt backside 180s to front yeah and we no struggle like we knows grind hustle for runs all in due time repetition repetition might switch stance but not the mission much more than a competition we risk it all to get these tricks in sacrifice ain't nothing given skater d.i.e how we living scrapes scars bruises lessons pain joy victory blessings from the block to your skate spots kick kick push and flip skate cops love pop to your skate shot got ollies with more pop than game stop skate for justice we all land skate for change like blm yeah probably take a knee on my board ghetto kids all day shout out to the boy this that thunder in your heart 45 seconds to go rad at the park that go harder go harder yeah that go far or go farther that five-ring camaraderie four-wheel polyurethane world society and all eyes on we and all eyes on goal all praises be united we roll [Music] peace beautiful day in des moines iowa as we get set to crown a champion do tour 2021 in the women's street final that course has been beset with moisture all week long but today the weather gods love some skateboarding because the sun is out the temperature is up and the course is beautiful qualification on the line as this is a global olympic qualifier max three per country and that's the rub paul zitzer is because there's some nations here that could put six eight nine into each discipline but you're only getting three and that's the most especially for team usa brazil and japan well we've been waiting for this format for a long time this is how it's gonna all go down eight athletes have made the final so it's the two five four two five four format so it's two 45 second runs and those scores are a possible ten with an ongoing leaderboard but then then things get a little trickier paul because let's get the five tricks and the best there right but we're going to see that leaderboard jump around this in this event as things progress it's really cool to see we've only seen these skaters take runs so far now they're going to have to put down some best tricks absolutely loaded field here in women's street final final preparations final photos being taken nice to see the sun out this is completely different i gotta give credit up to these athletes because they have had to skate in mist in rain weather delays cloudy skies and now the sun is out in des moines it's des moines nice here todd harris paul zitzer uh what a great way to cap up an amazing 2021 dew tour yeah absolutely and we have the best skaters in the world about to take to the course and we talked about you know only three skaters per country are going to make it brazil is such a great story here you know tonight with so much talent haisa lyell coming out leticia buffoni pamela rosa the world champion we're going to see him skate today leticia buffani part of that trifecta of brazilian talent that uh matt you could be looking at an olympic podium right there as they have just been on point all week here in des moines at this massive skate park just completed i'll tell you what the fans have taken to it the weather has pushed some people aside but people came back last night 10 30 to watch the men's street semifinals go down yeah that was a crazy contest i want to shout out california skateparks for designing and building this course it's amazing and shout out to des moines sub sex skate shop they all played a part to bring this park to des moines and it's going to stay here and i want to get on that chorus 88 000 square feet it is amazing here's the start list for the women's street final here at due tour 2021 hope henson making the field laura bergerman you see kate oldenboy boving isa liao julie brookler rose vetsela and leticia buffani and then pamela jose of course routing out but the brazilians are so strong in this field the names aren't getting any easier but yeah what a great field i look forward to watching the brazilians battle it out because they have they have they're totally different styles different backgrounds and histories any one of them could win it it's all about putting it down 45 second runs and best tricks it's gonna be great two runs 45 seconds full time so not like in park where if you fall it ends it's two runs and you get the full 45 seconds so make the most of it and then it's the five tricks so how do you think this changes the strategy paul that we've gone back to the 245 it allows for more error in the run section you got you're going to have to come out put down a run get a score but you're going to want to drop a big score on the run so take some chances because any one of these skaters can make up points and best trick if they've got if they've got strong tricks to put down it's top four scores from anywhere on the chorus count yeah a lot of math to be done by the judges that we got here at the do tour so we'll sort it all out as we go on the ongoing scoreboard pope pinson the 16 year old from florida will get things started off and then it is all international with belgium netherlands brazil austria and then wrapping things up with the two brazilians at the end with leticia buffoni and pamela and i think to answer the strategy question todd the there's there's more just of a go for it right need here you're in the final you did it now you you want to win you want to get on the podium that's going to mean you've got to do your best period playing with house money now and poe pinson will get things started off one of the youngest competitors in this field other than who is 13 years of age and poe just had a great showing at the u.s national championships at the barracks second place finish she has her skating has matured over the last year so much it's it's the case of we haven't seen these skaters compete in a year a lot of them have gotten much better poe is one of them she shows great poise on the board very confident casual style precise and technical a little step off there with the final three seconds so it was a very methodical opening run for her playing the strategic way but as we've talked about before in this final you really it's no time to hold back you if you've got a trick you better unleash it right and if they're going to hold back at all it's going to be in the first run and from there good or bad you're going to have to step it up and go all in kick flip over the bump there for poe she did a lot of tricks but falls we've seen count heavily against skaters here at the due tour opening up with a definite throwaway for her at 2.11 the judges want to see a full run eliminate those falls and your score will go up quickly good news though for the street competitors there's still another event to come unlike in park where that is it there's another event coming up in a week's time in rome italy so they'll have an opportunity to garner some more points so no ability really to name a team just yet for your nation laura brigham on course second ranked skater in belgium she's had she's had a great run in competition a lot of second and thirds we're looking for her first big international win so bergaman coming off even earlier than pope henson there but remember it's the full 45 seconds so you can remount get back after it but those falls just weigh so heavily especially after someone has a full run the jitters like listen they're staying on the whole 45 you need to stay on the whole 45. right scores you know your scores are gonna drop immediately first for two reasons you fell on a trick and then it interrupts your run and flow and you're probably going to miss another trick time wise your time's going to run out before you get to that last trick you'd plan so it's a double whammy brokeman even a lower score than poe pinson's 2-1-1 the 1-8-8 becomes a throwaway for her so it comes down to that final run for her plus the five tricks now kate oldmoving out of netherlands just 16 years of age so we've seen two 16 year olds and a 19 year old drop in no 20 year old young field [Applause] you know i i spoke to kate's dad this would be pre-pandemic and he was just talking about his approach not his approach but their approach sort of to kate's view of skateboarding and a path to the olympics and that they weren't focused on that they're just trying to trying to say hey look keep having fun kate don't don't let all the pressure get in the way of a good time and what comes comes you know sage advice from a father so kate old loving finishing off that run with a nice trick there the 16 year old will look to that second run plus the five tricks so far the score is relatively pedestrian with a 2 and a 1.88 there's a backside board slide down the handrail you're gonna see a lot of those i like that the nose slide mixing it up less room for error when you're just on the nose of the board she makes it happen kate discussing what she needs to do and miraculously poe pinson's 2-1-1 still leads and that's going to change here in a hurry as haisa liala brazil 13 years young the youngest competitor in the field and one of the most powerful skaters on a street course yeah arguably the most talented female skateboarder in the world should be able to wreck the internet at 13. she's just it's unbelievable her talent and skill she can do it all the only thing she's lacking really is experiencing contests it's not that she can't pull it off she has she's won events she knows how to do it all but she doesn't have 10 years of experience skating against the world's best so there's you learn something every event you go to but you still talk about women's skating though the progression where it's going a certain run comes to her end now in the finals do you think of someone like jesus who could win the gold medal in tokyo no no it wouldn't be a big surprise and then you think of a sky brown who could win the gold medal and you're talking about 13 and 12 year olds on top of the podium at the olympics it's shocking it's how do his kids really get good fast todd backside smith grind isa she's so good at the at these rail tricks and she's so light on her feet just flowing through the tricks she doesn't stomp him down she carries her speed on the landing so well it's like she weighs nothing smooth backside 50 50 grind down the hubba she's just playing around just warming up todd and i would say is that a safety run for her is that kind of an open conservative run for her that's as easy as it gets for her she's so good we're gonna see a lot a lot more so four to five so she jumps into first place ahead of pope pinson and kate holtpopping big smile on the face of the brazilian as we've got four competitors to go here in run number one of two two runs 45 seconds full time plus five tricks your best trick julia brooklyn we saw her in the semifinals come down to her final run and she just drilled it she sure did todd i feel like that was the run of her life yesterday 100 agree i think she could do it again though she just looks like she's confident and comfortable on the course this weekend she's ranked number one in austria no surprise now similar scenario that happened in the semifinals for julia she bailed that kick flip threw her off she came back on her next run and put it down all day 360 flip over and lock for her she got a little loose on the ride out ended up kind of off the course let's see if she can finish with maybe the switch hard flip nope she's not in run number one she's gonna have to save it she's the veteran in the field the 31 year old from vienna austria julia brookler looked at run number two plus the five tricks as haisa liao leads the way with that four two five pope hits in the american city in second and kate hold both sitting currently in third down to the final three competitors in run number one of two it'll be rose svetslot leticia buffani and pamela hulsa of brazil i think everyone's excited to see those final two brazilians drop and it's exactly what they do to set the stage now we've talked about the year off todd from competition some people really took advantage of it rose is one of them you see the the progression in her skating has come a long way she's ranked number two in the netherlands northern european skate scene you were talking about that is pretty impressive and coming from a nation when you said oh netherlands great skate nation they wouldn't be thinking of skateboarding they'd be thinking of long track speed skating and that is kind of their co2 that and cycling and here she is putting skateboarding on the map in the netherlands you wouldn't think a place with brick streets and sidewalks would produce a lot of great skaters but now they have they have great skate parks there they've had a great skate scene forever and that helps you need that you need the support you need to be around great skaters rose off to a nice start here putting down a big crooked grind trying the backside 50-50 grind on that handrail not getting both trucks on oh that was nice though good recovery coming back with the front side nose grind down the hubba she's gonna run out of time as the rule is you have to leave the trick has to start to be initiated before the clock hits zero gotta pop the tail pop the tail before you hit zeros all right another look front side lip slide across the flat rail and then rose keeps it going front side board slide that was her big trick the crooked grind down that massive 11-stare hubba for rose best trick of a run and that was supposed to be a backside 50 50 meaning both trucks were supposed to be on the rail instead she went into the dreaded willy grind one truck on front only with the dipped back end nobody wants to be in that position that's something you get made fun of by your friends top willy grind rose checking into second place with that 2-7-0 so it's down to the final two competitors and run number one this is an explosive skater as they come leticia buffoni i'm from sao paulo brazil yeah and leticia is the fiercest competitor in the women's field she has the most experience she knows how to deal with absolutely everything you know we've seen her skate injured we've seen her take horrific slams in competition she always comes back and she says she loves competing yeah i love that term that you use would describe her ferocious competitor she's the nicest person off get her in a competitive situation like right now she's locked in absolutely right there and she has a really deep bag of tricks that she's consistent at and as we know todd consistency is so crucial you can be the best skater in the world times a million but if you can't stay on your board forget it she was one of the first ones out there at open practice this morning when the sun was out it was hot she stayed almost the entire time and leticia with a solid first run we'll see where the judges put that with another run still to come plus the five tricks yeah and there there's no specific area todd where she doesn't excel right now it's not like oh she's better in the run and then she can't do the best tricks no she can do it all and she's gonna stay on that's why she's so hard to beat because she's always consistent blasting the big old ollie over the stack of do making me thirsty so leticia waiting to see what her score will be and she'll prepare for that second run temperature really changed i mean it's gotten so warm today did you get her nails done they're showing off something she's okay she is flashy 2-0 so leticia top five right now with another run to go warm up warm up for leticia world champion on the course yeah pamela rosa and and she has great strategy like leticia she always breaks out some surprises and it's usually a huge trick we may not see it here in run number one or two even we don't know could be him best trick to learn from her though never count her out she can be in last place with one run to go still win the competition that's a big frontside lip slide i like the finish with the backside disaster on the quarter pipe too showing the judges she's not just a hubba slash rail skater right right she can do it all so pamela with a great opening salvo will it take over the top spot currently being held down by fellow country woman liao with a 4-2-5 now none of these skaters have have put the hammer down right there they're being they're all being smart building confidence getting a score on the board as we move into the second runs why would you do anything but front side feeble grind down the rail a lot of variety from pamela there's the a-frame rail lip slide and the big crooked grind [Music] some claps to finish it off nicely done pamela rosa that's why she's the world champ so one run complete her score comes in no surprise she goes into first place with a 4.79 with one run still to come plus the five best tricks so the two four five format being instituted as the athletes will re-rack and we will get back after it with the second runs here the women's street final due toward 2021 from des moines todd harris paul zitzer great week of competition as all eyes now for the street competitors will turn to rome with one more competition before they head to tokyo in the olympic games there are the standings pope henson the lone american to make the field currently sitting in fourth place with another run to go but you know if someone would say oh pamela rosa and jesus leo will be leading up to run run it'll be like yeah big surprise right i agree i'm a little surprised about about leticia being where she is in sixth right now with that score of a two uh her run was a was a bit conservative but i feel like it wasn't that conservative um you know she's not even at half the points of pamela pope henson back on the course she's going to want to put in a full 45 second run of course and she can do it she's proven that she is a consistent and technical skater and she's got a lot of variety and tricks that other skaters are not doing like the backside 50 50 down the handrail talking about team usa and what's at stake of course three positions available nice trick from pope vincent 360 flip fakie the names you need to know on that will be obviously mariah durant alexis sablone alana smith who's not competing here and then it gets a little murky like who's gonna be in that third position is pope pinson obviously doing herself a big up by making the final here absolutely so a great run from pope henson stepping it up staying on 360 flip fakey on the bank backside 50 down the handrail in this run there's the front side 50 50 grind pretty standard on a hubba not taking a big risk but the backside 50 50 on a round rail that's five times as hard todd so this should be a better result yeah two five one so she bumps up into second place before we get to our next competitor let's check in with tina dixon he who has actually made des moines his home uh mike walk us through that moment when you're like you know what i'm gonna move here well i love the city for a long time and we were looking to relocate my family and i and i think we picked the best spot we could have ever picked how has this city embraced skateboarding well i mean you're here you're seeing it it's uh smiles everywhere thank you's everywhere it's amazing to see this skate park is a dream come true yeah i walk around and everybody's so friendly and so happy and to have your family be here and also the support for skateboarding just sum up this city for those who really don't know much about it it's very friendly city very beautiful city escape hey look they put the biggest skate park in the country downtown on the river that shows what they're about here yeah there's going to be a lot of kids skating this park after this event todd yeah tina turner i've learned all week paul iowa nice that's how they roll here in des moines can we talk about mike v is an absolute legend i want him to move to my town exactly when mike v comes to town skate parks follow yeah he's great so we just saw pope pinson bump her score up into second place without four 6-2 on the 2-5-1 combined so she's looking pretty good with five tricks still to go as you mentioned coming off the u.s championships where mariah duran finished in first place first place pope vincent sending second and mario brevard finishing third who did not make the final so now the mouth really gets a little sticky for team usa as laura bruggeman comes off there who's going to be in that final spot and a lot of that will shake out after rome right i think there's still too much skating to come for us to really be able to make a prediction but talking about laura brigham and right now she what you see the difference between a poe and laura right or coming in firing off tricks at speed you know poe is skating a little slower less powerful but more technical laura is just out here going for it though and unfortunately she came off the board but i like what i see 19 years of age out of belgium looking for a good performance here hoping those five tricks can bump her up just a little bit and we've seen here all week todd judges have been very stingy with points i mean they nice people but stingy they're not from dubois they're not iowa knights when it comes to scoring kate holden moving will be the next to drop in you talk about the skate scene in the netherlands there's a score coming down so you combine the two laura bergen now sitting on netherlands got a good skate scene as you talked about and their their team is going to be really good at streaming likes of candy jacobs of course katelyn's moving and with that slot yeah it's it's amazing the depth of talent coming out of the netherlands uh i really like kate start to the run a backside 360 ollie at speed and she's keeping it going that really unique trick there doing a sweeper with some uh 360 burial action i'm sure it has a name i'll consult some of my pretentious friends later they'll tell me what it's called every trick has a name but some of them don't matter all right wow slide 270 out insanely technical trick to finish wow that was great way to cap things off for kate holdenberg a great run for her i'll see what the judges do with that great story though you talk about candy jacobs being kind of a legend at 31 and now this young crop that she's kind of mentoring on their way absolutely candy jacobs is a powerhouse she's always she's been ripping for years it's the new generation though you see that sweeper some sort of maybe around the world all right no slide down the handrail i like that way more than the backside board slide the backside board slide is the most stable move and but you switch it up a little bit a nose slide way harder yeah way more points coming her way for that 274 for kate ogunboving so that gives her a total of four seven seven which has her in second place still behind pamela rosa who's only taking one run that should give you an idea how big that score first 479 on run one was see what she can do she came off a great first run yeah she's just gonna start doing what she does which is the hardest tricks after putting in a solid first run of course she's going to add to it she's great at flipping her board onto rails nitpicking here i know you like that what does she not do well where do you think she needs to work on it if you said okay you've got six seven weeks the olympics work on this um that's a head scratcher isn't it yeah well i guess i i would say work on your exp your contest experience that's it that's it that's all she can do she's just tiny i guess power maybe but what she does what she lacks in power she makes up for in lightness and she floats she's ethereal yes todd good word ethereally with the ethereal run on run number two with palo alto there to greet her that was a great run smile on her face feeling pretty good something to build on with that four to five and folks let's not forget she's 13. but front side fuel people grind the most difficult rail tricks and making them look easy because i'm not convinced they are hard for her i think you know this is this is pretty standard stuff her backside 5-0 down that a lot 11 stair hubba that's massive and she just freezes through backside lip slides all hard stuff and right todd she's not making it look difficult it looks too easy yeah look at that four six two so she goes into first with a combo of eight eight seven for haisa liao and she set herself up perfectly for the best trick section with five tries all she's gonna have to do is make two tricks and she's gonna be [Music] looking good for potential wins julia brookler now out of austria had a strong performance in the semifinals when she was deaf it looked like she was going to make it in and she came back with the final run which was stellar to just crush the field see if she could put that magic back again that'd be great to see she is a strong skater setting up for the kick flip we saw her turning around to the semifinals with that but here we've seen her bail it it both runs and it it's it's one of those things todd flip now she nails the 360 flip but anytime you flip your board in a contest if they may not be the hardest tricks while you're just out skating but the consistency is always going to be an issue especially when you're even mildly nervous in your legs your muscles are firing a little quicker than you're used to it's really easy to misjudge the timing on flip tricks and we see this kickflip it hits her feet properly but when she lands what just bounces off the board i think and that's just timing issues because could because of nerves but you know that just happens that's skateboarding trailing foot dragging off at the end there and it causes her to go down so julia brooklyn's two runs are now complete with a combined two two four which has her in seventh place but let's not forget five best tricks coming up you know everywhere you turn there's a sensational brazilian skater in des moines this week it's amazing anywhere in the world that can be the case because brazil has so much talent yeah and and even more than we talk about even the the talent comes from the passion yep before we get to the final two brazilians to drop in on their second and final run it'll be rose svetslot from zeiss netherlands just 20 years of age saw her icing up that we didn't do that right arm earlier hope she's good to go and as a skater you want to you know point out at least it's not a leg yes yes but it still doesn't help but once once they read your name and it's time for you to put down 45 seconds the idea of pain or injuries goes out the window and you just want to go for it yeah gets into the back seat a little bit they're off balance i think she clicked clicked her back truck on the end of that hubba coming off of that backside that was nice she's she's just she's struggling a little bit but hanging on so it's not ideal it's better than falling but but right not the run she was hoping for you want to just get into that flow and she couldn't find it each trick was just a little off those disruptions falls that just kind of take you out of your flow as you were talking about as rose was looking for something big to give her a combo score right now the combo score to beat is an 8-8-7 with the five tricks still to come there's a front side board slide down the handrail that one was clean another look yeah easy easy for rose good stuff it's not not her best but yeah good enough to bump her up into second place for rose svetzlot of the netherlands with the five tricks still to come now we're down to the final two competitors it'll be this young lady leticia buffoni of sao paulo brazil first and then fellow country woman pamela rosa will wrap things up so the judges sent her a message on the first run they say we're not giving you any extra leticia points we're gonna make you work for it maybe we deducted some because i don't know because they know what she can do yeah she's gonna get out there tear this up on the second run leticia buffoni nice taking a chance there 360 flip tech move nice front side tail slide down that hub but we've seen a lot of 50 50 grinds the front side tail slides a little tougher works so hard keeping her speed going with the front side lip slide that's the setup that's what we talked about got away from her yeah the trick she was trying she didn't get into so you might think why did she bail a backside board well she's trying to people grind and when you expect one thing to happen if something else happens we'll see if that made it into the run paul's favorite feature the giant case of mountain dew leticia is like it's all good i got the five tricks still to come yeah she's that that run had the fall unfortunately and we've seen the judges not respond favorably to any kind of falls but she did great tricks backside lip slide and the 360 flip anytime you flip your board in your run you're taking a chance you're telling the judges something too you're going for it front tail nice but that's it yeah the back truck's supposed to get him on the rail and it didn't and and so your balance is set up for one thing to happen and then all of a sudden your balance is wrong because that didn't happen there's the big ollie over the quesadilla leticia still with a smile on her face you know she's going to excel in the best trick part so she bumped to a four three four to six plays with that combo and she will turn her attention on to the five best tricks representing brazil final competitor in the two-run format plus five it'll be pamela rosa the reigning world champion already sitting on a four seven nine so without even taking the second run she's in third place overall that's crazy right i'm i'm interested to see what she brings here look at how fast she's going oh wow okay yeah that was a 50 50 grind sure but she had to gap out to him and it's those little nuances that the judges love to see those extra points if you can switch up your line and if you can hit things on the course that no one's touching or hit him from a different spot that is what the judges respond to they don't want to see you do the same thing as everyone else even if it's the most difficult thing but yeah beautiful again a-frame lip slide so she's bumping it up to the big obstacles keeping her speed flowing through the crooked grind huge rides out switch and what a performance by pamela rosa she knows what she's doing no question about it the reigning world champion yeah that was a strong run look at this her score already way up there and she's going to add to that yeah talk about setting up for the best trick because remember these scores are cumulative your top four scores added together is what you end up with beautiful backside lip slide side board slide that's as easy as it got