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Today Josh competed at the Dawn of the Shred. He did ok. Of course I can quote many many pro skateboarders who also said, they lost their first competition as well. All I can say was Josh had the nervous jitters during his second run, and his knees kept giving out just before a trick. The first run went fine! He did well and landed all of his signature tricks, except at the end he slipped out on a rail grind. Due to the lack of space, small size of lot, closely placed ramps, it was hard to find the flow in the park. Most of the skaters just went back and forth on the two big ramps, and did tricks off the half pyramid in the center with a rail. There was good competition there, a lot of skaters were good. Josh even played a makeup game of SKATE for a complete setup, lost both rounds, boy were the other skaters rea ...Read the full article