SLS Paris 2026 Men's Knockout Round - Group 3 | Full Competition

First skater in, 34 years old, from Brazil, this guy's a technician, Carlos Ribeiro. Coming up after him, we have skater of the year, one of the best jumpers in the world, Chris Jocelyn. Following it up, 29 years old, from Florida, Jake Elardi. And my man, a previous super crown champion from Portugal, Gustavo Ribeiro. And then, of course, the one, the only, 31 years old, 91% of finals made, Nyjah Huston. And then he built his way up. Yeah. He did a good job today. Nines in the lines, nines in the single tricks. All right, Carlos is in. I know you're good friends with Carlos. What's going on with him lately? I love Carlos. He's such a powerhouse. He's so good, great technical skater. Just had a video part in the Bunt video came out a couple of weeks ago. He just handles his business in the streets. Thanks. He hasn't been skating a lot of contests lately, so I do think that repetition is going to take a sec for him to get back into it. Oh, that was a little weird looking. Glad he's okay. Yeah, I think he saved himself enough there. There. How much does that matter? Like you said, he hasn't been skating contests a lot lately. It's a different mentality. It's, you know, when you're used to the pressure and you're used to those reps, it's a little easier. But when you are out for a while and you come back in, it's just kind of that whole new feelings and getting through those butterflies and the shaky legs. All right, we are back in. Chris Jocelyn. Thank you. What can we expect from Jocelyn out here today? Jocelyn's going to fly. He loves jumping off stuff. Wow. Just like that. This guy, Trey, flipped El Toro. Here we go. Dude, was that all switch right there? That was, I think, all switch. Switch tail slide and then switch 360 flip the bump to those? Switch heel. Dude. He's a jumper. Jocelyn. Not the switch heel he wanted, but he'll take it. This is what was so wild, switch tail, and then carved across into the switch three flip. Oh, my God. To bookend it with his back, big, off the top ropes. Oops. That was really impressive, and an 8.9 for Chris Jocelyn. The crowd does not agree. Nope. I think, yeah. Next in, Jake Allardy. I'm starting to speak now. Jake is no stranger to contests. I'm starting to speak now. Oh, hanging on. Ending everything, but definitely looking a little swirly. Oh, there it is. Solid switchback tail. He's got 10 seconds. Oh, laying some patty cake. Sneaking in that blunt kickflip fake. He got a lot of tricks in there. He definitely looked nervous, though. Yeah, it just looked shaky. That was a little off, and then it just all kind of came out here. Board was bobbling. Couldn't hang on. 8.9 in the room, 7.6. He says, I'm going to redo that. Yeah. That would be a good idea, Jake. Coming from someone who knows. I like the line. Yeah. The line's good. It had a little of everything. Yeah. With the switchback tail. If he just gets a little more comfortable out the get-go, I think it's a great score. All right. Gustavo Ribeiro. The way he does those three flips, he sucks it up so high. Just waits for it. I can't remember exactly what year he won the Super Crown, but ever since then, I've just called him Chance. Yes. Oh. Oh, that one looked like a tough hipper. I guess his elbow, too, got trapped under his body. He went down hard right there. That's one of his tricks, too. He's so good at popping those tray flips. Thank you. Here's another look. Just didn't flip, landed primo, and then all on to that hit. Ouch. He's probably the old super five. All right, 3.8. Hopefully he feels all right for that next line. Stretch it out a little. All right, the man, the myth, the legend, Nigel Houston. I don't want to say it. You can say it. That's the second tre flip he's ever missed in the history of this league. How long has this been going on? 15? 16 years. 