Als kleines "Kind" stahl Ryan Sheckler den großen Pros oft die Show.Nun passierte dies mit ihm, er wurde von einem 14 Jahre alten"Amateur" besiegt.
Am Wochenende fand der vorletzte Contest der AST Dew Tour, die 2008 Toyota Challenge Salt Lake City, in den USA statt. Der Zoo York Amateur Chaz Ortiz gewann seinen ersten Pro Contest gegen Ryan Sheckler, Greg Lutzka und Paul Rodriguez.
Sheckler hat in dem "Overall Ranking" einen Vorsprung von nur 8 Punkten! Hinter Chaz Ortiz steht Paul Rodriguez. In Florida wird sich entscheiden, wer dieser drei Fahrer die AST Dew Tour 2008 gewinnen wird.
Salt Lake City Street Prelims Video
Street Results:
1. Chaz Ortiz – 93.05
2. Ryan Sheckler – 90
3. Rodolfo Ramos – 85.9
4. Greg Lutzka – 84.75
5. Carlos De Andrade – 82
6. Austen Seaholm – 81.6
7. Danilo do Rosario – 79.75
8. Paul Rodriguez – 79.5
9. Tulio Oliveira – 79.25
10. Kurtis Colamonico- 78.75
11. Adam Dyet – 77.25
12. Fabrizio Santos – 72.25
Press Release:
Chaz Ortiz as been on quite a streak ever since winning the Free Flow Touramateur championships in 2007. He came into Salt Lake City for theToyota Challenge this weekend in third place behind Paul Rodriguez and Ryan Sheckler, and can now boast of having occupied every step of the Dew Tour podium in 2008.
The 14 year-old Dew Tour rookie opened the 2008 AST Dew Tour with a 3rdplace finish in Baltimore, then followed it up with a 2nd place finishin Cleveland. Nowhere to go but up, Ortiz claimed is first big Dew Tourwin here in Salt Lake City, edging out 2005, 2006, and 2007 Dew Cupchamp Ryan Sheckler. You heard that right: Chaz Ortiz just won hisfirst pro contest.
I guess today was my day,“ says Ortiz. Although Sheckler is frequentlya crowd favorite on the Dew Tour, skate fans have embraced young Chaz.Skating in front of a capacity crowd inside the Energy Solutions Arena,he put down two of the best runs of his life and dominated the 6-manFinals jam session. „It definitely hypes me up, to hear all thescreaming fans and to know that even the guys I’m skating against havemy back. It makes me want to skate even harder.“
Dew Tour Skate Park Finals follow a best-of-two run format. The top sixskaters after two rounds of skating then face off in a chaoticfree-for-all jam session to rack up points with their best tricks.
After Run 1, Ortiz and Sheckler were tied for 1st place, each posting scores of 86.75, with Austen Seaholm, Carlos de Andrade, and Rodolfo Ramos close behind. Ortiz improved his score in Run 2 to 89.75; Sheckler topped him with a score of 92.25.
Austen Seaholm, Greg Lutzka, Carlos De Andrade, and Rodolfo Ramos joined Sheckler and Ortiz for theFinals jam session, but all eyes were on Ortiz as he stuck trick aftertrick, building confidence over the course of the jam session andshowing off his full repertoire of highly technical rail tricks.
Nollie big spin to backside lipslide. Kickflip to frontside boardslide.A big backside kickflip transfer over a hip, just after Sheckler fellon the same trick, for dramatic emphasis. Kickflip to frontsidebluntslide. Kickflip to backside lipslide. Backside tailslide to bigspin out. And the clincher: Ortiz stuck a kickflip to frontsideboardslide to kickflip out, one of the craziest combos ever seen in DewTour competition.
„This course really fits me,“ says Ortiz. „In practice I was practicingall the tricks I wanted to get in the jam, not just practicing thetricks for my run, because I knew I needed to be able to hang throughto the end.“
Ortiz‘ jam session score 95.25 destroyed the competition (Shecklerscored just 88.50, third place finisher Ramos scored 88.00), and thecrowd went wild. Get ready to hear more from Chaz Ortiz. He’s workingon a video part for a new film with Paul Rodriguez, and is prominentlyfeatured in the trailer for the new Zoo York video „State of Mind,“ dueout in 2009.
Sheckler now leads Ortiz by just 8 points in the overall standings asthe race for the Dew Cup heads into the 5th and final stop next monthin Orlando for the PlayStation Pro. Another 7 points now separate Ortizand Paul Rodriguez, making for the tightest competition in Dew Tourhistory.
„I’m just going to be skating hard, practicing some new tricks, and hoping for another good result,“ says Ortiz.
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