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2010 World Championship of Freestyle Skateboarding – Results

September 21st, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, competition, freestyle, international

I posted that the 2010 World Championship of Freestyle Skateboarding was coming up in Philadelphia. Well it’s been and gone and here are some videos and the results.

Pro Division
1 Günter Mokulys (Germany) $2000
2 Sean Burke (USA) $1000
3 Killian Martin (Spain) $500
4 Joe Flemke (USA) $300
5 Darryl Grogan (USA) $200
6 Per Canguru (Brazil)
7 Shigekazu “Moichi” Suzuki (Japan)
8 Terry Synnott (USA)
9 Kevin Harris (Canada)
10 Matt Gokey (USA)
11 Mike Osterman (USA)
12 Rene Shigueto (Brazil)
13 Tommy Harward (USA)
14 Jesse Whalen (USA)
15 Stefan Albert (Germany)
16 Connor Burke (USA)
17 Keith Butterfield (USA)
18 Mario Steinman (Switzerland)
19 Stefan “Lillis” Åkesson (Sweden)
20 Mike Kinney (USA)
21 J.J. O’Donnell (USA)
22 Takeshi Suzuki (Japan)
23 A.J. Kohn (USA)

Master’s Division
1 YoYo Schulz (Germany) $500
2 Bill Robertson (USA) $300
3 Paulo Fahola (Brazil) $200
4 Rogerio Antigo (Brazil)
5 Mike Rogers (USA)
6 Alan Benson (USA)
7 Rodney Watkins (USA)
8 Jim Simmons (USA)

Amateur Division
1 Greyson Ashton (USA)
2 Lucas Masano (Brazil)
3 Lucas Fraga Gomes (Brazil)
4 Ryan Bernelson (Canada)
5 Felix Johnson (USA)
6 John Prather (USA)
7 Benton Farquhar (USA)
8 Michael Sterling (USA)
9 Jacob Whitt (USA)
10 Joe Uva (USA)
11 Doug Williams (USA)
12 Justin Lozoff (USA)
13 Daniel Trujillo (USA)
14 Troy Bryant (USA)
15 Tyrone Willians (USA)
16 Nethanial Cohen (USA)
17 Chris Benker (USA)
18 Ricky Dormoi (USA)
19 Jesse Mitchell (USA)

Women’s Division
1 Mic Muyayama (JPN)
2 Shannon Sexton (USA)
3 Luma Veloce(USA)

Novice Division
1 J.T. Gerhart
2 Manny Hampton
3 Colby Hempel
4 William Cuadrado
5 Dan Robbins
6 Johnson Kan
7 Jacob Cuadrado
8 Nicholas Cuadrado

360 Spins
Kevin Harris (Canada) 29.75 spins

Best Trick (Judges picked from the actual runs)
Shigekazu “Moichi” Suzuki (Japan): YoYo to HoHo Sad Plant

Günter Mokulys with his competition run that took out the Pro Division.

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2010 World Championships of Freestyle Skateboarding

September 6th, 2010 by william | 1 Comment | Filed in USA, competition, freestyle, international

World Freestyle Skateboard Competition 2010

A while ago I posted something on longboarding and in particular downhill longboarding and I was intrigued about it. I thought it had died around the time things started changing and the industry contracted. Skateboarding used to have a lot more facets than we see today in the mainstream skateboarding media. I noticed that their equipment had evolved and was better and more tailored for going down hill with speed.

Well imagine what I thought when I saw publicity for the 2010 World Championships of Freestyle Skateboarding. Freestylers were another group that suffered from a downturn in skateboarding popularity. On their blog I note that it’s the 10 year anniversary of the re-birth of competitive Freestyle skateboarding, apparently ten year ago, after it bottomed out and went underground, keen freestylers got together and started freestyle competition up again. It’s truly international with the last competition having been held in Japan and in the current competition, among the 80+ entrants 11 different countries represented.

I was always led to believe that freestyle changed into streetstyle with Rodney Mullen. I looked at the development of the whole S.K.A.T.E. thing as what kids who would have freestyled do today. I didn’t realize it was alive and well in all it’s original glory. Another layer of skateboarding resurfacing. I like all the textures and differences that are starting to appear in today’s skateboarding.

Here’s some modern European Freestyle it seems to have taken hold there.
Joe Flemke


Episode One of Road to Philly: A Freestyle Skateboarding Saga, two freestylers and their quest for freestyle glory.

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