Rolleston Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Matt John­ston » Crooks

Sadly, our sum­mer skate jam series has come to an end. We were warmly wel­comed out at Rolle­ston skatepark on Sat­ur­day to a whole park of skate­board­ers for a change! It was a pleas­ant sur­prise for us here at the Skate Skool and we were amped to round out the 2011/2012 sum­mer series with solid skate­board­ing event.

Things got pretty heavy all of a sud­den when Kingston, Josh Bam­ford and Jor­dan Kidd stepped up to the gar­den gap. Props to Josh for stomp­ing a kicky first pop with Kingston super close to land­ing a Tre, one more attempt we reckon he would of had it. James stepped up in the comp with a drop in off the rail­ing behind the big quar­ter tak­ing 1st — no sur­prises there.

The comp was sick right through all divi­sions, the young guns are def­i­nitely get­ting bet­ter by the day and we’re amped to wait and see what tricks these kids are pulling next when the next series rolls around. It’s been a great sum­mer for Christchurch skate­board­ing and it’s been a priv­iledge to help pump the local scene along with over 30 skate events!

Cheers to those who have sup­ported us over the last year, we’re stoked that you have enjoyed our events and hope that you all keep shred­ding over winter.

We will be back again next sum­mer with a whole heap more events, more prizes, free BBQs and good times! Keep an eye out over win­ter though as we will con­tinue to run our Bro­File fea­ture, online give­aways and we may just have a cou­ple more lil’ events that might pop up!

Chur!

BEST TRICK COMP RESULTS:

10 & Under
1st — Tris­tan Logchies
2nd — Jeremy Eaton
3rd — Dion Schweikl

13 & Under
1st — Liam Cur­rie
2nd — Daniel CG
3rd — Bradley Fast

14 & Over
1st — James Kingston
2nd — Joe­sass
3rd — Josh Stewart

Girls
1st — Lau­ren Scott
2nd — Geor­gia
3rd — Mareta Ielua

Scroll on to check out more pho­tos by Levi Woolf.

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BroFile #9: Alex Baker

For Bro­file #9 we lined up local rip­per Alex Baker and put him in the spot­light. We shot these pho­tos over two ses­sions — a lit­tle park and a lit­tle street, chal­lenged Alex a lit­tle and he more than nailed it. A pur­veyor of colour­ful shirts and hand-crafted grip­tape art, we caught up with Alex to give his two cents for our quick fire ques­tions. Here’s what he had to say…

Name: Alex Baker

Age? 17.

Reg­u­lar or goofy? Regular.

Fav local spot/skatepark: The bean hive.

Fav trick? Nollie-flip.

Street/Park/Bowl? Street, always some­thing new to try.

Who hooks you up? No-one.

Fav all time skate­boarder? Harry (main) Warburton.

Fav skate vid/ last one you watched? Ritchie Jack­son part two.

Lis­ten­ing to music while skat­ing? Yea, Wu-Tang/the xx.

Tight or loose trucks? Loose.

Worst skat­ing injury? Noth­ing to worry about (rolled ankle).

Cur­rent setup? Nel­son Creek board, Ven­ture trucks, Spit­fire wheels, Bones bear­ings and Lucky hardware.

A good skateboarder’s diet should always include? Teza iced tea and mango, gotta stay healthy.

What are you going to be doing in 5 years? Living.

Any final words? Peace, out.

Check out more sick pho­tos by Andy Brown below…

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Jellie Park Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Brad Chris­tensen » Kick­flip to flat

As the days get shorter and weather turns wilder we count down our last cou­ple of events of the 2011/2012 sum­mer series. Saturday’s Jel­lie Skate Jam was a good day for all and lucky for us the weather stayed on our side.

Over the sum­mer we have noticed some incred­i­ble tal­ent com­ing through in the younger divi­sions with the likes of the 9 y/o Schweikl twins (Jacob and Dion) who have been turn­ing heads over the last few comps, mean­ing a bright future ahead for NZ skate­board­ing. It’s cool to see more girls get­ting down to our events too!

