Freestyle now was recently at the Ficifolia Festival in Drouin Victoria to manage a bmx, scooter and skateboard skatepark competition. Drouin is a town in the West Gippsland region about 90 kilometres east of Melbourne. The Ficifolia Festival was a great event with a massive street parade taking place just before the skatepark competition got underway. The Baw Baw shire council put forward $500 toward prize money for the open BMX and scooter classes and with entry fees also added into the prize purse it was just over $800 to share. Drouin Cycles gave out some rad prizes for the afternoon competition. There was only a short time frame to run the competition in the afternoon to fit within the Ficifolia Festival schedule but in true professional manner Freestyle Now got the competition done in time with great accolades from the competitors, festival organizers and parents. In the early afternoon there was some rain about that made the skatepark wet. it dried up before the competition was due to start but this did scare a few competitors away. At the end of the afternoon when all was packed up and set to go home the clouds upened up and let it rain, and rain it did. We were so lucky to have had that time frame on lock. There was a great turnout from the town at the competition with one head count at 400 spectators.
Billy Watts when home $310 richer for winning the open scooter competition. His power and speed in riding is awesome
At all of the Freestyle Now skatepark competition there are three classes for competitors to enter, beginners (younger and still learning), intermediates (competitors with some good skills) and the open class (consistent and dials tricks) in the three disciplines scooter, skateboard and bmx. We would like to thank the contest supporters Community Bank of Drouin, Drouin Cycles, McDonalds Drouin, The Committee for Drouin, Baw Baw Shire Council for their efforts in supporting such a rad event. Be sure to check our coming events page for all the latest event information on stunt shows, skatepark competitions and coaching sessions.
Clockwise from top left – Julian Bailey was on fire during the competition and his skills were enough to score the 1st place in the scooter intermediate class – Dean Anderson was loving the jump box at Drouin so much so that he did this turndown back flip at a first trick in his second run – Justin Brebner took home the 1st place in skateboard intermediate, this transfer over to the other side was done flawless – Ollie Furguson with an Xup fly out on his way to win the bmx intermediate class. More photos can be found on our facebook page here.
Dean Anderson flying high with out hands while many mouths are open in awe
Drouin skatepark competition – 10th February 2018 – Official results
Scooter beginner – 1st Ned Ashton, 2nd Ash Stanfeild, 3rd Ben Stanfeild, 4th Jordyn DeKort, 5th Mitchell Carew, 6th Chase Gregory, 7th Ben Carter, 8th Deklan McLachlan, 9th Dave Forbes, 10th Rory Cross, 11th Brayden Franklin, 12th Kyle Cabral, 13th Noah Charles.
Scooter intermediate – 1st Julian Bailey, 2nd Jayme Brown, 3rd Jack Cross, 4th Issacc Bortolin, 5th Wyatt Price, 6th Bailey Pryor. 7th Blake Cann, 8th Koby Mague, 9th Manu Johnson, 10th Trace McLanty, 11th Patrick Opie, 12th Heath Morgan.
Scooter open – 1st Billy Watts $310, 2nd Tom Green $65, 3rd Dylan Arlot $30.
Skateboard beginner – 1st Seth Hill, 2nd Noah Charles
Skateboard intermediate – 1st Justin Brebner, 2nd Jake Anderson, 3rd Zachary Neil, 4th Brendan Wahl, 5th Keefer Wilson.
BMX intermediate – 1st Ollie Furguson, 2nd Dallon Jeffery-Molan, 3rd Jake Price
BMX open – 1st Dean Anderson $310, 2nd Daniel Davis $65, 3rd Rossco Rossco $30, 4th Patrick McGeough