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<\/a><\/p>\nSan Francisco is an accepting city filled with diversity and rich cultural heritage, or to put it more bluntly, a total freak show. But the local color was only slightly weirder than a bunch of trucked in crushed ice and snow bros that made up the first-ever SF Downtown Throwdown event at the Civic Center on October 29th, 2011. As with any inner city rail jam on a 70-plus degree day during Halloween weekend, there were acrobatic maneuvers, ambiguous costumes and beers cleverly disguised by sponsor stickers. If all that wasn\u2019t random (or normal) enough, even Thrasher editor Jake Phelps rolled by to scope the action.<\/p>\n
For the Yobeat crew, a snowboard event in San Fran mostly seemed like a great opportunity to road trip down, do some drinking, skateboarding and touristing, while simultaneously writing things off our taxes. It also helps that Yobeat is now a media powerhouse, so we dragged along the Intern and even flew Pat in from Utah to make the video extra spiffy (watch it here!<\/a>) Neither intern nor Pat had ever been to Rice-a-Roni town before, and you\u2019ll be happy to know, they made the most of it. On night one, Pat managed to kill his phone battery with Instagram and get completely lost, winding up sleeping on some strangers\u2019 couch. This morning, Intern showed up with his face painted like a pirate, which means he must have had a good night, too.<\/p>\n But enough about us. You\u2019re probably reading this to find out what happened at the contest. Luckily, I assigned Josh Parker to pay attention and take notes and here are some of trick the highlights, in convenient bullet point form:<\/p>\n Ryan Paul<\/strong> Spencer Schubert<\/strong> Dylan Thompson<\/strong> Andrew Brewer <\/strong> Dylan Alito<\/strong> Johnny Brady<\/strong> Nick Visconti<\/strong> As soon as Dylan Alito appeared dressed as a juggalo, complete with plastic hatchet he actually used as a prop during tricks, it was pretty obvious he would be a stand out. But it was actually the fact that he landed approximately 10,000 maneuvers over the course of two hours made that him a pretty obvious winner. The rest of the places weren\u2019t so clear cut, as there was no shortage of \u201ckilling it\u201d going on. Ryan Paul (4th) may very well be clinically insane with moves such as boardslide frontflips, even though Brandon Hobush (5th) was the one donning a Alcatraz psych ward shirt. Nikki Fresh got some redemption from his 6th place finish in Seattle, coming in second.<\/p>\n In a day with no shortage of randomness and freaks, perhaps the strangest part of the San Francisco Downtown Throwdown was even though it was hot as hell just standing there, and the riders were racing to get in as many laps as possible, more than 50 percent of them wore mittens the whole time. Guess Jerm was right, for once<\/a> — mittens are in, gloves are out.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nA cultural display of some sort is apparently now a fixture at Snowboy events. Can’t be mad at that. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI took a photo of snowboarding. This is it. Dylan Alito, Juggalo. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nBoardslide front flip pole jam
\nSuitcase method to front board gap – dfd
\nFront board to back rodeo pole jam
\nSwitch back 270 gap – dfd
\nCrippler wall ride
\nBack 360 onto downrail<\/p>\n
\nFront 270 to flat off dfd<\/p>\n
\nPole jam front flip
\nCab 270 gap – dfd
\n270s – downrail<\/p>\n
\ngap 270s front and back – dfd
\nFakie ollie switch front board gap – dfd
\nGap front 270 – dfd to handplant
\nSwitch back lip<\/p>\n
\nCab 270 – downrail
\nBack 270 over front off dfd
\nFront 270 – downrail
\nBack 270 – downrail
\nSwitch back 270 to regs – downrail<\/p>\n
\nHard way back 180 on cab 360 out – downrail<\/p>\n
\nBack 180 on switch back 180 off – downrail
\nPole jam backflip to hand plant on wall
\nhardway front 180 switch 5050 back 360 out – downrail<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nExpect TOTAL COVERAGE. Pat Fenelon and Mike Morgan, getting the shot.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\n“I just feel weird riding with bare hands,” Ryan Paul.<\/em><\/p>\n