Loudfest Game of SKATE

Loudfest Game of SKATE

Date: 17 and 18 July 2010 (Sat and Sunday)

Venue: Ngee Ann City Loudfest Carnival

Time: 12pm

Registration: You can register at both OG and *SCAPE. Competition is capped at 48 competitors. There are 24 registration slots each at *SCAPE and OG. It is on a first come first serve basis.

Prizes: 1st prize: $800 cash, 2nd prize: $500 cash, 3rd prize: $300 cash

At 10am on Sat 17 July 2010, we will be drawing up the names of competitors for the battle @ Ngee Ann City

Competition format

We will be following the format for eS game of skate.

• No old school tricks allowed
• Once the board leaves it wheels, it must land on all four wheels, with both feet on the board. No rail landings, manual landings, caspers, 50-50s(the old freestyle trick) or cross-legged landings. No hands on board. No hands on the ground, before or after trick.
• After each individual battle, the loser of the battle will be be grouped in a loser pool and the winner will be grouped in a 'winner' pool. In the final battle for champion, the winner of the 'loser' pool will duel with the winner of the 'winner' pool for SKATE champion.
  
  

NYC Xtreme Championship

6 July 2010 Update

If you have signed up for the competition, you must go down to Somerset Skatepark on Friday 9 July 2010, between 10am to 4pm to confirm your participation. Even if you did hand in your form but you did not sign in on friday, you will not be allowed to join the competition on Saturday..

If the quota for the maximum number of contestants for each sports has been met during the pre-competition sign up, you will not be able to sign up on friday itself. So go down to any of our outlets, fill up a form and give it back to us to guarantee yourself a spot in the competition.



Preliminary Competition and semi finals will be held at Somerset Skatepark on 10 July and Finals will be held on the 11 July at East Coast Skatepark. The top 10 winners of the Championship Cup will be given the opportunity to participate in the Singapore Xtreme Championship 2010 .

Registration forms are available at all our 3 outlets.

King of Rail and Gap 2009

Details can be found on the poster. Click on it to enlarge.

Singapore Xtreme Championship 09

There will be 2 skate clinics held on Sat 29/8 and Sunday 30/8, limited to only 10 places each. Helmets are compulsory for both clinics.

29 Aug, Sat, 5:30pm-6:30pm
Vertical Bowl - Skate Clinic by Trevor Ward

30 Aug, Sun, 8:30am-9:30am
Street Course - Skate Clinic by Charlie Wilkins

If you are interested in the clinics, just turn up on the day itself, at the respective times.

SXCO Qualifiers Final Results

Here is the final results for the SXCO qualifiers on Saturday.
The top 10 from this event will qualify to join the Singapore Xtreme 2009 held in August 2009.

Singapore Xtreme Championship

22/7/09 Update
This event is confirmed for this Saturday 25/7/09. Please see revised flyer. The competition is now called Singapore Xtreme Championship.

Singapore Xtreme Championship
Place: ECP Skatepark
Time: 10am - 3pm
Date: 25 July 2009, Saturday
Registration will only start at 10am on actual day of competition. This is a pre-selection for a international event in August. We seek your understanding if you join competitions only for fun, please give this event a miss, and give others who want to represent a chance to join.


19/7/09 Update
Below is a list of 13 people who have been shortlisted to receive invites to 'Top of the pack' competitions. This is not a final list. Here is your chance to help Singapore select 10 skaters from the list below or you can recommend names that you think deserve to be in the list.

1. Firdaus
2. Nazeer
3. Didde
4. Jurami
5. Syed
6. Bolo
7 Feroze
8. Shamil
9. Qi An
10. Hambali
11. Fauzan
12. Hanafi
13. Sham Yishun

Go Skateboarding Day 2009

Date: Sat 20 June 2009

Time: 11am

Location: Blk 6C, Margaret Drive

Format: Game of S.K.A.T.E. Teams of 2 with knock out system

Prizes: Decks, T-shirts, whatever else we can dig up as prizes.

