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Philly is always a great stop on the tour: the great skate spots and the insane talent that shows up. There were a few tricks that havent gone down on the tour yet. Antonio Massey got 3rd and had a 270 lip down the rail. Tom Asta got 2nd and the New Era Originator of the Day Award with a switch fs heel down the double set and an amazing nollie heel to back lip down the rail FIRST TRY!!! Last years winner Ishod Wair won again by skating everything and also had big spin front board, 270 back lip, and big flip front board down the rail. He also has flip tricks on lock with fs flip, tre flip and nollie front heel over the pyramid.

Duration : 0:1:15

Tags: am, amateur, Antonio Massey, bff, contest, couch, coummunity, Energy, Era, event, free, happy, heroes, hurt, invitational, Ishod Wair, Monster, national, New, philadelphia, series, skateboard, skateboarding, Skatepark, skaters, spotlight, summer, Tom Asta, tour, zumies, Zumiez

Philly is always a great stop on the tour: the great skate spots and the insane talent that shows up. There were a few tricks that havent gone down on the tour yet. Antonio Massey got 3rd and had a 270 lip down the rail. Tom Asta got 2nd and the New Era Originator of the Day Award with a switch fs heel down the double set and an amazing nollie heel to back lip down the rail FIRST TRY!!! Last years winner Ishod Wair won again by skating everything and also had big spin front board, 270 back lip, and big flip front board down the rail. He also has flip tricks on lock with fs flip, tre flip and nollie front heel over the pyramid.

Duration : 0:1:15

Tags: am, amateur, Antonio Massey, bff, contest, couch, coummunity, Energy, Era, event, free, happy, heroes, hurt, invitational, Ishod Wair, Monster, national, New, philadelphia, series, skateboard, skateboarding, Skatepark, skaters, spotlight, summer, Tom Asta, tour, zumies, Zumiez

The BFF Tour Finals is quite simply the best 45 minutes of Zumiez Couch Tour every year. All the winners from all over the country converging in one place makes for an action-packed contest. Shawn Kelly from Oklahoma landed 5-0, tailslide, front salad, nosegrind and nosegrind 180 down the handrail. Dallas Adam Taylor did back over crook and heel flip back lip down the rail and switch heeled the double AND a back tail kickflip on the quarter! Houston winner KeChaud Johnson got kicky front board, nollie crooks, and nollie front board on the rail and blasted a huge indy and fs flip disaster on the quarter. Jack Olson the Minnesota favorite, landed switch heel and nollie heel down the double, an onslaught of switch 180 grinds on the rail and a big spin fs board on the handrail also. With the top 3 moving on to the 6th annual Hometown Heroes Finals at X Games this year, 3rd place went to Chicagos John Ozzy Osvarek, with nollie front board, kicky front board, big spin board slide down the rail and nollie back 360, nollie big spin and nollie flip over the pyramid too. 2nd went to Phillys Ishod Wair with light-footed tricks over the pyramid and double set as well as kicky front board, nollie front board, nose blunt, big spin front board, and big flip front board down the handrail. 1st place went to Portlands Anthony Grant with kicky back tail, nollie flip back lip, nollie nose slide, and nollie heel nose slide down the handrail and hubba to go along with switch heel and nollie heel down the double and pyramid respectively. Cant wait to see them at the HH Finals!!!

Duration : 0:1:40

Tags: am, amateur, Anthony Grant, bff, contest, couch, coummunity, Energy, Era, event, Finals, free, happy, heroes, hurt, invitational, Ishod Wair, John Osvarek, minnapolis, Monster, national, New, series, skateboard, skateboarding, Skatepark, skaters, spotlight, summer, tour, zumies, Zumiez

The BFF Tour Finals is quite simply the best 45 minutes of Zumiez Couch Tour every year. All the winners from all over the country converging in one place makes for an action-packed contest. Shawn Kelly from Oklahoma landed 5-0, tailslide, front salad, nosegrind and nosegrind 180 down the handrail. Dallas Adam Taylor did back over crook and heel flip back lip down the rail and switch heeled the double AND a back tail kickflip on the quarter! Houston winner KeChaud Johnson got kicky front board, nollie crooks, and nollie front board on the rail and blasted a huge indy and fs flip disaster on the quarter. Jack Olson the Minnesota favorite, landed switch heel and nollie heel down the double, an onslaught of switch 180 grinds on the rail and a big spin fs board on the handrail also. With the top 3 moving on to the 6th annual Hometown Heroes Finals at X Games this year, 3rd place went to Chicagos John Ozzy Osvarek, with nollie front board, kicky front board, big spin board slide down the rail and nollie back 360, nollie big spin and nollie flip over the pyramid too. 2nd went to Phillys Ishod Wair with light-footed tricks over the pyramid and double set as well as kicky front board, nollie front board, nose blunt, big spin front board, and big flip front board down the handrail. 1st place went to Portlands Anthony Grant with kicky back tail, nollie flip back lip, nollie nose slide, and nollie heel nose slide down the handrail and hubba to go along with switch heel and nollie heel down the double and pyramid respectively. Cant wait to see them at the HH Finals!!!

