With his wife Kerry and son Samuel watching from the flatbottom, Jamie Bestwick claimed another Dew Tour win, this time with what were most likely his highest airs of the Tour. He was killing it all through practice; he usually keeps it low-key in those sessions, but here in Salt Lake, he was throwing big variations and massive stalled-out inverts in the 12-foot range. He topped out way ahead of the rest of the field with a 94 after his first run, but believe it or not, he was planning to better it in his second. Unfortunately, a crash on a tailwhip to turndown cut his second effort short, but the tricks he threw down in run one more than made up for it. In particular, his invert 540 was completely maxed out and got the other riders fired up it was that good.

Simon Tabron nailed a solid second with huge can-cans, a 900, and tabletop, invert, and no-handed 540s, all with a fractured hand. Tabron has the skills and experience to power through an injury and make it look non-existent, and you can tell he's always having fun doing it.

Steven McCann landed his second podium of the tour in third. Big superman seatgrabs, no-handed and turndown flairs, floaty 540s, and perfect double tailwhips at max height started his day off well. He's headed into Dirt Finals tonight, so we'll see if he can keep the momentum going.

Other highlights include Dennis McCoy's 540 to barspin 540, and a 900 that sent him spinning into another 540 on the bottom of the ramp right as he landed he was spinning like a tornado that never touched down. Jimmy Walker popped off 540s and flairs like they were set-up airs, and Jay Eggleston rivaled Bestwick's height with huge no-handed one-footers and 540s, all on a borrowed bike. Zack Warden did regular, downside, and double tailwhips along with two perfect handplants. Kevin Robinson did huge no-handers and supermans and no-handed and opposite flairs, but a crash on a 540 tailwhip cut his run short. John Parker pulled a double whip, an opposite whip, a no-handed 540, and an alley-oop downside whip, and Mike Mancuso pulled another tailwhip flair, still a fairly new trick for him.

Tabron's still got a chance to catch Bestwick for the year-end title, but he'll have to go all out and hope for a bad day for Jamie. That's not the way these guys roll, though; the better they each do, the more psyched they'll be to throw crazy stuff of their own. The vibe's been good on Vert this year, so the final event in Orlando is going to be an all-out trickfest and a great party to boot. Don't miss it!