for her and her run big lift slide on the a-frame rail taking a chance and the big finish qriket grind down the 11th stair you can just close your eyes and listen to that and go that was a great run just just by the sound of it alone pamela rosa with a fantastic final run this is gonna be a big score and she's gonna have a monster combo two run score as they are now dropping her second run and it is going to be 5-1-4 for a 9-9-3 so pamela coming out of that two-run format way out on top 993 isa liao sitting in second place and rose svetslot sitting in third with a 4-8-4 everyone else with a bit of work to do all right paul let's talk about what comes up next so the two runs are complete now it's the five best tricks how does it play out you got to put down two of those best five at least even if you have two good runs if you don't you're gonna have to do more than that all right before we get to that let's check in with tina dixon yeah and todd just being here on deck you really get a sense of how focused pamela rosa is obviously one of the favorites now remember this is the first major event back since the pandemic so a lot of these skaters have had to adjust their schedule and adjust where they skate someone like pamela actually built a small setup in her garage included ledges a flat bar and also working on her mental game during that down time so the brazilians they come to des moines and they dominate des moines right now it is pamela rosa and heissa liao on top with amazing scores man they are just a nation of powerhouses and we go back scene look with tick-tock and the brazilians and paul zitzer they have just loved this park they are crushing this park and they feel right at home bring a little taste of brazil to des moines iowa more of the decor after this we're gonna take a quick look and be right back awareness five well in celebration of do tour toyota and do tour have teamed up to give one lucky winner a brand new 2021 toyota corolla apex and a limited edition summer due toward des moines prize package all right dudes go to dotour.com toyota sweeps for entry details here we go as we have reached the best trick part of the women's street final the brazilians on top right now after two runs with pamela rosa asa liao and rose swetzlot of netherlands now we go to the five best tricks and paul this is where it gets really tricky the judges want to see they want to be wowed so where is the strategy what do you do when you come into a competition like this if you're in middle of the field well hopefully you don't repeat any of the tricks that we already saw in your run because we know if you did them in your run you probably have them really consistent and locked down and it's not your hardest tricks we want to see progression tricks we haven't seen on probably the bigger obstacles aren't gonna hurt but you can stay on the smaller obstacles if you get technical but we're gonna run through the order five times each skater gets a crack at a trick each time and you're gonna have to land at least two of them to finish with four scores but you really want to land five and just keep building up the difficulty and adding to your scores but again only your four overall best scores count and those are all added together for your final score right now brazil has the top two spots with pamela rosa right there and haisa liao on the left side of your screen they are amazing on skateboards and early we had a chance to catch up with the brazilians and find out what motivates them to greatness we are from uh third world and everything is so hard most of us are like coming from a very like poor family and like very humble like youth so you get hooked on skateboarding and you just do it for fun but then once you see like oh there's there's a career involved i can i can do this so there is only one option make it or make it you know so you just go like all in it's like everything's hard out there like it or not you have to be better than other people every day you know like i don't speak english that good i'm i'm not american you know and then a couple skaters they're starting like rodrigo tx he made it he came here you know i was like damn it's possible you know most of the brazilians they don't have access to a lot of cool things so they got to make coolness with what they have you know it's my different style and my different self of what i can do with this my interpretation my city is like 80 000 people it's like super small and now last year i got like second place on the world ranking and they send me money to do a skate park don't have skateboard city and now what they want to do you know just because i'm in a ranking it's crazy i've been competing my whole life and i'm always competing for brazil but we never had that like olympics before like we never had to wear a brazil jersey the brazil team it's really helping us it's the first time that we train as a team it's the first time that we have a coach so everything is like super new to us and i can't wait to be in the olympics and represent brazil [Music] forget the soccer brazil is all about skateboarding as they will take so many talented athletes with legitimate serious contention for medals wouldn't you agree oh yeah across the board men's street men's park women's street women's park all the way around it is amazing and it all stems from that passion they love it they get so much support from their country just in passion alone i love the the story about the small town he finishes high in the names like oh let's send him some money so i can put a skate park in there seeing where there can be some growth and it'll benefit the youth and so it goes in so here's the competition format this is the two five four now we're on after the 245 second run we are down to five best tricks [Music] go pins putting scores on the board you got to make you got to make tricks so it's smart to do two tricks that you're going to land and then try some stuff that is a little more iffy a frontside smith grind is not the hardest trick you're going to see from poe just putting the score down but a solid trick laura bruggman now next up so this will be a rapid fire it'll go one through wait then they'll start again and we'll do it five times through to the best score low brigham again with a consistent but conservative first trick right front side 5-0 but where you where you typically see giant scores in best trick is on the big section if you're willing to risk it you get the scores it's harder to land when you do the big tricks now this is somewhere like you know that's not a big trick and it's not highly technical so it's not going to get a great score but again she's just trying to get scores and and put another trick down before she moves on to her hard stuff kate holden boving now a little bit of a missed start we'll give her we're gonna give her a mulligan on that one the trick officially counts once you crack the tail and try the trick one side see that that's a really difficult trick because you're sliding on the nose towards your heels you've got to really regulate that trick with your shoulders if you turn them you can't get out of the trick you see you're trying to stay facing a little bit forward to ride out of it that seems like it could go so wrong in so many ways if the board comes off your feet too quick you're going face down yeah and with a rail a lot of times too when you when you poke that trick into a nose slide it it sticks or it shoots out it's it's a finicky move so heiser is brazil now watch this so much for conservative starts okay i was curious it looked like she might be heading towards the front side board slide to just grab some points no she goes over the rail locks locks the tail onto the rail and so now she's committed and makes it that back foot looks so close like it might come off and she's able to stay on so a great opening trick for her as julia brookler now this is man the opportunity for her to shine i mean we know she has that one trick that she fell on both runs do you go back to that do you go back to something even bigger i'd like to see something bigger but right now she wants to land on her board and right away so she's trying the smith grind um she was a little bit in the back seat with too much weight over her back foot and and you know it doesn't mean she took off wrong sometimes you lock into a trick and it just it grinds or slides quicker than you expect it to due to too much wax on the ledge or whatever rose wetsuit in here we go let's let's see what she has very nice best luck with a nice opening run and a make so brooklyn are the only ones so far not to get a make on that first hit yeah but we see a lot of backside feeble grinds it's relatively easy frontside feeble grind a little trickier you're dipping the front truck over the rail getting the back truck on the rail a lot can go wrong with that one too todd yeah she's gonna look to see what you can do and a lot of it's going to be reactionary in the point of what is leticia buffani and pamela rosa going to do i think leticia is going to do something big and stay on there you go frontside 180 over the case of dew uh that's a classic leticia best trick move that she puts down early it's good for points yeah and then she's going to build off of it you knew something good was coming when she gave all this speed look at this perfectly executed front side 180 landing backwards that's the trick there is a lot of that's a trick it's easy to stick on the landing and not roll and get pitched off camarosa now taking a look at this she needs a 2 2 8 to move into first place which is yeah that's that's well within her wheelhouse rainy world champ comes out and drills the first one so i talked about there being a lot of front side board slides on handrails in this event she does the big spin into it here the board's gonna do a shove it under her feet she locks into a perfect front board that's risky if you don't get the board on your feet you're in a bad spot hovering over a rail with no board um that's gonna be look at that four one five so pamela rosa 1408 out in front by quite a margin you know playing with the confidence of being the reigning world champion she just seems so comfortable on this course right i like i like where this is headed with pamela and first and heisen second pope benson now will be next up so that is one of five complete in our 245 format two runs 45 seconds and now five best tricks now we haven't seen pope henson in the finals like we've seen from some of these other skaters so we don't know what she's gonna do and you don't know do you know how deep her trick bag is i mean can she should go as deep as uh buffani or rosa and have those kind of things give her the point can anyone i'm not sure we'll we'll find out but this was the backside 50 50-50 grind on the handrail she did that in her run though so it's a smart strategy but it's not a winning strategy for sure it's just stacking points setting up for maybe a winning strategy later so one five seven on the second trick with a 183 on the first trick we might not be talking a lot about team usa and the olympic spots yet because there's still another event to come in rome and then the team will be named but poe pinson did herself a solid by making this fine oh laura bruggeman having issues there on her second best trick attempt so she was trying the front side blunt on that flat rail we saw haisa do the front blunt down the rail the one on the flat rail is going to be easier because you have a bump up to it it's always easier to bump up to a trick because it gives it you know you don't have to ollie as much right doesn't take as much power but it can still be difficult to aim out of the bomb maybe a little wilder out of the bomb but still she's gonna have to stick that on her next drive three more best trick attempts oh a little something extra yeah i like that so she did the board slide to 270 shove it out and what's interesting about that was the line to get to it there wasn't a straight path to that rail she had to do the ollie up into the wedge so that's that you got to control that to be even in a position to set up for this trick see right there and then the board slide up shove it out and she makes it clean that that i like that a lot managing momentum there not to come to a complete stop but have enough momentum to kick out of that that was impressive 205 she gets on that second trick so kate's moving up the ladder just a little bit currently sitting in fourth place everyone right now chasing pamela rosa brazil isa liao sitting in second place who's ready to go now on her second attempt of five oh wow front side nose grind down the big rail i i think she can do these tricks every trigger sleep it's just look at this it shouldn't be that easy perfect so now she is set up to go wild over the next three attempts because she had two great runs and she's put in two good tricks good tricks so 14-3-5 which means she goes into first for the time being it's really a battle between her and pamela hosa right now the two brazilians going back and forth good time now for julia brookler of austria to get things going she needs a trick she needs to stick it five best tricks she's had two falls and this is this turns into a head game really fast because it's it's not so much about trying to win at this point it's you almost you don't want to go home with two bad runs and a bunch of bales and best trick jess cannot find the proper balance she's coming off that back every time fully committed yes 100 um you're right todd it's just balance let's see what she catches yeah it's the front foot this time yeah skateboarding it's it's um it's amazing how far it's come that's that's the norm i mean if you look at kids skating out in the streets that's what you see all day makes every try crazy okay okay so taking more of the physical risk not so much the risk of like of flipping a board where it becomes an inconsistent trick but more like you're putting yourself in danger for the trick with the 50 50 on a big rail like that it can slip over and go real bad that was the fall for julia brookler and just moments ago this is rose svetslot of the netherlands yeah she just got up onto that rail but hung on and made it clean such great balance you see how it looked like she was falling backwards off the rail and was able to manage the ride at the whole way through so down to the final two here on run number two of five best trick leticia buffani and then the reigning world champion pamela hosa oh beautiful front side tail slide down the 11th stair how about now see how smart leticia is she did the front side tail slide down the hub in her run but not on the big one so very smart strategy sticking it in the run building confidence on the small hubba pumping it up to the 11th stair in best trick yeah she wants to be part of that brazilian party at the top of the leaderboard a 3-5-7 so leticia now sitting in thirds and it is all brazil all the time in the top three positions yeah not a huge shock but no but with this much talent in the finals i mean it's there's no guarantees that that's going to be the way it stays either but they're looking strong they're definitely looking confident and polished pamela now will be one to wrap up this second best trick run of five three she's still in second even without this trick that was that was a robbery contest contest robbery she lands it and then comes off yeah she just had a little too much weight i think over her toes on the ride out or maybe she didn't quite get her board fully rotated back to forward coming off that happens all right so everyone's gotta score two scores out of the best five plus the two runs so the two five four format two five two four five easy for me to say poe pinson in there now she's gotta start picking things up and she goes for a little tougher trick and just can't get it done you know what that trick there's so much to it she's trying to kick flip nose slide kick flipping to nose there's not a lot of room there and one when you land on it uh you got to deal with the slide then too and and you get into the slide late because you're bored you're waiting for your board to finish flipping there's a lot there i want to see her make that in her next go okay taking a chance with the front side feeble grind which is relatively stable on a flat bar but she's trying the back 180 out of it so adding the difficulty at the end but unfortunately she didn't really lock into the trick properly so the end wasn't gonna go go right so you'll see the score coming up it'll say did not improve if you don't improve on those first two you're not you're gonna take away nothing and you see they're starting to try harder tricks obviously and obviously not drilling them is like they did in the first two but man this is going to be interesting to see how it plays out when we get down to tricks four and five [Music] oh i think that might do it fighting the landing i thought she was off i thought she was getting off her board she hung on like a trooper kick flip frontside board so we saw pamela hosa do the big spin front board haisa here kick flipping into the front board and then the save now the back foot just the heel i mean yeah and and it's crazy she didn't get a bad toe drag even with her back foot barely on her toe tapped but but you know you wouldn't put that in your video part as they say but that's a contest make but you take it that's a big trick 100 i used to looking to drop that 2-1-5 and i think that's going to do it give her a little more room up top as we jump up to julia brookler who's in desperate need now she's got three opportunities to put two good tricks down yeah she she needs to put a trick down right here for confidence alone yeah there you go that is a great kick flip she snaps it it comes way up to her feet she catches it early that time she had plenty of time to get ready to set it down watch this snapping the tail great flick boom on the feet that was made on takeoff okay so there's life as julia brookler able to get that one down at 2-5-9 just to give you an update heiser liau's third trick was a 4-1-8 so she does drop that 2-1-5 her lead now 16-3-8 nice rose dropping the crooked grind on the big rail taking all kinds of chances yeah the bump up to that one see a bump up can help on a flat rail but then bump up to a down rail that's that's another that's another story there's more going on there's a lot of angles there to navigate she makes it happen and a nice improvement for her as she drops that lower score gets a three to five so an improvement for rose as she moves into third overall bypassing leticia befone who will drop now [Music] all right it's time for leticia to bring out her big tricks and i mean we've already seen some of her big tricks the big front 180 and the front side tail slide but she has a lot more to give so leticia does not improve so she holds on she's trying to drop that 2.80 to go with that 3-5-7 so that's a a scratch or a pass on that so now pamela wow look at this she's going to drop that zero she gets a make here her score is going to go crazy right she's in second place even with only three scores on the board there it is she should improve gap up to crook so we saw her do that in a run right you know so if i'm gonna be critical here if i'm talking about what the judges are thinking they're gonna say well we saw that in a run so it's it's not one of her best best tricks but it's it is a best trick she just put it down it's great it's gonna get a good score how's that gonna shake out for the leaderboard we'll find out look at that replace that zero the 4-5-0 so pamela goes into the lead 18-5-8 now so all on even terms as we move back to the top now it'll be pope henson the 2-5-4 format she puts it down the kickstarter slide uh interesting she she didn't fully lock into the nose slide you saw the tail of the board dip down the back wheels i feel like we're almost gonna hit the ground but that does not matter she made it that's a super tech trick flipping the board and locking it into a nose slide riding out sloppy but technical hey so listen todd doing those types of tricks for best trick i mean it's it's such a greater risk in the consistency factor compared to the big moves on like a big hubble like a gap tail slide or something now trying that trick going back to the front feeble 180. if you have a miss are the judges okay with you coming back to that same trick in fact it might actually earn you a little bit more on the make just because you're going back to it you're taking that chance um no deduction kate looking to drop a score move up and can't get it done there that's what i'm talking about these highly technical tricks there's just so many different ways they can go wrong there's there's less less room for things to go wrong when you're just doing something big like a big gap out to a lip slide or a big handrail if you get into it right you're pretty well set but with the super tech tricks it's a different game looking to drop that 2-1-5 oh she takes the backside smith grind to the big hubba just she's just great yeah the brazilians are having themselves quite a day here in des moines they just can do no wrong right now pamela hosa leading with the 18-5-8 isa liao about ready to move up a little bit more and she stays in second with a 17-3-0 beautiful backside smith grind down the big hubba so she's down to a final trick but she's got such good score she always her lowest score now to replace the 4-1-8 brookler now looking to put together another solid trick whoa that's solid okay 360 double flip all right we saw in her runs all week 360 flip over the hip 360 flip over the hip and i thought that's what she was setting up for but she blasts a 360 double flip floor flipping two times yeah this should help her cause she's basically replacing a scratch feeling good there with a 7-8-0 so that gets her out of the cellar for the time being sitting on a 7.80 rose now okay she's going for the front nose grind down the big hubba that's front truck only grinding so you see you know that's where the points are yep the points are on the big stuff but it's really hard to stick those landings if your weight is a little off you can get pitched leticia with her penultimate trick better this time so if we're going to compare tricks on that hubba haisa did the back smith um leticia did the crooked grind everybody would tell you the backsmith is a more difficult trick there's more to it you got to get up over the hubba the the crooked grind you can more jab that front truck onto it a little less commitment there but still a great trick and she sticks it so she does replace the 2-8-0 with the 3-1-5 and leticia back into a podium position so the brazilians own positions one two and three with a run still to go after pamela hosa finishes this fourth run i mean look at her problem how do i replace a 4-1-5 everyone else is going i'd love to have that 4-1-5 what's she going to do though that's a big score but pamela pamela has so many tricks okay that's heavy gapping up on that a-frame rail to backside lip slide okay so now we are down to the fifth and final trick in the two five four format remember we had the two runs we're taking your two best tricks in this format and that's how the champion will be crowned right now it is pamela jose brazil with the eight isa liao sitting in second with a 17-3-0 and then there's a big gap down to leticia buffoni who sits in third top-placed american poe pinson currently sitting in fifth place with the nine two two okay take a deep breath you got one trick you got one trick you go to it's it's like playing horse you got to put yeah but got to put the e on there what are you going with are you talking about if i'm giving them an advice i'm skating yeah i mean like what's your question here's here's the joy if you're pamela you do you take a big risk on that she's gonna have last say yeah yeah you know whether you she should go they should each go for their absolute best trick that they think there's some chance of them making that's what they need to do i don't know exactly which tricks they should go for that should be up maybe to uh one of their close friends or a coach who knows they're skating really well but yeah you put it all out there right now there's no reason not to ever so laura looking to replace some lower scores on run one or two or trick one or two across the board you're just looking to replace something that is the lowest on your score card coming in with a lot of speed here that was a a different approach to that rail it doesn't pay off she went for it though that's what you got to do well everyone's swinging for the fences now knowing what pamela is sitting on with an 18-5-8 it might come down to the situation she didn't have to take her last run because she's already in the clear so kate oldenboving now looking to replace a 105 coming back half cap no slide big spin out 270 shove it out however you want to call it technical trick lots lot to do there a lot to think about a lot going on look across her board what does she replace four one eight stepping it up trying the heel flip front board she can't get it done so we're down to the final four competitors with an opportunity to make some movement basically will sit on that 17-3-0 the best she can do right now is second place interesting to see what julia tries to pull off here i don't know if she was just going for an ollie over the stackadoo or if there was something else that was happening there but yeah that went wrong yeah well the big question now is can rose svetslot break up the brazilian podium pamela hosa sits in first isa liao is done she's in second and leticia buffoni still to go and it'll all come down to this she's trying to drop that 2.7 that's her low score she can do that and she is she's right behind leticia he's better than a 2-7-0 to get a bump yes okay that should do it keep the drama going all right front side nose grinding down the 11th stair hubba that is a heavy move for the final trick so leticia will set up as we wait for the score to come down for rose who was looking to drop the 2-7-0 look at this angle all right taking another look ollie up locked in front nose grind down the hubba i feel like she might have clipped her back wheels on the way in but that's not gonna that's not gonna matter she stuck it nice way to end the competition for rose netherlands with those three positions in the olympics where she could end up yeah nice position 3-9-0 so she moves into third place breaking up the brazilian podium and that means leticia buffoni with their final trick needs something better than a two three four to get an improvement anything she tries and lands you gotta assume it's gonna be good enough she knows what she's doing oh no tough break there yep leticia buffani went for it on the final trick does not improve so she will stay on that 1186 just behind rose setslot but that means that pamela rosa this is a run for glory she's claimed the victory and now it's what do you want to do and chris craig is like you know i want to document it yeah can i go with you shout out once again to the best follow filmer in skateboarding chris gregson the reigning world champion sitting on an 18-5 18-5-8 the last competitor to go she doesn't need this but she wants this that's why pamela posa is a world champion and the winner of the 2021 due to her gap up backside lip slide like nothing women's street final really never in doubt pamela was on point from the first run to the last trick and you know she had to fight that one she actually kind of overshot the rail she was sliding really close to her front truck on that and still manages to come out of it clean so of the seven the two runs and the five tricks she only had two misses i mean she was just so consistent ends things off with a 3-4-0 so a combo score 18-5-8 pamela hosa wins the dew tour followed by hisa liao 17-30 and rose svetslot 12-9-6 just out pointing leticia buffani put the pressure on her on that last trick as the dutch can celebrate they've got someone on the podium getting two in the final of the eight and then poe pinson finishing in the top five position that's a great performance absolutely what a showing all the way around on the women's street final competition as we send it down to tina 2019 champion then we have a pandemic and coming out of that pamela rosa comes back to do tour and wins how much did you want this win i'm so happy to be here thank you so much youtube i love you iowa i'm happy to be here girls today so killing yes brazil thank you so much thanks fanua [Music] look at this pamela what can you say about street skateboarding the women brazil and the potential for the olympics i'm fun thank you so much in brazil yeah i'm so happy yeah enjoy this congratulations yeah team brazil they are going to paint the the town green and gold tonight here in des moines that is a tough team although leticia buffalo did not finish on the podium you look to tokyo with that squad of pamela isa and leticia come on right they all did what they set out to come and do making tricks impressing the crowd two of them landing on the podium what's interesting todd is that haisa only missed one trick and best trick and she was still beat out by pamela hosa so that tells you a story yeah yeah her lowest score 215 for haisa pamela's lowest score a 4-1-5 so just dominant no question about it the brazilians came to des moines with a mission and they accomplished that the tc buffalo finishes off the podium but she has her sights set on bigger things remember they've got one more event to go and that's coming up in rome for this for the street competitors unlike the park but uh man i was impressed with what leticia was able to accomplish when she stuck things absolutely she's a professional she knows what she's doing she's a veteran but when you have skaters like heiser coming up doing tricks like kickflip front boards pressure's on she's raising the stakes with every single event pamela hosa just she's got the tricks the style and the consistency and she's willing to risk it lethal combo and the youth is served you got pamela jose is 21 years of age you've got issa lial who's 13 years of age and then the elder states woman if you will leticia buffon who's 28 and she is just helping the next crop of brazilian skaters up so they are no question of force to be reckoned with as we take a look once again at the final standings pamela gets it done kisa liao gets second and rose svetslot getting third