Sumner Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Big kick turn from 7 year old Charles Lord

The coastal sub­urbs of Sum­ner and Red­cliffs have been through hell of the last few months so we thought we could help cheer them up with a good ol’ skate jam.

The event was orig­i­nally planned to be held at Red­cliffs School but due to never end­ing earth­quakes dam­ag­ing the cliff behind the school we were forced to find a new venue with only a few weeks out from the event. For­tu­nately the prin­ci­pal at Sum­ner School was more than happy for us to bring the event to Sum­ner. Youth were so keen for this event they were down there skat­ing around as early as 10am and this crowd grew to around 200 through out the day.

Unfor­tu­nately Sum­ner is yet to receive a skate facil­ity so instead we brought in the Skate Skool mobile skatepark to the excite­ment of the local rippers.

Recently the the local com­mu­nity have been push­ing for a skate park as part of the rebuild and you can sup­port them by jump­ing on face­book and giv­ing the page ‘Sum­ner Skate Park’ the thumbs up. All up it was a super nice sunny day with loads of friendly faces both young and old. The skat­ing was good, free BBQ all day and no one got hurt so all up another suc­cess­ful event for the Cheap­skates Skate Skool.

A big thank you to Tim and Steve from Fuse (local youth group) and Matt Steven­son for help­ing out on the day, oh yea and all the awe­some spon­sors who helped make this event hap­pen — Cheap­skates, Sport Can­ter­bury, SPARC, The Christchurch City Coun­cil, Skull­candy and Hellers for the free sizzlers.

The school hol­i­days are here now so get out skat­ing, don’t for­get to check out our last event until next sum­mer — The BIG CHILL will be going down next Fri­day 29th July down at Lin­wood park. Hope to see you there!

Results

10 & Under
1st » Saul Titheridge — Ollie over the gap
2nd » Lin­coln Davis — Indy Grab
3rd » Ben Wyatt — Drop off on the big man­ual pad

13 & Under
1st » Ariki Kingi — Kick­flip 5050
2nd » Liam Cur­rie — 360 flip
3rd » Jan Buchel — Krooked Grind

16 & Under
1st » Jor­dan McStay (aka: Snappy) — 360 flip over the gap
2nd » Jor­dan Kidd — BIG BS180
3rd » Tane Camp­bell — Front lipslide

Best Girl » Jonelle
Open Jam Win­ner » James Kingston — Back noseg­rind up the man­ual pad 180 out

Scroll down for some more pics from Nick CP.

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Upcoming Event — The Big Chill

Get ready for a mid-winter skate jam down at Lin­wood Skate Park on the 29th July from 11am til 2pm. Fin­ish up the school hol­i­days on a good note with all our reg­u­lar fea­tures plus more!

Free BBQ, Gear hire, Trick tips and Mobile skate park, but this time there’ll be fun bouncy stuff, chal­lenge your mates to a Glad­i­a­tor Duel, or get involved in Kiwi tag with some of the local league clubs.

Spread the word. See you down there!

Brofile #3: Saul Titheridge

After keep­ing an eye on this young dude over our sum­mer series and see­ing him absolutely rip around the parks at the mere age of nine, we decided to get him onboard for July’s Grom of the Month… Intro­duc­ing Saul Titheridge.

Saul is def­i­nitely one to watch with his 110% com­mit­ment and enthu­si­asm to skate­board­ing. He drops in, bails, gets back on the board and drops in again until he gets it. Awe­some to see. Could be inspi­ra­tion for some of us older skaters who get lazy and make up excuses… Scroll on for his quick­fire ques­tions and some pho­tos of him tear­ing up Washington.

Name: Saul Titheridge
Age? 9
Reg­u­lar or goofy? Reg­u­lar
Fav local spot/skatepark: Wash
Fav trick? Indy
Street/Park/Bowl? — Why? Park, Because there are more things to do.
Who hooks you up? No one (yet)
Fav all time skate­boarder? Bam Marg­era
Fav skate vid/ last one you watched? Thrasher, Hall of Meat
Lis­ten­ing to music while skat­ing? — What tunes? Nah, can’t (while skat­ing). Wu Tang and Dig­i­tal Under­ground
Tight or loose trucks? Medium
Worst skat­ing injury? Cracked head (hence the hel­met)
Cur­rent setup? SkateGear blank deck, Speed Demon trucks and ran­dom wheels
A good skateboarder’s diet should always include? Car­rots
What are you going to be doing in 5 years? Fully spon­sored under 16
Any final words? Nah

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Upcoming Event — Sumner Skate Jam

Colder months have set in but that hasn’t stopped peo­ple from get­ting out on their boards, nor has it put an end to our events. We’ve got an event hap­pen­ing over in Sum­ner School (Colenso Street) on Sat­ur­day 16th July. ‘Opti­mus Grind’ the mobile skate will be there, a free BBQ to warm up the masses, and the Skate Skool team will be there help­ing out with trick tips. Oh and there’ll also be our famous best trick comp of course.

See you all there!