For the Love of Skateboarding
For the past 10 years the Damn Am Series has ended the summer at LES Skatepark under the Manhattan Bridge in New York City. Here’s a look at our all time winners list:
2014 – Yoshi Tanenbaum
2025 – Yoshi Tanenbaum
2016 – Zach Saraceno
2017 – Ivan Monteiro
2018 – Lucas Rabelo
2019 – Becker Dunn
2022 – Nicholas Ramos
2023 – Jiro Platt
Since we’re halfway through the 2024 Championship Tour, we wanted to take a look back at some of the best 9 Club’s that we’ve seen thus far! There was no shortage in Paris and San Diego, as well as at APEX 01 and APEX 02!
Featuring Vincent Milou, Chris Joslin, Sora Shirai, Gustavo Ribeiro, Aurelien Giraud, Yumeka Oda, Momiji Nishiya, Yuto Horigome, Braden Hoban, Filipe Mota, Alex Midler, Jhancarlos Gonzalez, Giovanni Vianna, Dashawn Jordan, Manny Santiago, Antonio Durao, Nyjah Huston and Lucas Rabelo.
We’re back at the APEX, this time with a spot inspired by the DTLA Library! Same format; 7 trick attempts, each skater’s 3 highest scores count…
Lineup: Nyjah Huston, Yuto Horigome, Chris Joslin, Louie Lopez, Daiki Ikeda, Antonio Durao, Dashawn Jordan, and Lucas Rabelo.
Originally Aired: 4/20/24: The winner of each Knockout Group plus the top 2 second-chance winners will move on to the Finals, who will it be?
Knockout Group 01: Giovanni Vianna, Chris Joslin, Lucas Rabelo, Ryan Decenzo, Jhancarlos Gonzalez
Knockout Group 02: Gustavo Ribeiro, Kairi Netsuke, Dashawn Jordan, Matt Berger, Vincent Milou
Knockout Group 03: Nyjah Huston, Felipe Gustavo, Kelvin Hoefler, Carlos Ribeiro, Alex Midler
Knockout Group 04: Yuto Horigome, Manny Santiago, Braden Hoban, Filipe Mota, Jamie Foy
6 Women and 6 Men will move on to the Final to battle it out for the trophy at our first-ever Championship Tour stop in San Diego!
Women’s Group 01: Gabriela Mazetto, Paige Heyn, Liz Akama, Funa Nakayama, Raysssa Leal
Women’s Group 02: Wenhui “Zoe” Zeng, Aoi Uemura, Yumeka Oda, Momiji Nishiya, Chloe Covell
Men’s Group 01: Jhancarlos Gonzales, Chris Joslin, Ryan Decenzo, Lucas Rabelo, Giovanni Vianna
Men’s Group 02: Kairi Netsuke, Matt Berger, Dashawn Jordan, Vincent Milou, Gustavo Ribeiro
Men’s Group 03: Carlos Ribeiro, Felipe Gustavo, Kelvin Hoefler, Alex Midler, Nyjah Huston
Men’s Group 04: Shane O’Neill, Filipe Mota, Braden Hoban, Jamie Foy, Yuto Horigome
Watch the Final LIVE HERE.
The winner of each Knockout Round will move on to the Final, the remaining spots will be filled by the 2 highest scoring skaters who did not win their group.
Group 01: Torey Pudwill, Kairi Netsuke, Sora Shirai, Aurelien Giraud, Kelvin Hoefler
Group 02: Braden Hoban, Filipe Mota, Daiki Ikeda, Gustavo Ribeiro, Felipe Gustavo
Group 03: Dominick Walker, Lucas Rabelo, Jamie Foy, Dashawn Jordan, Nyjah Huston
Group 04: Ryan Decenzo, Alex Midler, Chris Joslin, Vincent Milou, Giovanni Vianna
Here’s some of what went down in Knockout Round Group 04 at the Super Crown! Featuring Vincent Milou, TJ Rogers, Alec Majerus, Lucas Rabelo and David Reyes.
Yuto Horigome, Nyjah Huston, Felipe Gustavo, Dashawn Jordan, Lucas Rabelo and Kairi Netsuke battle it out for the W in Sydney!
Daiki Ikeda, Dominick Walker, Lucas Rabelo, Shay Sandiford and Lucas Rabelo kicked things off in Knockout Round Group 01!
A bunch of tricks that could have won somewhere else didn’t even crack the top 5. Just one of the reasons it’s been called the BEST Best Trick contest of all time.
Results:
1. JP Souza
2. Lucas Rabelo
3. Giovanni Vianna
4. Antonio Durao
5. Jamie Foy
The 28th Annual Tampa Pro has kicked off! Pros from around the world step into the warehouse that has been rocking since 1993.
This is SLS Unsanctioned, an informal event with a twist! The format is familiar, the skaters are hand-picked, and the rules are loose, as we hit a brand new location to watch 10 of the world’s best skaters going head-to-head for unregulated glory in becoming the next SLS Unsanctioned Champion. THE SKATERS: Dashawn Jordan, Vincent Milou, Kelvin Hoefler, Lucas Rabelo, Gabriel Fortunato, Felipe Gustavo, Dominick Walker, Trent McClung and Carlos Ribeiro. THE JUDGES: Aori Nishimura, Leticia Bufoni and Rayssa Leal.