Other challenges & rules

Thrasher Magazine, Dec, 2004

THE BASIC RULES.

You must go to all of the cities on your route. Anywhere else is up to you

* All City Challenges should be opened only after entering the city limits of said city

* Only a member of the team, the immediate media (the photographer and video guy), the Mystery Guest and the team manager can earn points

* Only one person can earn the points on any specific trick; i.e., just because two people can do it doesn't mean you get the points twice

* Meet the challenges to the best of your abilities and understanding. Any ambiguities in the wording of the challenges are unintentional

* All tricks must be filmed to get points

* It is up to the video guy to be able to present the footage to Phelps on August 27th to be judged

* The validity of sketchy landings will be at Jake Phelps' discretion

* All decisions by Jake Phelps are fair and binding

* You must be in Denver on August 20th to pick up your Mystery Guest

* You must be in SF at Hubba Hideout on August 27th, around noon

* All unexpected expenses are the responsibility of the sponsoring companies

* The team with the most total points will be named the Kings of the Road

* A member of the winning team will be featured on the cover of the special K.O.T.R. issue of Thrasher

IN-THE-VAN CHALLENGES

HARD (10 POINTS)

* Get a trucker to honk their horn

* Get a child to give you the finger

* Bomb-drop off the back of the roof

HARDER (20 POINTS)

* Get someone in another moving vehicle to show you their ass

* Get an elderly person to give you the finger

* Pick up a hitchhiker

HARDEST (50 POINTS)

* Get a woman in another moving vehicle to show you her tits

* Ollie off the front of the roof over the hood

* Make out with a hitchhiker

HIGHEST, LONGEST, MOSTEST (judged against the other teams--worth 50 points each)

* Most boards broken by one person (not by focusing)

* Kinkiest rail (most kinks) skated

* Highest air

* Most rails skated in a line

* Longest grind (tranny)

* Biggest rail

* Most stairs ollied

* Biggest gap (tranny)

* Biggest kickflip

* Biggest switch ollie

* Biggest backside 180

* Biggest frontside 360

* Biggest fakie ollie

* Biggest backside lip

* Hall of Meat--worst slam

* Biggest 360 flip

* Biggest switch 360 flip

* Best rail trick

* Most stairs fire-crackered

* Daewon award (most combos in one trick)

* Rohan Chaleng--best trick blind folded

* Most stairs backside kickflipped up from flat

* Mustache comp--best 'stache grown over the course of the trip. Everyone must start out clean-shaven

MISC. CHALLENGES

HARD (10 POINTS)

* Make out with a person five years older than you (ID required)

* Skate a rail in the rain

* Go to a town with the same name as any member of the team

HARDER (20 POINTS)

* Make out with a person over 30 (ID required)

* Focus a ginger's board (red-headed person) who you don't know

* SALBA'S LIFE--one person on the team must wear full pads (knee, elbow and helmet) for 24 hours straight--sleeping, eating, everything

* Make and session a Philly Bar (pole jam)

HARDEST (50 POINTS)

* Make out with a person over 40 (ID required)

* F/s boardslide a real handrail barefoot

* Skate naked

* UNLUCKY 13: Do 13 different tricks (as a team) on a 13-stair rail and/or down the 13 stairs

* DOWN FOR LIFE: Get a Thrasher tattoo

* PUNK'S NOT DEAD: Everyone (including Mystery Guest) gets Mohawks