place wow what a performance congratulations again leticia buffalo pope pinson top five finish for her coming off that performance of the u.s championships yeah and that's going to set herself up to be in contention for tokyo heading into rome all the way around uh despite some weather delays despite some rain the course was amazing 88 000 square feet of joy here at this amazing skate park right on the waterfront in beautiful des moines iowa it will certainly be a mecca for the entire midwest anyone within a two or three hour drive they're going to definitely want to come here and session this place [Music] so now it's time for the award ceremony celebrations instagrams twitters they're gonna probably want to get a picture with paul zitzer it's gonna be amazing i think it'll be the other way around todd but i appreciate the love and support but congratulations goes out to brazil especially pamela joseph putting it down jump on to tick-tock at do tour and they are posting it was an amazing performance mother nature cooperated the rain stayed away the win was negligible and it was just a beautiful day of competition coming off an amazing women's park performance and right into the women's street we talked about at the top of today's broadcast that the women's progression in skateboarding has been unbelievable and with a big event like the olympics coming up in less than two months time i think you're going to see even more progression because with one event to go in for the skates for the street skaters in rome and then it's all attention can be focused on that you know some stuff's going to be happening some heavy sessions some stuff heavy practicing is going to be going on before you get to tokyo you got to stay healthy you got to stay focused keep eating right skating it's all going to come down to rome for a lot of these skaters but a few of them have it locked up i'm sure pamela hosa isa they're looking good we'll be seeing them i'm pretty sure in tokyo still some work to be done for some other nations especially in europe as 20 spots will be taken to go to tokyo to compete as skateboarding makes its inaugural showing at the olympic games congratulations to all eight women who made it into this finals we were talking about the open qualifiers and the semifinals those cuts just seem to get more more and more difficult so once again congratulations to pamela hosa jesus and rose svetslot for getting on to the podium and pope pinson finishing the top five we send it now over to our good friend dc ladies and gentlemen it is time for your award ceremony out here for the women's street final before we get underway big round of applause for all the athletes throwing down there in the final and now your podium your top three in third place doing it on the final trick of the event representing the netherlands let's hear it for ross zwietzler her first major podium and she put it down when it mattered on her final trick of the event one more time hands together for the netherlands rose swetzloot and in second place representing brazil let's make some noise for heiser liu just 13 years of age our youngest finalists and getting up on the podium represented brazil makes the noise again for isil pontifens congratulations [Music] and your champion backing up her 2019 due tour long beach champion performance on her quest her road to tokyo representing brazil let's get loud and proud for pamela and again let's here for your champion congratulations spider-man pamela rosa and your podium out here for women's street and hands together for your podium again and all the athletes out here competing in the women's street final here at do tour des moines coming up next we got two more finals for you iowa we got men's park finals followed by men's street finals wrapping it all up we love you happy do tour des moines we'll see you over at the park for the men's park final next oh uh yes for the best very good jordy [Music] [Music] you ready yep what's the first tattoo you got the first tattoo i got is on my wrist i got it in spain with my mom the next one was in hawaii my ribs oh the hula girl yeah yeah just like a little hawaii yeah yeah hawaii represent right yeah bonsai back in the day was it's like such a different place than now i feel like and i was like the little girl there's no other little girl skating at times i was the only girl at the skate park it wasn't until i was probably like 14 or 15 when i came to california and realized there are girls when i saw other girls skate it was so cool because i had never seen that coming to california and skating against like all the girls that i looked up to back then it was very very competitive a doggy dog world like it was gnarly all the older girls were like super mean so i try to not do that try to not be a mean girl at that time like when they were being mean to me like it it sucked like these are like the people i looked up to the most but nowadays it's a different story like there's a lot more contests there's a lot more going on it's not like that anymore thank goodness nowadays there's so many little girls it's crazy it's so cool i know what it's like to get picked on and that sort of thing and i really have said since then like i don't ever want to be like that i want to make a little girl that's coming in feel as welcomed as possible and feel like they belong [Applause] we're all here for the same thing we're all here to just skate and have fun and i'm so thankful that i'm able to make a career out of this and you know the more the merrier in my opinion [Music] where i grew up it was pretty rough i've seen a lot of things that most people haven't seen before in their life seeing people get shot at people killed there's a lot of dangerous things that happen around town but when i come here i feel very safe it's like a really big part of my life keeps me out of trouble just makes me really happy the bad thing happened in my day i can just go skate and my day gets better it's really fun around here skating once you get to know everybody they're a couple friends the park gives you something to look forward to when you wake up in the morning it's an outlet from just the day-to-day drama that goes on all the time it's amazing i think that the skate park really did help define kind of who i am and like you fall down this skateboard you fall down but when you get back up you're making a promise to yourself that you can always get back up no matter what challenges you're facing [Music] words can describe how much gratitude i have for these skate parks it just feels good to have something really really cool yeah and feels good that tony cares and that all of you guys care [Music] if you have a group of people they all want to have change you can do it don't give up on hope we're living in it right now as we stand here at this skate park we are literally living in change don't give up on the dream to change the community that you live in because it can happen thank you tony hawk foundation this park is like a real important park to me skate like a girl provided a place for me to reclaim something that meant a lot to me in my childhood it was the thing i was most passionate about when i was a teenager i stopped skating because i didn't really think there was space left in it for me as a trans person like a girl has provided that space and created a sense of inclusion in skateboarding that i've never really had when you walk into a space like that's owned by ours like wt sesh you'll see immediately that like people are looking out for each other and people are making space for beginners and it's not shunning people from trying new things which i think is the most fearful part of showing up at a space designed for skateboarding so what does it look like inserting yourself into a space like that and like we create a welcoming environment for that to be possible my name is kristin ebeling i am the executive director of skate like a girl gaelic girl is a community-based organization that's focused on creating more accessibility in skateboarding what we try to do is take an approach of like who's not really showing up who doesn't really have space and talk to those communities and get their feedback and find ways to create space for them at skateboarding so they can enjoy it just as much to me scale of a girl means community it's also been everything that i've needed it to be at every point in my life seeing other people who are like me doing sick stuff so i'm like yo i want to do that too [Music] very good jordy [Music] [Music] you ready yep what's the first tattoo you got the first tattoo i got is on my wrist i got it in spain with my mom the next one was in hawaii my ribs oh the hula girl yeah yeah just like a little hawaii yeah yeah hawaii represent right yeah bonsai back in the day was it's like such a different place than now i feel like and i was like the little girl there's no other little girl skating at times i was the only girl at the skate park it was until i was probably like 14 or 15 when i came to california and realized there are girls when i saw other girls skate it was so cool because i had never seen that coming to california and skating against like all the girls that i looked up to back then it was very very competitive a doggy dog world like it was gnarly all the older girls were like super mean so i try to not do that try to not be a mean girl at that time like when they were being mean to me like it it sucked like these are like the people i looked up to the most but nowadays it's a different story like there's a lot more contests there's a lot more going on it's not like that anymore thank goodness nowadays there's so many little girls it's crazy it's so cool i know what it's like to get picked on and that sort of thing and i really have said since then like i don't ever want to be like that i want to make a little girl that's coming in feel as welcomed as possible and feel like they belong [Applause] we're all here for the same thing we're all here to just skate and have fun and i'm so thankful that i'm able to make a career out of this and you know the more the merrier in my [Music] opinion uh [Music] yeah wipe out and get right back up get up wax the ledge we can't get stuck courage on deck like two trucks hop on and do what you want yeah true freedom they need us to stunt backside 180s to front yeah and we know struggle like we knows grind hustle for runs all in due time repetition repetition might switch stance but not the mission much more than a competition we risk it all to get these tricks in sacrifice ain't nothing given skater d.i.e how we living scrapes scars bruises lessons pain joy victory blessings from the block to your skate spots kick kick push and flip skate cops love pop to your skate shot got ollies with more pop than gamestop skate for justice we all land skate for change like blm yeah probably take a knee on my board ghetto kids all day shout out to the ball this that thunder in your heart 45 seconds to go right at the park that go harder go harder yeah that go far or go farther that five-ring camaraderie four-wheel polyurethane world society and all eyes on we and all eyes on goal all praises be united we roll peace welcome back to do tour des moines it's the moment what have you been waiting for the greatest show on concrete we'll be heading over to the park for the men's park finals so far it's been an incredible run by our top eight skaters survived multiple savage cuts to make their way into the finals today of course this is an olympic qualification event huge stakes on the line for our skaters ready to drop chris cote here with todd richards talking competition format for the park finals we're going to bump things up four runs 40 seconds skate until you fall todd this park has been providing the perfect canvas for these skaters yeah there's a lot of different options in here and there's a lot of different styles within this top eight of skaters right now you know it's going to be really interesting to see what the judges begin to reward with there's a lot of crazy obstacles in there you can see that plexiglas wall over that toyota then there's also that mountain dew kind of extension wall that's above the flat bank if you can utilize all these things utilize the transfers over on some of the rails in what we're calling the loaf the do loaf in the middle you can potentially get those points but the coolest thing is is really you know the age differentiations and all the crazy styles we have here to contend with all right well let's talk about our eight finalists starting off with our top qualifier from yesterday just happens to also be the youngest skater in the finals gavin roon vodka representing team usa from oceanside california zion wright jupiter florida has been absolutely ripping he could be the ultimate spoiler in this event if he wins this contest he could stamp his ticket to the olympics jagger eaton as we all know this guy is a contest machine todd yeah he is and you know you you can definitely tell like you're talking about these contrasting styles he has more of a street style that he's taking into this course he's been a street uh competition chomper for a while and right there we see tom shaw uh we also see corey juno there's some heavy shredding that's about to go down yeah this is going to be an incredible men's park final here's your start list tate carew tom shark corey juno liam pace jagger eaton oscar rosenberg zion wright and gavin roon vodka so we're breaking this eight up into a couple different areas right now we've got contenders we've got disruptors right now tom shar is looking like uh one of the potential favorites to fill that coveted third spot on the usa olympic team he needs a big result here he needs to hold off basically everyone else in this final in order to uh get his spot here's what's at stake hey mana reynolds in that top spot corey juno and jagger eaton currently in third tom shar tate crew liam pace gavin bottner zen right they've all still got a chance to get that third spot yeah so it's it's really going to come down to putting together a crazy glory run and i'll tell you right now just watching practice and watching a guy like zion kind of just flow through this practice he has the right mindset right now it's going to be really interesting to see how this shakes out yeah corey jagger and tom shaw pretty much been battling it out the whole year for that uh for those two spots jemona reynolds got an early lead and just held on to it didn't even really have to compete in here his lead was so big but story will be watching definitely the idea that zion wright and gavin bogger could come out of the depths and potentially be the disruptors and grab that last third and final spot it's a huge story we'll be watching through the final it is a big story and it's also you know you talk about the olympics and typically like sports that compete there a lot of times it's the underdogs who do well no one's expecting them they don't have all the spotlights and pressures on them to go and you know suck up all the media zion could quietly sneak in here and just put it down and also you know you can't discount gavin baker i mean he's so young 14 years old i feel like he's been in the game for many many years and that's really because since 10 years old he's been doing big 540s and you know caballero flips like that it's just gonna be crazy to see these contrasting ages working against each other out here all for those crazy points yeah one of these kids that you you would see on instagram go oh that's cute this could rip but now undeniable a force in skateboarding at only 14 years old gavin bodger i wouldn't i wouldn't be surprised if you won this contest let's give it that way he has every single trick and he's also you know watching right here chris gregson do that follow cam he's got something for every wall he's a super smart competitor and at 14 years old being able to think like that is really crazy it shows how focused he is to be a really competitive park riding gavin will be dropping last since he was the highest qualified skater the competition format changes up a little bit for the finals just because we want more skateboarding eight athletes four runs each 40 seconds skate until you fall your best one run counts scores out of a possible 100 and the leaderboard will be updating with each and every run basically we were looking at yesterday and the day before it was all about qualification getting yourself above the cut line well yeah and this is what it's all for and it was crazy too i mean we've had some insane weather today the weather way better than it has been a little bit more predictable but for the past couple days there's been a lot of start stops in this competition that maybe can suck the mojo out of you before you even drop into your run you're looking at the lineup three skaters out of san diego california that of course well four including gavin bottner who's from oceanside and that tells you right there still southern california epicenter of skateboarding and here we go we are into the men's park finals starting off with tig crew now tate i was watching him in practice he has a different line than he was doing earlier in the week there's that blunt slide through the corner just perched up there on the lips sliding through that corner perfectly there's that varial flip indigraph into the body burial 540 so a couple combos right there that are really hard alley front side air then a revert from the shallow to deep end it's a great run so far a little backside bonus right there throwing it back to the 80s and an invert to basically cap off this run so a little bit different than the run that i saw him practicing i bet he just wants to put a score on the board see where it stands and kind of build the scale off of that great way to start take care right there laying down the full 40 second run you don't you know we we've seen big scores come with a fall at the end but i think here in the finals i mean it's gonna be all about getting that complete run mixing up your tricks and using the whole part yeah and it's you know you're gonna have to have these combos where you're putting something everywhere there's that vario flip indy over comboing that into the body burial backside 540. that's a great combo you're flipping your board you're rotating your board during rotational moves and then down here at the end of his run just a little 5-0 grind to cap things off that's a big score to start that would have easily qualified him from the first couple days 77.27 to start us off for tate carew always focused tom schar dropping in here we go tom shar one of the favorites to make the olympic team arguably one of the best competition park skaters on the planet here comes tom up into that smith stall pop back in off that flat bank right into the tail ground backside 540 and zings out a rarity to see tom shar fall that is a that's bizarre because we see we've seen him do that 540 automatically at every contest yeah tom is he's so consistent that's one of his his traits look at that right there ollie up from the hip into tail slide and then there's that pop out to smithstall ollie's back over the deck and then here we go there's that tail grab backside 540. it's a lot harder to keep your feet on when you're grabbing tail like that you just see him right there in the back seat zing's out not able to compete that run but he's got three more chances at it as it stands now corey juno is safe looking like a lock for team usa at the upcoming tokyo 2020 olympic games corey juno one of the smoothest styles you will ever see on a skateboard he's got his own unique bag of tricks corey juno is in the mark you want to talk about flow and someone potentially that won't even grab his board the entire run it's so crazy how he flows there's that backside tail slide covering a lot of distance backside lip slide to back that up he is so at home balancing on the lip corey looking through these corners here trying to find something nosegrind in and through that corner carrying a lot of speed a lot of blocks covered back side nose button with a big pop into it cory looking for something here at the end ollie over the loaf and a heap with indy attempt right there not able to put it down i kind of feel like cory maybe got a little bit confused during that run he kind of had some vacant areas where i feel like he could have had some more tricks in there but what he does do he does perfect standing up backside tail slide covering four or five blocks of coping right there there's that front side ollie no grab just guiding it finessing it with your feet to meet the transition and this nose grind right here balancing up on top of the lip all the way through the corner super difficult to navigate a corner like that just that sound alone that is that is the sweetest sound to a skateboarder grinding on pool coping like that that was perfection right there that nose grind so corey juno he's got a 60.89 that ball at the end definitely costing him some points but what i like to see is he's sticking to the similar run that he's been doing throughout the week and guess what we're not mad at that because that run is amazing so hopefully he can land that last trick from corey juneau we're going to go down to tucson arizona liam pace lee is in the park he is one of my dark horses to take this home today liam has got a trillion tricks and he's able to you know do the powerful moves like that indy 540 from deep to shallow end traveling that's the match a different transition as well front side 180 into the flat bank caballerial disaster landing in the middle of his board right there after a rotating trick super difficult 360 with the indy grab big body jar smashing the tail on the lip a lot of precision tricks from liam pace equally at home on the lip as he is flying above it capping off that run with a great nose grind liam pace the crowd goes wild as they should look at that hair sami haynard i'm gonna be calling him from now on that was a statement run right there opening up on his first run of four high speed every trick we wanted to see ollie up to truck combos straight into a tail slide covering a lot of distance and there's that ollie up into smithstock popping in and into that transition that flat bank and then straight into this indy backside 540 from deep to shallow end two different sides of transitions right there it's hard to match there's the indy backside 360. straight into the body jar watch that tail smashing on the lip fully squared up that's a dangerous trick to learn we saw someone really hurt themselves earlier this week on that trick as they fully locked up on it and here's another precarious piece of balance work the front side blunt so all in all really technical run yeah and the uh the score follows and 81.11 for liam pace here we go out of mesa arizona representing team usa jagger eaton how's that fakie ollie over the lobe straight into the switch front side ollie you're not going to see anybody else doing that kind of a combo alley front side ollie into the flat bank and into that lip slide so truly different combinations we're seeing here jagger eaton there's the backside 180 so definitely using that island feature way different than everybody else backside nose blunt balancing on the lip front side smith grind through the corner has time enough to adjust his pants and then the nose grind backside revert super technical especially when you're traveling in that direction and you have to have faith that you're going to pop in the opposite direction and it's just going to be there for you super difficult trick unfortunately falling on that one last trick but i think it was that time i want to say that was after time some ridiculously hard tricks from jaggery and i love that he's saved a few things for us here in the finals yeah i think that was a fakie he could have been a switch ollie over there i didn't really see where his wheels hit when he took off there's all these subtle differences now as a commentator you gotta really pay attention to but this line right here backside 180 ollie into a half cab 180 no grab from fakie pops that around and there's that nose grind going for the back side revert in he's super difficult he's taken a lot of the tricks he's been doing throughout the week and just added a little bit to each one making every trick that he's doing that much more difficult than the tricks he was previously doing to get here so the score is going to come through for jagger and it's going to be a 74.43 enough for third place for now but remember this leaderboard that they're all looking at is live and it's going to be updating as they drop current standings have liam pace on top of the 81.11 oscar rosenberg multi-time world champion skateboarder out of malmo sweden here we go oski you're in the park you want to talk about these contrasting styles uh oski's more like freestyle jazz he is all over this thing you never know what you're gonna get big lip slide up that on to that extension 50 50. a lot of these skaters have their runs planned out i'm not sure oski really does i think he's just kind of freewheeling it at all times backside nose blunt looking for some speed here oh my gosh little truck bash with a grab in keeping it going keeping it flowing front side nose blunt into a backside 360 on the big wall so oscar really doing some different tricks the indy back truck bash up there on the extension just keeps it rolling oscar is one of these guys where if you ask any skater street park in the field and you say oh what do you think about oski they'll say oh he rules my favorite he's just one of these guys that undeniable amazing skateboarder there's the front side stalefish grab him with that backhand stand up frontside grind 5-0 into the corner watch this right here snaps out hits that truck while simultaneously grabbing his rail and popping back in right there that's probably the most pedestrian trick that we saw him do that entire run then pops that up into a noseblunt balancing on that nose popping back in meeting the transition and there's the backside 360 really really blind trick a lot of moves in that run big moves in that run and on the leaderboard run number one for oscar rosenberg comes through a 78.66 he'll jump into second place he has no qualms with disrupting this team usa battle and i love that about oski coming up next from jupiter florida zion wright let's not forget even though zion is one of the lower ranked people on team usa right now he does have an option if he wins he's in big z has been floating around this course all week he's so fun to watch just because how happy he is starting this run off strong big ollie almost into the flats over the loaf the wrong way there's no coping there to bounce off of it's all street holly back side back side body jar right there nice big front side air comboing that straight into this corner with a little smith cry front side blunt kind of losing a little bit of momentum but he's got enough for a big heel for that air right there five seconds left for zion right he's got one more move back side 360 with the indie grab straight into the backside melon 540 standing tall on that landing zion writes that's how you start it off and the boys are hyped more than worthy of that celebration zion wright you can tell he's been feeling it since day one of due tour des moines the momentum just keeps on flowing with zion right check it out there is the nose grind side quicker grind over that straight into the backside air and that was just the beginning getting this run started there's that street pop up and over the island the wrong way almost landing in the flat almost wheeling out so that first combo a lot going on zion front side air then comes into the corner with the smith grind through another shot of that front set air grabbing around that knee the way you're supposed to you don't want that thing to be stinky then there's that heel flip indy grab so nice there's a 360. grab him with his back hand indy grab over that perfect rotation then comboing that straight into the backside 540 melon grabbing that board keeping it on his feet with his front hand behind his front foot so just at time nailing the backside 5 40. the horn blows in mid air that means that trick counts the judges have spoken boom 83.73 a new leader zion wright has taken the top spot all the homies are stoked you see right there alex jorgente unfortunately not making it into this final but giving the love to zion right 83-7-3 [Applause] he knew it zion knew it he he knew it when he jumped out of the park he knew that was going to be a big score you know you can just tell that someone is feeling it all week you're like this this dude can't win we were feeling that back on thursday when we saw the first practice gavin roon vodka born and bred so shred this kid has been doing it since he was five years old this is what happens when you inject an energy drink straight into the fetus you get this right here a mini shred that is on fire allev air into wow that backside air to backside disaster a lot happening there you can catch on the lip nose grab 360 straight into the big 540 oh and unfortunately the 50-50 grind over that feature the rainbow rail on the island not able to hold on to it uncharacteristic for gavin i've seen him do that all day long in practice i don't i don't remember seeing gavin fall throughout this whole contest well here's something to take into consideration when you have someone put on a show like we just saw zion wright do he can kind of suck all the air out of the room you know you start to get worried do i have a run that can compete with that yeah how could you not be shook but this is the beauty of this format we have today we have four runs for these guys score drops 41-37 for gavin vodka he's got three more opportunities right now the leader zion writes it on that 83.73 basically giving the judges exactly what they want that number warranted and well earned by zion wright so here's what we're looking at for now zion in the lead liam peace in second oscar rosenberg third tate fourth jagger five corey juno six and then we go down the line with gavin and tom shaw so keep your eyes course on the battle for third place because zion's just warming up you cannot stop him from skateboarding yeah and i think that's pretty that's probably a pretty good way to run it right now is just stay warm just stay warm and loose you can always tell i mean zion's dancing around he's he's talking