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PurUsh Skate Comp
 
Where: Browns Plains
 
(hopefully, some pics coming soon)
 
This was a one off event held by some really nice people in the Browns Plains area. Being a church run skate comp and concert, quite a few people had problems with the "No smoking, drinking, etc" but once everyone forgot about the idiots who didn't want to go along with that, the day was a general success. The small church building doubled as the concert stage and respite from the heat of the sun, but all the main action of the day was outside in the carpark, which was surrounded with the mobile cyclone fencing usually encountered at the big outdoor concert events.
 
The skate ramps from the Garden City Christian Church were brought in and set up in a pretty good layout for the comp and at 2:30pm, people were let in for a measly $2.00 cover charge that everyone could afford. All the skaters were encouraged to go in the comp, regardless of age, ability or whatever, but thankfully not everyone did enter keeping it to reasonable numbers, and a shorter period of time. Even so, as the day progressed and lots of skaters did their stuff, even more people arrived and by 3:30pm when the comp started, there was hardly a spare place to sit surrounding the small enclosed carpark area. Brett Jacobsen did the mic all day, when he wasn't skating.
 
There were many tricks and skaters to note, but I was skating too much myself to recall many individual names. Going off the back of the main bank was the cool thing to do, Jay Musk kick fliped over it and stayed on, but mostly the skaters would just roll off the top, hit the ground and not go anywhere. Richard T had the most tech tricks, fakie ollie 50 kickflip out, flip to tail so cleanly over the spine every time and some big kickflips and one 360 flip to fakie on the quarter ramp. Everyone went big off the little jump ramp that the juniors were trying all day.
 
There were three sections in the skateboarding comp and results (and prizes) are as follows:
 
Under 12
 
 
Under 15
 
 
Open
 
Once the skateboard comp was over a lot of people left, but the roller bladers had a comp too. In their usual indifference to bodily harm they went at it like there was no tomorrow (one kid broke his arm/wrist quite well), and soon enough the simple ramps were not enough. The bank ramp was pushed back from the close carpark area to within a couple of metres of the cyclone fence, which stood a good metre taller than the bank and this was the new obstacle to clear. To the likes of Jay Musk, this was more of a challenge than the rest of the days proceedings, so in between the roller fools launching themselves over the fence, he did it too. Yes, he did land one well on his second attempt, but on the third, something happened mid air and he ended up popping his knee out of its socket when he hit the ground from 4 metres up. The nice St Johns medics put it back in for him, but the people organising the event decided it was all getting a little too out of hand so they turned the ramps over and packed up the carpark.
 
Most of the rest of the skaters and other people left as the ramps did (myself included) so I didn't see the bands or anything else there. That was more than enough fun for us all for one day.
 
Lastly, thank you to the people who put the event on and all who made it possible with ramps, prizes and anything else that could not have been done without you. Let's see if we can do the same next year?
 
The street course from the bottom of the carpark
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