Nike Banks Giving Santa Ana...part 1

This past weekend was the Nike 6.0 Banksgiving Jam. They held one of these last month a Garret Reynolds house in Jersey and now it was time fo the West Coast stop in Santa Ana California at Ben Snowdens house. I guess Nate Wessell and Ron Kimler were both in town to build the ramp set up. I as talking to someone that was around helping with the build and said the two of them were machines and threw the ramps up in no time.

The event started at 12 and I showed up a little early after I received a call that the parking was already a mess. "Thanks for the heads up Lord of D! " As I was rolling into the event half od the Give D Crew drove up behind me at the light. They were on the horn hard and I knew this was going to be an interesting day. Boy was I right, haha. It is turning hot, that sucks.

I originally was going to skip this event but Vince had called and asked me to show up so we could hang out. I blame him for everything that fallows, haha. As Hoang, Kyle, Nick, Walker and I creeped into the event. We were greated by door people and a need to sign waivers.


We took the time to fill stuff out. There seemed to be a road block of familiar faces scribbling their info down as fast as possible. They were not messing around. Here you cen see 2 Nicks, a Hoang, and some permission slips.

This is Nick Benson. As far as I am concerned he runs shit over at S&M and Fit. Dude is legit. Nick, mean muggin. It was already starting to get hot out side.








Here you can see another Nick, Nick Corsiglia, wrestling with the Orange permission band we had to wear. Nick is the backwards coasting member of the Give D Crew, dude shreds. Nuno is a big fan and so am I.






Welcome to the Nike 6.No Circus. Crack open the veins and prepare for the energy drinks to flow.




Along the left you will see all of the sponsor booths. I am not sure if they were sponsors or just there to hype their shit up along side bmx. Extreme!





F-it! Robbie and the posse hiding out in the shade. See I told you it was getting hot.







United rider, Ryan Quinones talking to RAS CAT, Shawn Garrett in the Fit booth.







It was crazy how much crap Nike had to give out. Shirts, Bandannas, Rubber toys, Koozies, Multi-Tools the list goes on and on.







The host Ben Snowden and to the left in the black shirt, Catfish. Catfish blessed us all day long with his wonderful voice. I love how he talks shit on people and they are stoked he is talking about them, fuck that.


The ramps, I really had lost all interest at this point. the day started out nice, cool and overcast. I dressed hoping it would stay that way and you can see from the sky it didn't. Most were stoked, I wasn't.




Rooftop going up! Mike gave Vince a ride to the event since I guess Vince pretty much lives with his. What a stand up guy. Starts to make up for the cry baby he was on Road Fools 2 in Portland.




Albert with the final shot of this post. Dude was having a way better time than myself and I can appreciate that. Albert fucking rocks. Come back tomorrow for part 2 where we get to see Vince nose case a backflip!

posted by pdxbmx @ 12:00 AM