everybody can't stop him do tour is brought to you by mountain dew do the do iv where there's a helpful smile in every aisle [Music] we are in to the thick of it this is do tour des moines you're watching men's park final i've just seen some incredible first runs go down now it's time for run number two zion wright has set the bar in a big way and 83.73 doesn't even need four runs to warm up he's already on fire look at the list of american hopefuls behind zion wright this is a big battle not only to win do tour which is huge but also towards olympic qualification chris cote joined by todd richards and i just got to reiterate chris the format here it only takes one only takes one run to do it so potentially we may have just seen the winning run already but i want to think that we're just going to be building on the energy that happened in run number one i think we're just going bigger from here on out run number two as we go back to the top of the lineup tate carew 16 years old from san diego california fighting for a spot on the olympic team skateboarding will make its debut in the upcoming tokyo 2020 olympic games will take kuru be there well he's got a big hill to climb but first you got to try to win do tour we know he's got it in him let's see what he's got here 30 seconds on the clock all right so already in there one foot of tailgap around the corner a blunt slide popping that in precariously balancing on the taylor board there's that burial flip in the air into the body burial backside five so a very similar run that we saw him do on his first attempt through ah kickflip indy wants to land on that plexi glass wall but unfortunately for tate wasn't able to get it back on his feet but it's cool to see him switching up his line a little bit he knows what zion threw down he's got to kind of try to chip away at that score we wait for scores to come through for tate carew 40 second runs now you're about to see park wizardry tom shar this guy has been a dominant competitor in everything from big bowls to park events to mega tom shark does it all his first run was a 24-5-8 not indicative of how good he is we'll see if tom shark can put it together right here 40 seconds on the clock all right tom shark coming in starting things off big hauling up on to the plexiglass smith stall popping back into the flat bank so got some stuff going now it starts to heat oh tail grab backside five lands a little bit too low now tom is used to skating some big transition i mean he's he's well adapted to skate everything but some of these walls they're not that big to be doing these crazy big moves like the tailgraph backside 540. these are small walls there's that ollie up in the tail slide on the plexiglass wall and there's that ollie out smith stop stalls on top pops it back in to that flat bank and that's comboed straight into the tail grab backside five look how far down the wall he lands it's all about compression the transition right there unless you land a little higher it becomes a little bit more difficult to land that perfectly well he comes through the 24 48 he'll be back to the drawing board from there let's go to the deck chris pastrus with the vibe check what's up guys and yeah talk vibe check zion wright seems to be having the most fun down here you see the stress from a lot of the other skaters it's a lot of olympic implications so much on the line but zion seems to be taking it in stride he's dancing to his music he's skating flat ground he's smiling he's laughing so it seems like fun is a factor and zion is definitely having fun here today with that first run score when zion is feeling confident and having fun watch out he just skates that much better and he seems to be even skating to a level that that is zion ask i would say can't wait to see what zion has next but before we get there corey juno out of san diego california this guy has style for miles he is a threat to take out this entire competition here we go and completely different approach to this goal backside tail slide high speed straight into the backside lip slide covering a lot of distance it's so hard to be able to balance and travel that far on the lip cory juneau looking for something here on the big wall there's that nose grind nollie pop into the corner so perfect big backside nose bun huge pop out backsmith looking for something here to really put an exclamation point on the run flash and roll through the corner front side rock and roll slide with another ollie and that is time that's the trick i think corey juno is trying to fit into that 40 second run but you know what the thing is i think he gets lost there's a couple of vacant walls in there and i think he just needs to tighten up that line a little bit cory's you know he's got all the tricks he just finds there's some dead spaces in this run that kind of don't lend themselves to corey's style of skating there's the backside tail slide covering a lot of distance this is my favorite trick i've seen in the past week that nose grind through the corner watch it here the balance work if you're new to skateboarding and you're watching corey thinking well that looks easy every trick he's doing is beyond expert level he just makes them look that easy that's right so it's it's just this these contrasting styles of these skaters corey do you know typically you see him just ripping around the bowl without a care today maybe there's a little bit more care in the air 66.14 for corey juno that has him up in sixth place for now coming up next tucson arizona this guy is a park destroyer liam pace he is currently in second place with an 81.11 liam pace ollie's up to grind straight into that tail slide he's one of these guys who has every single trick and then some front side smith stall right into that indy backside 540 you heard that squeak of his wheels right there not able to square up with the landing kind of landed a little sideways when you're when you're looking at doing one of the most difficult tricks in all of skateboarding and right before you go up you have a little kind of squirrely feel to your board like we saw right there i can really throw you off and it looks like skating in a bit of pain but you know pain skateboarding they go hand in hand he gets used to it and the telltale sign of if things are going kind of weird is the squeak of the urethane like just squealing to maintain traction on the surface and when you're doing a 540 and you hear that squeak on the way in your body is over rotating right there watch here indy backside 540 comes around he's spotting it but you see he didn't completely square up with that landed kind of low on that transition and that's also very difficult to go from the deeper side into the shallow side but you saw his back foot almost jack knife as he goes down that waterfall that roll over section and there just the gravity got him squished him in the bottom of that transition liam's second run will be a non-factor so we go from tucson arizona to mesa arizona jagger eaton this guy uh grew up in a skate park and it shows because he is a dominant competitor here we go jagger eaton's on here we go backside 180 straight into that switch ollie crazy combo jagger front side alley poly guiding the board with his feet no hands on deck backside lip slide through the corner love the back tail crooked grind over the lobe so a lot going on backside 360 ollie incredible difficulty here we go 10 seconds left he's got some time for something big front side smith grind is he going to get a chance to do the nose grind revert through the current no ops for a different line backside 540 ollie over the hip that was a bump up from run number one the only criticism that i could have is maybe he slowed down a lot into the backside 540 olly kind of landed a little bit flat but look i'm just splitting hairs and i know the judges are too because these scores have been particularly critiquing over the past week there's the backside lip slide they're looking at every nuance there's the tricks they're doing ollie into the crooked grind over that backside 360 ollie combo you see that extension of the front foot just pushing the leg down to meet the transition front smith through the corner a lot of speed and then a different line sets himself up did he backside 540 ollie a trick pioneered by tony hawk and he actually just did his last one that he will ever do not very long ago if tony hawk says a trick is hard it's really hard believe me i'll tell you that jagger even waits for the scores remember what he's skating for he's skating for a spot in the olympic games that is huge 79.66 for jaggery and that'll get him up into third place and you know it was a spectacular run but i think the judges were on point they kind of took away a little bit for how much he slowed down coming into that so if he can bump up that speed it could be a way bigger score now we go all the way to europe well scandinavia yes you're you're correct oscar rosenberg from malmo sweden he's a graduate of the bright skate school i want to go to an incredible program it's actually a high school where you get to skate wow ollie up to front side lip slide on that extension that is no joke oski looking for some more love here ollie kind of over that hip style backside noseblock oski trying to find something else here popping up into the backside sugar cane a trick pioneered by buster halterman back in the day into an alley of air some crate oh my gosh big spin backside disaster a lot going on here oh the crowd's going nuts i can't wait to see the replays of some of those tricks and you know with this whole field oski is uh you know he is a true street skater all these haters are doing it for the love of course the contests are kind of just the icing on the cake and for oski you know when you're that good and you're that consistent and you can really just will any trick you want that's why he does so good in context it's more like when you're just really comfortable on your board in whatever position the transition gives you there's that backside noseblind i just can't wait to see this backside sugarcane there it is pops up and over all these tricks are named you know skaters have pioneered all these tricks buster holtzman coming out of pennsylvania pioneered that trick back in the day it's incredibly precise to land with that on your truck basically you have to have really good aim there's the backside 360. and there's the quick 180 up and over the island and then tries to get that shove it in the air to fakie but still damage was done on that run zion's happy about it it's it's that's true skateboarding there's not a lot of planning going on it's wacky it's wild you know the best part about this too is when this contest is over i guarantee you all eight of these guys are still gonna be skating they're gonna be skating the streets they're going to be back in the park we saw it last night i know for the after the semi-finals you know the whole crew is skating around town yeah and it's true and like also you know you can't discount the the big spin backside disaster in that right there was so much going on a crescendo it built to no pause silence comes over the crowd waiting for the score for oscar rosenberg wow there we go a new leader 86.10 we knew this finals was gonna get lit up and it has oscar rosenberg now representing malmo sweden has just dropped a hammer of creativity and flow totally different approach to this course really free-formed it was insane and it was rewarded as such [Applause] so with this zion and gavin are in what we like to call a win and you're in situation a win here for zion wright could for all intents and purposes put him on the usa olympic team got a lot of skateboarding yet to come zion wright will have two more opportunities there we go this is a big run zion can mix it up here front side feeble grind or smith grind over that big ollie once again the wrong way over the loaf the scary way the scary way is right body jar smashing that tail on the backside there on the way back in whoa that's something new that was new adding something new to his run he's kind of off his line right now so this will all be made up that's just their uh you know muscle memory there you get off your line you go okay go into the files of tricks and zion's got a million tricks he can do at any time we saw it right there didn't quite get that full 40 second run but zion will have two more opportunities after this he came into it with a plan backside smith grind over the rainbow straight into the backside air good combo and there's that ollie boom pops with his wheels lands in the backside smith grind position backside air right there and then straight back over the island in the middle but this right here nose grind comes in fakie now he's moving kind of off his line pops into a fakie almost a fakie five-o but kind of comes off of that a little bit weird and tries to get the front side pop shove it there on the flat bank but he's not able to do it so could be shadows of something that's coming in run number three for him there's a little bit different moves but he's just so comfortable he can just kind of freeform it as he goes well what's really fun to see with eight skaters here in the finals is you know they're not gunning for each other per se they're just trying to better the run that they laid down previously we'll see if gavin bochner could do that i have no doubt he'll improve 41-37 on his opening run he's got 40 seconds in this park to prove it alley who packs that air straight into the air to backside disaster lightning fast backside 360 no scrub into basically a mctwist the inverted 540 drop in that front shoulder 20 seconds left so far so good backside ollie over the island there's a boneless disaster so mixing things up much better run for gavin this time through lean 360 sets himself up for the switch melon grab over the island and not able to combo that into his 360 after that so there was a lot going on i'll throw it out there if he gets that final trick that's the same run that he qualified with yeah he'll be up in the 80s if he can get that final trick the maturity i mean the the the competitive smarts and just the incredible skateboarding i mean this kid is well beyond his years he's 14 years old and already skating like this that's right big scoop on that backside 360 straight into the mctwist mike mcgill pioneered that trick back and i believe 1984. so think about that one that trick has stood the test of time it's twice as old as he is that's right that is i'm not good at math that's yeah that's it's small it's it was invented well before he was stick to commentating i like this line right here backside ollie on the other side of that lope and then straight into the front side boneless clacking his board on the way in oh drops the front foot on the lean 360 and then pops that over to fakie and sets himself up that looks closer than i thought the caballero he'll flip indigraph so that's that's a power line that was a power line for sure now if you're a huge gavin bogger fan like we all are want to see in the olympics don't worry because at the next olympics he'll only be 17 years old well they're skaters slashing away at this park the current standings after two runs here are your standings oscar rosenberg in the lead with an 86-1-0 zion right in second liam pace in third each skater will have two more runs to try to bump their scores up you're watching the due tour from des moines iowa chris cote here with todd richards food you're watching do tour live from des moines this was from the women's highlights the women's park finals went off we saw some of the most incredible skateboarding we've ever seen of course this park brand new so a lot of the skaters didn't really have the opportunity to do a lot of practicing but i tell you they showed exactly why they are the best in the world the women's park finals was completely amazing you know i'm so just i love watching the progression that happens in every single event at this point you know just a couple years ago it was unheard of to see women doing consistent 540s every single competition now we see the level race we see skye brown right there unbelievable ended up in second air second today just great combinations all the way through this park that front side 360 no one is doing that and skye brown just handled business ended up in second place today and you're you're watching skateboarders that will no doubt be global superstars in less than three months as they all will be competing olympics you know the women out of japan they were just on fire they're battling as well to see who's going to go to tokyo to represent sakura yosuzumi got the win high tech high speed high flying skating she's just getting better and better and that is a testament to how far we've come in women's skateboarding all right so we go back to men's park finals california skate parks has created one of the greatest skate parks on the planet 88 000 square feet right here in downtown des moines iowa we're focusing here on the say the most uh advanced part of this incredible park the lawrence skate park is basically a now it's a wonder of the skateboarding world i mean it's over a quarter of a mile of concentrated radness that's that's how i would describe it you know you talk about 88 000 square feet you can't really imagine that but you can imagine skating over a quarter of a mile and there's something to do the entire way yeah it's about what six football fields it's insane of radness well each skater gets four runs the best one run counts 40 seconds skate until you fall we go back to the top of the lineup take care from san diego california on his third run jake looking to put something down here the pressure is on nice combination right there the one footed tail grab kicking that front foot off while simultaneously grabbing the back of the board tate looking for some speed there's that burial flip in the air straight into the body burial 540 couple rotation tricks in a row he bailed on this his second run gets it this time kickflip indy reefer it's in the flight into an elgario another move pioneered by a legendary skateboarder this one eddie alguera backside 540 ollie if he can stick that in that line you're looking at mid 80s mid 80s big points mixed up his line a little bit he knows that he has to risk it for the biscuit check it out right here front side tail slide combos that over here off the hip into the flat bank kicking that front foot off letting it dangle and here is the varial flip to indie grab puts it on and then straight into the body burial 540. you can't say enough how treacherous this park really is i mean it's perfect of course but it's deep it's steep and these skateboarders make it look so easy trust us when we say this is a advanced level skate part of this skate park there are beginner areas all over the place but right here this is actually the same type of terrain that they will be skating in the olympics so there is a formula to what these parks uh have to have right certain features have to be present that's kind of how it goes as we roll through men's park finals we're gonna take a quick break we'll be back with more run number three out of four for the men's park finals you're watching two tour des moines stay tuned uh seasons hello uh let's get a chance you say usa team usa is definitely the most stock crew this is kind of where skating is from so it's just the place to be if you're skating this is probably the hardest country to go for it's to represent the olympics for the u.s in general is obviously extremely tough you're going up against some of the best skaters in the world oh my god it's crazy to think about that i'm up on the top of it because all these guys i've skated with since i was young they beat me in contests we've like gone back and forth it's an amazing feeling i think it's a big eye-opener for people that were just not hoodlums we're like actually dedicated ourselves to something that we love you know it's a sport we're all athletes and i think it just brings skateboarding into more households there's four people underneath me that are just a couple thousand points behind me so this next contest the do tour one's gonna make a big difference it's gonna be tough you know one more event i'm competing against a lot of my friends because we've been skating together for years it's going to be a good contest everyone's going to be definitely going for it it's the last one so the two tours the last chance to make the brazilian the mexican the japanese the american everybody in the end are truly united to be able to represent america and represent hawaii as well would be really special i get to compete for great britain but be in japan i mean that's just that's just a dream olympics is an opportunity to to bring something for your country i'm not only representing usa but coming from hawaii there's so much pride who would have thought that i'd come from this little island middle pacific to skating for my country and also my island you know i think the olympics is going to impact the world in ways no one ever thought it could it's basically putting skateboarding on this pedestal for the whole world to see you're showing skateboarding to a broader audience new people younger girls i think it's only going to help skateboarding it's going to introduce skating to so many people millions of people everybody who's in those top spots really worked hard for it it definitely pushes me to try to stay up in the top 20. i'm just trying to keep not too much pressure on myself try not to think about it too hard i want to go let's get it done it's me and my best friend bryce we talk about it and laugh all the time that we met each other when we were eight years old and now we're competing to get in the olympics it'd be a dream come true i feel like after so long sharing the same space sharing the same area and sharing that same passion it's the olympics i i don't know what to expect yeah i can't wait to go you know i want to go so much [Applause] [Music] [Applause] there's so many rad sensations within skating grinding is one of the most cool sounds probably in this world the grinds and the ollies the snapping of a tail this is skateboarding this is fun this is rad i'm so stoked that's perfect good right there yeah yeah so why are you getting the mermaid today um i don't have a good answer for that it works i grew up on the north shore of oahu one of the best places in the world to grow up with your want to be a surfer i always loved surfing i loved the water but i was never competitive in it and all my friends that are still pro-service this day like they were so good at like age six when i started skating i realized that i have that same passion that they have for surfing that i have that for skating and that's like really where i found myself and like i found my people i found what i love to do and this is my thing this one back here my first tattoo with you yeah still probably one of my favorite tattoos ever it's so good that's awesome so sick and then and then we did the camera yep [Music] a lot of skate videos that i've watched over and over and over all from like the 80s looking back a lot of the tricks i do i don't even think about it but i do do a lot of their tricks and stuff like that watching these 80s skaters skate in the 80s and also now and that's kind of like where i get my inspiration from [Music] since i became a part of team usa i'm training but i'm also like make sure i'm having fun if i'm not having fun there's no point skateboarding is to have fun at the end of the day in my eyes like and that's it it's going down in des moines you're watching the men's park final of due tour eight of the best park skaters on the planet competing of course for due tour glory as well as olympic qualification 20 athletes per discipline max three per country per discipline five participating continents each must be represented for park skating this is the last chance to qualify for the upcoming olympic games yeah pressure is definitely on some of these guys and we've seen a couple beginning rounds maybe the pressure is kind of getting to them i don't know we've had some interesting weather here all week long uh we just went through a storm here a few minutes ago i feel like it's in atlanta's mars is rain on finals day one of the lyrics in that song no possibly here's what's at stake imano reynolds way out in the lead so many points cannot be overtaken didn't even have to compete in the last chance qualifier but for corey juno you know he is right there in the conversation the big talk is about that third spot jaggery and tom shar tate crew zion wright and gavin bogger if you win you could be in tom sharr will be dropping into his third run each skater has four chances to put together a complete 40-second run filled with tricks difficulty danger it's all happening right here due toward des moines tom schar is in and no one has more expectations on him than tom schar he is the one to watch out here in the park as always front side smith stop popping back into that flat bank right into the tail grab backside 540 gets it perfectly tom now looking for some moves he's going to pack this run full of heavy moves it's a puzzle and each piece needs to fit and that means keeping speed and putting the right piece together in the right spot front side stalefish in the corner oh goes up for the nose stall to pop back in fakie that would have been a new move for tom i haven't even seen him practice that move so pressure is on for the fourth and final run for mr tom sharp but i was talking about the danger element that skateboarding is providing and as a show of camaraderie you know team brazil yesterday they made it known they're rooting for tom shar and uh tom shaw right there couldn't get that complete 40 seconds down he will have one more opportunity sitting at number two on the uh us team for now is corey juno he'll be up next as we wait for the payoff for tom shar you'll have one more chance you hate to see it you know it starts to weigh down on you this pressure you know everyone's been talking about olympics for so long this is it he's in corey juneau flowy style there's the backside tail slide covering a lot of real estate there on the coping front side allev ali and then straight into backside smith into the corner a lot of balancing on the lip backside lip slide up there on the seven foot wall the combos he'll flip oh and steps off unfortunately corey juno right there he's got the pressure on for the fourth and final run as well but what he did do right standing up tall on that lip not scared of sliding at high speed across the coping we want to see more of that that's where corey juneau just really shines look at this backside tail slide full lock in pushing as hard as he can with his back foot covering a lot of distance compost that into the alley front side ollie into the flat bank there's the backsmith in through the corner ollie's up 50-50 and then wants to get the heel flip indy grab grabs it with his trailing hand after flipping the board with his feet but not able to get it on his feet so just runs out of that so he knows what it takes he's come through in a pinch before at do tour we'll have to wait to see if he can get it done on his fourth run when you watch cory skate it's a reminder that skateboarding is an art form also a reminder that you're really bad at skateboarding just that he's really good yeah that's right you're still good coming up next representing team usa from tucson arizona this is the high speed attack of liam pace liam pace my quiet dark horse here front side tail slide after that ollie up the truck oh and goes down on the ollie to smith third run not the charm so far so far not going good for these riders a lot of pressure a lot of olympic talk as i said there's all kinds of crazy coaches and stuff here things you don't typically associate with skateboard competition skateboarding in general but these guys have to adapt not only to these formats for the olympics but also everything else that comes with it it's going to be a wild ride for these guys for who makes the team but you got to get there first liam pace has got one more chance to do it he's got every trick in the book yeah as we were reminded yesterday pedro barrow says we all do this for the love but when you start to talk about the o word that's when the pressure comes in here we go jagger eaton jagger eaton's got a very unique line already started it off with a couple heavy moves there's the alley guiding it with his feet wants to kick flip backside lip slide so he is feeling the pressure as well wants to up the ante of tricks they see right now that oscar rosenberg out of sweden is in first with some truly wild tricks and it's really putting the pressure on some of the other skaters you know it's it's cool because it adds to the drama you know this is a skateboarding competition so there are elements of pressure drama points prize money trophies all that stuff you know when you peel back the layers and we are watching brilliant skateboarding win or lose fall or make these are some of the best on the planet and here's one of them oscar rosenberg malmo sweden your favorite skater's favorite park skater that's really what it is and that you know that's a cliche that absolutely works for oski here we go you're probably going to see something completely different absolutely and that's what i can't wait to see getting things going couple tricks there there is the ollie up to lip slide off the hip getting on top of it somehow because you've got a boost up and over that to make it there's the 50 50 over oscar looking for some speed ollie going the wrong way over the island into backside nose button so fast tricks a lot of combos keeping his speed up here's the ollie up to backside sugarcane precariously perching himself up there on top a lot of precision that chicken throws big spin backside disaster to river to backside 360. oscar just upping it one more time and there is the pop shove it mini grab did i vicky skateboarding as an art form because that right there should be on the wall of duluth that is yes beautiful skateboarding you never know what you're gonna get his skateboarding is so free-form it's it is skating park in its purest form what are you gonna do i don't know i'm gonna drop in and see what happens that was insane there was so much going on there's the big spin moving the board with your feet and then backside revert out of that after landing on top