Skip ahead to 1:46:15 to watch Crane’s freak out.
Being judged sucks. But when its part of your job, you have to deal with it all the time. At the trials to get into Oakley Pro at Lowers this morning, Ian Crane got judged… and he was not happy with it.
Mid-way through a pretty frustrating heat, Crane moved into second place. In the trials, the top two finishers move on, and Ian really, really wanted to move on. As the horn sounded in Crane’s heat, he was still in the second position. But Cory Arrambide was chasing him down, and he was hot on his tail. Needing a 6.41, Arrambide groveled way into a 6.43… and moved into second place.
Crane was understandably frustrated. And he expressed it to the judges in no uncertain terms: by throwing two very angry birds their way for a pretty long time. It did not sway their decision.