Thanks to all that came down and all the spon­sors who helped make it hap­pen — The Christchurch City Coun­cil — Fendalton/Waimairi Com­mu­nity Board, Cheap­skates, Sport Can­ter­bury, Sport New Zealand and Skullcandy.

Best Trick Competition:

10 & Under
1st — Dion Schweikl
2nd — Kur­tis O’Sullivan
3rd — Tris­tan Logchies

13 & Under
1st — Tane Octo­ber
2nd — Con­ner Hren
3rd — Shaun Malloch

14 & Over
1st — (Unof­fi­cial) — James Kingston
1st — Brad Chris­tensen
2nd — Josh Bam­ford
3rd — Tom Galligan

Girls
1st equal — Lau­ren Scott & Mareta Ielua

Check out some more pho­tos below by Andy Brown.

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Upcoming Event: Rolleston Skate Jam

As the days are get­ting shorter and cooler, the 2011/2012 sea­son is slowly draw­ing to a close for the Cheap­skates Skate Skool — not to men­tion we’re going to be back with an even big­ger sea­son of events in the upcom­ing 2012/13 Summer.

To sign things off (aside form the Big Chill in July), we’re head­ing out to Rolle­ston Skatepark this Sat­ur­day from 12-3pm. Best trick comp, learn to skate with the Skate Skool team, and free gear hire is available.

Updates on Face­book for this event are here.

See you all there!

Thomson Bowl Jam 2012: Photos & Results

Ned Simp­son » Frontside air transfer

The Thom­son Bowl Jam has become the biggest bowl skat­ing com­pe­ti­tion of the South Island and def­i­nitely the high­light of our Sum­mer skate jam series.

Last Saturday’s event cer­tainly lived up to expec­ta­tions — the whole place was buzzing with activ­ity with a crowd of over 500! It wasn’t with­out your typ­i­cal Christchurch East­erly wind, so we were con­stantly clean­ing sand and dust out of the bowl, but besides that the weather was great.

The young guns weren’t hold­ing back with the likes of 12 y/o Vin­cent Bolt set­ting the level and tak­ing 1st in the 13 & under divi­sion. The 16 and under divi­sion was next level and if it wasn’t for poster boy, Dan Kelcher’s win­ning run it would of been one hell of a task to judge. At only 14 years old, Dan was going big­ger than any­one out of the 10ft that day.

The Dunedin crew came up to skate and hang out with Josh Wil­son tak­ing 1st in the open with a solid array of tricks and 14 y/o Niwa Warner tak­ing 2nd in the 16’s and giv­ing the locals a run for their money. Local leg­end Ned Simp­son had the crowd amp­ing dur­ing his runs with his famous air­walk (includ­ing one to a front tail!) on the 7ft end amongst many other slick tricks.

The day of skat­ing was given a small break when our spe­cial sur­prise guests arrived — Com­mon Ground dance crew — who put on a very impres­sive show.

Thanks to Richard from the Thom­son Park Users Group (TPUG) for help­ing clean out the bowl which was under a foot of water ear­lier in the week, with­out your efforts this event would have become a swim­ming comp.

For­tu­nately if you missed the action, Andy Brown was there to cap­ture it all so scroll down and check out some great shots from the day.

This event was made pos­si­ble by Cheap­skates, The Christchurch City Coun­cil — Hagley/Ferrymead Com­mu­nity Board, Sport Can­ter­bury and Sport New Zealand. Thanks also to all the con­tribut­ing spon­sors — Skull­candy, Vans Shoes,
Mys­tery Skate­boards, Thun­der Trucks, Bones wheels and bear­ings, Traf­fick cloth­ing, The Youth Alive Trust, Neff and Hellers for the free sausages!

