Freestyle Now would like to welcome our newest reserves squad member, Hudson Goodchild. Hudson is our first scooter rider to be added to the squad. The 16 year old took up scooter riding in late 2010 which he credits to his mates in his for getting him started. Hudson grew up in the small town of Merredin, 300kms east of Perth and when you’re in a small country wheatbelt town there is not much to do, so scooters seemed a good option.
Hudson kicking it at his now local park Belmont, Toboggan grap.
In April 2011 Hudson took part in one of our skatepark coaching workshops in Merredin, he was stoked. Then about a year ago Hudson emailed Freestyle Now and asked if we were looking for any new squad members, as we are always on the lookout for new members, something we do get a lot of. At the time we were looking into adding a scooter rider to our ever expanding squad, we just had to find the right person.
Last year in August Freestyle Now invited Hudson along on a trip to Morawa for a coaching session and some stunt shows. There we got to see how he handled the ability to coach, communicate, get rad, travel, and manage himself in a professional manner. All seemed to be well, and Hudson was invited along to a few more events and it turned out that he had the right attitude and ability to score the first scooter rider on the Freestyle Now squad.
Hudson favorite tricks are nose manuals, inwards and kickless rewinds. He likes sunny mornings the smell of the grip rubber on his hands from a hard scooter session.
Clockwise from top left – one of Hudson’s favorite tricks kickless rewind – Invert – Handplant on the subbox on the large quarter – backflip without hands on, aka nohander backflip.
