Less than 5 Web Dump
A less than 540 contest is pretty much a photographers wet dream. Grabs pokes, tweaks, snaps, and tons of other cool shit. As you can tell from the teaser video, it was an eventful day featuring tons of your stylish favorites. It’s amazing how many different ways there are to do the same trick, and this contest proved just that. Each and every one of these guys are known for standing out from the crowd with moves like method backside 180’s, wrapped rewind combos, TS 270 to method, toe back 3’s and more. With the overwhelming success and response to this first ever Alliance Less the 540 event, we plan to make it an annual tradition that will push the new generations of riders to focus on innovation instead of duplication.
Below we created a list of moves from the event and matched them up with the riders we feel do them best. These guys are to these tricks like PB is to J…
Randall Harris – TS FS 270 to method
Bob Soven – TS wrapped rewind 180
Bob Sichel – HS wrapped indy FS 360
Steel Lafferty – HS mute FS 360
Ben Greenwood – TS stalefish FS 360
Shane Bonifay – TS backside 180 late nose grab
Kevin Henshaw – HS Stalefish BS 180
Jeff McKee – TS backside indy poke to FS 360
Erik Ruck – HS FS stalefish shify to BS 180
JD Webb – HS stalefish to flats
Raph Derome – TS off axis backside 360 late melan
Josh Twelker – TS backside 3 late melan TWEAK
Agree? Disagree? tell us how you really feel Mr. Internet Assasin! Haha. For the full story on the Less than 540 event pick up the 100th issue of Alliance out now…
April 25, 2012
this is how a contest should be!!
April 25, 2012
They should do more of these!! It gets boring to watch dudes/gals huck themselves with absolute no style.
April 25, 2012
yeah this was a lot of fun, thanks to alliance for throwing a really great contest with a fun format. but just a heads up i dont know if i did a ts bs 180 late nose. i thought it was a tail grab ts bs 3 but i dont care i take what ever alliance wants to award me with..
thanks for the invite guys and everything else, and you know this website kickass.
April 25, 2012
want to see more footage from this event
April 25, 2012
bob soven = blowing it in photo 6/11. who ever shot that should have hit the delete button. not a nose grab. perfection and cleanliness not happening. 1,3,5 contests are good. the vans snow ones are a ton of fun.
April 26, 2012
Not a nose grab, but still an epic trick. Everybody needs to cut the right and wrong way to do things crap.
Leave that to the trickskiiers.
August 28, 2012
whens the next one boys im flying down