The skatepark qualifiers on friday looked like this with the Indy team riders. Sunday will be the finals.

Indy team riders top 10 qualifiers:
1. Pedro Barros
3. Kevin Kowalski
4. Bucky Lasek
5. Curran Caples
7. Omar Hassan
8. Taylor Bingaman
10. Rune Glifberg

This place again, Trujillo backside air

This is where all the cool VIP’s got to hang out

Heavy camera cranes to capture the action

These are the types running the contest

Be careful filming around those crazy skaters and flying boards!

Jake Brown was hanging out and signing autographs

Must have got some good news on the phone

Gavette and Baca. “where’s the beer”?

Omar channel blaster

Media zone was very limited, Tony Trujillo boneless

Rune Glifberg frontside ollie

Taylor Bingaman was invited

Bingaman backside air

Keegan Saunder was having a blast

Another great in the air photo, Bucky early release

Ben Hatchell throwing up fives

Curran Caples was ripping the course

Curran lein air

Curran fs air over the hole

Baca trying to figure out what he was doing there

While you skated you could look up and see yourself

Kevin Kowalski with a bag of tricks, ripped as well Sean Penn on the pool coping wall

Kevin one foot tail scraper over the sun visor

Huge indy air over the hip

Pedro Barros qualified first. Look out for the finals

The the real skate fun started on the way home in Orange County. No passes, Xgame spectators and security monkeys in the way. More photos and video to come this week on the pool mission with Kevin Kowalski.

Just got my new Independent beer Uncommon capsule case in the mail. My dog was trying to drink it. So will your friends. Check out this one and other designs at: http://www.getuncommon.com/collections

Head on over to The Mag for a sneak peak of the September issue with Indy Team Pro Leo Romero on the cover + 20 page interview + Debut Indy ad.

Rune takes the cover with a back tail slide over a death box out in Salba’s neighborhood. You need some 3D glasses to really check it out. Seems like alot of 3D hype going on. Its hard to look at the rest of the mag with the glasses on?

Truman Hooker contents with a hefty front board

New Jack: Steve Durante “doesn’t seem right to cut my hair for skating”

Crooked grind

Flip takes it to Arizona

Geoff Rowley kickflip blunt fakie

David Gonzalez nollie flip

Luan Oliveira backtail kick flip out

Emerica takes a trip to China

Kevin Long frontside glass ride

Braydon varial flip

Jamie Tancowny backside heel flip

3D lance mountain back smith over the hip and floaters

Made it up to LA to check out the X Games skatepark. No crowds and no contest. Just a practice session with Mountain, Hosoi, Hassan, Barros, Grosso, Rune, Bucky, Josh Borden and some others. The park was made for the contest out of concrete and skatelite. It even had some sort of visor/ wave design that was kind of limited but I’m sure it will look cool on t.v. Drinking beers skating the course, who would have imagined? Things will heat up more next week and along with the Xtreme crowds.

Josh Borden boneless

What?

Bucky Lasek ollie

Hosoi figuring out the line

Not quite but it went down

Rune Glifberg frontside air

Steve Olson and Christian Hosoi catch up

Pedro Barros was killing it

A big slam on this thing will do great for the ratings….