How to join?
1. Find your team-mate.
2. Decide on a name for your team
3. Turn up @ Go Sports @ 10am on Sat.
4. Put your team name on a sign in sheet

There's no need to pay for joining the comp. It's free!
We'll see all you guys on Saturday June 20th. In the meantime, don't forget to keep skating!

18 June 2009 Update
Our game of SKATE is meant for everyone to have fun, its our way of celebrating Go Skateboarding Day. It is not meant to be a serious competition with ranking and points etc. This competition is meant to encourage new skaters to try out competitions where they don't feel like they are at a disadvantage by the more seasoned skaters. So, we want to make it known that teams cannot have 2 person of the same standard. Your team partner has to be either better or lousier than you. It is under Go Sports discretion to split the team up if we decide a team has a unfair advantage.

Example - Gaute, Sebastian Cao, Dan, De ming etc cannot be in the same team, but they can be in the same team as i.e, Joe, Richie, Luke or Oscar.

If you are uncomfortable with the format of our competition, you can join the other competition held at the skatepark on 20 June 2009.

Post-game update.
Thanks to everyone who turned up for the competition yestertday to make it a success. The turnout was much better than we expected so we appreciate everyone's efforts to come down early to sign in and join in the fun.

We have receive comments that the judges werent fair in the judging and they werent knowledgable with tricks. We try to get judges who are fair, but also with technical knowledge to judge. Our judges tried their best yesterday, we appreciate your understanding if you think their technical knowledge is not up to speed.

There have also been comments that there were some 'pros' in this competition. It is very hard to define 'pro/good'. If you arent very good at skating, there will always be someone better, so will we consider these people 'pro/good'? We are sure the real 'pros' would have joined the competition at skatepark which offered much better prizes money and prizes than us, and this is why we stipulate the team has to consist of 1 stronger and 1 weaker team mate.

As to the competition should have been flat-land instead of using all equipment, we wanted skaters to feel like they had choices in what tricks they could do. If a team was better at ramps instead of flat-land, they could have used it to their advantage with their first tricks. We wanted it to be a all rounder competition, where not being technical on flat-land could have still given you a chance to win.

We appreciate all your comments and will take all these comments into consideration for our next competition. Meanwhile, we hope everyone had fun and if there is still some unhappiness about the competition, you can always email us @ nofakes@gosports.com.sg and let us know.

Battle at the berrics

After nearly four months, 32 skaters, 16 games of SKATE, one Legion Of Doom, and a case of the Chicken Pox the first Battle At The Berrics finally came to a close on Saturday, February 28. More than 300 invited guests showed up to The Berrics to witness the final matches between Benny Fairfax, PJ Ladd, Mike Mo Capaldi, and Billy Marks. Guests were also treated to a surprise redemption bracket battle between Mike Carroll and Eric Koston.

After a heated semi-final round, Fairfax and Mike Mo advanced to the final match. Their game was very close, but when the smoke cleared it was Mike Mo who brought home the win. For his victory, Mike Mo was awarded 10,000 buttery ass dollars from DVS.

Podium Distribution's Tim Gavin says the event was a huge success. "I never thought this event could be as exciting as it was,” he says.

"I always dreamed of having an event that skaters would love to be a part of as much as the people watching them and I think the Battle at the Berrics finals was it. I don't think it could have gone any better. We are deeply indebted to everyone that participated in the BATB and thankful to them for making it the event that it turned out to be." Steve Berra

For photos of the battle at berrics, click here

War against Drugs Extreme Games 2009

Go Sports is sending 3 of Singapore's best S.K.A.T.E; Qi An, Hafiz Salleh and Isnin to Malaysia for their War against Drugs Extreme Games 2009. We wish them all the best and hope that they will do everyone proud!

King of Handrail

Are you tired of waiting the entire year for a competition? Now, you don't have to wait anymore. Just buy a bus ticket down to malaysia and there are competitions galore next month.