of the lip a lot going on backside 360 after that here's the ollie up watch covers distance from the hip gets up on top of that extension in a lip slide balancing on his board in the middle front side ollie to tail back side nose blunt so a lot of tricks packed into a 40-second run that's what the judges want to see in this combo right here the backside sugar cane backside ollie over rotate to land on your truck in a frontside smith grime that is cauli backside sugarcane made popular by buster halterman back in the day and he combos that into that big spin backside disaster reverb so oski is going to get an even bigger score on this run i believe just by virtue of how insane it was and i think i can speak for anyone saying that i could watch oski skate all day oh the precision it takes to smash that back truck onto the coping up there he's a wizard waiting for scores to drop for oscar rosenberg his third run in 83-75 so the judges liking that second run a little bit better 86.10 maybe it was just a little bit cleaner the subtleties and really what the judges are looking for everyone's going fast everyone's going big so they are really you know focused in on the details of every trick done still oscar rosenberg at the top of the heap with an 86-1-0 and now we're going to jupiter florida's zion wright third run starting off in the nose grind backside air combo to that big ollie over to disaster wow i can't wait to see the replay of that one body jar smashing the tail on the backside air on the way in very fast committed to his tricks fast and loud like we like it zion front side air into the front side 5-0 over the hip wants that pop shove it on the flat bank utilizing those street skills in the park situation combinations i mean wait until we see the ollie over the island the wrong way i believe he landed in disaster on the coping so basically landing in the middle of his board adding that much more difficulty to it pretty much justifying skateboarding right there okay here's going this way nose grind over backside air scoops that one there's the we're not gonna get to see it bummer there's the front side five-o over the hip and then the attempt at the front side pop chevit wants to catch that with his feet and that would add just another layer of difficulty there's the front side air and that was over there into the front side 5-0 off the hip another look at the pop shove it if there's a phrase in skateboarding atv all-terrain vehicle that basically means you can skate anything and zion is really in the elite levels of atvs truly second run comes through 73 or third round 7318 zion will hang on to that 8373 currently in second place let's go now to our 14 year old this is gavin bucker covering some distance on the alley straight to the backside there backside disaster landing right between his trucks all weight on the board backside 360 combo into the mctwist 540 dropping that front shoulder differentiating it from a regular 540. it's these subtle differences the judges are going to be looking at there's that frontside boneless landing in disaster middle of the board instead of the smooth transition onto the bank gavin looking for some more moves here one foot of lean air 360. popping into the switch melon grab into the cavalry he'll flip and gets it this time backside 360 judo air to end off that run gavin vodka was looking for that run and he gets it backside tail slides shove it maybe for a little bonus trick that was the run the 14 year old smashing it down getting it done on run number three des moines is going off right now witnessing gavin barker at 14 years old skating out of his own skin absolutely destroying this park that run right there was his i mean the combo everything was there distance covered on the alley-oop backside air traveling the opposite way he's rotating and then watch this lands right between the boards so fast to be able to go in and keep your speed backside 360 combos that into the mctwist 540 dropping that front shoulder front side lip slide covering a little difference distance there's the lean 360 with the one foot off and there is the caballerial heelflip indie grab and then into a backside one-footed 360 the judo kicking that front foot off that was a great run gavin botker is going to have a big score i think that was really fun to watch your current leader oscar rosenberg waiting to see if he needs to improve on what he's already done gavin bocker waiting to see where his fate lies score comes through 84.33 for kevin fodker moving up into second place knocking zion right to third liam the fourth jagger five tate six char and more importantly right now the leading american on the scoreboard in this heat and that has crazy implications as far as qualifying the young 14 year old just getting the job done you know as a skate fan going the olympics i'm cheering for all nations but i i would be uh happy as an american to have tate crew representing i mean anyone in this final obviously but skateboarding is in great hands whatever country you're from as we saw earlier dew tour brought over 50 nations together to compete to fill those final olympic spots in park and street zion wright would be another incredible representative not just for team usa but for skateboarding just as a whole that's right every once in a while you know the olympics we talk about with snowboarding now with skateboarding you want to have these guys that represent the sport perfectly going in there to show the world what we can do as long along with the attitude and style zion's one of those guys we're well into men's finals your current leaderboard set for now after three runs we're about to witness the fourth and final runs for our eight men's park finalists your skater on top right now is oscar rosenberg he'll have one more opportunity to defend that top spot we've got some hard charging americans with gavin botner and zion wright chasing him down you're watching do tour live from des moines we'll be right back [Music] welcome back skate fans you're watching do tour des moines we're deep into the men's park final as it stands now from sweden oscar rosenberg in that top spot with an 86.10 chris cote here with todd richards and we have been watching some absolute mastery of park terrain starts right here oscar rosenberg and in second place 14 year old gavin vodka all kinds of different styles different approaches interpretations of the puzzle pieces of this park course [Music] here's what's at stake team usa trying to figure out who will be competing in the upcoming olympic games himana reynolds can you save corey juno he's right there top two so the third position is really what these skaters are fighting for right now jagger eating tom shark tate carew corey juno gavin vodkas you win you could be in there are your standings after three runs oscar rosenberg in that top spot 14 year old gavin vodka in second zion wright in third everybody with one more chance to make a big impression on the judges you got to go fast you got to go high do your grinds extra long this is where you leave it all out there in the park so here we go take care for his final run this is it all or nothing take care starting things off tail slide at high speed into that one footed tail grab into the flat bank tate's been kind of mixing his line up a little bit as we go seeing what works and what doesn't there's that variable indie flip over the island straight into the body burial 540 every single time that is a crazy combo to do kick with indy on to the toyota flat wall elgario once again the 360 hand plant from fakie super difficult move not a lot of people are doing that so the judges may take notice of someone doing an older move backside ollie 540 into the bean plant up there on that flat wall and he is out he knows he knows that was a solid run beginning to end that right there ladies and gentlemen was all about figuring out what needs to be done and hitting it when the pressure was on the ollie backside 540 nothing holding on to that board but his feet there's the one footed tail grab 50 50 around that corner but it was later on in this run where the magic began to happen and there is the varial flip indy grab straight into the body burial where his board basically stays in one place and his body rotates around it kickflip indy so a bunch of flip grabs and the ollie backside 540. no grab no hands on the deck all finesse with the feet it takes a lot of commitment and then comboing that into the bean plant that is the basically a boneless grabbing with your opposite hand and he is out that is the best you can do get out while you're still on fire something to be said about the you know confident kick out of the park it's a good clean finish here flip indy look at that right there even gets to grab tuck me that quick revert into the elgario eddie algeria pioneered that movie that moved back in the early 80s it's incredible that it's still making its way into a park final and then straight into the back side scooped backside ollie five for you that's when he uses his tail below the coping to initiate the rotation it's all about keeping the grip on that board confidence you see tom shaw congratulating him there because that was a heavy heavy run whoa with his fourth and final run the score comes through moving up into fifth place with an 80.17 tate carew 16 years old out of san diego california a strong finish for the young skater representing team usa so this next run this has it's really global implications it's really heavy because because of the weight of expectation has been on tom shar just from skateboarding in general you want to talk about someone who's been dominating parks for a very very long time tom schar has been the one to watch tailslide up on top of that bank there's that side smith stop popping back in this is going to be a 540 tail grab gets it this time a little bit in the back seat let's see if he can regain and do something big for the judges kickflip indy into the flat bank front side feeble grind through the corner there's that stalefish tom shar he's gonna have to bring something heavy contrasting styles there's the nose stall popping back in fakie switch frontside grind he's got time for one more move the fakie disaster will that run be enough for tom shaw there were some very different moves in there all those tricks right there after time difficult moves no stall popping back into fakie on that flat bank truly difficult no one is even messing with that well power skating will never go out of style and right there was a display of pure power skating from tom sharp every air as high as you can go ollie up to front side tail slide on top of the toyota feature and here is the pop out to smith stall now he will revisit that obstacle during this competition during this run kickflip grab into the flat bank straight into the front side feeble locks into that all around the corner here we go as he pumps in he's tom starr still tom star stale fish say that five times there's that 50 50 grind over the rainbow rail i would have been fine with shark fish a shark works front side blunt in the deep end but unfortunately i think those two moves were after time so tom shar did tom shark do enough judges deliberating run number three yeah he did have the backside tail grab 540 the most difficult 540 we've seen done here today was that a run worthy of a spot on the olympic skateboarding team man there's so much pressure on these guys they're not used to having to deal with this olympic baggage these guys uh mostly all chasing jaggery tate crew will not be able to catch him but congrats to take crew on a huge two-tour finish fifth place it's always hard to live up to your own expectations i did love what he did in that run that no stall popping back in fakie the judges are high now i have to gonna have to take that into consideration because it was truly different than everyone else's runs another waiting game i mean you can you can feel it the energy from the park as we wait for the score for tom shaw was it enough let's take another look at some of the highlights of his run there's that kickflip indy into the flat bank you see that catching the board with his hand slapping it back on his feet there's that stale fish grabbing with his trailing hand behind his front his back foot they keep looking the judges when we're seeing these replays they're looking back at things score comes through his highest yet a 79.98 it's enough for tom shar to jump up into sixth place so remember these guys are chasing jagger eden who will be dropping in shortly and then now we'll see so this is what's at stake corey juno he's in second place on the uh world skate standings for team usa so he's going to be feeling pretty safe to be competing in the upcoming olympics this is his fourth and final run so far he has skated brilliantly we go corey looking for some speed he likes this backside tail slide right here does it once again covering a lot of distance on the lip backside 5-0 front side alley-oop ollie no grab traveling the opposite way that he's rotating locks into a backsmith into that corner corey juneau another one of these ah backside smith grind steps off so that will do it for corey juno corey juno his high score 6614 eighth place will have to do it for corey but either way we just got to see four incredible displays of skateboarding from one of the smoothest out there corey juno always a pleasure to watch skate you know this this course definitely lends itself to some of these skaters not all i feel like cory gino with a tighter course with maybe not a lot of flatter sections would be more accommodating to the style of skating that he does because to keep that speed up not a lot of dead walls you don't want that but someone that has a completely contrasting style to his is this kid right here this is liam pace he's got an 81.11 just out of that podium position in fourth place his fourth and final run coming up liam has been you know he set the bar high on his first run his second and third run didn't go his way we'll see if he can put everything together here on his fourth and final run here in due tour des moines this is liam pace another one of these all-terrain rippers liam pace needs a huge run right now to bump himself up smith stall up there on top of the flat bank straight into the indy 540 much bigger than he's done in previous runs backside smith guy locking into that putting that rail down front side 180 and caballerial disaster it's been in 360. smashing the board back on the way in indy 360 over the low heel flip indy there's a lot going on for liam pays this run front side blunt as he comes down to the final seconds was that run enough there was a lot going on liam pays just chaining hard tricks together making these super difficult look easy he wanted that run and he got it the question is how is that going to sit with the judges yeah liam was hyped on that run and he should be let's talk about that no one has done a capillarial disaster spinning the board 360 degrees with your feet while coming from fakie and then smashing it in to the lip no one's doing that there's that front side smith stall setting him up for this the deep to shallow indy 540 carrying a lot of speed [Music] there's the indy 360 over the loaf and then combo in that straight into actually kickflip indy i said he'll flip any that's a kickflip kicking that board away behind him into the nose grind bump over into the front side blunt so that combination of tricks right there there was a lot going on and also just capping that run off this was after time but a nose grind perfectly done that was a beautiful run there was so much going on unique tricks to liam pace it's gonna be good score comes through for liam pace 82.04 does improve on his highest score but just not quite enough to crack him up onto the podium as it stands now oscar rosenberg still in that top spot gavin vodka in second zion right hanging onto third jagger eaton he wants to shut the door on the rest of this crew he's in third place on the team usa standings heading into tokyo if he can fend off these hard charging americans in this final we could be stamping his ticket no pressure no pressure for jaggery this is uh only the pathway to the olympics a huge huge undertaking he and his coach legendary street dog neil mims have been working on runs to play to what the judges want there's that backside 180 to switch ollie cannot fall he cannot fall he cannot fall alley front side ollie backside lip slide and comes off the board so now crazy situation of points just add to the drama jagger eaton right there uh you know again a rare mistake he is so consistent he is such a strong competitor it is going to be the backside lip slide that is haunting him in his sleep you see right there getting consoled by neil mims there's so much pressure on these guys all they've done is trained for this moment the difference between sixth and seventh place is 2500 points that's less than the difference between tom shaw and jaggery right now so a lot of math happening it's it's a lot of drama we love it it's so rough you know it's like for these guys they skate all their lives all sudden the olympics comes into the picture no one ever pictured skateboarding ever to go to the olympics and it's kind of like turned the the spirit of skating on its head but these guys you got if they're willing to play the game glory is on the line well for uh oscar rosenberg you know he is uh right now just a one-man wrecking crew representing sweden they're all look at these guys they're crunching numbers this guy can make it harder on everybody if he increases his score i mean right now sitting on 86 1-0 flawless so far and so consistent well he's got an 83 and a 78 to back up that big here's what i'd like to telegraph about this run he's already on top so what that means we're gonna get a real free-form he's pretty comfortable in the lead right now with that 86. here we go molly up to front side lip slide such good style great control a lot of finessing in that board into the 50-50 looking for speed pumping around that corner there's the front side ollie valley to front side noseblind i think he wanted to slide that a little bit leave some time on the table there about 10 seconds but still in the lead 86 now when you think about that score compared to what gavin bottger did that was gavin's best run so far zion wright's best run so far in 83 so they're gonna have to bring some serious spice to this next run well our two top qualifiers will be coming next so when we come back the conclusion of men's park will happen here from tour des moines fourth and final run for zion wright and gavin bocker who's gonna take it we'll see coming right up okay oh um it all comes down to this you're watching two tour des moines and we're into the men's park finals we've got two more skaters to drop for their fourth and final runs we've just witnessed history in the making the points tell us tom shar has just moved slightly ahead of jagger eaton to potentially take that third olympic spot for team usa two more skaters to drop that could upset the balance zion wright and gavin vodka yet to drop on their fourth and final runs chris cote here with todd richards this has lived up to every expectation and more so here is the state of affairs zion wright gavin bocker if they win they are in they are representing the united states for skateboarding in the first olympic games where we've ever seen it massive pressure for these guys who is handling it more on the deck right now i'm going to say it's this dude right here coming out of florida zion writer last chance for zayan wright 42nd oh my god backside 540 over the loaf to start things off completely different zion wright just needs to hold on to this run indy 360. backside 540. keep going this is drama ladies and gentlemen holy cow giant fronts out alley-oop basically just needs to stay on his board zion right right now you want to talk about someone who just brought it when it need to be brung 30 seconds front side grab grind over front side block playing it smart didn't go for that front side pop shove it and into the heelflip indy ladies and gentlemen i'm gonna say that's it i'm gonna say that's it that was the gnarliest run we have seen the 540 over the loaf the boys are going crazy people are freaking out and they should be you that right there was incredible zion wright has done it again completely unexpected i saw him trying to rotate that in practice i thought he was just over rotating a 360. [Applause] [Music] big z brings it on that run that was incredible that was skateboarding you got jamie foy alex the emotion the feel i mean the vibe is up here in des moines we've just witnessed i mean something iconic what zion just did right there was out of this world please give me the replays i need to see the backside 540. no one eats i don't even think he landed that once double grab grabs nose then grabs indy rotating 540 degrees into the pop-tart popping out faking with the front side grab wow we are seeing some crazy stuff that we ain't never seen before here kid look at that right there popping and that it didn't stop it started off with an exclamation point and then ended with one as well backside 540 zion right ladies and gentlemen you're skating with ferocity style flow power and intent he wanted that spot look at this let's watch the whole run again all day 540 straight into the pop chart there on the big wall all he had to do basically was stay on with some pedestrian tricks he knew right here what was happening you know what eye of a tiger is chris that is not only a song by survivor but it is also the way you make it to the olympic games i can't believe we're gonna see this kind of creativity at the olympics skateboarding it's been a sport that is deserved to be there whether it wants to or not for years zion wright is looking real good to represent for the usa he'll put indy to end that run inspired brilliant skateboarding right there i mean that that run had everything it really did it had every trick technicality spontaneity creative lines perfection zion wright the atv out here today popping that front side blunt in but i'm telling you the damage was done early on and capping it keel flipping kicking that board away from him with his front foot this is all style all grace this whole park was shaking 88 000 square feet a perfect skate park shaking to the core if he doesn't move into the lead with that run there is seriously something wrong that was insane the boys are so stoked you know i kind of feel bad for gavin bonker now because he's just had all the oxygen sucked out of his room like showing up when the party's over now it's time everyone's holding their breath to see what is the score gonna be for zion wright i mean win or lose that was some of the best skateboarding we've seen all week let's wait i have a feeling this is going to be a jigo score it goes from as loud as it gets to silence we wait for the score to drop zion right of course the drama building [Applause] all the way to the top man i love y'all i've been putting it work for this man you gotta love them gotta love zion that is crazy now it ain't over though we have one skater left the one that qualified on top even oski who just got knocked into second place knows he loves it all right recently we've seen it before gavin bocker we know what he's capable of he's 14 years old he's already skating well beyond his years and now he's got to do it after witnessing history on right they're going everybody just calm down we got one more run one more dude is in this these kids gotta be tripping feed off of this i mean when you're 14 year old your food group is candy and i hope he's eating a bunch because he's gonna need a super sweet run i'm gonna trademark that for later would you like i can't imagine what he's going through at 14 years old he's shown us you know he's uh he's already a veteran contest skating but he's gonna have to use all everything he's learned about just keeping his calm here we go gavin vodka 14 years old representing team usa is in 14 year old fried nerves burial body burial i mean oh my gosh it's gonna have to come in this run for gavin already starting off differently big backside 360. 540 dropping that front shoulder making it the mid twist over the rainbow rail backside ollie [Applause] [Music] fast frontside disaster out of that boneless gavin's gonna have to bring something special here towards the end of this run one-footed lean air there's that vicky pop over that into the cavalier heelflip indie grab matt answered every question we had with that run he has an incredible ability oh man oh man this is uh this is something special here ladies and gentlemen someone i mean gavin bocker just had the run that he needed i can't hear you the crowd's going wild [Applause] the opening that run up with the alley-oop body burial into the bank change things up a little bit sit on an 84.33 for his previous run he did add a few elements to make that run a little bit more difficult and now i got to be really anal about the points as an analyst i could be an analyst right now we got to look at what do these points mean kind of actually like a ali saran wrap right there adding a little flavor into it backside air smashing the disaster now the question is are these micro changes that he put in his run enough to take down zion wright was that the best one you've seen of the week it was the best run that i've seen gavin bocker do do i think it's enough to take out zion wright unfortunately i don't zion had that 540 over the isla island there's that back tail shove it there was more in intensity it seemed like there's more hype although this run was incredible for all the same reasons just zion kind of took it to the next level there's that one-footed lean air setting him up 360 to the switch melon grab over the island very difficult combo into the cavallario heelflip indigram and don't forget he's only 14 years old so if he wants to be around those around he'll be 17. we're not talking about the next olympics we are talking about this one and as we said before if you win it you are in gavin botker run number three what are the points gonna be my gut tells me it's not gonna be enough but it may be enough to bump up into second place more silence in the park what do we see 14 years old handling the pressure when i was 14 years old i could barely say hi to someone looking them in the eye gavin blockers waiting to see if they can freak out it's about to go off in here either zion way patiently i do want one of those shirts i want four of them i'd like to wear one each day of the week zion deserves it after the run that uh he just put down there but now we're waiting for the scores for gavin becker it comes through it's an 86. so gavin brocker does hold on to our podium position here's the rocks here we go big z takes it home takes home an olympic spot olivia right there the implications of today's win insane incredible zion wright has to be on top of the world right now chris pastors is on the deck with zion right z came down to that fourth and final run amazing run started off with the 540 describe what you're feeling right now uh dude words can't even describe how i feel to be honest i've been putting in so much work and just trying to dedicate myself to just skateboarding and this so yeah i'm just happy i'm stoked and like alex told me he said leave no doubt so i had to go and put it down so it worked out you seem to be having fun the entire time through practice you were like listening to music having fun with your friends was fun a big factor 100 that's what all this is about skateboarding at the beginning and at the end of the day is all about having fun being with your friends being able to build and just have a good time so i'm stoked to be able to share this with the people around me my friends and everyone mom dad grandma rob steve everyone back home man like i really love you guys so just thank you all right amazing yes dr z we love you thank you that was congratulations pure positivity that is what we want in an ambassador for skateboarding zion right he's throwing it down 91.04 the highest run of the entire week and he takes all the boxes such a gracious person in his win as well i mean zion is a skater skater he is an atv just as good in the streets as he is in the park we are looking at the beginning of super stardom i don't think any of these guys realize what's coming down the line for the olympics myself i've been there different sport completely but i know what is about to happen and it's going to change lives i'm about to get on the zion right collectible train i'm seeing wheaties box covers i'm seeing covers time magazine i'm seeing it all for zion wright we've been saying it all week long for some of these teams some of these team members for team usa it was all about win it and you're in it and nothing else will do well zion wright just did it unbelievable day for skateboarding you see right there a couple of the guys that really pioneered josh freeburg who pushed this sport into the olympics ryan sheckler jamie foy these guys are zion's teammates and it also just means so much because he's such a cool guy well this was the run that did it that basically grabbed his dreams and made him a reality zion wright with the 91-04 unbelievable run brilliant starting things off with that 5 40 and then it was just all making sure you get to the finish line and for zion wright the way that he's been skating in practice the way that he's been carrying himself around the competition i knew i knew that he could potentially take this thing home early this week just by his attitude alone when you have i the tiger when you just are feeling it in your bones no one's gonna take it from you we saw a glimpse of it in the semi-finals and we knew something new was up was dionne wright and as he's showing us right here speed power creativity pure artistry in what he's doing on his board high tech tricks flying out of the park i mean everything was there that was the trick that sealed the deal at the 40-second mark a true dream trick that put zion wright in the spot he's in right now i'm not much i'm a little choked up because i i know what's gonna happen you know we've seen it it's so insane with the ride that zion is about to go on and it's you couldn't ask for a better person better person to represent skateboarding at the olympics zion wright has just made history here at do tour des moines dropping the wildest highest scoring