Nike 6.0 Banksgiving East Coast Jam
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A few weeks ago, word got out about a jam Nike 6.0 was putting on called Banksgiving. There was supposed to be one Banksgiving on the East Coast and one out West, but no one knew what it was all about. Then last week, the location for the first Banksiving was announced: Garrett Reynolds’ backyard in Toms River, New Jersey. Garrett’s yard was already filled with stuff to ride, but it was getting even better thanks to Nate Wessel. Nate spent three days at Garrett’s house and everyone put in some serious work transforming the yard complete with a mini ramp, giant bank/wedge, bank/vert wall thing, a rail going down a ledge, a flat rail, plus a dirt jump and a dirt quarterpipe.
When riders began to show up on Saturday for the Banksgiving Jam, a lot of them still were not sure what to expect. Some were expecting a contest, but instead they found a laid-back vibe and rad place to ride. The decks of the ramps were constantly filled with Northeast locals including Garrett, Jake Seeley, Brad Gethard, Augie Simoncini, Brian Foster, Scotty Cranmer, Van Homan, and out of towners like Mike Ishizuka, Vince Kroff, and Anthony Watkinson. Catfish was on the mic to make sure people were having fun, and he occasionally started mini contests including a jam on the flat rail, a five-second-footjam challenge, a flat-ground session, and a session on the rail down the wedge. People were gong nuts all day on every obstacle, and luckily there were only two hard slams. The first one happened when John Dicaprio bailed out of a 360 over the dirt jump and went all the way to flat on his tailbone. The second slam came during the rail jam when Van Homan tried to manual the skinny rail and wound up looping out on his back super-hard. Luckily Van is indestructible, so he walked away with a few scratches on his back and a smile on his face.
Garrett had the default home-court-advantage for the day, and he was nonstop with icepick-to-barspins on the roof of the garage, tons of wallride tricks, and barspin-to-ice and tooth-hanger on the down-rail. Augie Simoncini had the best outfit of the day and rocked plenty of good stuff. Brian Foster flat out ruled, and Scotty Cranmer stayed “mellow” with fuf-to-ice-fakie on the garage roof, plus a few other magic tricks. There was a lot more good stuff that went down, so make sure to check out all of the photos, and watch for the Banksgiving video coming this week, too.
Aside from the riding at Banksgiving, there was some other cool stuff going down as well. Nike 6.0 had a goodie bags loaded with stickers, bandanas, a cool Allen wrench set, a DVD called “Ricochet,” and crazy orange grips. A local Italian restaurant had everyone eating well for free, and there was more Vitamin Water at the place than in most stores.
The East Coast Banksgiving turned out to be a super-fun, laid back session. There is another Banksgiving in the works for the West Coast on November 17th, and if you can make it to SoCal, you will most likely have a blast, so don’t sleep on it. To see even more Nike 6.0 Banksgiving photos from New Jersey on Flickr, click right here.
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