The Broadway Bomb is an infamous 8.5 mile race through Manhattan city streets straight down Broadway from 110th Street and Broadway at the northwestern end of the island to Battery Park at the southeast tip. Everyone is welcomed to participate, no entry fee, just go to be able to navigate through traffic safely. Sponsors this year were Sector Nine, Gravity, Landyachtz, Shut Skates, Earthwing, Randal, Concrete Wave, and many more. The Broadway Bomb just keeps getting better. The first year we had a wheel glued in a trophy I found. Now we have a proper trophy and the race has grown from 16 riders to over 70 skaters today! I want to thank our sponsors, this year especially Sector Nine who came though with $ 1000 in prize money and t-shirts. To Gravity, Earthwing, Randal, Shut, Seismic Comet and Concrete Wave way to go guys! this year was the best bomb ever! Sector Nine is going to give out $1000 between the top 3 racers! We also have prizes from Randal, Gravity, Seismic, Comet, Shut and Concrete Wave!Last weekend, a group of longboard skaters raced down Broadway from West 116th Street all the way to the bull in the Financial District for the "Broadway Bomb." Sacha Lecca has some pictures of the event along the 8.5 miles, but we really enjoy the pictures from the dark skate the night before as there's nothing like a big bunny skating in Columbus Circle.

Rob Molt of Sector 9 Skateboards said, "I just did the Broadway Bomb which is a race in New York City where I skated the length of Manhattan Island which was 8-1/2 miles. And the race is called The Broadway Bomb and its not closed to traffic. Its during open traffic on a Sunday afternoon at rush hour. Forty of us ended up on one side of the Lower East Side and raced all the way up to the Upper West Side to the Financial District. We stopped at Wall Street. Thirtyfive of us raced 8-1/2 miles on flat ground. I ended up getting ninth. Considering being from San Diego and not knowing the city that well and not knowing how THEY ride traffic. I ride traffic in San Diego quite a bit but riding in Manhattan you can imagine is a completely different thing. I¹ve also done a couple really cool downhills that are in the 7, 8, 9-mile distance."

The NYC longboarding scene is exploding. If you did not participate in the Bomb this year I recommend participating next year. Saturday October 14th 12 noon at Riverside Drive and West 116th Street - Basically follow 116th as far west as you can go and you'll run into it.

Earthwing riders Kasper and James took 1st and 2nd while I took 3rd place. This is now Kasper's 4th year in a row winning this event I believe. Kasper skated the 8.5 mile leg through traffic in 33 minutes, James 33 minutes, myself 34 minutes. Congrats to Kasper and James they are chargers baby and big hug to everyone else that made the fun ride.

Again this event has such a positive vib and the brining together of so many longboarders. Adam S. and I made a lot of new friends.

Adam S. and I had semi close calls with traffic and people. I almost nailed a young lady in high heels, she jumped back in horror that I was coming right at her, I jumped off my board. The poor lady said, "Sorry!" this might have been a natural reaction to apologize since it was clearly my fault, but hey I could not chit chat long I was in a race.

Broadway Bomb Tips

When you were racing you got into a very focused mindset. For me I really did not worry about the cars I was focused on keeping up with Kasper. Kasper and I at the beginning took up the left lane, and I am not sure what the cars did because I was so focused, no one honked at us so I guess we were all right. Eventually Kasper pulled away and James caught up to me and we hung together for 30 blocks and then he pasted me as well.

When you are skating up to an intersection and you see the light just to about to turn red, you pick up your pace and make it through. Now a lot of times you don't make it through the intersection before it turns red, so there is the yelling and hand waving strategy. If the light has just turned red you charge out into the intersection waving your hands to let the cars know you are there and you are crazy. If you approach your intersection and there is a constant flow of traffic in front of you, you footbrake or jump off your board abruptly run out into the intersection and force your way into the first lane of traffic and from there you charge across the second lane of traffic at the slightest chance usually cutting it pretty close, but hey cars have brakes.

Going through the intersections of Time Square and Union Square is intimidating for the sheer amount of people crossing the streets. You just got to holler and be a jackass and snake your way through, like it's life and death baby.

Skating the Broadway Bomb is an experience because there is just something magicial about skating through a big city, past towering building. Also, it's is one day out of the year where you get to be a complete jackass on your board for a day. I mean I never skate with such hostility on a regular basis but hey this is NYC and the Broadway bomb happens once a year.

Hope to see more people out to next years Bomb and the Central park race this coming Spring.