run we've seen all week long men's park final just blew our minds team america might be set for the upcoming olympic games well do tour provided the spectacular show we all wanted and zion wright takes the win we will have an award ceremony and everything else you want to see coming up very soon we're going to take a quick break right back hey guys oh so this oh [Music] [Music] do tour is brought to you by mountain dew do the dude toyota let's go places and one more time let's here for your third place finisher young gavo gavin bocker what an insane day of competition as we look at the awards this kid the 14 year old has made a huge impression on a lot of people today absolutely you know skating above and beyond his years a huge future in front of gavin botker do not forget that name this kid is gonna take on the world he's already done it i mean look at the field that he uh beat to get that podium positioned oscar rosenberg representing sweden now something that you need to take into consideration yeah he's you know currently not a lock but it's a long time before the olympics skateboarding is a sport where you push your body as well as progression in the sport you never know you want to be on deck man you want to be on deck in those points we just witnessed history in the making coming from the bottom of the depth chart team usa zion wright this kid coming out of florida was having the best time out there all week long absolutely destroyed we told him at the beginning of the week you win it you're in it and he said okay i'm going to go ahead and win it he did that a convincing victory but only skater to crack the 90s zion wright your champion due toward des moines insane skateboarding you want to talk about just really pushing the level and rising to the occasion when you really need to bring it zion just epitomized that this week yeah i could see him wearing a gold medal well it would look good on him it would look good on skateboarding i can tell you that much right now because you know whether whether or not the the ethos of skateboarding belongs in the olympics end of the day rolling on four wheels with a piece of wood does not change zion wright being a ripper does not change but i can't think of anyone better to represent the sport than him going into park i'm with you and events events like do tour des moines of course the olympics is to grow and progress the sport of skateboarding to make sure that in every corner of the planet if you want to skateboard if you've never seen skateboarding you're about to see it and hopefully you know these uh wooden wheels as you say will make their way around the world and every corner of the earth will have a skateboarder present and what a victory i mean an emotional win in so many ways my voice is just charred right now that's fine because insane day so much went down well we knew with this brand new park being built right here in des moines you were about to witness something special and we got that and more incredible final a 14 year old who would not back down gavin bocker got that third place putting in position making a huge statement yeah and you know at 14 years old he's got a long time ahead of him he seems like a veteran in this game but he has got a lot of time ahead of him as well and then we saw oski but it was all about this the opener for the final run for zion wright the backside 540 landing fakie rotating up and that was just the beginning great run combos were all over the place you see the alley front side air there the heelflip indy was the exclamation point on an incredible run zion wright ladies and gentlemen he is here and america and the rest of the world is going to feel his presence soon zion wright gets it done he is your due tour des moines champion he had just stamped his ticket for the olympic games the zion show was incredible and the crowd got behind him from beginning to end this place was going berserk it was insane you want to talk about someone who feeds off the energy of a crowd zion wright did just that waiting till his final run to unleash the craziest moves the 540 the kick out of the board for victory he knew he had it he knew he gave it everything he had and came home with the victory your due tour des moines men's park champion zion wright taking the title in a huge way we've got more skateboarding to come you're watching do tour des moines so far an incredible event with so much more action oh so uh myself okay i was outside so the question is that you know we saw how snowboarding had some challenges you know going from snowboarding to the olympics um what are your thoughts around skateboarding going to the olympics i feel like we won't really have that problem as far as staying unique because i mean we have a group of amazing people who like really try really hard to keep that unique factor and they put a lot of time in an effort to like keep that so i feel like as far as going into it and after it will still be solid and and that will be the unique thing that people will take away is that it is very different you're looking at like a group of amazing people who really try hard to keep that to keep those factors into play and and i mean they're doing a great job so you know you look at the history of snowboarding and what happened you know it's going to blow up both sides both sides of skateboard are going to benefit off this and you know the sides who are competitive that want to compete for team usa it's been a goal it's been it's been hung on their wall they've written down on paper when they were seven years old and put on their wall those type of athletes are finally get to do something they've always dreamed of and i know most pro snowboarders now and i know that they would i know they love competing and i also know they love they love street snowboarding going out and filming projects and at the same time you look how accessible skateboarding is like you look how accessible is what we do you know you can go out anywhere you can skateboard any kitchen you can go to a skate park you can cruise down the street you can do it anywhere and i feel like that's why skateboarding is just going to be put on such a pedestal going into this yeah i mean i would agree with both of them for sure like we definitely have a team that's making sure like the cultural side of skateboarding is going to stay the same but i also just think it's like skateboarding is such an individual thing that it's really up to the skater as to where they want to take it like if they want to go for the olympics and they can absolutely do that if they just want to go and cruise and just have fun then they can absolutely do that i feel like the core of skateboarding is always going to be there and like it's going to it's kind of just like a tree like it's the route is always going to be there and you can branch out to as far as you want to go to and i feel like that's the beautiful thing about skateboarding yeah skateboarding is definitely one of those special things where it can mean different things to different people and no one can take that away from you so that's a great question all right one more question down here i don't know it's going to be different going back into it because nobody skated a contest for a year and a half now my biggest thing was just pushing through that and just being like all right i want to train like there is going to be a contest all skateparks were being closed and stuff it was it was hard to like stay motivated you know skateboarding is such a adaptive kind of thing and especially with how covet happened it gave us all like a year to practice we didn't see anybody for a year and then everybody's just back and just like skating better than ever the pressure's on but at least for me i just try to not to think about it i think it's a little intimidating and nerve-wracking just tell myself i got it and just picture my think everyone's been working on stuff for like a year now so everyone is just killing it it's honestly like happened way more natural than i thought it was i think it's gonna be fun having a contest again coming in all the girls got so much better figuring out a park is honestly the best session but the spur of the moments that's what the contest is about contest skating is all mental sometimes you're just in the mood to do hard tricks and sometimes you have to do it because you have to do it the worst thing that can make you not land your run is getting in your head too much like they call your name and they say go and you got to be ready to fire so in my day and age contests weren't very important it didn't really like put you in a higher level of your professional career as we fast forward till now and it's very important that you do well in these functions now we see kids that they have coaches they have physical therapists they are training place well each generation picks up where the last one left off so if we push this generation to the limits then the next kids are watching these videos and these contests and going okay that's what a pro skater does [Music] it's in human nature to continue to progress they're just progressing faster and faster you watch these contests and these kids are crazy and it's inspiring a progression is a very important part of any sport especially skateboarding to watch this continued progression of skateboarding it only ensures the the longevity of it and and i think that's a great thing too yeah wipe out and get right back up get up wax the ledge we can't get stuck courage on deck like two trucks hop on and do what you want yeah true freedom they need us to stun backside 180s to front yeah and we know struggle like we knows grind hustle for runs all in due time repetition repetition might switch stance but not the mission much more than a competition we risk it all to get these tricks in sacrifice ain't nothing given skated d.i.e how we living scrapes scars bruises lessons pain joy victory blessings from the block to your skate spots kick kick push and flip skate cops love popped to your skate shot got ollies with more pop than game gamestop skate for justice we all land skate for change like blm yeah probably take a knee on my board ghetto kids all day shout out to the boys this that thunder in your heart 45 seconds to go right at the park that go harder go harder yeah that go far or go farther that five-ring camaraderie four-wheel polyurethane world society and all eyes on we and all eyes on goal all praises be united we roll peace welcome back everybody to the 2021 do tour from des moines iowa and the new hub of midwest skateboarding thanks to the incredible laurenson skatepark here on the bank of the des moines river right in the heart of downtown we have 88 000 square feet of concrete perfection and you are going to see eight of the best skateboarders in the world here in the men's finals here in the dew tour and there's a look at the olympic qualification overview there's going to be 20 athletes skating in the olympics per discipline only three maximum per country andrew but every continent will be represented here's the competition format for the street finals as we mentioned eight of the best skaters in the world we have the two five four format meaning each skater gets two 45 second runs followed by five best trick attempts anywhere on the course and the key here is that the four top scores from each skater count it's a cumulative scoring system in skate street today this is a veterans game getting better at street skating putting together a run when you're younger you're just kind of like these are my tricks i'm going to do them all and you don't really think about it it's not as calculated that's something that i started to enjoy more as i got older kids nowadays they look at instagram they look at this stuff they only want to do those things because those are trendy now they don't learn the basics you know why why have you skipped you know when you're younger i feel like you don't really know what the judges want to see you're just like i'm gonna do the best hardest tricks they better know that that's sick there's a lot of training involved like you really got to stay on top of your game that adds up i feel that's the og stuff we know we've been around for so long and we've seen it all for being a little bit of an older guy i think the oldest guy no i'm not okay good paul manny shane all those dudes have been to do tour and every other contest for like 10 plus years so they have it dialed just like a snap of a finger they're ready to go it's a patience game it requires a ton of patience to compete in these contests the young kids don't get that yet but it's definitely a pleasure watching them skate because they go for it i like that i'm older than manny i'm 36 yeah i'm older so i am the oldest hey i don't care how old paul rodriguez is it's so great to have him around he was here all weekend at the dew tour it's great to see him look at this the average age of skateboarders here in the street final 27 years old it's a veterans game out here this weekend and we talk about youth being what it takes to be good at skateboarding but in the competition environment like this andrew you need to have experience i think a great example manny santiago 35 years old he is our oldest competitor here in the finals but qualified in first place last night yeah that has been sort of the story of the weekend manny santiago just putting it down for the veterans doing us proud and we have an incredible field here today let's talk about the skaters you're going to be seeing in the final felipe gustavo will be first in followed by that man on your screen right there shane o'neal and it is always so good to see him in the final because we know his talent right we know he should be here every time he doesn't always get here though nerves and and who knows what's going on in his head all the time talent's there he's got to get there he's here today here's the start list felipe gustavo coming in first for brazil followed by shane o'neal out of australia and then the two americans niger houston and jamie foy and then vincent malou out of france yuto from japan another frenchman aurelien giroux and manny santiago the number one qualifier out of the semifinals just put it down in such a huge way andrew you remember that run in the semis that was some of the best skateboarding i've ever seen it was hands down probably the best run i've ever seen in person so here we go finals about to begin first skater in he was the eighth place qualifier out of semifinals felipe gustavo ranked 21 in the world but fifth in brazil he has a chance to stamp his ticket to tokyo here if he does well enough look at him coming in really calm really composed we're talking about it we've got a lot of veterans out there they know exactly what needs to be done kickflip quirky grind making his way that little out look at that nollie flip cookie grind now we've seen him go nollie crook in some of the other runs i love seeing him put it all out there on the first run yeah taking big chances because we all know you want to put a run in the bag doing really hard tricks oh okay no switchback tail unfortunately getting away from him the positive here isn't all about his top four scores whoa down that hubba that was incredible he can put that all together i think we're gonna see a huge score but finishing with a trick like that how important is that andrew i think it definitely wasn't something the judges would be expecting here's another look nice frontside flip down the double set felipe he knows how to put together a really good run he doesn't necessarily put a ton of tricks in the run but every trick is really calculated look at that nollie flip crook it's where we saw it go wrong the switchback tail probably a weight distribution issue yeah just landed maybe a little bit too much on the balls of his feet slide now but man switch flip tail slide it's all quality with felipe gustavo he's not out here for a hundred tricks he's here to put together for the best tricks absolutely and that's what we want to see and that's why everybody loves felipe gustavo scores in 7.30 that's a that's a decent run score the judges have been been hyper critical about falls this weekend here you don't want to give them an excuse to give you give you a low score shane o'neil on deck we all know what he's capable of he's 31 years old he has been looking incredible here this weekend starting off with that switch big spin i like that switchback tail on the outlet [Applause] and just listen to him analyzing everything he knows the game so much better than anybody else switch foot back tail attempt right there and you know you can see that in the way he skates it's so precise it's so calculated right absolutely all right crook up nollie flip backside big spin in just timing it perfectly unable to get that switch flip back lip but what we saw yesterday was the two 45 second runs no best tricks today we're gonna see all five of those attempts you can win this contest with best tricks alone all right there's a look at that switch backside tail slide on the gap to hubba shane is a skater that has the potential to win it off of best tricks alone absolutely but he's always been strong in the run section too and he's listen he's usually trying such hard tricks in best trick that a lot of times he doesn't make two out of five absolutely and really it's you know you want to get that one good run because your run scores aren't going to be as high as maybe some of your best tricks depending on what happens so he's looking for a 7.3 or better shane is we'll see how that run does nigel houston on deck kind of just squeezing in through the semis he's gonna be in the olympics regardless but he wants to finish the detour in a strong position and we didn't necessarily see that from him in the semis but i'm confident we're gonna get that from him today honestly just seeing the way he did that three trick combo right there he is looking a lot more comfortable out here today i mean the pressure that nigel is dealing with it's unbelievable i mean we had a whole year off for people to just talk about who's going to win the olympics that's got to get to you big spin front board down after that kickflip back live he's looking really comfortable we got 10 seconds left front side nose blunt coming in at the big hubba and look at that back 180 nose grind oh the switch blunt getting away from it but you know what you can see the confidence in that smile because that run was almost perfection the way he was flowing through it like you said andrew he it looked like he felt like he was in control of it and it's so it seems so silly but just in the way that he was landing his tricks there was last night we saw some tic tacs out of him i mean that you know last night was a weird night we dealt with the rain delay everyone ended up coming back but today he is looking really solid so would that fall at the buzz or her to score at all trying to catch that 7.3 from felipe gustavo you think i think he's going to be able to out do it right there um we'll see but again naija another guy who who does really well in the run section because he almost can't help himself he's so good but best trick is where he really flourishes look at that back 180 noah's grind so well balanced and then letting it go but and and i don't think that that fakie knows blunt it's gonna hurt because it's not one of his key tricks it's sort of just like finishing where the buzzer went that was really comfortable when he's looking comfortable when he's looking confident he is he's almost impossible scores in niger houston first place 8.21 so jamie foy on deck ranked fifth in the us currently he has a different mission he's trying to earn olympic points he has a chance to get there but he needs to catch [Applause] so we've talked to andrew we've talked about how only three skaters per country can make it to the olympics so jamie jamie is on mario mccoy's heels that's the skater he's trying to catch oh but looks like nerves are kind of keeping to him right now it's difficult you know when you come out there really well done it's difficult to come out there especially after someone puts down a heavy run yeah and and jamie not typically known as a contest skater because he's so good in the streets but as you mentioned yesterday andrew he came up in context so it's not so it's not gonna be the run jamie's gonna want i like that right there he's like next one but he's got a really unique bag of tricks and the judges love that when it comes time for best traders yeah if you're gonna have if you're gonna have signature moves they might as well be tricks that no one else does because you're gonna have an easier time gaining points from those than the tricks that the judges have seen a million times so nigel houston on top with an 8.21 after his first run jamie foy probably not going to be in that range felipe gustavo's in second and shane o'neill in third and jamie scores in 6.09 that's good enough for third bumping shane o'neal down into fourth place but we're gonna see moves across this leaderboard throughout the finals until everybody has four scores on the board it's just gonna be moving around like crazy on deck the frenchman vincent milou one of two french skaters here in the finals vincent was working on an awesome run in the semis i love that 360 flip up whoa 180 switch through the giant gap to do hubba he is a powerhouse skater stopping tricks down nice kickflip front lift flip over the bump i love this format because although the riders are definitely trying to get those good scores in just a lot more relaxing look at that oh kick the front tail he's not going to put all the pressure on that next run he still has a lot of opportunity to get in there it's almost like a rebate like hey you know here's a way to make up for it so as we talk about the format skaters get two runs five best trick attempts but only four scores count they could all come from best trick it could be three best tricks in one run could be two best tricks and two runs just depends where you where your strong suits are and how you skate that day and it gives the skaters an opportunity to be a little more strategic look at that 180 switch crook so well done but a couple key falls yeah and then this kickflip front tail his foot went right to where it was supposed to be but he caught it a little bit primo on the side of his board so that 5.82 good enough for fourth place bumping shane o'neal down into the fifth spot and utah hora gomez number two in the world behind nigel houston his most fierce competitor no question on the course he's number one in japan he is just he's like look at that switch front tail to start things off when util puts together a good run it is really good and it's because he's got again a unique bag of tricks 360 flip 50 50 down the hubba that's the kind of trick that would probably get you up in the sevens or eights if this was a single trick oh he keeps it going with the nollie backside 270 board he's one of these oh man look at that nollie 270 back lip this is a really good run right here we got 10 seconds left all right coming in it nollie nollie back 180 switch front side 50 50 down the hubba an incredible run from utah horigomi and i think that's gonna i think that's gonna outdo niger so you're saying it's not all about the veterans out here today because yuto he's a young kid he's got many many years to go and he skates like he's been around forever he is a young kid but man he broke into the scene and just was like what's up everybody i mean he dropped an anvil on it look at that 360 flip 50 50 perfectly locked in this is one of those great unique tricks the nollie 270 to board and so is this and then he follows it up nollie 270 and see the way his shoulders stayed like that he was able to roll out switch the control that run was all control yeah so nigel houston is currently on top with an 8.21 yuto trying to bump up into that top spot he's another one he's gonna we're gonna see him in tokyo but every skater wants to finish finish every contest strong here as they work their way towards it still the world championships still to come in rome next month look at that go 9.06 good enough for first no surprise there really well deserved well deserved that was an amazing amazing run and it's great to see hey that's what it's going to take unique tricks flipping your board onto the obstacles and and you can't fall aurelian giro ready to ready to roll number one ranked french skater he's another guy that can absolutely put the heat on nigel out there front side knows blood the last year has been incredible to watch his overall growth his confidence in the middle of his run in the beginning of his run so impressive it's unbelievable and right these this is his run those are tricks that can get great scores and best trick we've got 10 seconds left coming in with a lot of speed get flipping up oh look at it he puts down the gap to back nose one what a flawless run what a way to finish yeah flawless run finishing huge all right how does that stack up nigel yuto these totally different tricks different approach to the course we got the nose blunt down the hard flip front board let's see what else we had in there this gap to back nose blunt i personally don't think that's going to be enough to outdo uto specifically because yuto had more originality in there aurelian had a couple like wow tricks but then some more we'll call them normal for uh a relative term here but a frontside nosebleed versus a 360 flip 50 50 down to hubba there you go good call second place eight point six two a really injured but that was that was a great run and i can't wait to see what he brings because that is that is not as deep as his bag goes number one qualifier out of semifinals the eighth skater here to go before we go back to the top of the order manny santiago number one ranked skater in puerto rico i talked to him before this final andrew he said he's he's here to win he's going for the win and the question is can he do here in the final what he did in the semis if he does look out well starting off we've seen a fall so that's going to be a strike against him he can obviously make it up again i mean the format here really opens up so nicely with those four best trick attempts going for that burial heal potentially back 5-0 that we saw in semi-finals unable to do it throws it up to the crowd that's not the score that manny's gonna want but he's got a lot a lot of opportunity to make it up have you ever seen manny skate at the level that he did in semifinals before i i feel like we saw it one time and it was at another contest he skated absolutely incredibles like the clouds parted the seas you were just like what is this it was like he was on fire and last night blew my mind it was literally the best run i think i've ever seen in my life but he's got to do it again today because this is the final if he would have done in the finals wow but hey that's what it took to get here also it was a crazy semi we saw a few people really struggle to make it in such as yuto and niger all right those are your top seven scores currently see where manny lands 5.62 only good enough for seventh place not a shocker though he can if he can put that run down he's gonna have opportunity to get up into that nine right and as we mentioned the judges have not been kind to falls during any any runs here this weekend all right run number one in the books we're gonna get back to the top of the order felipe gustavo so this is the do tour this is the second last event where skaters can earn olympic qualifying points on their way to tokyo so this is huge and felipe gustavo is one of those skaters that has to do well here he's chasing carlos rivero and carlos did not make it to this final so this is where felipe take over some points and possibly grab that third spot from brazil i love the way he skates these contests i said it in the last one but i just really appreciate the way he comes in and he says i'm gonna make every single trick count molly flip crook puts it down again you know we got 20 seconds if he falls on any tricks though they count they count bad against them because he does a limited amount right yes absolutely every single one makes a huge difference and honestly felipe's not really the hustle type the same way we see some of the other riders out there it's more calculated well we've seen a skater like kelvin hoffler fall and then hustle and make the rest of his run and do great that's not what we typically see from felipe when he falls yeah it's a strut it's a big strike against them he usually kind of saves it for the next run but we can't you know okay two runs neither of them are going to be the score that he wants you cannot count him out he's got a super deep bag really technical tricks that could still win him the contest right so his first run is the highest score it's uh this is where we kind of get into strategy so you might see some of these skaters come out and do the same run to post the same score depending on how it went right and shane's probably going to go go that route and just try to make every trick because he knows he's got a solid run that he can do but he's got to do it that was good kind of a fall but not quite didn't lose any any speed or any of his rhythm that's what he was going to do anyway pop out and drop biggie so shane is is going to put pressure on shane and it's going to come down to those best trick attempts look at the way he can just pull that out no problem so unfortunately shane o'neal coming off again on his second run here in the finals [Applause] of the men's street here at the dew tour shane o'neal currently in eighth he's gonna he's he's gonna get a score that's gonna move him way up the leaderboard but that's only right now because he has two scores but yeah we we typically see shane do really well in the run section but when he when he gets a little off he's hard on himself right he kind of he can absolutely sort of fall apart sometimes now he's got to get it back together for best trick because we know he could win with four tricks like that i don't want to sound like a broken record but again can't count him out he's he's got the tricks to win this so nigel had had a good solid first run this is his second run here in the finals you expect him to do much differently um i think you might see a little bit of extra flare potentially mid or towards the end of the run but he posted a really good score and that's kind of