Freestyle Now

With the start of the new year so to brings the start of the new Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series Round 1 kicked off at the Rockingham skatepark to a great number of competitors and spectators, it was a awesome turnout. What is really good is seeing so many people and parents at the competition and supporting.
At all Freestyle Now competitions where possible we run a girls only class this is to help get more girls involved into the sports and the scene and at Rockingham it was good to see Ebony Rodriguez skating again as well as young Bethany Baohm out there on the bmx. A 1^st and 2^nd respectively for the two girls
The scooter beginners had an good number and with so much talent it won’t be long until we see some of them moving up to the advanced class. Good work to Conner Atkinson for taking the first place, a young guy but with a lot of power in his riding. Young Talyn Galic has been progressing well in the beginners class and his second place was well deserving. His cannonball over the spine got may fist bumps and hi fives from his peers. Kadin Clarke rode well and hit up some good tricks to take the 3^rd place. The scooter advanced had young ripper Levi Mills take the top place but it was a close competition with only 4 points between 1^st and 2^nd place by Ethan Mackenzie. Both of these young riders and gaining more and more skills at every competition. Caleb Pratt rode well but was a little inconsistent and took the 3^rd place.
Skateboard was represented well at round 1 with Ton DeSancha taking out the win in the beginners with is being his first ever competition, he was pumped but it was a tight top two with Tody Dodds only 2 points behind in the second place. It was good to see Taj Gosling getting in there and taking the 3^rd place. Skateboard advanced was all about Alex Yates. He was on fire and threw down the radness. 2^nd place went to Mason Brown who ended up taking out the 2^nd place in the 2014 series. Mason was rolling through the runs well, it was good to see him skate. 3^rd place went to Chonchoe Lasvendous. He was a little less consistent in his runs at Rockingham which kept his scores down some. Chonchoe did how ever take out the number 1 spot in the 2014 F.N.W.A.S.S.
The bmx class had some rippers rolling about throwing down. These guys were pumped. Jarred Schilling took out the win in the beginners and proceeded to get stoked. 2^nd place was taken out by Adam Pearson and Reece Barwick was rad enough to get the 3^rd place. Bmx Advanced it was all Dylan Schmidt. Large and big are two words to describe Dylan’s runs. Growing up riding the Rockingham park was defiantly an advantage. Dylan also took out the year end title in the F.N.W.A.S.S. Kyle Fielder entered the beginners class but as soon as he started his first run we knew he was in the wrong class, and was moved up to the advanced where his speed, flow and style earned him the second place. 3^rd place went to Jesse Brown who seemed to be a little off on the consistency which did cost him some points but he still shredded as always.
A big thank you to the City of Rockingham for their continual support of skatepark competitions and skatepark coaching workshops sessions. It is defiantly helping to build a great scene and encourage riders to progress. Thank you to our supporters Local BMX, 4 skateboard co. and Sacrifice Scooters.
Round 2 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series takes place at the Kwinana skatepark on Friday 13^th February so make sure you get along and get involved.

Clockwise from top left – Talyn Galic had been progressing well over the past year, kickless over the box – Mason Brown likes to skate and do K grinds on hubbas and get second place at Rockingham – Caleb Pratt hit up the spine with a kickless – Dylan Schmidt grew up riding the Rockingham skatepark, it shows first place.

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Rockingham skatepark competition – 24^th January 2015 – Round 1 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Girls – 1^st Ebony Rodriguez (skate), 2^nd Bethany Baohm (bmx)

Scooter beginners – 1st Connor Atkinson, 2nd Talyn Galic, 3rd Kadin Clarke, 4th Kai Underdown, 5th Hayden Elam, 6th Brendan Latta, 7th Bailey Horlock, 8th Wayde Schultz, 9th Daniel Gionta, 10th Trent Birrell, 11th  Tarkyn McBurney, 12th Ethan MacPherson, 13th Deon Welhan, 13th Daniel Marsella, 13th Ben Gulbis, 16th Taj Gosling, 17th Chris Kelly, 18th Jonathon Kelly, 18th Jaidyn McBurney, 18th Jack Hudson, 21st Cooper Bennett, 22nd Bailey Padgett, 23^rd Caleb Shannon

Scooter advanced – 1^st Levi Mills, 2^nd Ethan MacKenzie, 3^rd Caleb Pratt, 4^th Dylan Erwin, 5^th Jacob Hodson, 6^th Harrison Kahuroa