Vans King of Gap.

Skateboarding Competition in Malaysia

Date: Satuday 6th December 2008

Time: 0830 - 1900 hrs

Venue: Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall (Orange Entrance)

Registion close: 26 Nov 2008

To download form: Go to http://padinmusa.blogspot.com/

AST Dew Tour

It's the end of an era for back-to-back-to-back Dew Cup champ Ryan Sheckler. After winning the PlayStation® Pro Skate Park Finals to seal the deal, 14 year-old rookie Chaz Ortis. is the new sheriff in town.

"It's been ridiculous," says Ortiz. "Last year I took 6th in this contest as the Free FLow Tour champ and now I'm the Dew Cup champ. It's unreal. I wasn't expecting it, but I'm psyched."

Ortiz was just 8 points behind Sheckler in the overall standings heading into Orlando for the fifth and final stop of the 2008 AST Dew Tour, after claiming his first win last week in Salt Lake City at the Toyota Challenge. Ortiz occupied every step of the Dew Tour podium this year, and came out big in Orlando.

He took a commanding lead in Run 1, with a nearly flawless run featuring a frontside bluntslide, a kickflip to backside tailslide, and a switch backside lipslide. After Run 1, it was Ortiz in 1st, followed by Greg Lutzka, Paul Rodriguez, Austen Seaholm, Danilo do Rosario, and defending champ Ryan Sheckler.

Ortiz put it together again in Run 2 to secure a huge lead, posting a score of 92.75 that put him way ahead of P-Rod and the rest of the field. The top 6 skaters advanced to a free-for-all jam session to battle it out. In a huge surprise and tremendous upset, Sheckler didn't make the cut, finishing in unfamilar territory down in 10th place. An even bigger surprise: 2008 Free Flow Tour champ Timmy Knuth did make the cut, tracing Ortiz' path to Dew Tour fame. Also in the mix: Greg Lutzka, Austen Seaholm and Carlos De Andrade.

P-Rod actually won the jam session with hugely technical tricks like a switch kickflip to boardslide and a switch 360 kickflip, but it wasn't enough to close the massive lead Ortiz established with his 2nd run. Ortiz held on in the jam session with a switch backside lipslide, his signature kickflip boardslide to kickflip out, and other big tricks.

Final score? Ortiz on top with 92.75, P-Rod in 2nd with 91.25, and Lutzka in 3rd with 86.75.

The win put Ortiz' overall points total to 430, ahead of P-Rod's 408 and Sheckler's 387 to make him the youngest Dew Cup champ in the history of the AST Dew Tour.

"I'm going to be out here trying to take it home again next year," says Ortiz, now a 9th grader in his hometown of Chicago. "But first things first: I have to go back to school on Wednesday."

Pictures from TreX-Games

Here's some pictures of the TreX-games in Busan.

Winners of Sk8bd Competition. (L) Tetsuharu Sai (M) Austen Marks (R)Danilo do Rosario
(L to R) Danielo, Edson, Tyler and Sasha
Get ready to be beaten up before competing
Street course (TreX)
Singapore Boys Resting.

If you have more pictures of the TreX-games, please send it to us so that we can share it with everyone.

TreX-Games Busan 2008

It's competitions galore for Korea this month. Eddie and the boys will be travelling up to Busan this time round for the TreX-Games Busan 2008.

Title: The TreX-Games Busan 2008
Period: September 26 through October 2, 2008
Location: Busan, South Korea
No. of countries participating: 14
No. of Pros from US: 7

The TreX-Games is part of the 4th Busan TAFISA World Sport for All Games. It is under the official patronage of the IOC. X-Games is not part of the IOC events as yet, so everyone will be keeping their fingers crossed that everyone will go well and the IOC will be impressed with how far we have come along for Xtreme sports. Hopefully, someday, we will see Xtreme Games as part of the Olympic event.


