Skateboarding has gotten so out of control these days with guys like Mike Mo doing the most incredible tech/manual/flip-in-flip-out type stuff or Fallen guys doing huge rails and gaps… I’m not being a curmudgeon but for most people that does not compute.

This series going on at the Berrics right now is essentially the purest form of head to head competition there could ever be in skateboarding.

Style, speed, distance, transition and any other number of factors is an apples and oranges scenario. This tournament puts some of the best skaters of our time head to head on flat ground tricks. You make it or you don’t.. that’s it.

I could watch this shit over and over all day.

I am a big fan of Arto Saari but I can’t say I wasn’t a bit happy when The Cheekster took him out. Just goes to show you that when you take away the obstacles, what you can actually do on a skateboard is what really matters.

Watch the Battle at the Berricks.