Skateboard beginners – 1^st Tom DeSancha, 2^nd Toby Dodds, 3^rd Taj Gosling, 4^th Dale Singleton, 5^th Charlie Carrington-Jones, 6^th Kye Vergeer

Skateboard advanced – 1^st Alex Yates, 2^nd Mason Brown, 3^rd Chonchoe Lasvendous, 4^th Ruperto Dag, 5^th Andy Morton, 6^th Darcy Kavanagh, 7^th Jeremy Johns, 8^th Tim Smith, 9^th Braydon Kramer

Bmx beginners – 1^st Jarred Schilling, 2^nd Adam Pearson, 3^rd Reece Barwick, 4^th Matt Crossley, 5^th Bailey Horlock, 6^th Cooper Morrow, 7^th Devon Baohm, 8^th Bailey Jokic, 9^th North Anscombe

Bmx advanced – 1^st Dylan Schmidt, 2^nd Kyle Fielder, 3^rd Jesse Brown, 4^th Jacob Gill, 5^th Regan Lothian, 6^th Shannon Carey-Smith

Round 20 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series was recently held at the Golden Bay skatepark thanks to the City of Rockingham. This was the final round of the 2014 series with the year end title being announced shortly. This completion was also an intake for the Rocky’s final fest that will be taking place in April 2015. The Rocky’s final fest is an invite only competition that competitors need to place in any of the Rockingham and Kwinana competition to earn invite. There was a great turn out at the competition in all division. A big thank you to our supporters Stowaway distribution, Sacrifice scooters and 4 skateboard Co and to the City of Rockingham.

Golden Bay skatepark competition – 29^th November 2014 – Round 20 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Girls – 1st Shani Garrod

Scooter beginners – 1^st Kie Underdown, 2^nd Conner Atkinson, 3^rd Taylor Webb, 4^th Daniel Gemmell, 5^th Chris Kelly, 6^th Shandon Ransfield, 7^th Josh Woodall, 7^th Kyle Carey, 9^th Ben Galbis, 10^th Daniel Marsella, 11^th Daniel Gionta, 12^th Conner Carey, 13^th Talyn Galic, 14^th Brayden McGlenchy, 15^th Kalen Kazakoff, 16^th Jay Lawler, 17^th Arlen Manson, 18^th Jacob Bolch, 19^th Ethan Lillas, 20^th Sam Higgs, 21^st Harry Wooton, 22^nd Jon Kelly, 23^rd Riley Jones, 24^th Brodie Donno, 25^th Jamie Gaebler, 26^th Corey Hacking, 27^th Callum McGlenchy, 28^th Seth Jorgensen.

Scooter advanced – 1^st Liam Collins, 2^nd Morgan Avery, 3^rd Levi Mills, 4^th Calymn Brandt, 5^th Aden Lillas, 6^th Ethan MacKenzie, 7^th Jayden Denehy, 8^th Dolton Hey, 9^th Brendan Latta, 10^th Robert Stevens.

Skateboard beginners – 1^st Brodee Stevenson, 2^nd Kaiden Barron, 3^rd Chevy Carmody, 4^th Sav Carmody, 5^th Phin Carmody, 6^th Banjo Stevenson, 7^th Ethan MacKenzie, 8^th Sam McGoven, 9^th Aden Lillas, 10^th Kie Underdown.

Skateboard advanced – 1^st Nars Walker, 2^nd Ryan Tuke, 3^rd Luke Quinn, 4^th Jake Beazley.

Bmx beginners – 1^st Jayden Trethowen, 2^nd Jesse Whitehead, 3^rd Jack Carwardine, 4^th Ty Rodgers, 5^th Jesse Nelson, 6^th Devon Baohm, 7^th Ethan MacKenzie, 8^th Chris Ogden, 9^th Ethan Lillas.

Bmx advanced – 1^st Laurence Bakewell, 2^nd Dylan Schmidt, 3^rd Brad South, 4^th Regan Lothian, 5^th Aden Lillas.

Round 19 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series was recently held at the Nichol West skatepark in Karratha thanks to the City of Karratha. Freestyle Now squad members Kim Bloodson, Mitch Harris and John Manning spent 6 days in Karratha hosting a series of skatepark coaching workshop session at the skateparks within the City of Karratha. We will be posting up some of their experiences soon. Karratha has 5 skateparks and on this occasion the Nickol West skatepark was the location to host the competition. The City of Karratha is looking at making this competition an annual event. The locals of the area as well as the staff at the City of Karratha were all super stoked with the skatepark competition and skatepark coaching workshops. A big shout out to the City of Karratha youth workers for organizing Freestyle Now to be up in Karratha to engage with the youth and throw down a rad competition as well as to our supporters Stowaway distribution, Sacrifice scooters and 4 skateboard Co.