Singapore Skateboard Representatives

Juan Qi An

Mohammad Nazeer Hussin (Nazeer)

Singapore Inline Representative

Muhammad Syafiq Tahar (Wan Kecik)

Singapore BMX Representative

Low Chi Siang

Singapore Skateboard Judge

Eusoff aka soppipoo

Skateboarding Vert Pros

Sasha Steinhorst

Dany Mayer

Josh Stafford

Skateboarding Pros

Tyler Hendley (Forest skateboard, oakley)

Danilo do Rosario (Circa, destructo, oakley, expedition, connexion wheels)

Austen Seaholm (Clive, Pro Riders)

Willy Santos (Birdhouse, Venture, Santori)

For more information, go to http://www.trexgames2008.org/en/01/01.php

Etnies 5th Annual GvR Skate Contest

THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE STANCES CONTINUES WITH ETNIES’ FIFTH ANNUAL GvR SKATE CONTEST

Pro Skateboarders Are 2 for 2 as They Approach Landmark Year in the
Goofy vs. Regular Rivalry

Lake Forest, Calif. (Sept. 18, 2008) – Goofy or Regular? The debate between the right and left continues with etnies’ fifth annual GvR skateboarding contest taking place October 2-5, 2008 at the etnies Skatepark in Lake Forest, Calif. Started in 2004, GvR is the first and only team-oriented skateboarding contest in which Goofy-footed and Regular-footed skaters compete in an action-packed weekend of non-stop skating.

This year, many of the world’s best skateboarders, including Ryan Sheckler, Jereme Rogers and Chris Cole, will compete in the tie-breaking forum before a crowd of more than 15,000. Past competitors include Andrew Reynolds, Billy Marks, Nyjah Huston, Rick McCrank and Sean Malto. The event will be held at etnies Skatepark of Lake Forest, a 40,000 square foot concrete haven boasting a street section, pools, music and free admission.

Each team captain will pre-qualify five skaters who will go straight to the final GvR competition. Saturday’s events will consist of qualifying rounds for the rest of the skaters from each team while Sunday will feature the final conflict of the stances after which the winning team will be announced settling the score once and for all…or at least until next year’s competition.

Team Captain SLAP Magazine’s Mark Whiteley put together the following crew of heavy hitters for the Regular Team’s starting five:
- Ryan Sheckler
- Andrew Reynolds
- Chris Cole
- Rick McCrank
- Sean Malto

Goofy Team Captain and Skateboard Mag Editor-in-Chief Dave Swift is being elusive about his selection for his starting five skateboarders. Will Swift’s strategy of keeping his team roster secret as long as possible pay off with a win for Team Goofy?

Admission to GvR is free of charge and in addition to all-day skating, this year’s festivities include legendary punk rock band Bad Religion taking the stage with a special performance Saturday, October 5, 2008 at 8:00pm. Tickets to the Bad Religion concert are available at select etnies retailers throughout Southern California and while the performance is free, tickets are required for all admissions.

Everyone who attends GvR can also enjoy the Festival Village area which is open for the duration of the competition, and has something to do for everyone. Fans can enjoy food, activities and exhibits from sponsors including Grind for Life, Oakley, Keep-A-Breast, FUEL TV and more.

For the first time ever, gamers can compete in etnies’ GvR competition in Skate 2, being released for the PlayStation® 3 system and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system in 2009. Developed by Black Box, a studio of Electronic Arts (EA), Skate 2 delivers all the grit, creativity and culture of skateboarding. EA Skate 2 doubles the bag of tricks and allows gamers to get off their board and move objects to create and share their ultimate skate spots.

For complete event details, ticket information, schedule, directions and the latest updates, check out: http://gvr.etniesskate.com

Chuncheon AXF Tour Results

Our skateboarders did us proud at the Chuncheon AXF Tour B3 Championship held over the weekend in Chuncheon, Korea. All our 4 Singaporean Skateboarders got into the finals and Firdaus brought home the Gold for Singapore. He had a impressive 9 point lead over the 2nd place winner from Taipei, Taiwan.

