Laguna Seca In Monterey, California

Back in April, Micah Green and Scott Hamilton were lucky enough to receive the opportunity to race in the Laguna Seca Invitational during the Sea Otter Classic.  This race came from the history books of our very own sport and hasn’t been done since 1982.  Hosted on the Laguna Seca Raceway, we ran down the track backwards and drag raced four men deep. Only 32 racers were invited which meant that if you advanced only a single round you were already in quarter-finals.  So it got pretty heated, pretty fast when they started calling ‘Ready-Set-Go!’.  Before we started skating though, and during the practice runs everyone was playing it cool and simply hanging out with their friends.   

Aaron Breetwor, AJ Haiby, Daniel Luna, Jimmy Riha, Max Capps and Micah Green Checkin' out the track before the race, unintentionally poaching a run.

Micah pretending to be a race car

 Scott coming fast up to the finish line

Max Capps leading Billy Meiners, Micah Green and Malachi Greene

Scott leading the pack with Kyle Wester and Eric Lundberg -Connor Wagner Photo

Micah getting in tight with Braden Tibbles, Andrew Mercado, and Calvin Staub -Connor Wagner Photo     

Scott tucking real fast 

A rad race heat with the Jimmy Riha

Congratulations to Kyle Wester for winning the Laguna Seca Invitational! 

Thrasher Magazine's video edit of the event.

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Brock Warren, Connor Wagner and Zac Baca also made the trip out west. We spent our nights camping on hardwood floors in an abandoned and powerless house on the 18th hole of the beautiful Pebble Beach Golf Course. We were very generously offered this location by Sean Woolery, who spectated the race as well. 

Jacob Geerlings, Zac Baca, Micah Green, Connor Wagner

The original four SL,UT Skaters. On the far left is Jake "Smash" Geerlings. He pushed the rest of us the harder and faster on skateboard from the very beginning than anyone has before.  While we were all learning from scratch, Jake was immediately ripping down the hills of Salt Lake harder and faster than anyone else had done before.  During our travels, Connor, Zac and I were lucky enough to see our old friend again, who is currently stationed in Berkley, California serving in the National Coast Guard.

Check out this RAW RUN of Micah, Brock and Zac skating the hills of NorCal with Byron Essert.

Thank you Miles and Byron Essert for giving us a place to stay, and showing us how it's done on and off a skateboard in Berkely California.