RED BULL Manny Mania Orlando

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As you all have heard, this past weekend was Red Bull Manny Mania. This event has been going on in FL for the past few years, and this year we were fortunate enough to have the event take place in Orlando. It all went down at Universal’s City Walk unfortunately though, where beers are $10, parking is $15, and the ground is made of rough cement laced with holes. Despite the triple digit heat, the shoddy ground, and slew of tourists, our boys came up big time in the contest!

Bert had placed second last year in Miami’s Many Mania, and came through this year. He easily had the most tricks landed out of the whole day. Here is a gap to 180 switch manny on the lilly pads. These things destroyed people all day. They are way harder to skate than they look.

The crowd got to look on from some nice bleachers, while the rest of us got to chill under the shade in the VIP with free Moes catering. We all got to watch everyone from the state of Florida rip, and try and go for a chance to win a trip out to the finals in NYC. Shop rider Jonny Scianneaux came through with a 1st place qualification getting him into the finals. Out of the 40+ entrants, our shop was the only one to have all three of our riders entered make it to the finals. So congrats to Jack, Bert, and Jonny.

As usual RIPNDIP was there to hook the crowd up. For the first time ever RND got some recognition on the mic from the SPoT dudes. It’s hard to get the SPoT crew to notice you let alone be hyped on you, so getting some support from some of the industry’s biggest haters was pretty sick. Congrats to O’Con.

Bert had all sorts of manny variations throughout the day and used the whole course as a playground. Here is a lipslide 270 to manny down the cheese wedge. It hurts my head trying to think about turning like that while sitting on a curved circle rail.

One of the biggest surprises of the day was by far Jack Moran. He came through big time and had one of the sickest tricks of the day by far. Here is a nollie halfcab fakie manny bigspin out. Jack also came through with a ton of other manny tricks earning him 6th place. Jack easily got the most shout outs on the mic the whole day. We are psyched to have him on the team.

After the finals Jonny almost had a heat stroke and couldn’t breathe. Luckily the Red Bull girls were there to give him some much needed TLC. Hah. We need to get this kid an inhaler or something. In the end, Bert got 1st, Jonny got 3rd, and we all spent some time relaxing at the DoubleTree hotel with some much needed cold ones.

We Out!