Skate legend, Donny Barley, has parted ways with Zoo York and has taken a full-time position as Element's Head of East Coast Relations. If you remember the Connecticut raised pro burst onto the scene after his part in Toy Machine's Welcome to Hell video, and rode for Element after Toy Machine. Now he's back!

The day after Back to the Banksunder the Brooklyn Bridge it was on to Red Bull's Manny Mania under the Manhattan Bridge. That's what's so cool about New York City skate events, the city just has so much history, which creates epic scenery around the contest area. The course was sick, the crowd was huge and the talent showed up. Names like: Brandon Biebel, Mike Mo Capaldi, Stefan Janowski, Stevie Williams and Eli Reed all were there getting their two wheeled tech on.

So here's the jist. There's all sorts of different boxes set up into a course, and the object is to put together the craziest combo of tricks into and out of manuals. It gets pretty technical, probably one of the hardest contests I could imagine having to announce, my hat goes off to you Jeff Pang (NYC skate legend and the event announcer).

In the end it was a toss up between Mike Mo and Eli Reed. Jeff had the crowd vote by cheering for who they thought won, even though the judges had already decided. One of the judges pro skater, Dan Pensyl, walked by me when all that was going on and said, "Eli won." The Top three were as follows: Eli Reed $10,000, Mike Mo Capaldi $5,000 and Kelly Hart $3,000. For full results go to http://www.redbullskateboarding.com/. Here's some pictures I took from the day:


Mike Mo smooth as ever.


Stevie Williams always down for a manual.


Zered Bassett fresh off his part in the Zoo York video.


Skate legend and Manny Mania judge, Donny Barley.


Mike Mo again.


Nick Diamond showed up.


Big crowd and amazing New York scenery.


The crowd swarming Jeff Pang right before the winner was announced.


Some Russian girl must of really made this guy's day one time.


The bridge it all went down under.

Zoo York's much anticipated new skate flick, State of Mind, premiered the other night in New York City to three packed showings. The sidewalk in front of the theater was lined with members of the local skate scene, visiting West Coasters there for Skate Weekend, and randoms who happened to stumble upon it.

I had arrived in The Big Apple earlier that day, so you know I was going to check it out. There was so many people there, and the theater was huge, so everyone got a chance see the steazy ripping. I actually forgot how good the Zoo team is. East coast legends like Aaron Suski, Zered Basset and Donny Barley, mixed with some newer faces like Brandon Westgate, Chaz Ortiz and Ron Deily, made the video legit. I'd have to say my three favorite sections were Zared, Brandon and Suski. It was also cool to see footage of Chaz not on a contest course. There's a trailer and some photos I took from the night below:


Luis Tolentino and Andrew Pott give an NYC pose with Mr. Mean Mug himself.


Alex Olson cruised by to check it out.


Andrew Pott.


NYC skate scene.