Clockwise from top left – Nixon Osborne is a rad skater and rips it hard – The crew – Scooter radness went down at the Nichol West comp – Bailey King get his T-bog-on

Karratha skatepark competition – 8^th November 2014 – Round 19 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results 

Girls – 1st Dakota Oniszk

Scooter beginners – 1^st Jarrod Renton, 2^nd Dion McKenney, 3^rd Dakota Healey, 4^th Fionn Neeson 5^th Lee Poyner, 6^th Lachlan Power, 7^th Zac Howie, 8^th Jake Butler, 9^th Seth Coles, 10^th Bailey Singleton, 11^th Lochlen Tietze-Bentley.

Scooter Advanced – 1^st Dylan Van Padua, 2^nd Shea Armstrong, 3^rd Caan Lainson, 4^th Elijah Lyon, 5^th Alex Daiziell, 6^th Sash Hospital, 7^th Brodie DeWacht, 8^th Regan Kemp.

Skateboard beginners – 1^st Kyffan Gibbs, 2^nd Ben Hongell, 3^rd Harry Eykyn, 4^th Cade Henry, 5^th Ruben McCawley, 6^th Liam Eykyn.

Skateboard Advanced – 1^st Nixon Osborne, 2^nd Jared DeWacht.

Bmx beginners – 1^st Damen Sloss, 2^nd Bailey King, 3^rd Sash Hospital, 4^th Jarrod D, 5^th Elijah.

Round 17 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series was recently held at the Kalgoorlie skatepark with thanks to the City of Kalgoorlie Boulder. The skatepark in Kalgoorlie is one of the biggest in Western Australia and if you have not been there yet you need to make the trip. The City of Kalgoorlie Boulder really turned it up a notch for this competition with a heap of other activities and programs going on during the twilight competition. The locals of the area were super stoked with the competition and the next competition in Kalgoorlie is already being planned for April 2015. A big thank you to our supporters Stowaway distribution, Sacrifice scooters and 4 skateboard Co and to the City of Kalgoorlie Boulder.

Kalgoolie skatepark competition – 10^th October 2014 – Round 17 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Scooter beginners – 1^st Kim O’Laughlin, 2^nd Aiden Hart, 3^rd Jerome Jones, 4^th Blair Newland, 5^th Brock Landers, 6^th Noah Hickley, 7^th Rylan veal, 8^th Riley Higgins, 9^th Cody Jarvis, 10^th Chase McCormack, 11^th Randell Poka, 12^th Jay T, 13^th Kurey Kassey-Hond, 14^th Caleb Paparone, 15^th Kelly Williams, 16^th James Pumphrey, 17^th Ben Pumphrey.

Scooter Advanced – 1^st Cullen Webber, 2^nd Truan Ngerenere, 3^rd Zepphen Voyatis, 4^th Isaac Parsons, 5^th Aiden Ridings, 6^th Jacob Richey, 7^th Levi Righey

Skateboard beginners – 1^st Jamie Wheatley, 2^nd Dalton McIlroy, 3^rd Jonar Wheatley.

Skateboard Advanced – 1^st Shak Crump, 2^nd Ethan Parker, 3^rd Jacob Riches, 4^th Anaru Iti, 5^th Kaleb Steinnokel, 6^th Reilly Fowler.

Bmx beginners – 1^st Zepphen Voyatis, 2^nd Aiden Ridings, 3^rd Nathan Taylor.

Bmx advanced – 1^st Matt Vaia, 2^nd Ty Drummond, 3^rd James Hyder, 4^th Liam Hitchcock.

Round 16 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series was recently held at the Willetton skatepark with thanks to the City of Canning. Willetton skatepark is now about 13 years old and it’s strange to think that half of the competitors at the competition were only just being born at the time the skatepark was under construction. The day was awesome with a really good turnout of spectators and competitors with some really good riding being thrown down. It is always good to see riders progressing from beginners to advanced and on this day there was quite a few doing just that. Thank you to our supporters Stowaway distribution, Sacrifice scooters and 4 skateboard Co and big thanks to the City of Canning.

