May 6 Salem, OR
I was stoked on the opportunity to travel to the different parks and see the new talent when I took on the role of West Coast Regional Director for the ASA Amateur Circuit. I was excited about going to Salem just to see the Skate Barn team skaters represent, and they did. Mike Baker was nice enough to be my personal taxi and picked me up from the airport and let me stay at his house for a whole three hours of sleep, then drove me to the YMCA Extreme Sports Center at 7 am. Registration was pretty dull with only 20 something competitors, ten of which were skateboarders. In the expert street comp there were many familiar faces, one being Chris Baker who took a solid and consistent 7th. As a side note, Chris has the largest fingerboard course set up on his dad's pool table. The true skaters were there having fun including the lil' man Buck Smith, who was shocked as his name was announced in second place. Travis Steenslid stayed clean to take first. The vert comp was a pretty standard westcoast am event with very few competitors and none that were true vert skaters. Chris baker took an easy first place with his smooth "mighty mouse" style.

Results below...

*** Indicates Qualifed for Regionals
* Indicates Previously Qualified