Skateboard Park Final Results.

1. Muhammad Firdaus Bin Abdul Rahman - Firdaus (Singapore)
2. Chen Chi Wen (Taipei)
3. Weerayut Eksirasuwan (Thailand)
4. Tang Chun Yin Johnnie (Hong Kong)
5. Rasidil Bin Rasem - Dde (Singapore)
   
6. Mohmmad Nazeer Bin Hussin - Nazeer (Singapore)
7. Jirawat Pao-in (Thailand)
8. Muhammad Rizuwan Bin Zakariah- Wan Kecik (Singapore)
9. Ji Hoon, Lee (Korea)
10. Kuk Hoo, Kim (Korea)

Skateboard Best Trick Result

1. Indra Leonardo (Indonesia ) - Backside 180 Ollie
2. Geun Hyeup, Song (Korea) - 50/50 Grind
3. Mohammad Nazeer Bin Hussin (Singapore) - 360 Kickflip Reverse
   

AXF Tour Chuncheon B3 Championship

The AXF Tour Chuncheon B3 Championship will be held from Sept 5th to 7th in the city of Chuncheon in South Korea. Singapore will be sending 10 athletes and 3 judges for the competition. We will be updating you regularly throughout the competition so come back for your updates!

Skateboard Athletes
Muhd. Firdaus Bim Abdul Rahman (Firdaus)
Muhd Rizuwan Bin Zakariah (Wan Kecik)
Rasidil Nim Rasem and (Ddi)
Mohd Nazeer Bin Hussin (Nazeer)

Skateboard Judge
Barry Lochrie

Inline Athletes
Addis Tan
Alvin Cheong

BMX Park Athletes
Ng Chee Keong
Low Chi Siang
Tan Kim Soon

BMX Park Judge
Teng Jun Jie

BMX Flatland Athletes
Seek Cheow Min

BMX Flatland Judge
Simon Lim

DVS wins Skate and Create

DVS teamriders: Andrew Brophy, Keith Hufnagel, Zered Bassett, Daewon Song, and MVP Torey Pudwill
Creative Direction by Matt Deak
Videography by Colin Kennedy

15 massive rolls of black butcher paper: $839.00

78 Large pizzas: $730.00

137 Cases Of Budweiser: $1,644.00

Andrew Brophy’s Plane Ticket From Australia: $3,280.00

Nine consecutive fifteen hour days of skateboarding, ramp building, and shooting in a warehouse with the best skateboarders in the world and beating out three of the top teams in professional skateboarding: Priceless!!!!!!

All the months of planning, budgeting, organizing, and hard work finally paid off as TransWorld SKATEboarding’s Editor In Chief Skin Phillips announced DVS as the winner of TransWorld’s first annual Skate & Create contest in San Diego. DVS claimed victory over Osiris, Globe, and Emerica.

Video from DVS’ nine-day stay in the TWS Skate & Create warehouse:
http://skateboarding.transworld.net/2008/08/15/tws-skate-create-dvs/

Chuncheon International 2008

The 2008 AXF Tour B3 Chuncheon Championship, Korea will be held from Sept 5 - 7 2008. AXC Chuncheon is a part of a larger international event, the Chuncheon International Leisure Games which will be held in Chuncheon from 2008 – 2010. Details below:

City: Chuncheon, Korea
Airport: Incheon, Korea
Date: Sep 5-7 2008

Event: Inline Park, Skateboarding Park, BMX Freestyle Park, BMX Freestyle Flatland

Prize Monies: TBA

Singapore will be sending our own athletes up for the games, we will announce the representatives once they are confirmed.

If you are interested in joining the games, the cost of the air ticket will be approximately $1000. Accommodation wise, you can bunk in with your fellow athletes. Any additional expenditure will be borne by participant. There would be no subsidy for anyone going on their own. If you have any questions, email gooks@pacific.net.sg.