The first of the same kind, Red Bull Needle Drop Paired professional skaters and gamers on the legendary Kona skatepark in Jacksonville, Florida, a skate park that also reappears in real life in the newly released and remade Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4. Leticia Bufoni,,,,, Jamie Foy and Zion Wrightand legend Bam Margera, who mixes it with everyone who shows up and skates in the Florida Heat and surprise rainfall. How it works: The gamer has two minutes of jam on the Kona level in the game, and the skaters then run a minute in the real Kona Park judged by the on-site judge, and that's the total score on the rankings. Dedicated to this occasion, our relatives on the board wore classic police outfits, such as Officer Dick at the competition.
Competitors of Red Bull Pin Drop in Jacksonville, Florida
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Jamie Foy and Marlon Moreno are the final winners of the Red Bull Plate, dominating the tracks and ledges of the legendary Kona Skatepark. With strong lines and technical accuracy, the two stand out in a stacked field.
Jamie Foy and Marlon Moreno in Jacksonville, Florida
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Jamie Foy in Florida
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If you don't know, Kona Skatepark is the oldest skatepark in the world and happens to be a few games in the Tony Hawk series. “I won't lie,” said Florida native Jamie Foy“Once I get a new game, the first place I play is Kona.” Kona’s weathered concrete resurfaced and leveled the pin drops, adding new permanent obstacles, the first concrete street barrier ever in Kona!
“It's worth paying and going there,” Foy said. “The history of skateboarding is so historical. It's like going to landmarks when you're traveling. It makes a lot of sense.”
“They did a great job in Kona,” Bam Mergera mused. “I played the Kona level today because we're here and it's identical to the game, to the point where the green grass sometimes turns brown—they even have that mastered in the game. They must have had a high-def scan or something. If you saw the contraction I was in when they rescanned me for the game, it was 167 cameras in a globe scanning me, so they have some high-tech Hollywood stuff going on right now.”
Zion Wright and Bam Margera
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Bam's personal history at Kona Skatepark has recovered back: “I skated a long time ago on Tony Hawk's tour. Danny Way is still known as the Danny Way gap. I skated here two months ago and I know (gap) (gap) stands out on the ramps along the coast, and if Dalton Dern hasn't done that, he's already done a change on him. He likes anyway, “I can't let it go, I have to do it today.” “I don't even know how people skate in this calories to tell you the truth.”
Flordia skaters can handle heat. Foy mentioned seeing Bam out in the park: “Everyone I talked to, that’s their big problem, ‘Hey man, have you ever seen Bam?’ Hey, man, he still has a huge fan base, he’s there, he’s skating that day.
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Received a call: Become a new skater in the game
“It's so surreal, I can only think, 'No way!' I'm very hype,” Foy's manager told him that Tony Hawk's 3 and 4 were out and they wanted him. “They reissued 1 and 2, they added Tyshawn (Jones) and Yuto (Horigome), and I don't know if they were going to have another package trading game with 3 and 4. I was excited, but even more excited, and could take the Activision and see how they do everything.” Foy explained, “Make my character very interesting – everything facial recognition is like a Hella camera. Then, I had to make a sound for all kinds of things – my laughter, my excitement level, my pain level – now it's a dream come true.”
So, what is it like to get the final product and play in Tony Hawk's first game? “I think it’s crazy,” Foy said. “Video games are more clear than when I was a kid. It looks like I do. The characters may be a little taller in the game, but, hey, I'll take it (laughs).”
Of course, we have to know what Foy's special tricks are, and the answers may surprise you. “I think it’s called Nova Grind,” Foy said. “It looks like the front line bends that look cool. Then, I have another one, fandangle, that (Eric) Koston used to have in the game.
Wouldn't Foy's character have high forward bending ability? Foy lets us know: “It's not really bending or pinching ability, but he keeps the balance, it's a very high balance meter, sick, you can get high scores. And speed, my guy is dragging his butt, it's very sick.” We're sure to take Foy's character spin when we try new games.
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The influence of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4
Bam first appeared in Tony Hawk's third Tony Hawk skaters in 2001, explains: “They did such a good thing that they did make professional skaters put on the map because even if you're not a hardcore skateboarder, a lot of people bought that game and found my comic con through it. Picking in that game, they were really glad I got back to it.
Leticia Bufoni
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As a young girl who grew up in Brazil, Leticia Bufoni Actually she played this game before she started skating: “Before I started skating, I was playing Tony Hawk's professional skater with my brother. I never thought I would skate one day because then, it was a “boy”. A few months after playing the game, I started skating for a year, and I started playing games, and I didn't know the name of the trick. heelflip.
The video game also opened its eyes to Bufon's female skaters: “For the first time I saw a lot of professional skaters like Elissa Steamer. I saw her in the game, and then I got an all-girl skating video DVD. It was a big part of my childhood and it's amazing in the game now.” Bufoni first appeared in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 in 2015.
Foy explains the impact of the game on him: “For me, it reminds me of something that is possible – yes, it's a video game, but if you imagine and can see it, it can get something in real life even in a video game. I'll think of a trick and then see it in a video game, which will see it in my mind.” It's crazy to think that some of Jamie's shocking handrail combos might have dreamed about when playing Tony Hawk's video game. “It also shows me that the world is your oyster. Those levels in video games – you can skate everything and you’re not only stuck in some ramps. I opened my eyes when I was a kid and if I was bored or raining, or if I was hurt, or if I was hurt, or if I was hurt, or if I was hurt, or if I was hurt, I was always able to make my mind more and more.
Next time you place your bucket list on your historic Kona Skatepark near Jacksonville, Florida. It's already full of charge, and if it's enough for Foy, Wright, Bam and Bufoni, you'll surely explode and get the value of your money. You can see for yourself how it stacks onto its video game version!