below screen grabs of everybody's carves at their peak. mango definitely came pretty close to john, but i'd say john edged him out by an inch or two. however, the way we worded it was "high sticker slap" and not "high carve", so john definitely takes it. in the next episode he talks about is height advantage in the sticker contest, but either way it's safe to say john won it fair and square.
the plan was to take the winner to marianne's ice cream in santa cruz, which really is the best, but the last spot we skated was far from there so we ended up going to mitchell's in SF on the way back, which is a close second. i believe he opted for the grasshopper pie- mint chocolate chip with oreos.
yeah, it sucked that rail had just been re-knobbed. we did not have a grinder and it would have been sketchy to do in the middle of the day anyhow, plus we were trying to get to a last spot by a certain time. that'll come in thursday's episode. anyhow, john's f/s board, matty's wallride and mango's lines all happened in about 5 minutes while we were getting ready to leave. it was cool they all happened spur of the moment.
as for nik, he kept falling on the same injuries over and over and getting re-hurt and bummed and he was just mostly over it because of that, which sucked. i had high hopes for him, but it just wasn't his week.