Upcoming Event: Linwood X-Games

We’re rock­ing back to Lin­wood Skate Park on Decem­ber the 10th for the annual Lin­wood X-Games. $1,000 worth of prizes will be up for grabs in our best trick comps — not only for the most com­mit­ted skaters but also for those who can huck a bike around. Push Bikes are com­ing to the party and offer­ing free bike checks too!

There’s going to be our usual sweet things going on like a free BBQ, mobile skatepark, free gear hire, some break danc­ing demos, and trick tips from the Skate Skool team.

Come down and get amongst it from 12-3pm.

Upcoming Event: Darfield Skate Jam

You know it Darfield, we’re com­ing inland to get amongst your skatepark! $700 worth of prizes up for grabs in our best trick comp, and we’ll also be putting up free gear hire and trick tips for those just start­ing out.

Christchurch folk, get ready for yet another road­trip, get out of Wash and skate some new ter­rain. See you there!

Upcoming Event: Backflips Skate Jam

As many of you will know, the boys down at Back­flips Cloth­ing in Timaru put on a pretty mean comp ear­lier this year. They’re back next Sat­ur­day 19th Nov with the Movem­ber Skate Jam with a huge $7000 prize pool!

Road­trip time anyone?

Bishopdale Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Jor­dan Kidd » BS 180

Next it was off to one of the old­est and most run down skateparks in Christchurch, Bish­op­dale skatepark. To amp things up a bit we brought in the Skate Skool mobile skatepark just to keep things inter­est­ing. With free gear hire avail­able the place was swarm­ing with begin­ners which kept the good guys on their toes for most the day.

The best trick comp put on a good show and Andy Brown popped down to grab a few pics.

Skate Skool will be run­ning a Learn to Skate­board pro­gramme at Bish­op­dale park start­ing Tues­day 8th Novem­ber, for more info or to reg­is­ter fol­low this link. This event was proudly sup­ported by the Fendalton/Waimairi com­mu­nity board of the Christchurch City Coun­cil. Thanks also to Cheap­skates and Skull­candy for hook­ing up the prizes!

RESULTS
10 & UNDER
1st — Saul Titheridge
2nd — Pheonix
3rd — Char­lie Baker

13 & UNDER
1st — Leon Hous­ton
2nd — Bradley Fast
3rd — Karhou

14 & OVER
1st — Joe Sass
2nd — Matt John­son
3rd — Jor­dan Kidd

GIRLS
1st — Han­nah Kennedy
2nd — Ava

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BroFile #6: Jayden Edmonds

Jay­den Edmonds » Ollie over the tabletop

I was on the scout for a young rip­per to shoot for November’s Grom of the Month, so headed down to Wash­ing­ton. Chill­ing over in the cor­ner I spot­ted Jay­den Edmonds, recalled a few good lines and tricks up his sleeve from our Skate Jams, and hit him up for a shoot.

There was no wait­ing, straight on the board and huck­ing ollies down the bank to the flat in a mat­ter of sec­onds. His energy and enthu­si­asm for skat­ing is huge (or he’s just had too much energy drink), if he didn’t land some­thing, or I missed the split sec­ond for get­ting the right shot, he was back drop­ping in before I could get my old hag­gard self back into position.

Here’s what Jay­den had to say for our quick­fire questions:

Name: Jay­den Edmonds
Age? 13
Reg­u­lar or goofy? Goofy
Fav local spot/skatepark: Wash
Fav trick? Kick­flip
Street/Park/Bowl? Park — Why? It’s just fun to do banks and stuff
Who hooks you up? n/a
Fav all time skate­boarder? Ryan Sheck­ler
Fav skate vid/ last one you watched? South in your mouth
Lis­ten­ing to music while skat­ing? naa
Tight or loose trucks? Loose
Worst skat­ing injury? Chipped my tooth
Cur­rent setup? Death­wish board, Bones STFs, Bones Reds, and Thun­ders
A good skateboarder’s diet should always include? Red Bull or Mon­ster
What are you going to be doing in 5 years? Don’t know…
Any final words? naa

Scroll on for more photos!

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Sumner Skate Jam: Photos & Results

Lind­say giv­ing a help­ing hand

So we rolled on out to Sum­ner for another skate jam a few weeks back. It was a scorcher of a day and every­one was stoked to see us back again.

A crowd of around 80 peo­ple rolled around in the sun and gob­bled down a moun­tain of free sausages put up by our friends at Hellers. Thanks to Sum­ner school for the use of the court and of course all the spon­sors that made the event pos­si­ble — Cheap­skates, The Christchurch City Coun­cil, Sport Can­ter­bury, SPARC and Skull­candy for some extra prizes. A spe­cial shout out also to Tim from FUSE for lend­ing us the sound sys­tem and crank­ing tunes all day.

Here’s a few pho­tos and the results from the comp. Check it!

Results

10 & UNDER
1st — William Lochhead
2nd — Tahi Ricks
3rd — Ben Wyatt

13 & UNDER
1st — Leon Hous­ton
2nd — Ariki Kingi
3rd — Karhou

14 & OVER
1st — Jor­dan Kidd
2nd — Matt John­ston
3rd — Harry Smith

GIRLS
1st — Han­nah Kennedy
2nd — Mia Dower
3rd — Lucy Brailsford

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