I'm on the move from DC to Denver now, but here's a quick update on David Loy, a grom whose career I've been following since he started winning amateur contests left and right last year and who I got to skate with at a rad little concrete park in Orlando at one of the Grind for Life events. Despite popping up in some Jeep ads with Tony Hawk recently and in magazine spreads with the likes of Ryan Sheckler in places like Dubai, Loy is still am, and still killing it, this time taking 4th at Amsterdamn Am '07. John Dickson won it, followed by Brazilian skater Danny Cerezini, and German skater Alex Mizurov. A few other names on my Grom Watch list also popped up in the top ten: Shuriken Shannon, Justin Figuroa, Sierra Fellers and... Riley Hawk. Yep, genes are good stuff, it turns out. I first saw him skate the big ass ramp a few years ago on daddy's Tony Hawk Boom Boom Huck Jam, and watched him mess around on the vert ramp and street courses at X Games last year when nobody was supposed to be looking, but now he's starting to be the real deal. Stay tuned. In Best Trick, top honors went to Dylan Perry for a gap to backside noseblunt slide, Sierra Fellers for a gap kickflip to frontside lipslide, and Ruben Rodriguez for a gap to frontside feeble. Now that I'm an experienced amateur contest judge, I'll be following these things more closely! Check out the the official Damn Am site or head over to the Skatepark of Tampa website for the most comprehensive amateur contest results you'll ever find. Good stuff: Photo of Amsterdamn Am winner John Dickson, above, thoughtfully thugged from their site.