16 years. He's missed two. Dude, the way he sits on that back 180 nose grab. All of my peers that I brought up, I paid second to all of them. All right. You were saying he loves this course right? That's what he told me. Sometimes the course doesn't love you back. That's just, you know what, it's line number one. That's all. I'm not worried about Nigel Houston. This guy's the fiercest competitor we've ever seen but that tre flip I just you don't ever see that. He also looks confused like what's happening here? But also look at how it angles. Scores in, 4.1. He will wait for that next one. I'm not worried. You're not worried. He's not worried. Nope. Look at this crowd right here. I love it. Alright, back to the top of the order. Carlos Ribeiro. I would love to see Carlos land this run. He's got such a good trick selection. When he puts it down, it's amazing. Just look at this switch pop here. Thank you. So solid switchback lip. All right. This is kind of the bulk of his line here. Oh Still can get a good score if he lands this nollie heel tail. There we go. Alright, so he's going to need to take the geo route today. Oh yeah. Carlos is going to start... It's going to have to start switch flipping into some stuff here. Yeah. I love all the skate shops on that jersey. Yeah. It's so dope. Shout out to the local skate shops. Six, seven, eight. All right, 5.6. Next in, Chris Joslin, current leader, who came out swinging. Speaking. Jocelyn has just been on an absolute tear for the last, what, 18 months? I would say skater of the year. Honestly, since he took the win in Santa Monica, it was like that sort of kicked it off for him. Couldn't get the switch straight ago. All right, so he'll stick with that first line score, 8.9. 8.9 is a great backboard to have. Especially just knowing, I mean, he's going to come into this. He's got the single tricks. Next skater in is going to be Jake Gallardi. This is where Jake just needs to take a couple deep breaths, slow it down a touch. There we go. That looked way more solid. Yeah. Must have just been first line jitters. Yeah. This is more like it. Oh! Don't put that switchback tail. All right, not today. It's not his day when it comes to the lines, but... I mean, if there's one thing we know, he's got some wild singles. I mean, those replays from Vegas were nuts. Nuts. Yeah, he's got a strong big spin, got a strong big flip. He has a lot of singles. I'm gonna go sit. Oh, got some French actors in the crowd. Yeah. Couple cool-looking dudes. Thank you very much. Next up. Gustavo, the lofty 360 flip. Lofty. We're about to see how that hip feels in a second. All right, here we go. Hip is feeling fun. Gustavo Ribeiro taking a harsh slam in that last one and coming back and putting it together. That's got to feel good. It's got to feel good. That's mentally so hard to do, too. Land primo on a tre flip 50 and then go right back into it. I'm going to see you in a little bit. Yeah, look at this. There we go. Perfect. That's the Gustavo we know. Thank you. So gnarly. I'm starting to speak now. Needs a nine for first. First. And an 8.6. Gets him into second place. I actually think that's a pretty fair score. Yeah. I know I'm hearing the boos, but got to agree with the judges on that one. Next up, Nigel Houston. See the waxing of the wheel wells right there? 82%. Just to not get wheel bite. That's why he's at 82%. Yeah. Wax the wheel wells. I will never not be blown away that he can just half-cab flip like that on a bump to bump. I will never be able to half-cab flip like that ever. Ever. Oh, hanging on with his toes. Let's go! That was smart. See that? He's going to back one eighty nose grind. Let's just make sure to land the 5-0. 5-0. Can he do it? The GOAT. As you used it. Not exactly what he was looking for, but made it happen. Oh, my God. All right, walk us through what we just saw, Sean. I mean, the amount of times the board left the feet, half-cab flip in, tre flip over the whole pyramid, kick flip back D, then switch frontside flip, lot of flip tricks. I know. I know he wanted the back 180 nose grind there, but I think it's smart to just hold on, get the front five. Front five is sick, too. Switch heel front board. That's a great trick in the singles. Did it at the end of his run. It's going to be horrible. Such a good IQ of the contest and the layout. Made it happen. This should be a very solid score. Score to beat 8.9. Maybe in the club. 8.7. Close. Not in the club. Not in the club, but... I can only pick one? You can only pick one. I don't know. I feel like Chris has got it. He's got the tricks to go through. He can get some nines. We're going to find out. We're going to find out. We've got Nigel Houston in the group. Let's not forget about him. Carlos in to start it off. Switch flip front board attempt. It's a hard trick. That's a hard trick. Insane. What's it like skating that rail in general? Go ahead and roll. It's a fun rail. You kind of got to go a little slow. Yeah, people were saying it's a little quick, right? It's not that long. Yeah, it's not really too long, but, I mean, it's got good dimensions. It's fun to skate, for sure. Next up, Jake Gallard. You