Highlights: Men’s Park Qualifier | Rockstar Energy Open Portland 2024

It wouldn’t be the Pacific NorthWest without a bit of rain. But that didn’t dampen the mood of the park skateboarders as they waited for the moment we were all waiting for, and the show that ensued did not disappoint. A total of 18 park skateboarders dropped in, each taking their own unique angle at the curvatures, extensions, and out-of-bounce opportunities. Watch the ripping montage recap of the men’s park qualifier above featuring Chris Russell, Tommy Calvert, Cory Juneau, Nick Peterson, Eli Williams, Roman Pabich, Phoenix Sinnerton, Taylor Nye, Keefer Wilson, Tristan Rennie, Keegan Palmer, Tate Carew, Vincent Matheron, Tom Schaar, Kieran Woolley, Yuro Nagahara, and Greyson Fletcher.

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Highlights: Men’s Street VQS Qualifier | Rockstar Energy Open Portland 2024

The men’s VQS qualifier competition was the first big competition for many, while it was just another competition of many for others. The 12 skateboarders in the qualifier made their way to the Rockstar Energy Open in Portland, Oregon, by entering the online Video Qualifier Series and allowing fans and our judges to be the ones to criticize them on their skills. Watch all the best moves that went down in the men’s street VQS qualifier above, featuring Ryan Carrell, Tyson Bowerbank, John Bradford, Mikey Ray, Nels Rosen, Sewa Kroetkov, Johnny Purcell, Gabe Vigliotti, Julian Christianson, Alex Lobasyuk, Josh Douglas, and Jake Ilardi.

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Don Brown Is Back! | The Nine Club – Episode 337

Don Brown discusses being at Sole Tech for 33 years, Pierre-André started Etnies in the late 1980s, Sole Tech helped make the first DC Shoes, Nike’s strategic plan to take over the skate shoe market, the Sole Tech sale to The Nidecker group, companies now a days have F.O.G.O.B. fear of going out of business, being diagnosed with prostate cancer, getting sober and much more!

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