Watch a montage of ’96 Tampa Pro highlights with a legendary line-up

Late-90’s Florida homie video “Adventures in Hi-Fi” has clips from Penny, Koston, Cardiel and the Toy Machine “Jump Off a Building”-era team.

Prompted by something on Instagram I was looking for video of Danny Way skating the street contest at Tampa Pro. I knew he won the vert contest after coming back from a year off after a career-ending spinal cord and neck injury but I didn’t know that he placed 7th in the street contest as well (though the IG post said he got 2nd which was shocking to me).

I found this very random video of a “Contests and Demos” section from a Florida video called “Adventures in Hi-8”. It opens with the Tampa Am and whoever made this had an amazing eye because almost the ams they used in the montage went on to be heavy-hitters — Kevin Taylor, Cairo Foster, Sean Mullendore, Kenny Hughes and the Toy Machine “Jump Off A Building” team of Mike Maldonado (RIPPING), Elissa Steamer and Donny Barley. Aside from the Florida guys the only people I wasn’t familiar with were Neil Urwin and Brian Childers both of whom stand out enough that I had to go look them up. It’s wild to see the Tampa Am with no onlookers like “Who cares about the ams?”.

Cardiel CHARGING.

The pro lineup is just as heavy: Tom Penny, Ed Templeton, Ethan Fowler (white-tee and khakis era), Jamie Thomas, Jeremy Wray, Cardiel just charging at everything, Phil Shao, Danny Way (sure enough he’s ripping) and the ’96 winner Eric Koston whose run would still be impressive today (probably not gonna win but still pretty incredible).

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