Wow! 2006 was a great year on the World Cup tour!! Taking a look back I feel that I witnessed one of the best years in Skate history!! Lots of Good times, Good Friends, Music, Parties, Super Fun Skate Sessions and lots of concrete ripping! The Daggers were Dominating and here are some of our tour highlights.
In early May was the first big event of the year, The 2nd annual Vans Combi Pool Party. Intense snake sessions good vibes and great skatin’ from the best concrete pool riders and skate legends on the planet. Congrats to Omar 1st, Rune 2nd, Patch 3rd!! In the Masters it was Chris Miller 1st, Grosso 2nd and Lance 3rd.
Then we flew to Europe for the Quiksilver Bowlriders comp at the new park in Malmo Sweden. Congrats to Cardone 1st!! Alain Goikoetxa 2nd, Rune 3rd. Dagger Euro sweep!!
Then we jumped in the Huge Quiksilver tour bus to rage in Berlin and skate Juergen Horrvarth’s home park with a killer bowl with Pool coping on the extension. Next we were off to the Cradle in Austria, Ragin’ all the way with Crankin’ tunes, Beers, etc… Playin’ Cards and dice games, all with that crazy Euro $$. Rockin’ the Cradle!! Superfun comp!!!’,’
In June we flew to the Uk for the 3rd annual Soul Bowl at the Donnington Monsters of Rock Festival with 100+ bands. In recent years we have seen Metallica, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Slayer, Guns and Roses, Prodigy, Suicide Girls, Killing Joke, etc…100,000+ Metalheads Rockin’ out! Also special guest judges Tony Alva and Christian Hosoi. Great skatin!! Congrats to Omar 1st, Bucky 2nd and Patch 3rd!! Ripping Skating!! Then we flew to Paris for the Etnies 20th year anniversary Free drink party!! Fun Times!! The next day Patch and I flew to Prague for a week to design and build a new wooden Pool with a 8′ deep and 6′ shallow end for the Mystic cup comp in July.Next stop in Louisville, Ky. The Dew tour started the 1st of 5 stops, with some great sessions at the local Concrete Park. Chris Miller Dominated the fullpipe!!
In July we flew to the Mystic cup in Prague for the 11th year in a row. This year also featured some great nightime sessions in an event in the New Bowl. Congrats to Patch 1st, Sandro 2nd, Cardone 3rd and Trujillo 4th!!! Daggers Dominating!!
Denver was stop #2 on the Dew tour which has a great concrete park which made for some fun summer night sessions with Chris Cudlipp and the boys.
Next we flew back to So. Cal. and ripped it up in Huntington Beach at the Legendary Soul Bowl comp with Masters and Ladies div. along with the US Open of Surfing and PartyPoker.com No Limit tournament. Congrats to Sergie Ventura who took everyone out in the poker game taking home over $10,000.00!!
In August was the X Games in LA, which was as exciting as ever! Congrats to the Dagger sweep in the Big Air event. Danny Way 1st with a 70′ Rocket air backflip!!, Jake Brown 2nd and Bob Burnquist 3rd!!! The 3rd annual Oregon Trifecta was a big hit once again with Rune Glifberg dominating the Pros. Cabellero ripped the Masters Division and the all of the girls were ripping harder than ever.
A quick trip back to HB for the newly Daggerbuilt Quiksilver Bowl sessions and the premiere of Hosoi’s new movie the rising son. An amazing life story of a skate legend. If you haven’t already, Go see it ASAP!!
Back to Portland for the 3rd stop of the Dew tour, more fun and let the good times keep on rollin’!
Calgary Canada was the new spot for Slam city Jam. Congrats to Dagger Greg Lutzka for the win in the street. Also the newest Dagger Rob Lorifice wins his first big comp narrowly beating out Sandro Dias and the rest.
