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Skate Vert Winners: Danny Mayer, PLG, Alex Perelson
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Danny Mayer
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Alex Perelson
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PLG Wins a Heated Battle on the Vert Ramp
Chicago ASA Action Sports World Tour
By Jared Souney
Just when you thought
Pierre-Luc Gagnon could not be stopped.... Well, maybe he can't, he went and won again. Despite a heated, down-to-the wire showdown between PLG and his good friend
Danny Mayer, Pierre-Luc managed to snag yet another first place finish at the Chicago stop of the ASA Action Sports World Tour.
The format for skateboard vert on the ASA Action Sports World Tour is a bit different than some of the other events. Skaters get four with scoring based on 10 walls as opposed to a time limit. If they fall, they're done. 10 walls consttitutes a full run.
Early in the competition nearly everyone was having trouble putting together a solid 10 walls. The consistent PLG was standing tall after his first run, while skater after skater ended up in a knee slide early into their runs.
Alex Perelson put a stop to the lull with a full 10 walls in his second run, and Danny Mayer followed him up with a huge second run of his own, putting him at the top of the leader board ahead of both Alex and Pierre-Luc.
But it was the third runs where things really got heated. With one solid run under his belt already, Mayer one-upped himself and added a kickflip McTwist to his run. Danny has run many a best trick competition with the kickflip McTwist, so to see him throughing them consistently in the middle of regular contest runs is unbelievable. When the scores came in, the pressure was on PLG. It looked as though this contest was all about Danny Mayer.
Anyone who's seen PLG skate in the last few years knows he's consistent and feeds off the pressure. For his third run he dropped straight into a 360 flip and followed it up with a run that included a 540, kickflip melon, 720 and more. A solid 10 walls, gave the judges a lot to think about. "I don't even know how you decide that one" said fellow competitor
Elliot Sloan. The judges, however, decided PLG had outdone Mayer, bumping him into the lead.
Pierre's run held up as top scoring run once again and Danny Mayer walked away with a very, very close second, followed by young ripper Alex Perelson.
In three weeks the ASA Action Sports World Tour hits Cincinnati, Ohio, and Danny Mayer will be spending that downtime thinking about how he can move into that top spot. It really could not have been any closer. Mayer has been skating amazingly well lately, so Cincinnati might be has stop. Only time will tell.
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