Clockwise from top left – Jarrod Colewell with a straight up front flip over the small wedge box and a first place in the advanced class – Euan Brown gets some grind action happening – Kya Nurse is a small dude but goes big, 4^th place in advanced scooters – Queensland rider Lee Kirkman whipped it over the hip for a second placing and took home a large quantity of fun.  More photos can be found on the facebook page here

Willetton skatepark competition – 10^th October 2014 – Round 16 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Scooter beginners – 1^st Tom Stanbury, 2^nd Matteo Pinto, 3^rd Daniel Morgan, 4^th Reuben Morgan, 5^th James Daly, 6^th Brodie back, 7^th Mitchell Castledine, 8^th Daniel Gionta, 9^th Owen Nolan, 10^th David Lowery, 11^th Calvin Tilaka, 12^th Theo McCrackan, 13^th Joshua Brolin, 14^th Dylan Gionta.

Scooter Advanced – 1^st Jarrod Colewell, 2^nd Divan DeKlerk, 3^rd Jiordan Giacoppo, 4^th Kya Nurse, 5^th Ethan Mackenzie, 6^th Dylan Roberts 7^th Brae Papuni, 8^th Aden Lillas, 9^th Caleb Pratt, 10^th Kaden Clarke, 11^th Jacob Hodson.

Skateboard beginners – 1^st Ross McBride, 2^nd Brandon Hart, 3^rd Euan Brown, 4^th Michael Caire.

Bmx beginners – 1^st Nathan Male, 2^nd Jack Carwardine, 3^rd Jesse Whitehead, 4^th Mark Kelly, 5^th Jakob Chalmers.

Bmx advanced – 1^st Mitchell Halse, 2^nd Lee Kirkman, 3^rd Connor Riley, 4^th Nathan Dobbie, 5^th Regan Lothian.

Round 15 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series was recently held at the Singleton skatepark with thanks to the City of Rockingham. There was a really good turnout of spectators and participants for the competition. This competition was an intake for the Rocky’s Final Fest invite only competition that is scheduled to take place on the 18th of April 2015. The top 3 place getters in the advanced classes, skateboard, scooter and bmx all received an invite to this one off competition with a large prize purse. Thank you to our supporters Stowaway distribution, Sacrifice scooters and 4 skateboard Co and big thanks to the City of Rockingham.

Clockwise from top left – Jayden Trenthowen is a local rider who is progressing well, 1^st place in the beginners class – Ethan Mackenzie knew how toride different from the other scooter riders in the advanced class, fast plant on his way to second place – Young Sav Carmody is the future, mad transfer for the young skater on his way to second place – Lee Kirkman threw down some rad moves, Indian air seat grab for the win in advanced bmx.
More photos can be found on the facebook page here

Singleton skatepark competition – 9^th October 2014 – Round 15 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Scooter beginners – 1^st Livi Mills, 2^nd Bailey Horlock, 3^rd Jayden Trethowen, 4^th Jake Proudfoot, 5^th William Webber, 6^th Daniel Gionta, 7^th Duncan Calder, 8^th Talyn Galic, 9^th Harlem Paerau  10^th Jack Sadler, 11^th Jack Jordan, 12^th Brandon Newbury, 13^th Josh Pink, 14^th Ethan Lillas, 15^th Ruben Blakey, 16^th Jackson MacKenzie, 17^th Mason Newbury, 18^th Dylan Gionta, 19^th Nathan Wipane, 20^th Marcus Stirling, 21^st Luke Oliver, 22^nd Morgan Miller, 23^rd Cade Faiers, 24^th Kane Richardson, 25^th Caleb Shannon. 

Scooter Advanced – 1^st Aden Lillas, 2^nd Ethan Mackenzie, 3^rd Morgan Avery, 4^th Caleb Pratt, 5^th Brae Papuni, 6^th Kaden Clarke, 7^th Dylan Roberts, 8^th Jacob Hodson.

Skateboard beginners – 1^st Chevy Carmody, 2^nd Sav Carmody, 3^rd Taj Gosling, 4^th Phin Carmody, 5^th Bailey Horlock, 6^th Zek Dean, 7^th Jayden Stirling, 8^th Jacob Legg.

Skateboard Advanced – 1^st Jake Beazley, 2^nd Toby Doods, 3^rd Daffydd Williams.

Bmx beginners – 1^st Jayden Trenthowen, 2^nd Bailey Horlock, 3^rd Axel West, 4^th Harlem Paerau.

Bmx advanced – 1^st Lee Kirkman, 2^nd Regan Lothian.