RESULTS

13 & Under
1st » Vin­cent Bolt
2nd » Liam Cur­rie
3rd »Flynn Allen

16 & Under
1st » Dan Kelcher
2nd » Niwa Warner
3rd » Jor­dan Kidd

Open
1st » Josh Wil­son
2nd » Lind­sey Bae (aka Luke Wat­son)
3rd » Fran­cis Sandys

Girls
1st » Eliz­a­beth Webb
2nd » Makioa Patterson

Best Trick Com­pe­ti­tion » Lind­say Bae: Foot­plant on the vert
Best Grom » Cur­tis O’Sullivan (8 years old)

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Lyfe Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Josh Bam­ford » Back­side lipslide

Lin­wood park was hum­ming last Sat­ur­day with an event that has been in hid­ing for a while, but the sun came out and the peo­ple swarmed wel­com­ing LYFE (Lin­wood Youth Fes­ti­val Expe­ri­ence) back into the scene. There were bouncy cas­tles, BBQs and food stalls, a decent free­drop into huge airbag which the BMX­ers were also huck­ing into, live music, and most of all, a great atmosphere.

We put on our skate comp offer­ing some of the rid­ers to dis­play their local knowl­edge of Linwood’s unique, rolling skate park. Par­tic­i­pants young and not so young got amongst it. Up and com­ing local leg­end Ariki Kingi ruled the 13 and unders, while David Bo Yue Chen took out the open with his styl­ish array of tricks.

An awe­some dis­play was on for the best trick comp over the table top, trick attempts (and some landed) included Beni­han­nas, Back­side 360s, Air­walks and Judo airs, but the trick every­one wanted to see landed was Josh Araipu’s Christ Air. It was pretty close, and we know he can stomp it.

Thanks to the Christchurch City Coun­cil, Mai FM and all the peo­ple in behind cre­at­ing such a rad event, we look for­ward to next year!

Pho­tos by Andy Brown below… more pho­tos of the event can be found at the LYFE web­site.

RESULTS

13 & Under
1st — Ariki Kingi
2nd — Jan Buchel
3rd — Denzel

14 & Over
1st — Jerry Hsu (David)
2nd — Josh Bam­ford
3rd — Jor­dan Kidd

Girls
1st — Geor­gia
2nd — Jazz

Best Trick — Josh Araipu

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Ashburton Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Ben McConnell » Switch Back­side Tail

A return trek down to the infa­mous Ash­bur­ton Skatepark took place last week­end, where skaters flocked from around Can­ter­bury to attend. The sun came out and tricks went down — in front of a decent sized crowd too! Dur­ing the free skate time before the comp there were a num­ber of young skaters geared up and hav­ing a go with the Skate Skool team lend­ing a hand where needed. The best trick comp started with young rip­pers Hamish and Jeremy hit­ting up some big tricks for peo­ple of such small stature.

The ham­mers came out in the older divi­sions with Ariki’s smooth back­side fee­ble on the rail, Vincent’s sig­na­ture back­side dis­as­ter on the quar­ter­pipe, local leg­end Sean Burgess’ ballsy kicky front­board on the rail and Ben McConnell’s insane abil­ity to switch 360 flip pretty much any­thing in the park.

The fea­ture to end the event stopped most spec­ta­tors from leav­ing — the best trick comp down the 7 stair with the grand prize being a Traf­fick deck. At this time James Kingston, Jack Woodrow and Jor­dan McStay arrived on the way back from Duds and joined in, putting on an awe­some show. After most skaters retired it came down to a endance bat­tle between Sean Burgess going for a kicky back lip on the rail and Jor­dan McStay going for a back­side 360 ollie down the stairs. In the end, both tricks where stomped but unfor­tu­nately not rid­den away from — and they both snapped their boards (check the sequences below). We called it to be a draw, giv­ing away two decks which were both well-deserved.

A huge thank you to Cheap­skates, Skull­candy, Sport Can­ter­bury, Sport New Zealand and the Ash­bur­ton Dis­trict Coun­cil for help­ing this event happen.