ready? Wow. First try? First try. Big spin front blunt. That's how you want to set it off. What do you think the score is going to be on that? 8-4, 8-5. I think so, mid-8s. I mean, Genwu did flip into that earlier today. And spun out, you know. You know. No, no, no. This is a question for you. If you see Genwu do what he does, does that affect your game plan at all, or do you just try to stick to what you do? 8-4. You nailed it. But, um... No, no, no. I feel like whenever you skate a contest like this, like, you just – You go in to finals, and you're like, okay, I want to do these tricks, and you go and just do your tricks. I feel like you shouldn't switch it up just because of what somebody else is doing. It's like, I feel like the contest is more of like a contest against yourself, you know? Wow! Wow. That was insane! Good stuff. Gustavo Ribeiro, three-flip nose blunt on the rail. First try. First try. Group three starting to pop off. Tre flip nose blunt slide. Perfect. High eights for sure. Yeah, that was beast. The way he's able to control that with his front foot. Good. This is Heat 3, right? 8.9. You nailed it, dude. 8.9. Come on. Little stingy with the nines out there. I thought they were going to be today. It's the sparklers. They cost money. Everybody. The Fuego budget is not unlimited out here, all right? If you want fire, they're going to be stingy with the nines. Nice, Houston. Wow. Come on. All right, this. It's a heat right here. This might set off some sparks. I mean, I would personally, I would give it a nine. Nollie heel backflip I would give it a nine myself. Andrew. Drew? Go to. I'm going to say high eights. I could be completely wrong. You have a hater in the booth. No, not at all. Wow. Wow. Can't wait for Nigel to listen to this. Not a hater at all. But they are. They've been tough. The nines have been so hard to get. I am so good at this. 8.8. All right. Crazy. It's like we have a lot more haters in the building than just Andrew. That's right. All right, Jocelyn, first attempt. Where's he going, Lazer? I mean, obviously, he's going bump to flat. He's going out of the building right here. Get out of my way. He's about to set it off. But what trick is he going to do? Oh, tre flip. Wah. That looked so easy for him. Yeah, that was insane. Okay. Yeah, I should have tightened my trucks. Thank you, Doug. Should have tightened the trucks. Waxed the wheel wells. I did after the first try, but it didn't work. Yeah, for a guy that's tre-flipped El Toro, I don't think this bump to flat's scaring him much. No, but you can still see the impact. So, go on. Yeah. Yeah. 8.6. I don't know about that, but I'm not a judge. Where would you go? At least 8.8. High 8. I mean, has anybody else in the whole contest tre-flipped to the flat? No. Exactly. I just wonder if they're thinking about some of the other stuff that he's got, like that nollie inward heel 180. I mean, he's... That would be so insane on that obstacle. I wouldn't put a pass in. No, not at all. Carlos, back in. Oh, man. That looked really promising there for a second. I think dropping in switch off this steep bank is a little hard to get the positioning right. Yeah, how is that bank? No, the bank's good. I mean, you get good speed off of it. And, um... But it's definitely like the going switch, it's tricky to gauge how fast you need to go for the rail. Because different tricks, you have to go different speeds for sure. Oh, my goodness. Jake Lardy trying to get his Gin Wu on. Yeah, someone made a $20 bet who could do it first yesterday, Big move from Ron. And Gin Wu did it second try. Uh, yeah. Like we've been saying, it's hard to get. It's hard to bet against Gin Wu. Oh, dude, why would you? Was he going 3'50 on the rail? That's what it looked like. I'm starting to speak now. All right, Nige, you're right now tied with Chris Joslin, 17.5. He's got two eights, high eights on the board. Oh, him and Dawson are tied. Oh, and Carlos. Oh! Oh, ho, ho. There's your nine, for sure. You think so? I think so. I mean, switch heel front lip. That is so mental. Andrew, you think so? I would like to say yes. Okay. That is mental. We got all of us want to see a nine. Switch heel front lip. Like, you couldn't have did it any better. No. It's not rocket, no toe drag. He didn't even bust up. He literally did it perfect. Perfect. Carlos even liked it. That's it. Okay. 8.9. I'm lying. My bad. I was really sure on that one. I was sure on the last two. We are creeping up though. We are. Look at that. 8.7, 8.8, 