Say hello to the squirrels,

Redshift Pictures/Planet Brooklyn announce the release of ³Broadway Bomb,² an extreme film chronicling the competitive journey of 27 skateboarders through the concrete canyons of New York City. The unauthorized and unpredictable 8.5-mile course begins near Columbia University on 110th Street and travels south on Broadway through traffic, construction sites, and crowded crosswalks culminating at Battery Park at the southern tip on Manhattan. Skateboarding in New York City without getting chased by a cop is challenging enough, but imagine skating full-speed on an unsecured route, with erratic traffic patterns and no protection from pedestrians and potholes, just passionate participants testing their urban street-riding skills in uncontrolled conditions. This race is about more than just being fast, it is about being tenacious and adaptable in the face of an ever-changing city course where a miscalculation can not only cost you the win, it can be disastrous. The only rules that are set-forth are quite simple: no leaving the Broadway route, no hanging-on or being pulled by vehicles and no unveiling of race details if stopped by authorities. To film and capture such a unique event required a shooting style as unorthodox as the race itself. A guerilla crew stationed cameras on various streets, on motorscooters, on a bicycle and even on the helmet of favored race participant. After 33 minutes and 23 seconds of fierce competition, participants began streaming, skating, and even staggering across the finish line. By the time all 27 had arrived, the producers had over10 hours of raw footage, and so began the countless hours of using these images to tell the skaters¹ story. Energized by the music of renowned DJ/Producer Tim ŒLove¹ Lee and his Tummy Touch Records, the film continued to take shape; the result is the ³Broadway Bomb.² The race, organized by the New York Longboarding Association, was publicized to members and amateur boarders via Internet message-boards and word-of-mouth. For more info contact - Bethany.Eppner@ogilvypr.com SKATEBOARD RACE DOCUMENTARY - PRESS RELEASE - NEW EXTREME FILM DOCUMENTS ANNUAL UNDERGROUND URBAN SKATEBOARD RACE... Redshift Pictures/Planet Brooklyn announce the release of ³Broadway Bomb,² an extreme film chronicling the competitive journey of 27 skateboarders through the concrete canyons of New York City. The unauthorized and unpredictable 8.5-mile course begins near Columbia University on 110th Street and travels south on Broadway through traffic, construction sites, and crowded crosswalks culminating at Battery Park at the southern tip on Manhattan. Skateboarding in New York City without getting chased by a cop is challenging enough, but imagine skating full-speed on an unsecured route, with erratic traffic patterns and no protection from pedestrians and potholes, just passionate participants testing their urban street-riding skills in uncontrolled conditions. This race is about more than just being fast, it is about being tenacious and adaptable in the face of an ever-changing city course where a miscalculation can not only cost you the win, it can be disastrous. The only rules that are set-forth are quite simple: no leaving the Broadway route, no hanging-on or being pulled by vehicles and no unveiling of race details if stopped by authorities. To film and capture such a unique event required a shooting style as unorthodox as the race itself. A guerilla crew stationed cameras on various streets, on motorscooters, on a bicycle and even on the helmet of favored race participant. After 33 minutes and 23 seconds of fierce competition, participants began streaming, skating, and even staggering across the finish line. By the time all 27 had arrived, the producers had over10 hours of raw footage, and so began the countless hours of using these images to tell the skaters¹ story. Energized by the music of renowned DJ/Producer Tim ŒLove¹ Lee and his Tummy Touch Records, the film continued to take shape; the result is the ³Broadway Bomb.² The race, organized by the New York Longboarding Association, was publicized to members and amateur boarders via Internet message-boards and word-of-mouth. For more info contact - Bethany.Eppner@ogilvypr.com

Broadway Bomb results: Kaspar Spurgeon Heinrici, 1st place (Earthwing Team) James Soladay 2nd place (Earthwing Team) Adam Colton 3rd place (Loaded team) Adam Dabonka 4th place (Earthwing Team) Thank you for all of your support. I am obviously extremely happy with the results, and efforts of the team. I am not suprised at all, and look forward to more events. Thank you Sector Nine for your money. You rewarded my team for all the hard work, and training it took to win, and really stepped up to the plate to support an outlaw event that reflects the spirit of what true skateboarding is. We had a great weekend, and it's good to know my designs work. The winning "Supercharger" deck will be shipping starting on halloween. Thanks for your support. Have more fun today than yesterday...We love you guys. Brian Petrie, Kaspar Heinrici, James Soladay, Mike D, Adam Dabonka, Jessica, and J.B.T.