Check out the results below as well as some pho­tos from Andy Brown and Nick CP.

Results

10 & Under
1st — Hamish Kerr — Nose Stall on the 1/4
2nd — Jeremy Eaton — FS 180 over the pyramid

13 & Under
1st — Ariki Kingi — Fee­ble of the rail
2nd — Vin­cent Bolt — BS Dis­as­ter
3rd — Hamish Eden — Kick­flip to fakie

14 & Over
1st — Ben McConnell — Switch 360 flip over the gap
2nd — Sean Burgess — Kicky Front board on the rail
3rd — Zak McLean — Hard­flip the stairs

Girls
1st — Geor­gia
2nd — Libby

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Upcoming event: LYFE 2012

After LYFE 2011 was can­celled due to the Feb 22nd earth­quake, the team are back and ready for an even big­ger event this year! It’s all hap­pen­ing down at Lin­wood Park from 12-4pm, Sat 17th March. Not just our reg­u­lar skate comp, but also heaps of other stuff going on like live sounds from Real­ity Chant with MC Silva, Mer­chants of Flow, free­drop onto a huge airbag and urban art demos.

For more info, check out the offi­cial LYFE web­site. See you down there!

BroFile #8: Ned Simpson

Ned Simp­son » Air­walk (angle one)

The other day I headed down to the noto­ri­ous Thom­son Park to get a few pho­tos of local leg­end Ned Simp­son. The one thing I noticed instantly about Ned is he’s happy, lov­ing life. Day to day tasks include work­ing at the New Brighton DC out­let store, skat­ing the mini ramp there, them head­ing to TP to skate some more, pretty sweet. He put on a good show with some tricks that don’t come around that often like some pretty styl­ish air­walks, judo airs, and rocket airs to name a few. Although some of these didn’t get stomped for the pho­tos, I’m sure with a lit­tle more time they would have been. Over to Ned…

Name: Ned Simpson.

Age? 19.

Reg­u­lar or goofy? Regular.

Fav local spot/skatepark: Thom­son park.

Fav trick? Airwalk/fingerflips.

Street/Park/Bowl? Bowl and Park. — Why? It’s fast and scary.

Who hooks you up? DC New Brighton.

Fav all time skate­boarder? Rob Dyrdek.

Fav skate vid/ last one you watched? South in your mouth.

Lis­ten­ing to music while skat­ing? Some­times. — What tunes? Good beats and dubstep.

Tight or loose trucks? Loose.

Worst skat­ing injury? Face­plant, 11.5 feet onto my eye.

Cur­rent setup? Slave deck, Ven­ture trucks, Pig wheels, Pig Speed­stars bearings.

A good skateboarder’s diet should always include? Chicken burgers.

What are you going to be doing in 5 years? Hope­fully trav­el­ing around skat­ing hard.

Any final words? Grab a skate­board and come skate!

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Hornby Skate Jam: Photos & Results

The sec­ond ever Hornby Skate Jam went down last Fri­day evening at a ran­dom old-skool speed skat­ing rink on Main South Road. Over 100 peo­ple cruised down to check us out. The sun was out and the vibe was good as young and old took to the track or the mobile skatepark for a late after­noon jam.

The banked track meant we could mix it up and run a few races includ­ing a tick tack race as well as the usual best trick comp.

The 9 y/o Schweikl twins were rip­ping but it was Dion that took 1st fol­lowed very closely by Jacob. James Kingston took it away in the open and the groms were on form too. Andy was there to cap­ture some of the event, check out the pics below!

Results:

10 & Under
1st — Dion Schweikl
2nd — Jacob Schweikl

13 & Under
1st — Jay­den Jenkin
2nd — Jacob Houghton
3rd — Tyler Ashmore

14 & Over
1st — James Kingston
2nd — Josh Bam­ford
3rd — Louis Judd

Girls — Georgia

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