Sept. started with stop #4 of the Dew tour in San Jose and a few weeks later in NorCal was the Tim Brauch Memorial concrete comp in Scott’s Valley.We also had a spiritual moment of silence for Tim and many of the NorCal skaters who had passed incuding; Fausto Vitello(Thrasher and Indy), Ruben Orkin(Spitfire), Curtis Hsaing(80’s Alva team), Matt Neely(pool ripper), Phil Shao(Think team).RIP!!
October started out in Toronto for West 49 comp and we had some great sessions at the concrete parks. Congrats to Daggers Greg Lutzka for another win in the street event and Jake Brown for the 14′+ Highest Air on the 1/4.
From there Sasha, Josh Evin and I flew straight from Toronto to Shanghai for the 2nd Annual Showdown to meet up with Rune, Senn, and our tour guide LeeJay, the leader of the Shanghai Dagger Div. The concrete park is one of the biggest new parks in the World. HUGE and FUN!! We hung around a few extra days to be tourists, get cheap massages(I had 3 girls for 1 hr. $30 USD!!), shop for Rolex’s, cheap DVD’s (a USD$1 each), Sushi and Shred the park!!
Oct. 12-15 we were in Orlando for the final stop of the Dew tour. The Orlando concrete has a great pool where I found Jim Murphy(80’s Alva posse) rippin’ it up. Thanks to Tim Kulas for letting me, Aaron Astorga, Sasha and crew come and session it up in his new backyard wooden bowl. A great bowl with his own homemade pool coping!! As the week progressed every night there were waaaay toooo many freeeee drink parties!! FUN, FUN!! Congrats to Bucky Lasek and Ryan Sheckler who each took home the overall Dew Tour Cup and $75,000 each!! Which led to more free drinks and celebration parties!!
Back to Cali Oct. 20-22 for the Etnies Pool Party at the Goofy vs Regular. With lots more crisscrossin’ craziness the skating was HOT!! Congrats to Omar 1st, Rune 2nd and Patch 3rd!! Cab wins the Masters!!
GvR had some amazing skating as usual, but the highlight of the weekend was the Free drink party put on by Etnies to celebrate their 20 year anniversary. Yes the Beastie Boys played Live in the Etnies parking lot!! Everyone had a blast!! As soon as they finished playing I grabbed Eddie Reategui, Patch, Arto, Corbin Harris (Auzzie Dagger Div.) and crew and went straight down the street to the IRON MAIDEN concert!! We got right in and right away magically bumped into Colin Mckay, Jody Morris, Jimmy Astleford, Rob Lorifice and the rest of the SD Dagger crew!! We all had to sneak up to the front, which we pulled off in Daggerstyle!! (Thanks to a brawl which distracted the security, It was suddenly Go Time)!! The Maiden show was Rockin’!! After the show it was back to the Etnies Zone for more ragin’!!
October 28-29th was the final stop of the concrete tour in Peoria AZ. Everyone came out to skate hard and the sessions were CRAZY!! Sat. started out with a DEATH Race in the flow park put on by Black Leather Racing. (Olson and Hackett). Everyone had a blast racin’ through the cones on the banks and walls. Congrats to Danny Tumia 1st, Hosoi 2nd, and Rune 3rd. Next was the Pool comp all weekend. Insane Snake Sessions, More Criss-Crossin’ Craziness and Super fun times!!
Congrats to Rune for making it to most of the 2006 WCS Concrete comps during his already hectic schedule, and finishing the year #1 in the WCS North American Concrete Bowl Rankings!!
October was a super fun action packed month, a great way to finish off another great year of skatin’!! And it’s not finished yet!! All of the Daggers are headin’ to Cholos big pool comp in Hawaii next month. And then King of Crete Comp on Dec. 16th at the Orlando park in Florida.
Thanks to WCS and their whole crew, the sponsors, all of the skaters, skatefans and all involved!!
Once again we all had a Blast!!
These are the good ‘ol days!! Let the good times keep on rollin’!!!
DAGGERS for LIFE!! DAGGERS til DEATH!!
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