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[Video] Manny Mania hits Manhattan |
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Written by Mad Dog
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
Brezinski recaptures the crown.
New York City, NY – August 17, 2008 – A stacked field of skateboardings
greatest core heroes turned up under the Manhattan bridge in NYC today to
battle it out for what has become the truest test of technical
skateboarding today. Joey Brezinski took back the crown he won at the very
first Manny Mania in Venice beach by taking on a field of skaters the likes
of which have never been seen before in the same contest. This year’s
field truly represented the core of skateboarding and for most of these
pros Manny Mania is the only contest they’ll do all year.
Joey was in fine touch all day sitting in first after the preliminary
rounds and the Semi finals but the pressure was on all day. In the
preliminary round it was Stevie Williams and Eli Reed that were hot on his
heals but they couldn’t handle the pressure in the semi finals. That’s
when Brandon Biebel stepped it up to challenge Joey in an attempt to go one
better than his second place effort last year to Ronnie Creager. After a close fought Semi final it was Brezinski, Biebel and Chico Brenes that would fight for the crown in the final jam.
The final turned out to be a heated battle between Brezenski and Biebel
with the two tech masters one upping each other on every trick. It could
have gone either way and in the end it was only one point that separated
the two skaters and it was an elated Joey that stood alone as the 2008 Red
Bull Manny Mania champ.
“Seven hours of skating, my legs are done” said a very tired Brezinski, who
was a major part of conceiving the idea of Red Bull Manny Mania. “I’m just
so psyched that everyone came together to make this happen, thanks Red
Bull, thanks New York and most of all thanks to all the skaters.”
HOW DO YOU JUDGE SUCH PROGRESSION?
Skate legend Eric Koston was on fire tearing up the custom built Manny Pad
in practice but the competitors didn’t have to worry about that. Koston was there as a special guest judge along with his Berrics partner Steve Berra, but he may have preferred to skate. “Judging is not as easy as you think” said Koston. “There are some people you’d never see at a contest, it’s cool because it’s a skaters contest, a real one.”
Final Results: (total prize purse $30,000)
1. Joey Brezinski
2. Brandon Biebel
3. Chico Brenes
4. Eli Reed
5. Malcom Watson
6. Kelly Hart
7. Stevie Williams
8. Sad
9. Danny Falla
10. Jason Dill
11. Daniel Lebron
12. Gary Smith
13. Jereme Rogers
14. Kenny Anderson
15. Dennis Busenitz
16. Jack Curtin
17. Tim O’Conner
18. Rodrigo Peterson
19. Rob Welsh
20. Jon Newport
21. Brian Wenning
22. Lenny Rivas
23. Bobby Worrest
24. Stefan Janoski
25. Richard Angelides
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