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Zumiez Best Foot Forward Tulsa 2012
In Oklahoma, the wind rips through the plains like a reaper sewing the seeds of death. Carnage and mayhem was the toast of the day as the Zumiez Best Foot Forward Am Competition ensued at the Broken Arrow Skatepark in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Although the Dust Bowl ravaged this great landscape over eighty years ago, the dust has far from settled. Sweeping throughout Broken Arrow like a sandstorm, the winds on this day would reach a level almost unbearable. And now the skaters of Tulsa had their own natural forces to put to the test. The contest began with the quickness and soon took a fascinating, yet unpleasant, turn. In heat number one, Kevin Wright suffered a bizarre knee sprain, leaving the rest of the contenders in an intimidated realm. Unfazed and emerging out of that first heat making the preverbial record skip with an audible "errat," was Dakota Camp. Dakota put the gnar gloves on and went to work on all things concrete. The milky white skies opened up to a tornado pressure storm and the following six heats were more or less kite-boarding around the transitional playground. Some of the wind blown antics were downright nutty. Dudes like Caleb Bagley and Jordan Rudichuck stood out amongst those who showed up for the battle. Both rocked their way into the finals with various combos on the bump to ledges and an extra special gap-over-the-pyramid to nose blunt for Jordan. 'Dirty' Dakota Villancana was cruising around the grounds with a look of enjoyment beaming from his face. While cool, calm and collected, Dirty happened to rock out some hammers down the man-rail, including a kick-flip to front fifty that left the rest of the crowd speechless. The man to watch was former BFF finalist and hesh trooper, Pat Donivan. The silky smooth lines and raw power with which Donivan tackles the transitions was a sight to behold. Like an indigenous concrete warrior, Pat Donivan rolled faster than a cheetah an
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