where you want to be because again it's about those top four scores so stick with what works yeah add to it [Applause] big spin front board man this is the different niger than we saw last think that has the potential to get him into that nine range yeah with a finish like that talk about half cap backsmith 180 are people doing that you don't know that is so hard so okay half calving finding the we'll talk about it when we get there let's look at this switch tail that was a great run going to the hub of twice in it we saw him start with that front blunt the big spin front board and this shows that experience all right here's another look so half cap the precision on that one so so difficult but getting into a backsmith the weight distribution on a backsmith is really difficult anyway and to be able to half cab in and then backside 180 out that hubba is very steep so a lot of tricks on that you've seen you've seen skaters almost land and then kind of slide out because it shoots you into the ground it's pretty steep so nigel's first run score was an 8.21 this is gonna get him a higher score than that yuto had that 9.06 i'm curious if it's going to outdo the 9.06 from yuto i love seeing him put the foundation out there and then build on it right because now you know he can try to give us his best and that's one of the greatest things to see in skateboarding when he's fired up yeah seeing seeing him come into the best trick with confidence with some good scores on the board he's gonna go all in there it is 9.10 on run number two and that is good enough for first place nigel houston so that out does yuto's score but utah's got more up his sleeve before we get there though jamie foy coming in in sixth place his first run score with a 6.09 and again he's chasing mario mccoy in the olympic points race and deshawn jordan uh we saw yuto bump john out of the finals with his run last night the semis so desean is standing by watching we got 20 seconds left jamie's putting together a good run right there looks like he went for the 180 switch crook might have landed in tail slide but he stayed on he's got 10 seconds left unable to put together that full run he was so so close but that's that's going to be probably an improvement on that first run he fell a couple times on that first one he is having fun out here skating with the best in the world oh man look at that that back foot looked like it fully came off and he wrangled it back in that was amazing i love seeing jamie out here 2018 skater of the year you're not alone andrew scores in 4.89 so jamie right now in third place with a 10.98 overall lots of room though between first and third right now and that means vincent milou is in seventh place first run score was a 582 he has work to do but he can get it done wow that is such an awesome combo the 360 flip up going super fast and then the 180 switch crook nice kickbook front lip solid kick flip vincent's got such a good flick oh i love that wall-e backside lip slide oh so close on the kickflip front tail all right he's got to finish strong here does he have time yes oh and he puts that down the signature vincent malou pops up at 50. that one is so difficult pop shove it naturally takes you the opposite direction so he has to go at the right angle to make that work all right 180 switch crook [Music] look at that kick the front lip [Music] falling up to a nice back lip and then oh man the way he does that it's just so controlled and so cool the way that he catches it and then puts it down so nigel houston up on top felipe gustavo in second jamie foy in third that's who he's chasing score is in 6.30 on run number two for vincent good enough for second place we're gonna see a ton of moving around the leaderboard right now but if you want to get up into that top three i think the scores are probably going to be in that eight to nine range all right with three skaters left here in the run section of the men's street finals on the do tour niger houston up on top utah horigomi in sixth place but he only has one score he's gonna get another one here let's see how he does it oh he comes in switch and he loses his balance on the landing board getting away from him one thing that's important this course is huge so he just ate a lot of time up right there trying to get his board yeah there's no question he's gonna have a tough time making up that fall in this run if anybody can do it he can look at that look at how casual 50 so easy looks like he hardly popped oh he steps it up right there nollie 270 to nose slide oh he makes the nollie 270 back lip he's got five seconds left is he going to be able to get it in right here is the answer i don't think so the rule here is you have to pop your trick before the buzzer it's like you said andrew though he had to chase his board across the course that ate up tons of time it wasn't just the fall it was what happened after and it's just such a bummer it happened right out of the gate look at that landing a little too far back that was so incredible and that right there if he takes that somewhere else on the course has the potential to really boost him up i'm excited to see where the judges go on this uto's first run score was a 9.06 this run obviously not quite as good with the fall but still a really good score 8.61 that is a huge score for that run with a fall first place you can't you can't fault the judges because the tricks he did to make up for the ball were so hard next level two skaters still to go in the run section really on deck first run score was an 8.62 that puts him in a good place to get himself up into that top three he put down that last run and i think that's where we're gonna see him step it up needs a 9.06 to move into the lead he's got he can do that oh look at that right there 360 flip up and you see the 180 switch 50 down the hubba [Applause] hard flip front board every try that's so difficult because he's got a hard flip get it up over the rail and then put it down now do you think we're going to see any of these tricks repeated from in the best strike i think you might see aurelian repeat some tricks but on different obstacles nice kick flip up we got five seconds left oh the back nose blunt getting away from him he was on a roll that run was shaping up to be a huge score missing a major trick at the end of your run leaves the judges with that in mind so doubtful he's going to be up in the range he needs to jump into first but still still a good score we started off with that nice 360 flip this is where he switched it up we saw that noseblend on the first one but 180 switch 50 50 down so much control needed for that the hard flip look at that the nose he has to pop that so high as to not hit the nose on the rail feeble grind with a big pop out and then it came down to this last trick backside nose one unable to get the wheels above so he's trying to build on his 8.62 see what the judges think they got a lot to work with and they're they're doing math 5.89 not a great score but still good enough to move irelian into third place bumping vincent malu down into fourth so he's still sitting in a good spot and manny santiago on deck coming off of 5.62 he wants to stay on and this is this is a tough part you know manny is uh he's such a vibe skater i know that may sound silly but when the mood's right when he's feeling good he's got the good music he really excels and that first run might have put him in a position where mentally it could have taxed him a bit 15 seconds left for manny this means that it's gonna all come down to the best trick for manny santiago and hey that might not be a problem at all manny can put down nines all day long and and one of his favorite things to the skate obviously is a rail or a hubba we've seen him on clipper recently that's that's uh and he's got the unique tricks that are going to get him the scores but he has to put it down so surprisingly the number one qualifier out of semis finishing in eighth and we're gonna send it down to the transplant to des moines mike v standing by with chris pastrus yeah so mike i've been skating with you for decades now what's it like to see skateboarding heading into the olympics for you well i started skating in 1984 there were no skate parks there were no do tours and there were no olympics but i dreamed all of that and it's like a dream come true man and in some way i feel like a proud father you know amazing and we've seen you skate a few detours what's it like to be a spectator this time around and watch the level well i'm still stressed as if i was competing you know um i love it man i just love to see where skateboarding has gone and i'm just always going to be a cheerleader yes and let's see i i guess what would you uh like to skate the most if you were out here joining the skaters and skating sports oh i'd be i'd be smashing up that toyota man you know me come on bro all right well mike we're honored you're hanging with us don't go anywhere thank you back to you guys hey thank you chris and i just i don't want to say mike v is a legend that's so easy he is a legend but he pioneered half of what people do in street skating today he went through all the phases there were the there was the street plant the parking lot no complies and then on and on he's a great transition skater he could do it all mike v happy to have you here at the do tour thanks everybody for tuning in zitzer alongside andrew cannon we just brought in ryan sheckler what's up guys thanks for joining us in the booth ryan man happy to be here happy to be involved yeah how does how does the game change here now coming into best trick with with these great skaters as things stand right now with uto up on top yeah man i think best trick is is uh another opportunity for these guys to kind of take a little bit of pressure off themselves especially if they had two good runs they know that they can throw out two scores so they can actually really go for their hardest tricks right now and uh best trick for me was always fun because that's when you can actually go for it right and with yuto hora gome up on top and niger in second those are your top two skaters they're gonna be putting down big tricks do you have any idea what to expect trick wise uh trick wise i don't man i i literally don't know what these guys have been practicing but i do know that they're going to go back and forth head to head the whole way through and you know i look forward to like seeing jamie foy pull something out and manny santiago especially after his performance yesterday like i want to see these guys all go for it and best trick is is suited for that yeah and we've got the best seat in the house for it you got any early predictions early predictions man i mean it's always kind of safe to go with naja but um it would be rad to watch jamie boy or manny take it today all right so jucho horigome up on top with a 17.67 followed by nigel houston in second 17.31 just so close behind and then aurelion giroux in third 14.51 he's got a little bit more work to do you see the clouds rolling in look at that that's the rain that's obvious they're doing it to us again right now it's so weird it's sunny and raining oh man i i just feel so deeply for all the skaters right now you're in competition i'm stoked we're through the runs right but this is such a tough spot talk and so ryan sheckler you've skated in a million contests how hard is it to go from being in the mindset of ready to take your run then have to not be in the mindset and prepare to do it again it's super hard man especially when you get the adrenaline ready and you're feeling good and you're ready to start putting down one of those five you know best tricks and then all of a sudden there's a halt in the game and you want to make sure that you stay warm but you don't want to over exert yourself and try to stay calm but like not too calm it's a real fine line of like staying in the moment and staying present so hopefully these guys you know these guys are the top pros in the world so they know what they're doing and hopefully they uh they pull it out now this rain stops ah yeah i mean it has happened so many times this week the the the do crew out here has dried this course so many times they've been working tirelessly big ups to them but also to california skate parks for building this this skate park i mean it's meant to dry super quick i mean i don't know what they put in the cement but it works because if the sun comes back out we'll be skating soon so don't go anywhere but i'm curious about manny santiago right now in eighth i wonder so he obviously didn't do what he wanted to do in the runs can he take this time to regroup and focus on best trick or is he is manny going to be sitting around beating himself up over this and and just kind of stewing i think you bring up a really good point you know we've talked with manny throughout the weekend and he mentioned it last night during his interview he said hey i took the last year to really focus on my skating but also focus on myself kind of get my mind right stay present in the moment and i think that's what we're gonna see from him i think he's been you know very mindful this year and and i really hope that he's able to put it together out there i think so too and he's definitely been in the streets a lot and practicing and uh from what i've seen you know he hasn't been going to he's been going to crazy spots but getting his tricks really quickly because of that mindset he is ready he is focused and he's well practiced right now so um i can see manny throwing down five for five out here yeah absolutely super stoked to see him in the finals in the way that he is in such a big way but this is going to be interesting right now we've got uto in the top niger aurelian i would say any of those three could win out here and could potentially take it home at the olympics absolutely who outside that that top three do you think might be in for uh could upset the apple cart at the top three there's some big names down there i mean felipe gustavo for sure shane o'neal you can never count shane o'neal out if he gets on point and puts down five of his best tricks he will win the contest um but like i said man this whole stack of eight people uh these are the best dudes in the world and uh they're gonna show it it's gonna be a great best trick contest coming up five tries at it if this rain goes away there's the number one ranked american niger houston putting it down feeling good out here he's in second so thanks everybody tuning in to the do tour we'll be back with best trick man like skateboarding just family we got along so quick it's crazy it's so you don't see that any other sport it's very diverse it's worldwide you know like every continent on this planet has skaters you can be from brazil mexico south america japan you can be from anywhere all over the world and just come together as like one when you're skateboarding it's always protected that aspect of our diversity has never been any pressure to like force that on people you know everybody skates every gender every race skateboarding has always fought for what's right especially here in the u.s skateboarding has helped bring light to a lot of issues we share from the same passion it doesn't matter like you don't enjoy his style who cares it can't go those directions with the olympics now you know there's so much more equality and so much more going on for the women's side as well you know there was just a few women skaters now there's a lot there's really not much requirements to skate it's all personal preference and i feel like that draws a lot of people in the world to just gravitate towards it anyone who steps on a skateboard and actually goes and skates and tries to learn and realizes how hard and difficult and frustrating this thing is you form this bond because it's like hardship it's crazy they get so many different races so many different type of people together than one thing that's the reason why i love skating you know it's like it's awesome so the question is that you know we saw how snowboarding had some challenges you know going from snowboarding to the olympics um what are your thoughts around skateboarding going into the olympics i feel like we won't really have that problem as far as staying unique because i mean we have a group of amazing people who like really try really hard to keep that unique factor and they put a lot of time in an effort to like keep that so i feel like as far as going into it and after it will still be solid and and that will be the unique thing that people will take away is that it is very different you're looking at like a group of amazing people who really try hard to keep that to keep those factors into play and and i mean they're doing a great job so you know you look at the history of snowboarding and what happened you know it's going to blow up both sides both sides of skateboard are going to benefit off this and you know the sides who are competitive that want to compete for team usa it's been a goal it's been it's been hung on their wall they've written down on paper when they were seven years old and put on their wall those type of athletes are finally get to do something they've always dreamed of and i know most pro snowboarders now and i know that they would i know they love competing and i also know they love they love street snowboarding going out film projects and at the same time you look how accessible skateboarding is like you look how accessible is what we do you know you can go out anywhere you can skateboard in the kitchen you can go to a skate park you can cruise down the street you can do it anywhere and i feel like that's why skateboarding's just gonna be put on such a pedestal going into this yeah i mean i would agree with both of them for sure like we definitely have a team that's making sure like the cultural side of skateboarding is going to stay the same but i also just think it's like skateboarding is such an individual thing that it's really up to the skater as to where they want to take it like if they want to go for the olympics then they can absolutely do that if they just want to go and cruise and just have fun then they can absolutely do that i feel like the core of skateboarding is always going to be there and like it's going to it's kind of just like a tree like it's the route is always going to be there and you can branch out to as far as you want to go to and i feel like that's the beautiful thing about skateboarding yeah skateboarding is definitely one of those special things where it can mean different things to different people and no one can take that away from you so that's a great question all right one more question down here welcome to sunny long beach california this is the 2019 do tour fueled by mountain dew in this street final we have eight of the world's best street skaters andrew who are you looking forward to seeing i'm excited to see naija out there and some of these new guns we've got sora shirai from japan very very exciting skater bringing some fresh tricks to the course it's a 2-5-4 finals format each skater gets two 45-second runs followed by five best trick attempts anywhere on the course and four scores count from anywhere on the course gonna be a lot of big tricks going down sora shirai takes the lead with the eight point six six girard skates super fast and he goes for everything oh the hard flip over the bump down the stairs look at him catching it with his legs nice the defending world champion right here naija houston just got to pop his tail before the buzzer there we go we move on to the second runs here in the men's street finals 360 flip [Music] and we haven't seen a nine yet sora shirai okay do you think it gets a nine here today and how hard is it there it is he does get the nine and sora shirai is in first place oh wow there you go 8.9 first place nigel houston this event is huge there your current standings really in gerard up on top followed by nigel houston not far behind and felipe gustavo on deck needs a 5.4 to move into the lead look at that 8.60 does it for aurelian france is up on top he's drastically ahead of the other competitors right now [Music] nigel houston's looking for his fourth score he's in fifth place a 9.64 moves him into the lead let's see where he goes sets the feet up looks like the nollie heel knows one again oh and he doesn't do it he has three tries left he's in first place and he's just hard flip back 180 go in the distance really girard leading the charge 8.7 from matt berger he's in second oh he doesn't kick the back tail big spin berger 9.23 matt berger in second place sora shirai needs a 9.38 it's gonna have to be unlike anything we've seen oh man here we go could that be it paul and in nine it is not going to be enough there is only one skater left in this final who could take that top spot away from aurelian and is the one skater you don't want to see nipping at your heels nigel houston setting up for what is it going to be the nollie heel back tail attempt unable to make it and that right there is going to seal the face here we go coming in switch at the bump to canned hubba there we go wow a 9.04 puts him on the podium 9.04 that moves felipe gustavo up into third place matt berger now bumped down into fourth and then this aurelian girard the 2019 men's street dude tour champion bringing it home for france super stoked to be here and the dream came true you know it's like you know um oh oh every day so foreign welcome back to des moines iowa the lauritsen skate park by california skateparks this thing is incredible you're taking a look at the park course where earlier today we saw one of the craziest contests go down of all time ryan i saw you down on the sideline when zion wright was taking that run dude baffling it was absolutely insane you know and it came down to his fourth run and he pulled out that 540 with two different grabs to start it off and right from that moment we kind of knew it was on hit it with another 540 and then he was just on you could just feel it in his energy you could see how hard he was skating everything was over way over the coping and he put it down and he won it was it's so crazy and he he's one of the best street skaters out and you don't even think of him necessarily as a transition skater but look at him he's today the best in the world the best in the world bro absolutely insane and for the last you know [Music] four or five months he has been really focused on skating park like this and uh there it is that i love that double grab it looks so sick that's his signature man and he only landed that once in practice and i i thought he was just goofing around and then he pulls it out when it absolutely counts absolutely matters and put down the best run that he's probably ever put down in the ball and uh yeah man first place and with that first place he earned 60 000 olympic qualifying points and it's just enough to send him to tokyo he's going he's going to be representing team usa at the olympics zion wright congratulations i was seriously getting emotional watching yeah bro i uh i was getting the chills the whole time because i knew it was that serious i knew that it was like pretty much win and go and um from him to come out in the open qualifier come all the way to the finals and then put it down he had to skate twice as much as the dudes that were preceded and uh he had the biggest biggest upset for sure and so going into that final it seemed to be a battle for that spot between tom shar and jagger eaton uh zion was gonna have to win to to get that olympic spot and you know of course he can win but do we expect that not necessarily until you saw that run it's like that was the best moment of the weekend the place went crazy he blew the roof off oh by far we're outdoor by four well and when the conversation started when we got here it was like did zion have a shot it was like well he has to win yeah like legitimately everyone's like it's possible but it's kind of a long shot party in the deep end yeah you can never count them out and gavin man lil gavin was ripping absolutely ripping held onto the pressure and it's crazy because i was watching him man he's 14 years old bro and in between his runs he's in the back bowl there's another ball behind this one and he was taking runs the whole time while everyone else was he skated the whole time and it was crazy style you know what that reminds me of that energy of a young ryan sheckler i was trying to put myself back when i was 14 and i was like man did i skate that much but we did you know we did and it's really cool to see gavin and how cool he is how much love he gets from everybody on the on the course and he's got a bright future it's going to be crazy when he really sprouts because he's still pretty small so when he like sprouts because he skates like a man right now he's got power so to see that kind of materialize as he gets older as he gets bigger is it's going to be phenomenal yeah but it's still one of those things where it's really hard for a little kid to get speed no matter what you're just you have short legs he can do it but if you lose your speed well then you're kind of rink dinking around when he's big and has actual power yeah it's gonna be over oh yeah oh yeah there's a look at the street course once again built by california skate parks and just a huge shout out to des moines for making this happen this is the coolest spot look at the view it's on the des moines river i want to shout out subsect skate shop they were hugely instrumental in working to get this park built along with the city and i mean it took years and money to make this happen and here it is congratulations to des moines for supporting skateboarding at a great time so let's talk about where we are right now in the men's street final some highlights of what happened in the run section aurelian run number one he had that nose blunt down the hubba hard flip front lip put down a solid run got him a score of an 8.62 naija houston sitting in second place nigel just ahead of aurelian two really solid runs that half cap backsmith back 180 to cap off that second run really put him over the edge with a 9.10 the highest run score we've seen so far today utah horigomi currently sitting in first place 360 flip 50 50 in both of his runs this was from his first run right here got him the score of the 9.06 nollie 270 back lift taking it back to switch showing you how much control he has which makes that trick so much harder let's talk about going all the way around yeah man unreal going into best trick with yuto and nija in the top two spots almost tied at 17.67 for utah 17.31 for niger uh what do you think we're gonna see from them right out the gate with best tricks are we gonna see something we already saw on a run or they're gonna break out something brand new you have any predictions or ideas i think they'll break out something brand new i think uh i think these guys are both gonna come out trying to get nines the whole time and they're capable of that you know they have bags of tricks that are insane and a lot of these tricks that they are going to pull out we have not seen them practice yet they have them that good where they're just going to drop it before this keep everybody surprised let's talk strategy you got five attempts for guys like yuto for naija they've both got two good scores on the board do you just go for broke out of the gate go hey i need to put two tricks down i've got five tries or do you put those two scores on the board and then build from there i i think you kind of go off of the first trick the first attempt right now they see if they can get up to high eight low nine and if that works then i think they have a little bit more freedom to actually really go for broke yeah i agree you're not gonna want to go for broke on trick number one and and all of a sudden find yourself in a little bit of a rut if you bail it again in the second try then all of a sudden so much pressure is on but these guys know better than anyone what to do oh yeah who do they have coaches like does yuto or nija have anyone helping them on the sidelines you know i'm not sure it almost seems like it's it's the skaters like the fellow skaters that are telling these dudes what tricks they they should do and kind of looking out for them but i'm actually not sure if they have and thankfully in skateboarding you can trust your friends because there could be some sabotage happening like yeah hey nice to do this that's gonna get you just do the front nose that's all you need i swear that's funny so the skaters are back on the course it's looking dry they're getting practice in warming back up for the best trick section each skater is going to get five best trick attempts the run section is in the books it has been an amazing weekend out here all the way around we've been here all week really des moines a great place people are out supporting skateboarding [Applause] the brazilians tore it up earlier today as they do that's no surprise this was women's street final leticia buffoni doing what she's famous for coming out and ripping i would expect nothing less from her she did end up off the podium in fourth place on the bubble but great skating she killed it pamela hosa world champion amazing she just she really brought it out there today we've seen it this weekend she showed everyone hey i've got some new tricks i've been working on it get ready yeah she didn't mess around she was on point yeah she's she seems to be on uh on another level these days man it's gonna be hard to beat her she's getting a lot of pressure from haisa but as we talked about haisa doesn't have that experience yet and there's rose sweat sloot from the netherlands such a good skater that nose grind down the hubba so difficult we talk about it that thing is so steep it's so rad to see the progression in the female skateboarding yeah haisa right here pushing that level we saw that kickflip front board look at the way she hung on to that it was it was amazing pamela nice big gap to crook putting it down it was an amazing contest all right [Music] thanks again everybody for tuning in here to the men's final we are back we got the 2-5-4 format the runs are over and out we have five best tricks coming up there's a look at the current standings here with olympic points on the line yuto horigoma up on top of the 17.67 followed by naija in second and aurelian giro in third that's your current podium but with all these skaters geared up for dropping best tricks that can