{"id":59721,"date":"2016-08-08T17:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=59721"},"modified":"2016-08-22T05:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:29:43","slug":"the-highland-showdown-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/the-highland-showdown-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highland ShowDown Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highland Showdown<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/coz52k-hGK8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elliot Sloan has been on a roll with\u00a0signature tricks, X-Games Megaramp victories,\u00a0an insane recent video part&#8230; and now he just\u00a0hosted an event at home which may as well be\u00a0considered the best Vert event of the entire year.\u00a0Thank you Elliot and Rockstar.<\/p>\n<p>Images and Editing by Dan Bourqui\u00a0#danbourqui<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:\u00a0This video clip is not a detailed description\u00a0of the contest itself but rather, an edited version\u00a0of events, with individual shots of tricks taken during\u00a0two days and stitched together with commentary to\u00a0tell a story.\u00a0For an exact account of the contest, it&#8217;s runs and riders,\u00a0please refer to this Rockstar webcast below.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Highland ShowDown\u00a0from Rockstar<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AXDs9d2Fm30\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On August 6th, eight-time X Games medalist Elliot Sloan opened his backyard playground for the first-ever Highland Showdown. With one of the gnarliest Vert ramp setups in the business, the Highland Showdown pitted skateboard vets against up-and-comers in a Vert showdown. The event featured 24 riders, including Elliot Sloan, Bucky Lasek, and\u00a0Tristan Rennie\u00a0throwing down on Sloan\u2019s backyard skate paradise.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59723 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jimmy-bs-ollie.jpg\" alt=\"Jimmy bs ollie\" width=\"1280\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jimmy-bs-ollie.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jimmy-bs-ollie-600x352.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jimmy-bs-ollie-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jimmy-bs-ollie-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jimmy-bs-ollie-614x360.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Wilkins &#8211; backside ollie. Photo by Dan Bourqui<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highland Showdown Elliot Sloan has been on a roll with\u00a0signature tricks, X-Games Megaramp victories,\u00a0an insane recent video part&#8230; and now he just\u00a0hosted an event at home which may as well be\u00a0considered the best Vert event of the entire year.\u00a0Thank you Elliot and Rockstar. Images and Editing by Dan Bourqui\u00a0#danbourqui Disclaimer:\u00a0This video clip is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skate-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jimmy-bs-ollie.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59724,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59721\/revisions\/59724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}