Menina Skate Tour, Mexico Aug 23-24, 2008

Team riders Karen Jones and Leticia Bufoni are both headed to Mexico this weekend for the Menina Skate Tour presented by Chica Rider. They will be skating a demo at the Snickers Urbania on Saturday August 23rd as well as at the Fishbone Skatepark on August 24th. In addition to the skate demos, there will be a private meet and greet for 30 lucky girls as well as a photography exhibit, featuring the work of photographer Ana Paula Negrao, whose work has been published in Transworld Skateboarding Business, Surfer Girl (SG), Cooler Mag (U.K.) Automatic (SD), Check It Out, and Industria (Europe), and Brasil Best (LA).

For more details head to www.chicarider.com.

Photography Exhibit, Ana Paula Negrao

Karen Jones

WOMEN’S VERT RECAP

Karen takes home gold….!

X Games 14 took place last weekend in Los Angeles, CA. In true southern California fashion, the scorching sun was beating down hard as the best pro athletes in women’s skateboarding threw down for medals and prize money in the biggest competition of the year. In the women’s vert final, newest member of the Osiris Girls team, Karen Jones, battled out the best of the best in the 30 minute jam style format which included skate legend Cara-Beth Burnside and last year’s gold and silver medalists Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins and Mimi Knoop. Despite Lyn-Z’s awesome kickflip indy and huge boosts, Karen’s technical tricks including a varial mute, a finger flip, and a lolli-pop shuv-it gave her the edge over the competition and landed her in 1st place, bringing home her first X Games gold medal. Talk about making a grand entrance….congrats and welcome to the team Karen!

Osiris Girls team riders Annie Sullivan and Allysha Bergado also held it down on the massive vert ramp….great job girls! At age 12, Allysha is the youngest female to ever compete in the X Games, be sure to keep your eye out for this talented young grom in the years to come. Check out more pictures in the gallery below:

Women’s Vert Final Results:
1. Karen Jones (Santo Andre, Brazil)
2. Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins (Cardiff by the Sea, Calif.)
3. Mimi Knoop (Chesapeake, Va.)
4. Cara-Beth Burnside (Encinitas, Calif.)
5. Gaby Ponce (Tenafly, N.J.)
6. Julie Kindstrand (Santa Ana, Calif.)
7. Allysha Bergado (El Segundo, Calif.)
8. Annie Sullivan (San Diego, Calif.)

WOMEN’S STREET RECAP

Osiris Girls team rider, Leticia Bufoni, X Games women's street finals

As for the women’s skateboard street finals, the level of riding was truly amazing to say the least. Street legend Elissa Steamer, came back to claim her title, after winning gold 3 years in a row and then taking 2nd after Marissa Dal Santo last year in 2007. Steamer skated consistently throughout the three heats and during the second heat she stuck a lofty, kick flip over the China gap with less than three seconds on the clock, bringing the crowd atop the LA Live Event Deck to an uproar. In the third and last heat of the final, it was second place finisher Dal Santo and bronze medalist Amy Caron’s time to shine as they both landed tough kick flips over the double set of stairs and nose slides down the handrail. Osiris girls team skater, Leticia Bufoni, gave a solid performance coming in a respectable 5th, ollieing the huge staircase, landing a kickflip and a tuck knee over the china gap as well as landing clean fs and bs boardslides down the rail.

Women’s Street Final Results:
1. Elissa Steamer (San Francisco, Calif) 87.83
2. Marisa Dal Sonto (Chicago, Ill.) 81.50
3. Amy Caron (Huntington Beach, Calif.) 80.00
4. Rachel Reinhard (Colorado Springs, Colo.) 78.00
5. Leticia Bufoni (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 77.00
6. Vanessa Torres (Silver Lake, Calif) 65.08
7. Evie Bouilliart (Huntington Beach, Calif.) 60.33
8. Lorena Lima (Sayreville, N.J.) 46.83
9. Lauren Perkins (Huntington Beach, Calif.) 42.83
10. Sophie Poppe (Destelbergen, Belgium) 23.25

Check out video highlights via www.thesideproject.com:



Photos c/o www.anapaulanegrao.com

Osiris Girls Team and buds chillin in Huntington Beach

This past weekend was the S3 Supergirl Jam, a three day all-female action sports event, featuring the top female pros in skate, surf and snow. The Osiris Girls team was there in full force, representing in every event including the skateboard bowl jam, skateboard vert contest, the skateboard street competition as well as the snowboard rail jam. The event took place in Huntington Beach, CA, alongside the US Open of Surfing. Osiris girls team skaters Annie Sullivan, Leticia Bufoni, Karen Jones and Allysha Bergado ripped in the bowl jam, vert contest and the street course. In the bowl jam, Karen took 2nd, Allysha 5th and Annie 10th. Karen also took home best trick in vert with a pop shuv-it, bringing home a total of $4500 in prize money!! Congrats Karen! Street skater Leticia Bufoni came in 4th in the street competion, also pocketing $1000 bucks.

Despite the sunny socal weather, the snowboard rail jam went off without a hitch right down on the scorching hot sand. Our snowboarder Vera Janssen killed it on the rail hitting it backside, frontside, and switch, doing some 270s, pretzels. She took home 4th place and $1000 bucks as well. All in all it was a great weekend hangin out on the beach and watching the best girls in skate, snow and surf throwing down for some awesome prize money. Check out the picture gallery below for some sick action shots as well as the girls just hangin out with their buds in HB.

