Showing posts with label UKSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UKSA. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

UKSA National Skateboarding Championships 2009

Actually...Fuck it. I'll get this out fo the way now.



Street Qualifiers:



Vert Qualifiers:



Street Semis:



Blueprint and Mob Grip Best Trick comps:



Vert Finals:



Street Finals:



Last weekend was mental.
Sam Beckett is a wizard. Throwing 720's into runs and Kickflip Liens. Is he pulling forward from his forenamesake who seems to be stuck on the 540 variations? No diss to Bosworth. You can't knock a fourteen year old doing seven foot high airwalk 540's. Beckett's bag of lip tricks and flip tricks seems to work out for him, though.
I'd still love to see the X Games footage where Bosworth won.

As for Street - Grove got done out of the big money. I say that as a judge - and it was way harder than last year.
Cast your mind back and think about Chris Oliver's run. Not one person would have doubted him at the top of the podium. This year, though, the guesses we're all over the place from the crowd.
Ross won it, fair and square, though. Everything he did was a joke - clean and comfortable.
I'm actually looking at the scores now - and up until eighth place it is all so close. Grove was only a couple of points below Wileman - but a £700 drop in prize money is harsh.
I'm sure he doesn't give a fuck, though - He killed the Blueprint Best Trick comp (As did BP's other ex, Flynn Trotman) and walked away with an entire warehouse backing him.

Grove is on form - Ross and Sam may have taken the loot, but it was his weekend, undoubtedly.

Oh - Check Daryll in the finals. Dude's we're feeling ballsy kickflipping that driveway when he came along and ruined the show for them.

Special mention to Vaughn Baker and Neil Smith. Vaughn was clearly having a right laugh and Neil was creating lines in a park for which they don't really exist.

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Not digging too deep...



This was a little ad I put together for last years UKSA National Skateboarding Championships.

I think Niall Kenny filmed the Ben Nordberg training footage. I like Nordberg. He is up for it and doesn't take himself too seriously.

Hopefully it is obvious what we were trying to do here. I mean, it's clearly goofy footage of him pissing about while bored on some tour.
Kind of a shame as I wanted to do a really serious one. One where no-one would actually be sure if we were joking or not. I mean, we came out with the "National Skateboarding Championships" (A necessary evil) moniker which kind of reeks of everything I didn't want to be near when I got into skateboarding - so we could of managed to pull off the 'not getting it' angle easily, I'm sure.
Anyway, if you missed it -gutted. It was a good excuse to not only get all the usual contest faces together but also knock about with those not normally prone like Snowy, Joey, Lev, Nicholson, Tom Knox, Tanner, Howsey, Sean Smith and the like. The actual skateboarding was fucking crackers, too.

Good times.