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In Sunday’s finals the crowd couldn’t believe the level of riding they were seeing: Ben Wallace (GBR) stuck tricks such as “360 tailwhip to downside whip over spine“ whilst Phil Aller’s „tailwhip to icepick to 270 in“ and Dave Osato’s (CAN) „540 nosepick“ were just a few of the highlights.

Despite World Class riders like Ryan Nyquist (USA) also doing incredible runs, it was the 2005 Braun cruZer Tour overall winner, and this year’s favourite, Mark Webb who retained his spot at the top of the ranking by winning the contest with tricks such as a „double tailwhip 360 over the spine“ and „double tailwhip to tailtap to icepick to fakie”. Mark said about the Braun Spine Ramp: “I love it. It’s really big and fast. You can do bigger tricks than on most other ramps.” Ben Wallace took the second spot in the contest and thus also retains his place behind Mark in the Braun cruZer Tour overall ranking. Nyquist took third place with a 10 foot high „360 over the spine“ and massive tricks such as „busdriver“, „seatgrab“ or „suicide“. Ryan: „I like riding that ramp a lot – it has such nice transitions and feels more like a vert ramp than a mini.“

Braun cruZer Tour Spine Ranking:

 Webb, Mark (Eng) 2000
Wallace, Ben (Eng) 1980
Osato, Dave (Can) 1950
Aller, Phil (Eng) 1920
Elcock, Ryan (Eng) 1850
Jones, Brendan (Aus) 1830
Nyquist, Ryan (USA) 980
Doyle, Chris (USA) 970
Watkinson, Tony (Eng) 950
Hennon, Ben (Eng) 950
Garcia, Hector (Mexico) 940
MacKay, Colin (Aus) 940
Cools, Hannu (Bel) 920
König, Mark (Ger) 910
Yeates,Mitch (Eng) 910
Miller, Mike (Eng) 900
Beran, Michael (Cze) 880
Hardy, Cameron (Eng) 870
Crisman, Bruce (USA) 860
Ruiz, Juan (Spa) 850
Mendoza, Ismail (Spa) 840
Mehdi, Jirari (Fra) 830

Next stop for the Braun cruZer Tour Spine is: Rip Curl Boardmasters, Surf Festival, 4-6 Aug, Newquay (UK)

Each event will offer a prize-money of 5.000 EUR. The total ranking over the three events will offer a total prize-money of 15.000 EUR.

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