Premiere of Yesterday's Future at Calgary and Edmonton

Last week end I had the chance to go the St-Johns Premiere in New Found Land. If you haven’t been there yet please add this on your list of place to visit.

The people are the nicest ever and they sure know how to party. They have an incredible skate park and the scenery is beautiful, St-johns located by the water at the peek of the east coast. Anyway great spot and great skate scene; there’s so many skaters over there so needles to say that the premiere was off the hook.

After the premiere everyone was meeting up at the LAST DROP BAR for some drink and another viewing of the video for those who couldn’t make it to the early premiere at the Empire Theatre.

Big up to Gill and all the staff at Ballistic.

The Toronto premiere was amazing and the feed back on the movie are great. Check out the story and pictures on the Transworld Skateboarding website.

Hey guys,

Yesterday was the Quebec city premiere. All lot of the heads show up and everyone enjoy the video. Here's some pictures.

With Year 3 of ZooYork’s Am Getting Paid coming to a close, we are very proud to look back on such a special event with so many great skateboarders. Adding the extra day to the event helped make the contest run smooth and welcomed more amateurs to battle it out for the $15,000 U.S. total prize.

Friday was a very important night for the Underworld skate team, where they had their world premiere for Yesterday’s Future, a video that they have been working on for the last few years. The place was packed, the drinks were full and the skating was next level. For more info and to view the teaser go to www.yesterdaysfuturevideo.com.

Saturday was day 2 of the contest and displayed some of the best skateboarding all weekend. Magnus Hanson and Nick Merlino were having fun all day and were destroying all obstacles at South Parc. Jordan Hoffart and Keegan Sauder were some of the smoothest and most powerful skateboarders at the contest. Lastly, Chazz Ortiz blew the crowd away with his impressive skills, consistency, and courage… did we mention he is only 12 years old!

Saturday night was the Am’s getting laid party and the Wu Tang’s legendary member Raekwon was headlining. With over 300 people trying to get in to this sold out private party the energy was at an all time high. People chanted the choruses while chef Raekwon ripped the lyrics.

Sunday was the final day of the event and it was time to seperate the men from the boys. Micky Papa was leading throughout the whole semi finals with tricks such as kickflip backside smiths and switch treflips down the stairs. But when the finals came around it was Ryan Decenzo hailing from Vancouver, Canada that took first place position and the hefty cheque home. He had flawless runs all weekend, mixing techness with smoothness on a consistent basis run after run. Taking 2nd and 3rd place respectively were local Antoine Asselin, and Detroit’s Dustin Blauvelt. It would be impossible to name other notables over the weekend since the skating was at such a high level.

Proceeding the contest, Solo Mobile held the best trick on four obstacles. Nick Merlino and Dustin Blauvelt were the only hitting the big rail. With a bunch of skateboarders all busting out and getting paid it was Manny Santiago who took home the most money with a huge bag of tricks. Am Getting Paid is an international amateur skateboard event held every year and its mission is to continue to support and promote young amateur skateboarders to the rest of the world. We would like to thank all the skateboarders, sponsors, and parents. The full length DVD will release in January.

01 - Ryan Decenzo - usd $6000
02 - Antoine Asselin - usd $3000
03 - Dustin Blauvelt - usd $1500
04 - Ben Hatchell
05 - Magnus Hanson
06 - Chazz Ortiz
07 - Collin Hale
08 - Jordan Hoffart
09 - Will Cristofaro
10 - Nick Merlino
11 - Thomas Parent
12 - Matt Berger
13 - Keegan Sauder
14 - Micky Papa
15 - Manny Santiago

World premiere of Yesterday's Future

FRIDAY's TOP TEN QUALIFIERS

1 - Matt Berger

2 - Ryan Oughton

3 - Thomas Parent

4 - Justin Allain

5 - Spencer Hamilton

6 - Ted Degros

7 - Mitch Barrett

8 - Brandon Del Bianc

9 - Stefan Kulisek

10 - Sean Hayes

PICTURES OF THE DAY

Greg lutzka took first place at this years slam city jam!

So many ams killed it in Calgary…

Ryan decenso

Miki papa

Magnus hanson

Es game of skate was ridiculous! These 2 were going at it!