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Chaz Ortiz, 14, takes Dew Cup title in skateboard park

latimes.com — Fourteen-year-old Chaz Ortiz won the skateboard park event Sunday in the PlayStation Pro to take the Dew Cup as the season points leader.

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  • Ramble, on 10/20/2008, -0/+10To a non skater there is no difference.
  • algaeturd, on 10/20/2008, -2/+9Ironic that anyone would be dumb enough to compare him to Tony Hawk since he's a street ripper and Hawk was never any good on street. The next Eric Koston maybe?
    street/vert = apples/oranges
  • Surferess, on 10/20/2008, -2/+8Wow 54,000 fans. That is a lot of skateboard enthusiasts, especially for Florida. Big ups to Jeremy Lusk from my home town too.
  • mattjameson, on 10/20/2008, -1/+6Wow, this trick: "flip frontside boardslide kickflip", well isn't correct.

    The first word flip doesn't designate anything... remove it and it makes more sense.

    Big up to all digg skaters though.
  • harrisbradley, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4"never any good"... I wouldn't put it that way exactly.
  • rileyhallwood, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4hes pretty nuts for his age, lets hope he doesnt go sheckler on us.
  • sweetbean, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3As technical as he is, he's kinda got a boring style. His thing is just to kickflip into whatever grind or slide. He's another breed of contest skater like, for those of you who skate, Andy Macdonald. Technical, but boring.

    He's real young though...

  • rileyhallwood, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3more like the next ryan sheckler. too far too fast.
  • MacBookForMe, on 10/20/2008, -2/+4That was too cool!....(it's like 1/2 Obama in St.Louis a few days ago:)
  • xobecide, on 10/20/2008, -0/+2so we're measuring crowds in Obama units?

    "The amount of people starving in the world is upwards of 500 Obama."
  • ralphodog, on 10/20/2008, -0/+2Playstation Pro? Dew Cup? huh
  • theman8631, on 10/20/2008, -1/+3Heres a compilation of Chaz during the Dew tour:
    http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qyycY0cegNw

    Heres a full run in portland:
    http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9l7dQwV7Q
  • penguin75, on 10/20/2008, -0/+2Poor Ryan Sheckler. Not getting much love from Diggers....
  • borez, on 10/20/2008, -0/+1Video plz
  • CMBlue, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1He goes to my school. I've never met the guy but MTV came and filmed here for some story on him, it was sort of a big deal I guess. Good for him.
  • tomlit, on 10/20/2008, -0/+1funny I was just asking where this article was in the last story about PLG. Really is odd these stories keep being front paged without any video though. People that don't know much about skateboarding aren't going to give an orangutan's left testicle about this article without the video to show just how amazing this 14 year old kid is on a skateboard. So yea, those who read the comments, watch the videos the guy above me just posted.
  • borez, on 10/20/2008, -0/+1fakie frontside boardslide kickflip.. maybe?
  • isunktheship, on 10/20/2008, -0/+1blah thought that was a pic of him.
  • nsight, on 10/20/2008, -0/+1Yeah, Sheckler is a tool.
  • sonar1, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1i wanted paul rodriguez to win. i wonder if his dad was there
  • kevcowiffle, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1I wouldn't want to see Ortiz in a movie, his consistency helps him win events like this but he doesn't seem imaginative. We get it, you can kickflip to boardslide and kickflip out 5 times in a row. At least P-Rod was trying some stuff, his switch tre flip down the big set was crazy. He basically spent the entire round skating switch, I wanted to see Ortiz take some risks like that.

    Yeah, the kid has a load of technical skill, but I'll wait for his first major video appearance before I start touting him as the next big thing.
  • harajukukei, on 10/20/2008, -0/+1perhaps switch? unless he did a front flip first ?_?
  • mbm1512, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1good i cant stand ryan sheckler. go cry some more sheckler
  • kevcowiffle, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1Well let's hope not, Sheckler couldn't land a kickflip yesterday, he looked pathetic. It's amazing, when you go back and watch his early stuff, you can't help but say to yourself "It's a damn shame that MTV ruined this kid." I'm not letting that network get anywhere near Chaz.
  • nipterink, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1well if you remove the first flip, that isn't what he did.
    he did a kickflip into a frontside boardside and a kickflip out.
  • mbm1512, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1shutup, this has nothing to do with politics. I cant wait till november 4th so i never have to hear you talk again.
  • painting, on 10/21/2008, -1/+1another job loss to illegal immigrants.
  • vango, on 10/20/2008, -6/+654,000 people? Thats almost Obama-sized
  • roastedbagel, on 10/20/2008, -4/+2Chaz is already being touted as the next Tony Hawk. Good for him though, he's def gonna go far with his skating, the kid is amazing.
  • statc, on 10/20/2008, -6/+1I'm so glad to see that there's so many diverse skateboarders on digg. All these stories seem to make it to the front page with under 100 diggs
  • davecachia, on 10/20/2008, -9/+2Skateboarding is good for one thing - watching them get hurt.

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