The full results for the weekend:

Bowl Jam
1. Mimi Knoop
2. Karen Jones
3. Cara-Beth Burnside
4. Julie Kindstrand
5. Allysha Bergado
6. Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins
7. Amelia Brodka
8. Lea Taylor
9. Megan Brown
10. Annie Sullivan
11. Gaby Ponce
12. Amee Jay Papelera

Skateboard Street Finals
1. Lauren Perkins
2. Rachel Reinhard
3. Evelien Bouilliart
4. Leticia Bufoni
5. Lorena Lima
6. Amy Caron
7. Sophie Poppe
8. Vanessa Torres
9. Rebecca Syrcopoulos
10. Brooke Durgin
11. Eliana Sosco

Best Trick:
Evelien Bouilliart - Bluntslide on the rail

Skateboard Vert Best Trick
1. Karen Jones (Pop Shuv-It)
2. Mimi Knoop (Fronside Invert)
3. Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins (Gay Twist)
4. Cara Beth Burnside
5. Allysha Bergado
6. Gaby Ponce
7. Amelia Brodka
8. Leah Taylor

Snowboard Rail Jam Finals
1. Laurie Currier
2. Raewyn Reid
3. Chanelle Sladics
4. Vera Janssen
5. Desiree Melancon
6. Jesse Sutton
7. Jamie Madrid
8. Elise Borelli
9. Leanne Pelosi
10. Indigo Monk
11. Ashley Thorton
12. Gaby Viteri

Best Trick:
Laurie Currier - Hard Way Frontside 180 to switch 50/50 to switch Backside 180

For the full story and coverage, check out the S3 Supergirl website.

On July 11-13, the “World’s Greatest Skateboard Competition” went down in Orange County, CA. It was called the Maloof Money Cup and the total prize purse was $450,000 which is the largest purse in the history of professional skatebaording. Ever. The tournament was created by the Maloof brothers (owners of the Palms hotel in Vegas) who brought on some of the most respected names in skateboarding including Rob Dyrdek, Pierre Luc-Gagnon and Jake Brown to help design the contest.

Osiris girls team rider Leticia Bufoni competed in women’s street, where she placed 2nd in prelims and took 5th in the finals. The competition was stacked as the top pros in women’s skateboarding battled it out in the jam session format for the $25,000 first place price.

Here are the final results and pictures:

1. Lacey Baker $25,000
2. Rachel Reinhard $8,000
3. Vanessa Torres $4,000
4. Elissa Steamer $2,000
5. Leticia Bufoni $1,500
6. Amy Caron $250
7. Lorena Lima $250
8. Lauren Perkins $250
9. Evelien Bouilliart $250
10. Marissa Del Santo $250

Video Highlights c/o The Side Project:

Congrats to all the girls who competed, they all killed it out there..!

For more info check out www.maloofmoneycup.com

Nicola Butler

Team rider Nicola Butler took home a 1st place finish on the Mastercraft Pro Wakeboard Tour this past weekend in Reno, NV. She dominated the entire tour, taking first at every stop except the 5th and final stop, where she got 2nd by only .25 points!! Here is what she had to say about her win:

Congrats on winning the tour! How does it feel to claim the top spot on the Pro Tour? Thank you, soo awesome to win the tour title, although i didn’t win all 5 like i wanted to it was still a fun year.

What was it like competing against some of the top pros in women’s wakeboarding that you look up to? Really cool to come into the scene, only my second year pro and standing on the podium next to legends.

What did you do to prepare for each competition weekend? Just trained as hard as i could the week before, not having much time at home cuz al the comps are so stacked, but yeah just tried to ride as much as i could.

Is there any particular trick you landed or moment on the tour that you were super stoked on? Definitely coming onto tour and landing my first mobes in a comp like mobydick and whirlys. Then later on in the season learning 911s and roll to blinds and throwing that in my pass.

A lot of people are saying that you are setting the bar for the future of women’s wakeboarding..how do you feel about that? Really awesome to be getting that image and i hope that i can do what Dallas did and just change womens wakeboarding.

What are your plans for the rest of the season? Well i have Nats and worlds and then i get to just mellow out a bit until next season.

Lastly, anyone you would like to give a shout out to? Yeah, all my sponsors… Mastercraft, Hyperlite, Osiris, OWC, monavie, my dad for all the help and patience and my sister for all the moral support!

The final standings for the 2008 Mastercraft Pro Wakeboard Tour:

1. Nicola Butler (UK) 490
2. Amber Wing (AUS) 400
3. Emily Copeland Durham (USA) 368
4. Shelby Kantar (USA) 355
5. Melissa Marquardt (USA) 340
6. Raimi Merritt (USA) 326
7. Laura Lohrmann (USA) 284
8. Dallas Friday (USA) 255
9. Danni Petraitis (USA) 212
10. Shawna Hoffman (USA) 207

Congrats to our friends Amber Wing, Shelby Kantar and Melissa Marquardt for taking 2nd, 4th and 5th as well. Great job girls!

The 2008 Mastercraft Pro Wakeboard Tour is part of the inaugural 2008 Queen of Wake Series, the first pro women’s wakeboarding circuit of its kind. The Queen of Wake series, presented by MonaVie, is a nine-event professional wakeboarding circuit for female riders that will tour with the men’s King of Wake series. This is the first time that pro women’s wakeboarding will be featured at all nine King of Wake events, with a series title for pro women and a $10,000 bonus for the overall winner crowned Queen of Wake. Click here for the air times and coverage on FUEL TV.

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