Backflips Clothing Skate Jam

Niall Titheridge » Hard­flip over the hip

Here at Skate Skool we have had a fair bit of prac­tice in run­ning skate comps so when the call came to run an event for Back­flips Cloth­ing in their home­town of Timaru, we where more than keen for a road trip to good ol’ Car­o­line Bay skate park.

For those that don’t know. the park is pretty fun with some cool fea­tures but kind of all crammed in. The locals tore it up with some good lines and ulti­mately went home with most the prizes… the over­sized 2 stair and 5 stair gaps wit­nessed plenty of action with 3 snapped boards amongst other bod­ily carnage.

The crew from Back­flips Cloth­ing went all out with a lolly scramble/product toss from a heli­copter which had par­ents bit­ing at their nails, the mechan­i­cal surf­board was also a hit. Over­all the event was a huge suc­cess. Bigs ups to Back­flips Cloth­ing for organ­is­ing the event, hope­fully next time round Timaru can put on some warmer weather!

Here’s the results and a few pics from the day by our pho­tog Andy Brown, great to see some names from Christchurch on the list. Well done Josh Bam­ford and Mikayla Gilmore for going hard and tak­ing home some of the $5000 prize pool. For more pic­tures from the Back­flips Cloth­ing Skate Jam check out www.backflips.co.nz

13 & Under
1st — Neko Pren­tice
2nd — Tim Vin­cent
3rd — Fyffe Tarres

16 & Under
1st — Cory Del­low
2nd — Josh Bam­ford
3rd Truth T.

Open
1st — Eru Tutaki
2nd — Johnny Bax­ter
3rd — Kody S.

Girls
1st — Hay­ley
2nd — Mikayla Gilmore
3rd — K.T

Best Trick Com­pe­ti­tion — Eru Tutaki: Nol­lie Bigspin down the super-sized 2 stair

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Waltham Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Mex­i­can Skate­board Wave

Saturday’s Waltham Skate Jam proved a hit in the local com­mu­nity with loads of fresh faces and up to 150 peo­ple out to jam on ‘Opti­mus Grind’ — the Skate Skool mobile skatepark.

Our vol­un­teers who ran the gear hire on the day were flat out with over 60 keen lil’ rip­pers hav­ing a go with the gear pro­vided. Some sweet tricks went down in the best trick comp from the 25 com­peti­tors who put their bod­ies on the line for prizes sup­plied by Cheap­skates and Skull­candy. Gnar trick of the day went to Brighton local Jor­dan Kidd, who hucked a ridicu­lous FS 360 Indy off the kicker launch­ing out over 4–5 metres!

Shout-outs to the Christchurch City Coun­cil, SPARC, and Sport Can­ter­bury for sup­port­ing the event, and also the Opawa Bap­tist Church for cook­ing up the free BBQ.

Results

10 & UNDER
1st — Jimmy King » Huge ollie of launch ramp
2nd — Saul Titheridge » Ollie trans­fer
3rd — Tahi » Huge ollie of kicker ramp

13 & UNDER
1st — Liam Cur­rie » Melon grab
2nd — Jai Jenkins-Foreman » Big air
3rd — Jay­den Edmonds » Ollie off kicker

16 & UNDER
1st — Jor­dan McStay » Var­ial heel flip
2nd — Jor­dan Kidd » Early grab FS 360 indy
3rd — Tane Camp­bell » Switch front foot impossible

GIRLS
1st — Jonelle » Front board
2nd — Mikayla G » Ollie
3rd — Rosie » Inline skates

Scroll down for more pho­tos. All pics by Andy Brown.

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Upcoming Event — Ashburton Smokefree Skate Jam

To round off an awe­some inau­gural Sum­mer Series of Skate Skool events, we’re fin­ish­ing off down in Ash­bur­ton on Sat­ur­day the 4th June from 12pm (not really sum­mer any­more we know!). This time it’s also to cel­e­brate the launch of a Smoke­free Ash­bur­ton Skatepark, and also the begin­ning of Matariki, the Maori New Year.

Included will be all of our usual event fea­tures, $500 prize pool, plus Pest 5 will be rat­tling the paint cans with a live graf­fiti demo.