change in a heartbeat and we're going to see that leaderboard change a lot until everyone has four scores on the board so it's a cumulative process here you want four great scores you add them up and that's your final score and once you've got four scores on the board you start to drop the lowest score from there adding on that difference felipe gustavo coming in for attempt number one oh look at him going for broke nollie flip crook attempt straight out of the gate you know and that's that's a nine you know that's a high score right out of the gate so felipe's got to turn it up what's that going to do to him right there from a pressure standpoint you know felipe you've known him for a super long time um he's going to try it again i have a feeling he's going to try it again put that one down and then continue on so shane o'neal on deck down in seventh place he's got work to do here in best trick but if anybody can get it done it's shane i'm interested to see switch big flip front board attempt they're going for it they are not playing it safe remember what we talked about like yeah you get that score on the board that's the that's the move it's like uh well we're too in and that's not what we're seeing i mean but they're trying you know that that seems to be the strategies to go for it we've got niger coming up next nigerian second i love it look at that he's so pumped right now he's so focused bro always so focused coming in fakie oh my god wow that was unreal how does that how does that stack up right there ryan that back knows what that just kind of sets the tone for this heat and what's going on he's he's obviously saying i'm not here to play around i want this okay so three skaters in nobody holding back back nose blunt down the hubba first try look at the way he locked into that yeah oh man it scores in nine point two five niger houston now in the top spot look at that two nines already and niges smiling so everybody now is in big trouble big trouble jamie foy's doing a little dancing so he doesn't feel like he's in trouble he's getting fired up he's in sixth oh all right so grapefruit grind right there wow from jamie foy that's a 180 over into a switch feeble he took it out to switch now is that maybe a little bit easier i wouldn't say easier but i not for me is that up in the nine range do you think or does that just depend on the judges i've never seen him do it man so for me obviously i would i would score that really high and it was done perfectly but that is not a new one to competition 7.90 for jamie foy on his first best trick attempt now back him into second place i think a very fair score stoke to see where vincent goes with this oh [Applause] i'm going to call that one a safety for vincent right there he's he's playing more to that strategy you were talking about which isn't that crazy that this type of trick this gnarly of a trick is a kind of go-to for these guys at the moment it's unreal the level of skateboarding right now is crazy so sitting in fifth vincent malou he's got a 12.12 gonna want to move up and he does with the 8.0 great score setting himself up for these next tries yuto horigome on deck i think this attempt right here is really going to set the tone for what's going to happen here in the finals if he can put this down it's going to be super important oh and he does ryan wow nollycab switchback tail yeah that was crazy that was crazy him and naija aren't playing bro they're not playing they're gonna go back and forth this whole time man hey i hate to say this now but i'm taking back nollie cab it's a nollie front side 270. yep we talked about it earlier on the nali 270 back lip that right there is a just a true showing of how much control keeping the shoulders holders i literally don't know how he stops his shoulders and winds it right back and then getting onto a round rail switch like that yeah perfectly eight point nine six yeah so nine for that trick it's okay aurelien giro on deck he had a great first run score he's got a little makeup to do from his second run but he is good for him [Applause] [Music] so i'm really excited to see what happens right here because we haven't seen anything like that we've seen the rails we've seen them skate the hubbas but we haven't seen a score on just going huge nobody's really sent it yet and uh that was the send that's a big scent hard flip over the rail off the bump signature really and that is one of his key moves take another look at that catching it with the front foot so well oh the backhand did touch the ground so scores in 7.71 now he might have gotten docked a little bit for putting that hand on the ground but also the judges might be like we've seen that trick it's great it's but it's not it's not a nine the fatty to flatty may not get the uh may not get the points all right manny santiago tons of work to do let's get it done here manny he's got to put something down to start things off there we go oh man burial heel flip back 5-0 now what's interesting about that is we saw him do that at the end of both of his runs last night yep so i'm excited to see where the score comes in but just because he's doing insanely difficult tricks in his run doesn't take anything away from that trick here right i mean this is best trick he did a incredible trick here he can do that i don't think it does and nobody's really doing that man that's a manny's special right there and he did it perfectly he should feel really good about that one just the way that he landed in it with that balance on the back truck like hardly even tapping and the judges respond 9.01 good enough for six so that's just the beginning of manny's job i mean great start there you go he has the potential to do it he's got more up his sleeve and i'm excited to see what he pulls out especially knowing what that score there's a look at the current standings men's street final here at the 2021 do tour yuto horigome up on top still night houston in second gustavo back on course this is best trick number two you said it ryan nollie flip crook what is he gonna do yeah well now now it gets into kind of crunch time i think um i think he's going to be battling mentally of like do i actually try that again or do i just completely abandon it and and try the next uh what would you do yeah what would you do me i'm uh i get stuck in my head i'd probably try it again stubborn yeah i would try it again you're like i won't fall three times yeah at that point i maybe that's why i don't play the game very well shane o'neal coming in in eighth place every single trick now is essential for him if he wants to win so he's stuck in the same rut with felipe gustavo that is such a tough spot to be and some people deal with it better better than others like you said you you could turn into a head case ryan yeah difficult about that right there felipe's got a 7.3 as his highest score but shane has a 5.57 that's a lot of ground to make up he's gonna need three unbelievable tricks nigel houston on course for attempt number two currently in second place oh switch heel front tail down the hubba he kind of caught it primo and just he put it down anyway wow he is all business yeah nice just good man really good yeah maybe even great yeah i'm giving great so nigel houston's on a roll right now ryan you've been in that same situation you've been on a roll in your career what's that like that feels incredible that's uh that's euphoria right there for sure because he knows how big it is and he knows how important it is to keep putting these nines down that's definitely a nine it's gotta be he does it nine point one four score is in he's back at the top of the leaderboard 35.7 muto's got some work to do so jamie foy on deck he's in fifth place overall score of an 18.88 it's all about tricks right now coming in fakie wind is picking up up here in the tower and you know it gets windy down on the course how does that affect tricks i mean if you're flipping your board it absolutely affects it for sure um and if it's really gusty it might make you change your mind on your tricks and maybe that's what happened with floyd right there all right vincent malou coming off that coming off an eight in his first try sitting in fourth place within striking distance of third and his fellow frenchman and really enjoy 22.22 the third place score that that trick looked good until the landing what happened i think he just it almost looked like it over rotated and caught him come by surprise but that trick is super hard pop shot with back 5-0 um just a really like unorthodox trick you wouldn't really go for that so it's really cool seeing him do that and hopefully he gets that one yuto in i'm trying to take the lead here right coming in switch whoa switch from 180 over the hub back 50 50 down nobody's doing that these tricks are crazy man that was insane they're such a fan of skateboarding like i i get blown away by these guys you know and i'm rooting them on too but um to watch it happen when it needs to happen uh the consistency is insane that was that was amazing see how high he popped over the ledge too you can see he's coming in at that angle oh that was 5-0 we saw that from the top angle and we only gave him credit for the 50-50 but he got just the back truck on that steps it up to a completely different level right there yuto is waiting on his fourth score coming off a 9-6 in the run section an 8.61 and then an 8.96 huge scores already there's a look at the current standings everyone is just waiting to see where the judges go the intensity on those faces wow 8.95 judges being stingy with yuto scores those tricks are what do you think ryan i mean i had that at a nine for sure but you know this is why i'm stoked i'm not a judge and i just get to watch all right so while we ponder that one orillian in for his next attempt number three wow again okay front board does it matter that a hard flip was in run first trick and second trick i think the judges will take it into account i mean you have to kind of look at each trick individually um he didn't do it on the smaller rail and then beef it up and do it on the bigger one so i think he's still going to get a solid amount of points but honestly if he keeps going down you know the hard flip road i'm sure we'll see them docking him yeah i would agree but still it's like the way he does it is just incredible and to commit to that there's a lot that can go wrong real fast look at how much above the rail he is you have to be with that trick you got to get the nose out of the way catching it so well 7.89 and that leaves aurelian in third place so here's here's kind of my takeaway so far the judges are saying show us something we haven't seen yep uh-huh we want uh we want to be surprised and delighted manny back on course well hopefully manny will do that for him setting up nollie maybe nollie heel back 50 50. wind being a factor right there even just mentally yeah that that attempt was so crucial for manny though since he didn't get good run scores he needed to put down four great tricks in the best trick so that was one of those tries he has one good trick in the bag he's got to make all next three to be in the running he's going for the win he said it before the contest he's trying to win he's not out here for a second no he's definitely trying to win he's capable of doing it so hopefully he can put it together and nigel houston sitting on a 35.70 followed by yuto hora gomez with a 35.5 so still neck and neck for those two aurelian about five points behind with a 30.11 back to the top of the order felipe gustavo coming in looks like he's switching it up changing his stance oh now what so he switched it up i mean look let's not sugarcoat it now it's just a matter of he how high up can he get but he can't take it home no but it's almost just like how do you deal with that and where do you go from there it's less about the points here shane's in same situation he's got to make this trick [Applause] shane unable to put it down right now man i think at this point too i've been in this exact situation before and now it's for the fans now you know it's like okay let's see how high up to the top three i can get but it's for the fans now all right nigel houston up on top in first place overall score 35.7 trying to drop an 8.21 [Applause] switch heel front five on the hubba man hey you can hear him too fast anybody on this list you've seen the most uh change or improvement from ryan over the last year where no one was out here competing oh definitely foy definitely floyd man excited to see where he goes nice thank you front crook i just call that a fakie foy these days because he he owns that trick right yep so he's just trying to he's trying to stack himself up to move up the leaderboard getting a hug from his mom she's so rap she is so supportive at every event i mean he did it perfectly that's a hard trick man he does it makes it look easy but that's a hard trick 7.33 is going to be the score for jamie foy on that one and vincent milou is in trying to bump up from fifth oh i thought that one was going down everything about it looked great i want to see the replay i know i wonder what happened there it almost looked like maybe he caught it just a little bit too much with the toes and his body weight was off it's possible i don't think we're gonna get a chance to see it again so yuto trying to get rid of an 8.61 coming in for attempt number three whoa is he going nollie late flip it kind of looked like it kind of looked like it that would imagine a new one i'm wondering though if he was going nollie late flip or if he was trying to go like nollie late flip onto the hubba oh i don't know kind of seems like he was in the middle but i'm excited to see the next try aurelion back in trying to get rid of a 5.89 and improve his situation here that is going to improve the situation situation improved that was amazing yeah that's going to drop that 5.89 no problem but he's got about a five point differential to make up here with that trick man wow look at that the way he locked into that huge 360 flip perfect that is a really big gap and that hubba is very tall oh that last truck just held on that was awesome i really are trying to catch nigel houston and yuto horagome 35.70 overall score is that gonna be a nine we'll leave that to the judges huh yes 9.12 amazing okay so that helps helps the situation but he's now he's closer to uto still in third manny santiago though in a position he's gotta put this down if he has a fighting chance oh he switched it up he went for the nollie flip crook unable to see how windy it was though when he was rolling up his shirts going all over the place definitely gus to win that definitely comes into play when for a second you're thinking about just doing it but then now you have to incorporate the wind and it's just a lot of calculations you are watching the men's street finals of the 2021 do tour there's a look at the leaderboard with three best trick attempts in the bag two best trick attempts still to come nigel houston doing it for the usa right now followed by yuto horigome out of japan and the frenchman aurelien giroux rounding out the podium as it stands it's been an amazing final so far niger yuto doing what they came here for and battling to the bitter end this is the best but it's not over two more tries and it always comes down to that last attempt okay top of the order felipe gustavo back in seven oh switch flip back 50 50. and that'll give him some confidence you know yeah he needed to make that he needed that one because he's gonna he's gonna end up with with four scores if he can make his final final trick but he's you know he had not the best run scores so still gonna have tough time moving up the leaderboard but still this is an incredible trick switch and let's not forget he's trying to catch carlos riviero because he wants to go to the olympics himself and he's coming here to get up the leaderboard that's good for an 8.31 so that helps solid score solid score moves him up into fifth place shane o'neal now on course for his third attempt [Applause] i'm sorry his fourth attempt that's just it's a bummer how much um what do you do now he's gonna he's gonna go for it again right yeah i think at this point it's it's more of a mind battle he has to get it done for himself to score it doesn't matter anymore all right your leader nigel houston has a 35.70 trying to get rid of an 8.21 we have quite a gust of wind right now look at him he says hey smart competing because if he pops his trick right it counts if he doesn't pop his trick he'll let him ride back up but that's a veteran move just gonna say man that is hard to stop too that was that was impressive you see him he is getting fired up before these tricks it is windy though [Applause] he switched the whole trick up so one thing i'll say this gap between competition we're seeing tricks from niger that we would not have seen on a hubba wait what was he set up before where was he set up he was going to try switch heel 5-0 okay that's what he fell on okay wow here's another look popping it getting all the way back around sliding down blind side so we saw him do the cab back nose blunt for a nine plus where where does this land the cab back tail i mean i would assume it's it's a little under that one i'm gonna go with that too 8.41 kind of a lot under considering how difficult that trick is but higher than the 8-2-1 so it does bump his score up even just a little bit take another look at that right there wow listen to the crowd feeling that listen to nigel i love it you know what i love about naija out here he has no qualms with being like i am here to win for sure he is a competitor and i love it and he's that's why he's here he's getting it done all right let's go boy setting up fakie again [Applause] ever seen that in a skate final no that was amazing i think he's shocked too fakie put it down 50 50 down the rail everything about that's so difficult timing to pop fakie for the fakie flip look at this locking in he's going off the energy from zion from earlier man all right floridian energy oh yeah he's trying to get rid of a four point what's he trying to get rid of he's trying to get rid of 6.09 no a 4.89 he does with a 9.21 9.21 well deserved that was amazing so jamie foy stayed in fourth place but put himself in striking distance of a really giro in third place yuto back in he's in second trying to drop the 8.61 oh 360 flip 5-0 attempt yep that's what it's looking like so i wonder if the wind made him abandon the trick he was going to try before yeah tricks downstairs would win that's uh aurelian is in third trying to drop a 7.71 he could do it right here [Applause] 360 flip nose grind unbelievable he stepped that up big time that was cool so he's a little more than two points behind utohora gomez who sits in second place and nigel not far ahead of him in first and that score is going to be huge he's going to get rid of a 771 and replace it with what we'll find out iran does not care about the wind unreal look at that didn't touch that back truck at all that was incredible oh you can see it on his face he is stoked how is that i don't know 9.72 that is one of the highest scores we've ever seen yeah now up in third place what that did is it put him two tenths a little more than two tenths of a point behind uto they're all virtually tied here comes manny santiago but it is going to be a crazy fifth try yeah these last tries coming up are going to be super fun okay [Applause] fifth fifth and final tries coming up here in men's street at the 2021 do tour the skaters came out they're giving us what we wanted to see nigel houston up on top with that 35.90 yuto right behind with a 35 5 8 and there are giro still 35 3-5 look at that tents of points of points unreal man man this is no joke take another look at that 360 flip nose grind caught perfectly with that front foot put it down precision 9.72 all right yeah let's see it again that was just insane just keep it replaying that was amazing so we're about to head into our fifth and final attempt what's really interesting though if you take a look at the low scores nice just gotta drop an eight four one uto in eight six one and a really in seven eight nine that's light work for really he could take this contest here we go felipe gustavo back in there trying to build that score up here's another look coming in switch at the little gap to hubba he he he probably he can't catch jamie foy but he can improve his score and leave it on that note that's the way to do it that's skateboarding that was perfect 7.43 for the switch flip front tail that's going to be good enough for fifth place lupe gustavo here comes shane o'neal let's get this shane let's do it coming in at the rail setting it up unable to put it down that's going to do it for shane o'neal out here today so nigel houston going for the win here jamie foy is sitting down in fourth place he's trying to get olympic points he's trying to go to tokyo naija in first but not safe listen to this jamie foy has moved in front of mario mccoy and jake galardi in olympic points no way man congrats imagine that here we go on deck niger coming in okay now just trying to drop that 8.41 increase his lead over yuto and aurelian but as we said willian's in striking distance will he still be once this score comes in oh that was a big score he thrives off the pressure of the last try man here we go take a look at the way he's set up that back foot is just barely on the tail beautiful though man switch healing in so perfectly executed like you said man all the pressure and he just loves it feeds on it 9.56 for niger houston wow the score is set 37.05 that's a lot of pressure on the rest of the field really did increase that lead 9.56 jamie foy coming in olympian oh and it kicks up from 50 50. flipping onto round rails is so difficult and he's doing it with ease hey i should know we still have the rome world championships coming up so this this could all change again for jamie foy jake lardy mario mccoy thank you jamie yeah jamie thank you bud take another look at this off the bump kick flip landing in that how how scary is it to flip into a round rail into a circle yeah no it's crazy and he just he's so comfortable with it he locked in perfectly on the inside of his trucks just no problem h4 that's his comfort zone which is crazy yeah that is a crazy comfort zone he's in 6. he's trying to get fourth score it is really windy right now bolts pushing through the wind [Applause] i'm excited to see where the judges go arillion's gotten good scores on that obstacle today yeah and it feels good to finish your last trick with the roll away and something you're proud of and he's chasing felipe gustavo who's in fifth place seven point seven point some points behind he could he could make that up yeah because now just his fourth score you know what it's all about it's all about utah hora gomez on deck sitting on a 35 5 8. nigel up on top for the 37.05 jamie foy has moved up into fourth place with that six eight four and vincent in fifth getting an eight point eight seven on the kickflip tail side yuto on course for his fifth and final attempt unable to do it that means he is not going to be able to outdo niger houston and it's gonna come down to this right here aurelien giroux he's on a 35.35 trying to get rid of a 7-8-9 it's going to require a massive score but we've seen him do it can he do it again and it does not happen he goes for broke unable to get the kickflip back noseblind and that means nigel houston has done it again he is your 2021 do tour champion congratulations nigel houston congrats big dog well deserved well deserved amazing wow what a contest manny santiago comes out he's having a good time doing this one for puerto rico [Music] and that is gonna do it for the men's final wow what a final right there let's go down to pastors who's with nigel wow so naja your five-time world champion describe what this win means to you here at dew tour every every win means a lot especially this one coming back after covid and everything and it's not skating contest for a while it's a it's a special one and you seem to change up your last best trick on your fourth best trip excuse me what was the strategy there and what were the adjustments you made just give give myself some some some room with the points you know try to hold that number one spot keep a little a little less pressure on myself so i can make that last trick happen i i hadn't landed the switch hill 5 0 in practice it all i've never done it on anything close to that big before so i was just i was just sending it and it seems like everyone's so happy and glad to be back together it's a huge celebration of skateboarding so any words to the crowds and fans and viewers out there rooting you on oh of course thank you iowa you guys are awesome thank you for coming out we're stoked to be back hopefully we have some more contests here soon you guys got an awesome park here hell yeah yes and next stop the olympics coming up what are you thinking with that oh man well we got one more before the olympics and then man i'm looking forward to it it's going to be crazy you know it's uh it's a sick time for skateboarding it's exciting and man i can't wait to go out there and compete enjoy being draped in that flag my brother congrats nigel houston your 2021 deuter world champion for street [Applause] he gave us what we wanted to see never done it down something that big didn't land it in practice sometimes during the contest man it's like you forget that you've never done it down something that big and it just feels right and you just go for it man and that's what naja did today and what he's been doing in contests for years and it paid off it pays off bro every time the guy is incredible came to play from japan he didn't mess around either coming up a little bit short here in the final but look at what he put down just trick after trick and that's all yuto noli 270 switch back tail switch tricks nollie tricks spinning every which way and jamie foy came out and got the points he needed currently the third ranked american in olympic qualifying points fakie flip fakie flip making 50 50 down a handrail flip front side 50 50. that's too much i can't even say it jamie skated great today and i'm so excited to see what comes as we head into rome and then hopefully the olympics and the man of the day here at men's street here at the do tour niger houston you've been watching the 2021 do tour from des moines iowa and what a weekend it has been [Music] foreign yep um uh on the podium thank you very much and what an incredible weekend it has been here andrew cannon and ryan sheckler there's your winner of men's street nigel houston he looked a little sketchy in the semifinals barely squeezed into the finals and then put it all together here in des moines congratulations goes out to him and our women's street champion pamela rosa from brazil it's been a wild ride as we head towards tokyo olympics this summer what do you think andrew anything stand out here this weekend in your mind i mean the level of skating stood out absolutely but i just want to touch back on you know niger last night kind of barely squeaking in there and then coming out today looking refreshed well rested we had a wild weekend with all the rain delays i mean we saw it here in the finals but man he came out today he looked so good and he put it down ryan yeah man i'm i'm just sitting over here just like trying to reflect on the whole weekend and the skating that i saw the intensity the consistency the tricks that these guys are actually doing now and they can just do at the drop of a hat skateboarding has just it's blowing up it's absolutely blowing up just in a year too of not competing and like to come back and this is what's going on it's absolutely amazing and just a huge congrats to everyone that put up with all the elements you know throughout the weekend and kept their mind right and put down insane tricks i agree it's been great having you up in the booth hearing your perspective on these things ryan and we look forward to seeing you back out there competing with these guys yeah it's gonna be soon yes sir i um sooner than you'll think you know all right i'm almost healed and i got maybe a month maybe two left and then i'm back on so looking forward to it yeah man all right award ceremony happening right now yuto hora gomez taking home second place for japan [Music] and of course once again nigel houston dropping the biggest scorers of the weekend his low score was a 9.1 guys it's crazy that's what he was trying to get rid of that's crazy i love the trophies made by the gang over at blunt steel super cool [Applause] what a moment as we lead towards tokyo this summer pressure i am curious if that's gonna be our podium at the olympics it very well could be it wouldn't be a surprise maybe a little shuffle of it but that is three of the best contest skateboarders on the planet if nigel has anything to say about it there will be no shuffling for that number one spot it's like you two can shuffle around japan and france you guys do your thing i'm staying right here in the top spot what a contest [Music] all right taking another look at some of what went down here in des moines what a crazy weekend it has been aurelian giroux putting it down for france walking away with third place just putting it down man great skateboarding put it down when it mattered [Applause] and and really just showing everyone hey i'm a force that's absolute force showing people he's a force consistent consistent with hard tricks and and i do think that the wind had the potential to maybe throw him off a little bit today but we've still got rome ahead and then the olympics an amazing performance from uto horigomi bringing in some new tricks and then knives are just doing what naija does oh all day putting up scores eight two one nine point one nine two five nine point one four that's great so that is going to do it for us here in des moines iowa it has been an absolutely amazing weekend of skateboarding i want to thank andrew cannon and ryan sheckler for joining me here in the booth and chris pastors holding it down on sideline and congratulations to our winners men's street champion right there niger houston women's street winner pamela rosa thanks for watching us from all over the world at the do tour oh foreign you

Channel: Transworld Skateboarding

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Length: 557min 40sec (33460 seconds)

Published: Sun May 23 2021