{"id":20302,"date":"2011-03-16T18:13:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yobeat.com\/?p=20302"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:42:18","slug":"mandatory-coverage-last-call-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=20302","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Coverage: Last Call 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\t

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Travis Nevehaus was actually awarded the best jumper prize, but here’s a picture of him on the rails instead.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ahh, spring in New England. The birds are chirping, the sun is shining\u2026 if there was an emoticon for a record scratch I would insert it here. While yes, the name Last Call sort of insinuates the snowboard season is over, after the best snow year in recent record it\u2019s far from it, and spring-like conditions were not on the menu for Eastern Boarder<\/a>\u2019s annual event. The good news is, it was cold enough to stay snow all day, not rain like had been predicated, so that\u2019s something.<\/p>\n

The East\u2019s finest don\u2019t give a shit about crappy weather, slow ass snow and no visibility though. Half of them didn\u2019t even bother wearing goggles. At one point Big Mike Gonsalves hit the wall ride thing with his shirt off.<\/p>\n

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As my dad would say, “big air.”<\/em><\/p>\n

As usual there were three sections: Jump, Rhythm section (which sort of lost its rhythm due to the quickly falling snow) and rail set. The course was actually pretty gnarly, even without a slush blizzard, but luckily, there were some gnarly dudes there. There was also an impromptu high ollie contest, sponsored by K2, who apparently makes skateboards now. It made total sense, don\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve learned watching Loonatics, dudes like Mike Rav, Johnny O\u2019Connor and Tanner McCarty are real, real good. In the end though, Merrick Joyce had the best overall performance and took home $1500 for his efforts. There were also best trick awards for $200 a pop and all three girls who rode got money.<\/p>\n

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Mary Rand, now $200 richer.<\/em><\/p>\n