A warm sunny day in Dunedin. The sun was out and the weather was stunning!
Results of Skate to Relate 3
Open 1st Nick Bright 2nd Troy Tapara 3rd Joel Stirling
16 and Under 1st PJ Wybrow 2nd Joel Stirling 3rd Jack Byrne
13 and Under 1st Ben Hotton 2nd Ashley Low 3rd Carlos Boyes
Ben Hotton
Joel Stirling
PJ Wybrow
There can only be one winner... well in this case three.
Some strong skating by all the contestants, and a fun day for the spectators.
A thank you to all the sponsors:
DCC, YAC, Cheapskates, Quest, Vic, Vans, abc, Traffick, Habitat, Huffer, Element, enjoi, Chop, RPM, Manual, Fresh, Destructo, LRG and Globe
…and a big thank you for Seth for organizing it and MC Beau for being the compère.
MC Beau
For your viewing pleasure, here are the top three contestants in the three age brackets. It runs just short of 28 minutes.
A few weekends ago we headed up to the Timaru Skatepark at Caroline Bay for a competition that Soul Surf & Skate were holding.
When we arrived just before ten, which is early for a skateboarding event, the place was busy, I hadn’t realized that skateboarding was that popular in this area last time I went through. As time went on I noticed all the usual keen skaters mostly in the 16 and Under category that had traveled like ourselves from quite a distance. Good to see our friends from Temuka, and Ashburton. I knew this was going to be quite a good competition and the standard was going to be high. As the morning progressed the tents were set up, the sound system arrived, and the visitors and locals practised. The older guys in the Open section started to arrive and finally all the ABC crew and entourage were there and the comp started. It was a Jam format onto two one and a half minute run final, best run wins. Quite a good format for a comp and one I am increasingly thinking is good for local comps, as it encourages skaters with little experience at competition skating to give it a go and get some experience at skating in front of a crowd.
The 16 and Under Section was probably the fullest. It had a large amount of competitors with the standard being high. I didn’t realize how good the skaters around Timaru, Temuka and Ashburton had become.
The Open had fewer contestants, with Temuka skater Andrew Chunks Norton having an amazing run.
Best Trick was next. I think most of the Contestants were hucked out, but Billy Mclachlan from Temuka and Nick Bright from Dunedin rose to the occasion.
The product toss was awesome, they threw out so much product. Lots of people went home with new kicks and Ts. It was very enjoyable afternoon thanks to the efforts of Soul Surf & Skate and ABC.
A final chat to our friends then back in the car for the journey home, with a stop for a skate at Oamaru. This was the best part of the trip; a game of S-K-A-T-E in Oamaru against Charlie’s car. Some very suspect tricks went down. I think there will have to be a multipage contract defining which tricks are acceptable before the rematch takes place.
I went out a few Sundays (14 Feb 2010) ago and shot some stills of Nick Bright that were used over on the Manual web site in Talk Turkey Tuesday with Nick Bright. Apart from the kickflip all the photos were shot that day for that feature. Nick’s a pretty consistent skater so it’s easy to go out and do that. When I sent the images to Manual, I sent a few more than appeared in the feature, as it’s always nice to give people choices. On today’s blog entry I thought I’d share some of the other images that didn’t make it.
The reason I didn’t shoot a kickflip again on the Sunday was because I already had three examples of Nick doing that trick. One was used in the article, but here are the other two.
This one in Mornington.
And my favourite, shot at the Kew Rail.
I also took another version of the melon to fakie that I shot at the Fairfield ramps. This was shot on the small end with a fisheye. I like how you can see the whole spot as well as the trick.
After we’d shot the Frontside Nosebluntslide that appeared in the feature, we found a traffic island complete with pole jam. Again shot with a fisheye.
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