Yo bros and babes!  You presence was like totally missed at this passed weekend’s “All 80’s Day” street and vert contest hosted by the totally badical Quiksilver Skate Team.  The contest was held in the land of Gnarlia, a.k.a. Huntington Beach!  Brocious!!! So I gathered all my gear and went down there.

“So what did I triumphantly wear?” you may ask.  So first of all I most awesomely cut my hair in the shape of my favorite do, the bowl.  So I bogusly stole one of my mom’s baking bowls and placed it over my shag.  Then I stole my brother’s Flowbee to trim the excess hair making my newly shag looks radically radical!  Then I cut my favorite T&C Surft Design Gorilla shirt and cut the bottom around to expose my awesomely rad belly button ring.  Gnarly!! Then of course my totally rad 80’s shorts are so out so I had to jack my sister’s jean shorts.  Bogus!  But hey, they worked!  Gnarly!!

If you’re lucky like me to see check it out, Badical!! If not, bummer!  So check out the results below bro!

Pro
1st – Eddie Reategui
2nd – Alex Olson
3rd – Reese Forbes
4th – Skreech
5th – Sal Barbier
6th – Josh Borden
7th – Christian Hosoi
8th – Omar Hassan
9th – Adam Dyet
Ams
1st – Jordan Hoffart
2nd – Josh Hawkins
3rd – Matt Meier
4th – Sean Mazza
5th – Austin Hawkins
Groms
1st – Patrick Ryan
2nd – Zach Saraceno
3rd – Austin Ortiz
4th – Brendon Snow
Best Costume
Duane Peters

http://www.flowbee.com/

http://skate.quiksilver.com/index.aspx

While Macdonald did take part in the qualifiers, a host of familiar names didn’t, including Bucky Lasek, Bob Burnquist and Shaun White — the reason?  You know what it is.

Here are the full set of results.

SKATEBOARD SUPERPARK MEN’S ELIMINATION RESULTS
Results from ESPN X GAMES 14 at The HOME DEPOT Center in CARSON, Calf. on Saturday, August 2, 2008. (Top 10 advance to tomorrow’s final)

Name / Hometown / Score

1. Rune Glifberg / Copenhagen, Denmark / 108.00
2. Kyle Berard / Virginia Beach, Va. / 96.00
3. Omar Hassan / Costa Mesa, Calif. / 94.00
4. Andy Macdonald / San Diego, Calif. / 93.00
5. Chad Bartie / Queensland, Gold Coast Australia / 91.00
6. Mike Peterson / Jacksonville, Fla. / 89.00
7. Bruno Passos / Oceanside, Calif. / 85.00
8. Tony Trujillo / San Francisco, Calif. / 83.00
9. Chris Cudlipp / Kihei Maui, Hawaii / 82.00
10. Daniel Cardone / Bologna, Italy / 76.00
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11. Aaron Homoki / Phoenix, Ariz, / 75.00
12. Alain Goikoetxea / Algorta, Spain / 71.00
13. Jimmy Marcus / Clearwater, Fla. / 70.00
14. Alex Chalmers / Vancouver, BC Canada / 69.00
15. Joshua Borden / Orange, Calif. / 68.00
16. Sergie Ventura / Virginia Beach, Va. / 60.00

Shred Or Die just put up some footage from that event if you’re interested in how it went.  The new video features footage with Rune Glifberg, Josh Borden, Sergie Ventura, Omar Hassan, Bob Burnquist, Bucky Lasek, and a bunch of other bros.  Check it out if you haven’t seen any footage from it yet over at Shred Or Die.

Many of you who felt the record-breaking heat this weekend in the greater Los Angeles region probably like me, were forced to resort to cooler means. Some of you probably went to the beach, but because of recent shark attacks in the headlines, I made sure to stay away from any waves. But if I really wanted waves, there was the option of going to Raging Waters in San Dimas because they have an artificial wave pool. But about 15 years ago when I was a kid, I had a nightmare of an experience while in the wave pool, I dove down to the bottom to grab something I saw from the surface. When I picked up this mysterious object, it turned out to be a turd. I was extremely grossed out and never stepped foot at Raging Waters again.

So instead, I heard about the huge pool party thrown by Vans. I decided last minute to attend because I figured that Vans usually tends to attract girls from skateboarding, snowboarding, and surf. So I was pretty psyched. But when I arrived, the hot steamy sausage fest presented itself to me. No water, and hardly any chicks. But I decided to stay anyway and check out the skateboarding. A lot of the O.G. guys were there and the guys at Vital Skate were thoughtful enough to share their footage. It was dope, Chris Miller, Omar Hassan, Bucky Lasek, Rune Glifberg and other skateboarding gods were at the Vans Protec Pool Party 2008.

We’ll have more photos soon — meanwhile, be secure in the knowledge that you can catch the rebroadcast of the webcast on Tuesday in its very long entirety.

Here’s the Vans site should you feel like visiting…

PS -here’s a photo of the podium from So Cal Skateparks — feel free to check out last year’s photo gallery, too.

FULL RESULTS

THRASHER/VANS Longest Boardslide Contest Results:
1st STEVE CABALLERO 18 blocks $1800
2nd (tie) EDDIE REATEGUI 15 1/4 blocks
2nd (tie) STEVE STEADHAM 15 1/4 blocks

LADIES RESULTS:
1. Mimi Knoop 29 Chesapeake, VA USA 88.50 $4,000
2. Julie Kindstrand Santa Ana, CA USA 87.00 $2,500
3. Lyn-z Adams Hawkins Cardiff by the Sea, CA USA 83.00 $1,000
4. Allysha Bergado Montclair, CA USA 83.00 $650
5. Amelia Brodka Linden, NJ USA 80.00 $350
6. Elise Dabby 28 Del Mar, CA USA 77.25 $100
7. Holly Lyons Walnut Creek, CA USA 75.75 $100
8. Lea Taylor 12 Cocoa Beach, FL USA 75.13 $100
9. Cressey Rice Phoenix, AZ USA 73.25 $100
10. Heidi Fitzgerald Arlington, TX USA 66.50 $100

MASTERS RESULTS:
1. Chris Miller 40 Del Mar, CA USA $10,000
2. Steve Caballero 40 Campbell, CA USA $6,000
3. Nicky Guerrero 40 Copenhagen, DEN $3,000
4. Eric Nash 39 Arcadia, CA USA $1,000
5. Lester Kasai 41 Anaheim, CA USA $500
6. Pat Ngoho 44 Venice, CA USA $200
7. Steve Steadham 45 Las Vegas, NV USA $200
8. Tony Mag 44 San Diego, CA USA $200
9. Buck Smith 40 Atlantic Beach , FL USA $200
10. Ben Schroeder 39 Monrovia, CA USA $200

PRO RESULTS:
1. Rune Glifberg 33 Copenhagen, DEN $25,000
2. Omar Hassan 34 Costa Mesa, CA USA $15,000
3. Bucky Lasek 35 Baltimore, MD USA $7,500
4. Bob Burnquist 31 Rio de Janeiro, BRA $3,000
5. Benji Galloway 30 North Augusta, SC USA $2,000
6. Sergie Ventura 37 Virginia Beach, VA USA $1,500
7. Bruno Passos 34 Rio de Janiero, BRA $1,000
8. Joshua Borden 19 Orange, CA USA $700
9. Nolan Munroe 15 Rindge, NH USA $500
10. Adam Taylor 18 Cocoa Beach, FL USA $300

It’s a short clip — you should check it out. And then you should check out the live webcast on Vans.com. Also, for a good retrospective check out this post on Vans and our photo gallery from last year.

[See post to watch QuickTime movie]