8.9. It's almost like the rail being smaller than some of the other rails we've seen is making it harder to get there. Alright, Jocelyn, here he goes. Here he goes. I mean, it was down the stairs. It wasn't off the bump, but he did that so good. Hell yeah. That was awesome. He just stomps tricks. That looked so mellow for him. I don't understand. Look at this, he like barely bent his legs when he landed. There's just nobody that can jump the way he does. And uh, yeah, I'm pretty sure he has like no ligaments in his front. In his like left knee. They're all totally toast. I've heard that. Does he brace it up? No, no, it's all mental. Like he shouldn't even be walking. He's also insanely jacked at this point. Yeah. Well, literally his doctor told him that he shouldn't be walking, and he's tre-flipped all over. And he's nollie inward heel, back 180. Whatever. Yeah. First rip. He's a machine, dude. It's like skateboarders are some of the gnarliest humans on this planet. Yeah. We like a nine. That was awesome. It confused me. I didn't think they were giving nines. I thought the button was broke. I hope. Ha, ha, ha, ha. A manual trick. I want to see it. All right. Trick of the year. We want Malto in the running. Let's go to the dome after this. I think my heart for back tail is in there. Oh. Let's see who the others are. I like that he went for the step up on the going switch flip front board to switch flip back lip. Well, yeah. I mean, he needed the score, so he went like all or nothing. I like that play. It's a good move. Put it all on the table, whatever you want. Jay Ghilardi tried that big flip front blunt last time. He needs to land this. That was a wild one. At least he's getting points for it. I think that has to score pretty high. What did Gin Wu get? I think Gin Wu got a nine. It was definitely a little swirly, but no toe drag. I don't think they're going to give him a nine just because it wasn't perfect. All right. It's tough out here, guys. Did Gin Wu take it to regular or fakey? Fake. OK. I think. I feel like it could be high eights. I would love to see a nine for Jake, but I really feel like it's going to be high eights. 8.9. Yeah. Just didn't lock quite as well. He was hanging on for sure. But still, big flip front, blunt on the rail. All right, Gustavo, he needs a 9.1 for first. Three-flip grind. Wow. Wow. He did that so well. Not to keep bringing this up. But Brayden's impossible 50-50. Got like an 8.6. Yeah. And I feel like that's just as crazy. I feel like impossible grind is way harder. That's what I feel like, too. It's definitely harder. I could go Trey Flip 50 that rail right now. I don't know if I could impossible grind it. I'm going to agree with you guys on that. More people would rather Trey Flip grind it than impossible 50. A thousand percent. What are you saying? I don't even think, yeah. Rubbing his chin. Yeah. The judges are pondering over the score. 8.7. Brayden, what, got an 8.6? Yeah, something like that. That's fair. He did that really well. Oh, dude, he did it perfect. Okay. Okay, Nigel Houston, attempt number three. Oh, my God. That looked like a bail for a second. I thought he was going nollie heel lip. I can't wait to see a replay of that. This is kind of the cool part about contests. Like, I feel like that's in the streets. You let that one go. You're probably jumping off. Nope. Not Naja. You got a fist full on God in the contest. It didn't look like he caught, like, flicked it all that well, but it just went in there. Oh, my. It was, like, so rocket. And then he hurt. Which is actually sick on a nose blunt. Well, you're supposed to, yeah. Do you think it's a 9? Has to be a 9. 8.7, 8.8, 8.9. Give him a 9. For sure. 9.2, they did it! Yeah, 9.2. Giving him a little extra to make up for those other ones. Finally! Tough judges. That boy's got some good scores on the board. Yeah, Nai is just looking good right now in that top spot. 35.6. Historically, hard to beat. What's the highest score of the day? Do you guys know? Like overall score? The not, no. Not off the top of my head. Nollie heel knows what's up there. Maybe Geo? Frontside half cab back Smith. That was insane. Was that a 9-3? Might have been a 9-3, maybe. All right, Jocelyn, he needs a 9-2 for first. Big flip. Oh. I feel like Big Flip, he's going to have to do that off the bump if he's going to get a nine. I was thinking the same thing. Yeah. But he totally could. He could do it off the bump first race. But like you said, there's a lot of impact right there. There's