And another teammate in third place, another former winner, we got Eric Costin in second
place, Ryan DeSenzo, and Ryan for Elements, Silver, FKD, and Diamond, first place in the
semifinals, Nigel Houston, they'll be joining Torrey Portdwell and Jared Bassett in the
finals. All right, all right, that's it man, we're getting the Mowry started right here,
we got our 10 contestants right behind me, they're gonna run with George all the way
back that way, over to our neighbor's lot, they get under the tubes over here, that's
the funny part, like if you pan out over here and check out these tubes that they run under,
they actually run under the driveway, and like I said, the most actually pretty clean
right now, it usually gets a lot more dirty during the winter time, but we got some heavy
rains on Thursday, washed a lot of the gunk out of it, but you'll always see that nice
oil slick up on top of it, it's always a little oil slick from the gas station down the street
where all the tractor trailers gas up, this one is your favorite, right?
This is definitely one of my favorites, and like Clemens says, there's no smell or vision
yet, but I can guarantee you, this clear water is not gonna be clear any longer, once these
kids start running through it, it just becomes a muck, it's actually, it's pretty disgusting,
if you're within 30 feet of this thing, it just reeks, it's horrible.
Hey, what do you have in your left hand? Oh, this was started by Curran Capels, he actually
bought eggs one year for the Mote Race, and now it's become a tradition, and I believe
there was 5 dozen eggs handed out, and I'm one of the lucky guys to actually hold one
of the golden eggs.
Man, I'm looking around, I see eggs in all kinds of people, Matt Milligan's got one,
Ryan Galantska one, Charlie Thomas has one, Chris from Transworld's got one, look at this
man, eggs everywhere. Hey, you don't realize that the water's actually a little cold, even
though it's beautiful down here in Florida, alright, we're about to get started right
here, George is down at the end, he's got the megaphone and the siren, and we're gonna
get going. The thing is, when you're watching it from this, oh here they go, I hope no one
hits their head, man, that's always the thing, and they're not supposed to actually hit
each other, and this is being pretty fair right now, these guys, ah, the first eggs
are getting launched, man, look at the stamina, you have to stay in the water the whole time,
oh man, a little too early, oh, these dudes are gonna get blasted, I feel bad for them,
it's coming now, starting to get fatigued a little bit, oh man, no one's been hit yet,
oh man, ah, I'm not feeling it for these poor kids right now, these guys, look at the little
guy all in the back, he's not gonna make it at all, oh, eggs are flying, eggs are flying,
we got him running, those poor kids are getting pelted, man, we might have to cancel the eggs,
but he's earning a trip to Woodward right there, my man won, Farron Square, gotta love
it right there, Clemens describe the smell, it starts to reek up a little bit, like I
said it's a little cleaner than it's usually, because we had some heavy rains, but I don't
smell it yet to you, you get a smell of it, I guess I'm used to it, I work here every
day and so I'm pretty used to the moat smelling like pretty much garbage on a regular basis,
so right now the other guys coming through, all the kids get nice prize packs though,
the winner is actually getting a deck, couple sweatshirts, and he's getting a trip to Woodward,
a week at Woodward, not a trip there, but a week there, that's amazing, and it's funny
because all the skatepark attempt staff that actually have to deal with the kids all have
on surgical gloves for when they have to clean them up, because they all get hosed down before
they're allowed back in the park, they've got enough gear to actually put on a change
of clothes, so that's a good thing, because nobody wants to be around some like hepatitis
infested dudes inside a skatepark, yeah, at least we have some really nice weather, they're
getting hosed down over here, I think we can probably walk over here and get a little vision
of frosty hosing them down, so what we're doing right after this is we're going to head
back inside and go right to the finals, so see if anyone, no one's getting hosed down
yet, look there's one little guy still just trying to make it over there, he's trying
to do this, he wants to finish for the honor, oh man I'm smelling the mode now, I really
really smell it, it smells super nasty, let's see if we can get frosty over here to hose
down the first kid, where's the winner, go grab them, let's hose them down, it smells
over here real bad, we'll probably put them right over there, we've got our paramedic
on site, I didn't see any injuries, I think we're good, usually there's people bleeding
like one year people were throwing out trucks and a kid got hit in the head, but this is
like not officially endorsed by the skate park at Tampa, this is just something that people
do.
Yeah we have nothing to do with it other than cover it, we're just covering the mode race
right now.
Yeah some crazy kids just thought it up and then some people started donating product
and it just happens, it just so happens that it's a coincidence that it happens here during
the contest.
You know who I think actually started it up, I think it was the Muska, the Muska was throwing
product into the mode, it was about maybe 99 round there and he's throwing stuff in
there, kids were jumping in and we're like hey why don't we really make them fight for
it.
Well man, I can't believe that these kids actually, well you know what, it's free product, I'd
probably do it if I didn't have all the privileges that I do have in the skateboard industry,
but here comes our racers right here, check them out.
Oh they're not looking so good man, they're looking fatigued, they're about to get hosed
down, man they stink, yeah it really smells over here, you're not getting the smell of
it, yeah you're not getting the smell of it, but it's bad, yeah it really smells
nasty.
I don't know what all that, what's the white stuff all over on powder, flour, people hit
it, so it's like they, it's like they've been, it's like they've been tarred and feathered,
oh he scraped his back, yeah he scraped his back, yeah.
We're going to hose them off across the street over here.
This is like the 1960s right here, we're working for equal rights, hosing people down, and hey
we're bringing it back here at Skate Park at Tampa.
Now we're hosing down white people, wow things have changed haven't they, I think we're hosing
down all ethnicities right here.
How come there's no black people in the motorist, you know why, because black people are too
smart to do this, well I thought Akile Broadway, if he can't swim, Akile told me he can't swim.
Alright thank you guys for watching the moat race, all good times, always fun, we're throwing
it to commercials right now, we'll be back with the finals, Tampa Am, Tampa Am, I'm having
too much fun, I'm having too much fun, yep 17th annual, $75,000 giveaway, we got an amazing
top 12, all the guys that got top 10 in the semifinals are going to meet Zerid and Tori,
they were both killing it in practice, I can't wait to see it.
Yeah it's definitely going to be a great show so stay tuned we'll see you in just a little
bit.
We'll see you guys in 15th.
