Fridays Skate event had the biggest turnout of all 3 days. With the help of all the talented skaters and even the crowd, we were able to hold multiple best trick contests on five different pieces of SkateArt.
Starting it out with simplicity on the Concrete Manual Pad where some crazy technical tricks were going down. “Little John” killed it with his Switch heel to Switch back tail winning him a $50.00 hooters gift card, get this guy some buffalo wings! Next, moving on to the unique Zebra Striped abstract Jersey barrier, TJ Sparks was the only one grinding the coping from end to end and won the contest with a Nosegrind Stalefish up and out. Freddie Tan was also killing it, with backside ollies into the tight transistion:
Then we held a contest on the blue launch ramp manual pad where you had to Ollie up to immediately launch off the end. The winner was an un-named skater with a Backside 180 late flip winning him Tickets for 4 to Ripley’s believe it or not.
After that we moved on to the Yellow curved bench which also escalated from low to high. Tim Payne took $40 out of his pocket and put it in a hat to pass around the crowd and ended up with $185 with the help of the spectators! Aaron Collier took the first $80 with a sick Frontside Smith grind from the low end, all the way through with a Frontside flip out the high end. With $105 left, the rest of the money was given out to some tricks done on the Diamond shaped ledge.
The last contest of the day was on the wavy red bench at 14’ long. But that didn’t faze Timmy Knuth from shutting the spot down with a Kickflip Crook grinding all 14’ and ending with a Bigspin out. Timmy went home with tickets for 4 worth $300 to the Pirates Dinner Adventure Show, $25 bucks and a backpack full of goodies.
For the Saturday show, We held a best photo contest where each skater took three attempts to capture the sickest photo for cash. Rippers like Freddie Tan, TJ sparks, Timmy Knuth, Matt Henry, AJ Kohn, Cody Eurich, JJ from ONEskatebords, Kevin Sikes, Dalton Dern, Alex Sergente, Kaason Clark, Billy Rivera and Chad Tepper were all killing it!
Friday was definitely an Epic show and we want to thank all the skaters and spectators for the talent and support!
Keep checking for more updates on this new line of SkateArt as we are making a link to the SkateArt site to be released very soon…