a lot of impact. He could be looking at this second chance qualifier number, 33.6. That's true. Okay. Yeah, 33.6 for Toa and 32.7 for Julian Agliardi. I feel like you get into that first place in the second chance qualifier with one heat to go. You're pretty good looking. Yeah. Someone should run up there and tell him that. All right. Carlos switching it up. Took my advice about switch flipping into things, but this didn't really pan out. This wasn't his day, man. Oh. That's Carlos Rivera. That's right. His part in the bump video was insane. Jake Agliardi. He's going to back Chris up right now. Trying that three flip flat. Come on, Jay. We're kicking out. It's insane. You can't kick out right now. Put it down, right? That's what I'm saying. Woo! You got to nail every trick. Gustavo. Oh. Oh! That's an insane trick to do on that rail. And he was going fast. Just like that. Najah Houston in the top. His top score is a 9.9. Coming in switch. Look at your tail. 9.9? Yeah. Oh my god. He's still got one more try left. And let's see what Jocelyn needs to get up there. He needs a 9.2. This is big for the re-wrap as well. Yeah. For sure. So what do you think of Najah's? OK, no, we'll talk about that in a second. Jocelyn, big flip. Hell yeah, Chris. OK, this. Definitely puts him into the second-chance qualifier. Might put him in first place, but I don't think that's a 9.2. No. It is so impressive that he can do that trick so well. Yeah, big flip down the set. Not easy. A lot going on. I don't know what to do with this. All right, 8.5. Puts him in second place with a 35 even. 0.6 behind Nyjah Houston. 0.6. Yeah, but... Well, he would need a 9.1, huh? Yeah, he's going to need to drop that 8.5 to do it. But he made his way in, and he is officially the highest on the second chance qualifier. I feel like Nyjah and Jocelyn should feel real comfortable about where they're at in this stage of the contest. Yeah. If not out of this group, definitely in the first place in the second chance qualifier. Look at the boys just talking strategy. Chris and Jordan's not even listening. What would you tell him? Because you'd be hanging out with those guys. What would you tell Jocelyn right now? I mean, yeah, I would tell him just go balls through the wall. Do whatever, like, your hardest trick off the bump. Even though he's in the top spot for the second chance qualifier? I mean, yeah, you might. I mean, I feel like you try your hardest to get a 9.1, to solidify your spot. Yeah. And you don't leave it up to chance. Plus, then you know what that score is for the finals. True. I think he goes Ghetto Bird from the bump to flat. They might get him. I don't know. Not the day for Carlos. We love to see him out here. Stoked he's back in. What's up, Steel? Love Carlos. Switchflips getting away from him, but we'll see him out in the streets. Giancolardi looks like he's going back towards the bump. He didn't kick out. At least he didn't kick out. Thank you. Really good trade for him. Good start. All right. Couldn't hang on. One, two, three. It's one of those things, this league, you know, you do a big spin front blunt and a big flip front blunt, and it's still not enough. Yeah. Gustavo needs a 9.5 to get up in the first. Unable to put it down. So Gustavo... Gustavo. ...will not be moving forward. Still a chance. So Jocelyn is going to have that highest. Second chance qualifier score. Yeah. He needs a 9-2 for first. First. I have no idea what this fool is about to do. Oh dear. Bigger flip. Let's do it. So that settles it. Nigel Houston has won this round and is moving on to the finals. Dude, okay. He's put down some super gnarly tricks. What do you think he's saving for the finals? If he's already got the top spot, he's going to do switch heel. Oh. Oh, my gosh. Switch heel front feeble? Yeah, he was getting real close to that in practice. So we're thinking switch heel front feeble. I think he wants to do nollie heel back nose blunt, too. I feel like he might have to pull that in the finals if he's trying to walk away with a dub. Well, that was super exciting right there. Stacked heat. Next one's going to be lit, too. So Nyjah Huston moving on to the finals, score 35.6. What's his finals percentage again? Was it 91%? 91%. So that just moved up a little bit. Yeah. So far, Giovanni Viana, Gino, and Nyjah Huston are all moving on to the finals. We've got one more group left. Let's go. Jocelyn just did a bigger foot down the set, by the way. You probably heard everyone cheer. Cheers. Crowd went wild.