{"id":175,"date":"2016-07-23T01:10:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/in-pictures-the-dew-tour-heats-up-in-long-beach\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T01:10:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T01:10:16","slug":"in-pictures-the-dew-tour-heats-up-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/in-pictures-the-dew-tour-heats-up-in-long-beach","title":{"rendered":"IN PICTURES: The Dew Tour Heats Up in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Skaters soared off the smoldering concrete, catching air and the tiniest of breezes this afternoon at the Long Beach Convention Center.<\/p>\n

They threw 180s, some grabs and a few grinds on the four separate arenas, heat be damned.<\/p>\n

They were here for the weekend competition, but mostly, they were here to \u201csee some homies\u201d and \u201chave some fun,\u201d according to Texas-based skateboarder Kyle Stone.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dew Tour kicked off in style today<\/a>, in a city long-known for its skate subculture. Long Beach\u2019s place in the skateboard scene is well-established, but it\u2019s taken many years for a competition of this stature to show up on the city\u2019s home turf. Big names taking part in the competition include Sean Malto, Ryan Sheckler, Ryan Decenzo, Trevor Colden, Theotis Beasley, Micky Papa, Nyjah Huston and Louie Lopez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe usually film and skate in LA, but everyone lives out here,\u201d said Stone. \u201cI\u2019m glad they did it here, rather than somewhere like Costa Mesa or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few fanning stations were set up, letting out the occasional water mist, to cool the many athletes down as they waited for their turn to practice.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow brings day one of the competition, from 1:00PM to 2:35PM and 3:25PM to 5:30PM, and with it, more 90-plus-degree temps. Awards are slated for the evening, around 5:45PM.<\/p>\n

E-40, Action Bronson and Kelechi are scheduled to bring the house down at the Terrace Theatre<\/a> right after. Doors open at 7:00PM.<\/p>\n

For more information, VIP tickets and a full schedule of the weekend\u2019s events, click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Dew Tour kicked off in style today, in a city long-known for hosting many a skateboarding resident. Long Beach\u2019s place in the skateboard scene is well-established, but it\u2019s taken many years for a competition of this stature to show up on the city\u2019s home turf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":16520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,45],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dew-tour","tag-skateboarding","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}