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(Cincinnati, OH - May 28, 2005) Saturday morning's amateur inline competition was fast and furious and early. Registration opened at 8 am, and, by 9:30 Jimmy Hake already had a solid line picked out. The park preliminary round went pretty much as expected and when the dust cleared, Josh Cardenas was in the lead, Hake was in second and Midwest icon Scott Raser was in an unlikely 9th. But the tide of proverbial cicadas was about to turn.
Finals got off to a bang with Steve Bundy pulling a unity step back to soul down the death rail. Twelve-year-old Atlanta phenom, Carson Starnes boosted a backside up on the massive sub box. Jimmy Hake threw two of the best tricks of the contest: a fastslide/makio/backslide triple combo down the death rail and a frontside to soul transfer back up it. Unfortunately, in the words of Jon Elliot, It's not a best trick comp. Jeremy Adamowicz officially broke in the chain with a solid makio grind. Miguel Ramos showed off a terrific line, but then held on to it for the rest of the day. French am, Warren Digne, paid homage to Stephane Alfano by racing around the course, nailing tricks on everything in sight to end up just outside the podium.
Scott Raser stuck a super-stylish backside farfergnugen transfer to kick off his line, then followed up with a couple of ledge switch-ups, some solid rail tricks and a last minute alley oop fish right at the buzzer to take the bronze. Jimmy Spetz nuked the course, skating strong and fast into tricks like a backside fastslide on the sub box, a negative makio and a fastslide up the death rail for the silver. And Josh Cardenas took the gold with a solid run that included a 540 the wrong way over the box, a disaster soul and the best trick of the day: a backside transfer truespin mizu up the death rail.
When Josh received his gold medal, competition director, Jason Hines was overheard saying, "It's about time Wisconsin got some love."
The vert comp had a field of only six, but the skating was solid. Jesse Diana threw a miller flip and a fakie bio to take the bronze. Alex Eastwood stuck a 720 and a brainless, and showed some lip trick skills by spinning to topside soul to grab silver. And Rob Parker easily stole gold with a fakie 900, a fakie 720, and a host of solid liptricks.
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