UPDATE 4-April 15, 2008

Team After Shock debuted its new body, “Warrior” for the fans at the Chris Arel “Monster Spectacular” this weekend at the Parc Olympique in Montreal Quebec. The body will be run on the second chassis to be completed later this year. The theme of the new truck is based on a flag design by Mohawk artist Louis Hall. To learn more, be sure to check out our website at www.warriortruck.com.

After Shock Donut

YouTube – Monster Spectacular Montreal 2008 

The team is looking forward to the upcoming season.  

UPDATE 3-March 16, 2008

What’s up guys? The Buffalo HSBC Arena was close to a sellout crowd. In attendance were After Shock, General Lee, Monster Moose, Public Disturbance, Bounty Hunter, Bear Foot, and Bigfoot. The line up was weird because they ran as two separate groups, first 4 and second 3 as freestyle groups. Don King in Bear Foot took the wheelie contest, then in racing we beat Bounty Hunter in the finals.

They started freestyle with us first. Bob took a few hits on the van stack and a car set or two, then went for the FMX hill (photos courtesy Jeff Luckey). He got great air and a first set freestyle win. Then they ran Bounty Hunter, Bear Foot, and Bigfoot in the second freestyle. Bigfoot took the second freestyle with less of a hit on the FMX hill. All that were there said that we had a better launch. We’ll have more news coming soon!

UPDATE 2-February 28, 2008

The team had a laundry list of problems this weekend, including but not limited to: a bent rear steering cylinder, steering bolt (opposite side on the rear), bent four link bar, stretched heim joint on the rear tie rod, broken rear steering housing, two stretched heims on a rear four link bar, and a roll during the afternoon show. Video can be seen here: YouTube – Bob Robbins (AfterShock) Rolls It. In addition, there was a bent rear brake rotor, two broken beads on the tires, and during the Sunday freestyle, the engine went out. It was definitely a long weekend, but crewman Matt Hill assured us that the truck will be back out there and running hard again soon!

UPDATE 1-February 17, 2008

For more information on AfterShock, visitwww.aftershockmonstertruck.com!

It was an exciting night inside the Metrodome as a huge line up of 16 trucks rolled into Minneapolis for the first time in 2008. The course saw the return of the new cyclone racing style. In racing the finals came down to Carl Van Horn in T-Maxx taking on Daron Basl in El Matador with Van Horn taking the win. Freestyle saw Devastator pick up the early lead with a 24 before a great run by Daron Basl would put him in first with a 28 which held until Alex Blackwell hit the floor in Captain’s Curse who picked up the freestyle win. We’ll have photos from the event along with a gallery from last weekend’s event in Anaheim, California soon so stick with us. 

The 2008 Atlanta Monster Jam is officially in the books. Racing saw a surprise winner, with the fill-in Lee O’Donnell behind the wheel of Blue Thunder. O’Donnell snuck into the semi-finals after getting beat by Randy Brown in the second round. Battery problems on Maximum Destruction put O’Donnell in the finals, where he took out Allen Pezo in Predator after Pezo spun out. Many spectacular moments from all the trucks, including several amazing saves, highlighted freestyle, but in the end it was all Tom Meents and Maximum Destruction. Meents put on a usual Max D run, with huge air and saves. Randy Brown had a rough night in Grave Digger; after getting taken out in the semis, his freestyle was cut short by an early roll. Thanks to Robby Haught for the info.