Chad and I didn't have a ticket, but I had a friend Alex who worked for Comcast at the time who was inside the event. Well Al said if we could get to a certain door he would open it and get us in. So we found a construction trailer that was up against the barbed wire fence surrounding the arena, climbed the fence, jumped down to the stairs of the construction trailer and got to the door where AL let us in.
We had no lanyards or press passes but I guess because I had my camera and looked the part no one stopped or questioned us.
I couldn't believe it. We found ourselves on the ramp level of this huge contest and I got to filming. Now I've filmed professional skateboarding for years at this point, but the level of technical tricks and the consistency of execution these guys where throwing down was unreal. Nobody has ever seen any of this footage and I'm really proud of it.
Watching this episode brought me so much joy. It was a magical day where everything came together to even be there. Also if you don't know my friend Neil Herrick noodle does all these episodes for me and he was in the stands that day. Now 20 years later he's bringing it into the light for me. I am so grateful for his help and friendship.
Hope you all enjoy this episode as much as I do. Thanks to Alex and Chad for being the "we got you" friends. You'll see them at the end standing behind Hawk. I gotta say, today was a good day. Glifberg was skating the bowl like it was butter, and Hatchell was out there with his super tech tricks.
It was just an amazing finals. To be able to get the win feels so good. Hatchell, last year's bronze medalist, was the top qualifier in Saturday's elimination round ahead of heat winners Glifberg, Barros and Kevin Kowalski, and the next top two finishers, Ben Raybourn and Andy Macdonald.
He came out swinging in his first run, which included some of the most technically challenging tricks of the day: a fakie ollie to nosegrind over the hip, a over the gap, an alley-oop through the shallow end pocket, a lein Sal flip, a "Unit" frontside invert in the deep end to shallow and a frontside kickflip. He held the lead throughout most of the competition and held strong against Glifberg but couldn't answer Barros in his final run to bring up his average.
Glifberg, 37, was the oldest skater in the field on Saturday and is one of just four athletes who has never missed X Games in its year history. He won Skateboard Park in and ; Saturday's bronze brings his total X Games medals tally to I was stoked to see Pedro and Ben, and Raybourn and Kowalski and Andy Mac in the finals … all the guys were ripping, so it was really fun.
Skateboarding is so universal and I believe there's always mutual respect going in all directions. I think most skateboarders feel that way, and of course we all get inspiration from each other.
I love watching these guys skate, and hopefully they enjoy watching me ride, too. Full Results ». Skip to main content Skip to navigation.
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