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.
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.
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!!!
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!!!
June 14 Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, NJ Jones Soda and C1RCA skate team, Senses Fail, and Revolution Mother
C1RCA Adrian Lopez, Colt Cannon, Jon Allie, Peter Ramondetta, Tony Tave, Windsor James, Sierra Fellers, Dennis Durrant, David Reyes, Julian Davidson, Danny Cerezini.
Zumiez introduces the first annual Zumiez Best Foot Forward Amateur Skate Contest Series, presented by Boost Mobile. The Best Foot Forward series is an invite-only jam format Am contest that will give up-and-coming skaters a leg up. A local contest will take place at each leg of the Zumiez Couch Tour 2007. The winner, Zach Cusano was flown to the final leg in San Jose, CA on July 1 to compete in the Best Foot Forward Finals.
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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:
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
The best trick after trick session I’ve ever seen!
The Minneapolis finals were going off with Cody Davis landing tricks consistently and every couple of seconds to take 1st. 13 year old ripper Jack Olson landed big spin fs board and switch Barley grind down the handrail and blasted a big nollie big spin disaster on the quarter to get 2nd place. CJ Tambarino took 3rd with a nollie tre flip and nollie half cab heel up the euro, nollie big flip across the gap, nollie big spin inward heel too!!!
O.K. let me start by saying that there is no way that that I can describe or list all of the stuff that went down at this year’s Zumiez BFF Finals, so watch the video for most of it, or just show up next year to witness the most insane 30 minute session ever! Zumiez flew out the winners of all the other BFF stops to compete in the Finals and have a great trip out to the land of 10,000 lakes. Stuart Dodge (Aurora IL winner) landed nollie bs lip and nollie bs 5-0, also nollie bs flip on the double set. Zac Ferrell (Eatontown NJ) got nollie big spin bs lip, kick flip bs lip and kick flip fs board down the handrail. Ed Camp (Puyallup WA) had a fs big spin and fs flip on the double set, he also did bs heel and kf melon on the gap. Tommy Werner (Milpitas CA) had fs board body varial lip slide and hurricane down the handrail, and launched out to 50-50 stall on the wooded rail behind the platforms. Christian Sereika (Layton UT) had a smooth bs heel down the double set. Ke’chaud Johnson (Plano TX) landed fs 270 lip, switch 50, switch lip and nollie nose grind down the handrail. Ishod Wair (North Wales PA) landed a big flip fs board and fs big spin board fakie down the handrail, switch flip and switch tre down the double, landed multiple hardflips and switch flips over the pyramid and fs flipped everything. Anthony Grant (Portland OR) got 3rd with kick flip back tail shuv, kick flip back tail fakie, kf bs lip fakie, nollie flipped and nollie big heeled the pyramid, and showed off his tranny skills with a huge floating kick flip fakie on the quarter. Cody Davis (Maplewood MN) after killing the Minneapolis BFF earlier in the day got even dirtier with kick flip back smith, fs board kick flip, bs lip kick flip, and kf crook down the handrail. Then he tre flipped, hard flipped, switch heeled and switch fs big spinned down the double. To show off his tech quarter pipe skills Cody also did nollie bs kick flip tail and nollie half cab heel too. Julian Christianson (Denver CO) showed why and how he won the HH Finals last year with nollie tail fakie, nollie smith, board to feeble and switch 270 board to fakie down the handrail. Then he got a switch fs shuv, switch heel, switch varial heel, nollie big spin, nollie big spin heel, nollie back heel and switch fs 360 on the Double set. He also had time for a switch tail, switch lip, nollie crooks, nollie feeble and nollie heel board on the gap to rail. He killed the pyramid too, then had nollie bs lip on the bump to bar drop and switch lip revert on quarter.
The top 3 all won all expense paid trips to compete in the 5th annual Hometown Heroes Am Finals, as part of the 5th annual etnies Goofy vs. Regular contest at the etnies Skatepark in Lake Forest California in the first weekend of October.
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.
The BFF Tour Finals is quite simply the best 45 minutes of 
June 14 Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, NJ Jones Soda and C1RCA skate team, Senses Fail, and Revolution Mother
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.
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 best trick after trick session I’ve ever seen!