2008 AST Dew Tour - Stop 4 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Vert & Dirt Prelims Results

Keith Mulligan

• September 12 2008
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2008 Dew Tour

Salt Lake City, Utah

We’re in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, for the latest round of Dew Tour craziness and today wasn’t a letdown.

VERT

Vert Prelims kicked off the competition with Jimmy Walker taking the top qualifying spot. Jimmy’s runs included x-ups-to-turndowns, table seatgrabs, 540s, a seatgrab 540, a barspin 540, flairs (opposite and regular), no-handers-to-turndowns, and lots more variations all over the ramp.

Steve McCann and Dennis McCoy also threw down solid runs with Stevie doing a no-handed flair, a double tailwhip, an alley-oop tailwhip, a candybar and more. DMC’s runs had solid 540s (one of them a barspin 540), flairs, barspin-to-x-ups and barspins-to-barspin, candybars, and some solid inverted tables.

There were lots of crashes on the big ramp which kept guys like Koji Kraft and Kevin Robinson out of the finals, but luckily there were no serious injuries.

Vert Finals go down tomorrow (Friday) night.

Jimmy Walker with a stretched can-can lookback. Photo: Mulligan

Vert Prelims

1. Jimmy Walker 91.17

2. Steve McCann 90.17

3. Dennis McCoy 90.00

4. Zack Warden 89.17

5. Austin Coleman 89.00

6. Jay Eggleston 88.33

7. Francisco “Coco” Zurita 87.67

8. John Parker 87.00

9. Mike Mancuso 86.83

10. Vince Byron 86.00

11. Kevin Robinson 85.83

12. Koji Kraft 85.67

13. Jorge Jovel 84.33

14. Danny Williams 83.67

15. Ben Snowden 82.00

16. Keith McElhinney 75.67

*Top seven join prequalifiers Jamie Bestwick, Chad Kagy, and Simon Tabron in the finals.

DIRT

The dirt course was awesome as could be expected. Lots of huge step-up sets with huge steep landings, and there are plenty of hips as well.

Dennis Enarson put on a show in his first run with a tailwhip, a barspin-to-no-hander, a flipwhip, a flip, a double tailwhip, and a barspin-to-tailwhip.

SLC local, MIke Aitken had everyone shaking their heads and asking “What was that” after every set. Mikey’s 360 combo variations are almost too difficult to comprehend and it all was smooth and pretty. Let’s just say that during his 360s nac-nacs, lookbacks, can-cans, one-footed inverts and downside tables (amongst other variations) went down. There were also some stretched nothings-to-no-footed can-cans and to-turndowns. Most fun to watch, in my opinion.

Ryan Guettler rounded out the top three with double tailwhips, a 720, some 360s, and what looked like an Indian air flip with some wild leg action thrown into the mix.

Dirt Finals also go down tomorrow (Friday) night.

Dennis Enarson gets upside down over one of the hips. Photo: Mulligan

Dirt Prelims

1. Dennis Enarson 93.00

2. Mike Aitken 92.00

3. Ryan Guettler 91.83

4. Corey Bohan 91.67

5. Brandon Dosch 91.50

6. James Foster 91.17

7. Cory Nastazio 91.17

8. Anthony Napolitan 91.00

9. TJ Ellis 89.83

10. Rob Darden 89.50

11. Steve McCann 89.33

12. Allan Cooke 87.67

13. Chris Gerber 87.33

14. Brad Gethard 85.50

15. Charlie Bowers 85.33

16. Diogo Canina 84.50

17. Tim “Fuzzy” Hall 83.00

18. Morgan Wade 81.00

19. Kyle O’hara 80.33

20. Scott Wirch 79.00

21. Nate Berkheimer 78.33

22. Colin Mackay 75.33

23. Adam Aloise 74.83

24. Josh Hult 74.17

* Top nine join prequalifiers Luke Parslow, Cameron White, and Ryan Nyquist in the finals.