We’re busy lin­ing up next Summer’s events now with the first one drop­ping some­time in Sep­tem­ber, be sure to keep an eye out for some updates around our site and Face­book page.

BroFile #1: Liam Currie

Liam-Currie » Back­side Melon | Thom­son Park | Photo » Andy Brown

Grom of the Month is a new fea­ture on our blog, we’re going to be catch­ing up with a young rip­per each month fir­ing them a few ques­tions and snap­ping a few pics. A warm round of applause for our debut grom — Liam Currie.

Name: Liam Cur­rie
Age: 11 years old
Years rolling: 4
Stance: Goofy
Fav local spot/skatepark: Thom­son park
Fav Trick: 50 fakie
Street/Park/Bowl? — why? Street, coz its always fun look­ing for new spots to skate.
Who hooks ya up: Cheap­skates
Fav all time skate­boarder: Cur­ren Caples
Fav Skate vid/last one you watched: Favourite — Vol­com Lets Live , Last one I watched was Chicagof
Lis­te­nen­ing to music while skat­ing? — what tunes? When I do lis­ten to tunes while skat­ing its usu­ally roots/rock/reggae stuff, Kings of Leon too.
Tight or loose trucks: Loose
Worst skat­ing injury: Ripped my knee open at Methven skate park and needed 8 stitches.
Setup: Nel­son Creek 8″, Indy Trucks, Gold wheels and Cheap­skates Bearings.

Liam Cur­rie » Front Indy | Thom­son Park | Photo » Andy Brown

Backflips Skate Jam

On the 28th May we’ll be doing a lit­tle col­lab with Back­flips Cloth­ing to run a Skate Jam down in at the Timaru Bay Skate Park. It’ll be run along the lines of many of our Skate Jams with our mobile skate park, trick tips from the team, and a best trick comp, except this time it’s with a huge prize pool of $5,000, not bad eh?

Keep in the loop over at Backflip’s Face­book page for updates. See you there!

Linwood Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Jack­son » Indy Sequence

Can­non­balls, fin­ger flips and hur­ri­canes were only a few of the tricks wit­nessed at last week­ends Lin­wood Skate Jam. With a crowd of around 200 the vibe was good and the crowd were hun­grier than ever with 400 sausages and our first ever hot­dog eat­ing com­pe­ti­tion. (Video to be uploaded here real soon!)

The weather was mint and some diverse skat­ing went down on the street/ramp skate park that is Lin­wood. A big air comp went down and many launched sky high but none as high as Raph Doidge who took the supreme award of biggest air. James Thompson’s epic run can’t go with­out a men­tion either with his super clean flow­ing style.

Many thanks go out to the Hagley/Ferrymead com­mu­nity board of the Christchurch City Coun­cil for fund­ing the event and Cheap­skates, Skull­candy and Hellers for hook­ing up the goods.

The Cheap­skates Skate Skool will con­tinue to roll out a few more skate jams with our next event, The Waltham Skate Jam on Sat­ur­day 21st May. A few pics by Andy Brown and results below, check em’ out.

Results

13 & Under
1st — Ariki Kingi » Tre flip
2nd — Jan Buchel » Fakie pop switch blunt
3rd — Vin­cent Bolt » FS bone­less transfer

16 & Under
1st — Jack­son » Var­ial flip indy
2nd — Nick N » Hard­flip the big drop
3rd — James Thomp­son » 50 fakie over the 1/4

Open
1st — James Kingston » Back smith the rail
2nd — Joe­sass » Front lip
3rd — Nick Butcher » Front 50 tail pop into 1/4

Girls
1st Equal » Sara and Safron

Big air comp » Raph Doige

Hot­dog eat­ing comp » Dustin

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Upcoming Event — Waltham Skate Jam

As the days are get­ting shorter and win­ter is approach­ing we’re com­ing down to the last few events for this sea­son, and begin­ning our plan­ning for the 2011/12 sum­mer. But until then we have the Waltham Skate Jam to keep things rock­ing, tak­ing place on Sat 21st May at Waltham School. This event was post­poned as a result of the quake, and now it’s all on. Keep up to date on our Face­book Page for any changes.

Get the crew together and come on down for a good street ses­sion. See you there!