{"id":122068,"date":"2016-08-30T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122068"},"modified":"2016-08-30T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:23:47","slug":"skateboard-video-drop-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122068","title":{"rendered":"Skateboard Video &#8211; \u201cDROP OF DOOM\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire Games is a 2 stop series of unconventional skateboard contest concentrated on thinking outside the box and having fun. The second stop for 2016 was the \u201cDrop Of Doom\u201d on Aug 27th in Montreal, Quebec. The concept for the event was quite simple, highest drop in wins, 12\u201d blocks were added to a 10-foot-high transition in a pyramid formation until we reach the maximum drop in point.<\/p>\n<p>We saw some epic slams and makes throughout the day however it was Phil Dulude who came out on top with a mind blowing 20ft drop in, Leon Chapdelaine and Jordan Gallant tied for second dropping in from 18th.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Honorable mentions<\/span>:<br \/>\nHighest Switch Drop In \u2013 Cody Cormier &amp; Leon Chapdelaine \u2013 13ft<br \/>\nHighest Roll In \u2013 Phil Dulude \u2013 14ft<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/180627113?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire Games is a 2 stop series of unconventional skateboard contest concentrated on thinking outside the box and having fun. The second stop for 2016 was the \u201cDrop Of Doom\u201d on Aug 27th in Montreal, Quebec. The concept for the event was quite simple, highest drop in wins, 12\u201d blocks were added to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,59,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-skateboard-mountain-board","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122069,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122068\/revisions\/122069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}