Bitter Cold Showdown 2009

For those of you that don’t know, Hugo Vermaak was lucky enough to experience the 2009 BITTER COLD SHOWDOWN (BCSD), here is the low down;

Who were the skaters that stood out to you?
Mathias Silhan, he did a 540 ally-oop top soul on the bank coping between the two quarter pipes, he was just killing it. He skates really fast and tries to air and gap as far out of his tricks as he can, which just makes the trick look so much bigger. David Sizemore also blew me away, he did some of the hardest tricks of the day; this dude is the full package, what stood out was his 360 fish brain on the rainbow rail which he started grabbing midway through the spin.

Which pros did you get to meet?
Don Bambrick, JC Rowe, Rachard Johnson, Brain Murphy and Franky Morales. Then I pretty much saw every other pro you can think of.

By Carla Visser – Photos by Brad Osantoski