Andreas Alvarez

Damn Am Buffalo 2025: Finals - SPoT Life

Flights were getting canceled left and right, but that didn’t stop these ams from making it to Foodcourt Skatepark in upstate New York and battling it out for a shot at the Tampa Am Semi-Finals.

video by Dino Vlahopoulos | edit by Frank Branca

FINAL RESULTS
1. Sena Watanabe
2. Christopher Setinas
3. Gabe Vigliotti
4. Jacsen Kutik
5. Bailey Seager
6. Nicholas Ramos
7. Carlos Garcia
8. Ashu Shigenobu
9. Lucas Aquino
10. Gabriel Lavallee
11. Andreas Alvarez
12. Nathan Souza

Damn Am NYC 2024: Finals & Best Trick - SPoT Life

It was 100 amateur skaters against each other and the rain at LES. That didn't stop us from throwing down the double set for the Skater XL Best Trick contest!

FINAL RESULTS:
1. Abner Pietro
2. Roman Hager
3. Orlando Garcia
4. Brandon Johnson
5. Kristion Jordan
6. Christopher Setinas
7. Steven Vasquez
8. Malachi Gray
9. Nicholas Ramos
10. John Castro
11. Quinn Harbin
12. Kwesi Un Holloway

video by ‪@brancamedia‬

Damn Am Louisville 2024: Finals - SPoT Life

The only thing possibly better than the people, the food and everything else rad in Louisville was the level of skateboarding in the Finals. Check it!

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Damn Am Louisville 2024: Qualifiers & Best Trick - SPoT Life

It's Day 1 at Sprak and these kids are ready to break this park in! The heat is fully cranked and the cut is set to 30 skaters making it to Sunday's semi-finals. Tune in to find out who made it!

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music: ‪@LycheeCamp‬ Always on my Mind (instrumental)

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Damn Am Louisville 2024: Practice & Sprak Tour - SPoT Life

SPoT's very own, Paul Zitzer, has spent the last year putting together the pieces for the Louisville based Sprak. The park features obstacles reminiscent of early Skatepark of Tampa, the places we have been, and the places we want to go. We are kicking off Sprak's grand opening with Damn Am Louisville presented by Monster Army! Tune in to get a first glance of Sprak AND the stoke around the new establishment.

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We brought Johnny Purcell and Jayden Bono to the Miami Open | Skate trip

Couple weeks ago, we went on a skate trip to Miami with our JACKALOPE UP NEXT 2021 tour winner Johnny Purcell and tour stop winner Jayden Bono. They got to participate to the Miami open skateboard contest at Lot 11 skatepark.
Street skateboarding, alligators hunt, bars and nightlife, good food & swimming in Miami Beach were part of the trip.

The two winners of the contest, Shiloh Catori and Jiro Platt are invited to Montreal for the JACKALOPE FEST in August all expenses paid.

Thanks to The Boardr, Ryan Clements, Lot11 Skatepark, Skate Free and Miami City.

JACKALOPE.TV presented by Videotron.
Director / Camera / Editing : Jean Michel Gaudreault
Creative Director : Cécilia Garbarino
Guests: Jayden Bono, Johnny Purcell
Sound design : Benjamin Bongert
Skaters: Jiro Platt, Zion Effs, Chrissy‘’Sosii’’ Brown, Dillon Brown, Slaughter Queen, Itzel Granados Flores, Christine Cottam, Shiloh Catori, Sam Sneed, Daniel Zapata, Cass Hecht, Messiah Massey, Lester Cepero, Mike Piwowar, Micheal Premet, Jesus Trujillo, Desmond White, Adrian Jimenez, Carlos Mendoza, Tucker Cage Capell. Will Gomez, Andreas Alvarez

Red Bull Cornerstone 2021 – Stops One and Two – Saint Louis and Kansas City

The Red Bull Cornerstone Series kicked off the 2021 run at one of St. Louis, Missouri’s most epically unique skateparks—Sk8 Liborius, a skatepark inside of a 165-year old church.

For Men’s, we saw Andreas Alvarez take first place, with Elijah Evans trailing behind a close second and Deano Tull on the heels in third. For the Women’s Division, Rhegan Spiegel took home first. Behind her were Maya Davison in second and Madi Weiner in third.

Maia Weingartner took home best trick with an awesome hippie jump through the bump-to-bar and Drew Nguyen claimed best trick in the Men’s division with a proper front crook nollie flip out down the hubba.

Hot on the heels of St. Louis, skaters of the Midwest gathered at Studio Skate Supply in Kansas City, Kansas for stop number 2 of the Cornerstone series.

In the Men’s division, we saw Manny Maire take top honors with a consistent blend of style and power all day long. Shortly trailing was Andreas Alvarez in 2nd and Cass Hecht coming in at a close 3rd. In the Women’s division, Lilly Goodale came out on top. Behind Lilly were Michaela Alexander in 2nd and Rhegan Spiegel in 3rd.

For Kansas City’s Best Trick, we saw Lucas Delao win with a hardflip back lip in the men’s division and Kayliie DeLaCruz take the cake in the women’s division with a kickflip body varial.

Now in its 3rd year, the Red Bull Cornerstone series invites the Midwest’s top skaters to put together their best runs in the region’s premier indoor skateparks for a chance at a piece of the $25,000 series cash purse! This year’s local qualifier events will be held in Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

The top skaters at each event advance to the Red Bull Cornerstone Final at The Bay in Lincoln, Nebraska on December 5. And it's worth mentioning: The best trick competition is also back this year! After a short hiatus, skaters will once again compete for $1000 and a Red Bull Cornerstone Skate Feature Grant for the local skate park they qualified from!

Follow the action on social media and visit redbull.com/cornerstone for details on locations, registration, times and more!

A Day At The Berrics With Powell Peralta

The Berrics and Powell-Peralta go waaaay back. We invited the team—consisting of Andy Anderson, Greg Rodriguez, Ricky Chavez, Micaiah Furukawa, Donny Hixson, Vincent Luevanos, Dan Corrigan, Ray Corey, Cole Perera, Charlie Blair, Andreas Alvarez, and John Bradford—to treat our park like their own private Public Domain.

Zumiez Best Foot Forward 2019 Part 2

Zumiez Best Foot Forward 2019 kicked off with a bang! Our crew is making their way through the Southeast, starting at Skatepark of Tampa and winding their way up the East Coast finishing in New York City, hosting competitions at your local skate park to find the best Amateur skateboarders!

Tampa Am 2018: Open Qualifier – SPoT Life

If the Friday Open Qualifier at Tampa Am was a kitchen appliance, it would be a meat grinder. 161 skaters from around the globe took their best shot at making a 10 cut to the next round, and yeah that’s pretty much as harsh as it can get.

Video: Frank Branca & Alan Rosenquist