Duration : 0:1:40

Tags: am, amateur, Anthony Grant, bff, contest, couch, coummunity, Energy, Era, event, Finals, free, happy, heroes, hurt, invitational, Ishod Wair, John Osvarek, minnapolis, Monster, national, New, series, skateboard, skateboarding, Skatepark, skaters, spotlight, summer, tour, zumies, Zumiez

We went a little overboard with the invites in NJ and ended up with over 30 entries, but we squeezed in everyone. Chris Mathis had the toughest tricks and the best style of the day. He did a nollie 50, nollie nosegrind, nollie nose slide, and front blunt to end up in 3rd place. 2nd went to Tim Fulton with creative lines and a smith to front feeble on the long flat bar to win the New Era Originator of the Day award. 1st place went to young Chris Anderson who landed crooks, back 5-0, Smith, back Smith, tail slide and tail fakie on the handrail and hubba, as well as a switch biggy on the pyramid and big fs air on the quarter.
Top 3:

Chris Anderson
Timmie Fulton
Chris Mathis

Duration : 0:1:19

Tags: am, amateur, bff, chris anderson, chris mathis, contest, couch, coummunity, eatontown, Energy, Era, event, free, happy, heroes, hurt, invitational, Monster, national, New, New Jersey, series, skateboard, skateboarding, Skatepark, skaters, spotlight, summer, timmie fulton, tour, zumies, Zumiez

Zumiez Best Foot Forward (BFF) Am contest series presented by Monster Energy gave amateur skaters the chance to rise up and march on. The 3rd annual contest series was an opportunity for Zumiez and Monster Energy to help unearth the next up-and coming amateur skaters in communities across the country. The invitational jam format Am contest series kicked off at Broken Arrow Skatepark in Tulsa, OK on May 23rd and Tempe Skatepark in Tempe, AZ on May 26th before joining up for all 12 stops of the Zumiez Couch Tour 2009.

The 2009 contest threw down next-level skating at each stop across the country. The overall top 3 from the BFF finals in Minneapolis: Anthony Grant from Portland Oregon, Ishod Wair from Philadelphia, and John Oskvarek from Chicago got an all expense paid trip to the Hometown Heroes finals at X-Games 15 in Los Angeles.

Twenty spots in each local BFF qualifier are up for grabs for the first 20 skaters to register. The top three skaters from each BFF open qualifier will be invited to compete in the BFF contest later that day.
The top Am skater from each of the 13 BFF contest stops will be flown to the last stop of the Zumiez Couch Tour at 3rd Lair Skatepark in Minneapolis, MN to compete in the Best Foot Forward Finals. The winners from the 14 BFF stops were:

Tulsa, Ok: Shawn Kelly
Phoenix, Az: Nick Fiorini
Seattle, Wa: Chris Jameson
Portland, Or: Anthony Grant
Pleasanton, CA: Mark Suciu
Salt Lake City, UT: Tyson Bowerbank
Dallas, TX: Adam Taylor
Houston, TX: Ke’Chaud Johnson
Chicago, IL: John Oskvarek
Baltimore, MD: Sean Powderly
Philadelphia, PA: Ishod Wair
Eatontown, NJ: Chris Anderson
Albany, NY: Dave Mull
Minneapolis, MN: Jack Olson

www.Zumiezcouchtour.com

Duration : 0:1:53

Tags: Adam, am, amateur, Anderson, Anthony, best, blunt, Bowerbank, by:, Chris, contest, crazy, Dave, double, Fiorini, flip, foot, forward, Grant, hubba, Ishod, Jack, Jameson, John, Johnson, KeChaud, Kelly, Mark, Mike, Mother, Mull, music, Nick, Olson, Oskvarek, pipe, Powderly, quarter, Revolution, Sean, set, Shawn, sick, skate, skateboard, Suicu, switch, Taylor, The, Tyson, V., Wair, Zumiez