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September 4, 2008
AST Keeps Plaza Style Course In Salt Lake City
It seems like everyone in the skateboard media likes to break the balls of the AST Dew Tour. As a corparate contest they are an easy target for ridicule. Politics aside when you get down to the skateboarding its hard not shake your head when you see the course. The Pros hate the Skate Park course and have been calling for a change from a BMX style course to one that they would normally skate. The new plaza design has now been adopted with positive reveiws.
I asked these three veteran AST Pros who skated well in Portland, What did you like or dislike about the course?
Dayne Brummet
"It wasn't perfect by any means, but definitely a step in the right direction. If anything, I think this course was too plaza style. The first two stops seemed to be transition parks with some street obstacles. I think the best is a street course with some tranny obstacles. The Portland course only had one quarter pipe, and no one skated it because you couldn't get to it. They should have a bank to wall or some smaller steep tranny obstacles in the mix if you ask me. Still, they didn't do too bad with this one."
Tulio Oliveira
"I think they did a really good job. It was a really fun place to skate. It had everything, like manuals, rails, legds,hubbas, gaps, everythng that you will find on real street. So i think that was the best course designed Dew Tour course."
Austen Seaholm
"I like the new style. It's more true to what we skate, only the trannie guys will have a tough time with it. I hope they keep it up and don't go back."
AST continues the trend toward the plaza style with street features as shown bellow. This design to be built in Salt Lake City is slightly more to the trannie side then Portland. But this should make it flow better and should be well received. You can't please everyone but AST has made a major change for the better.
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