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WILLETTON SKATEPARK COMPETITION – ROUND 12 FREESTYLE NOW WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SKATEPARK COMPETITION SERIES

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Willetton skatepark was the next location in the Freestyle Now Western Australian skatepark competition series. Round 12 was a massive turnout with 78 competitors. Willetton has always had big numbers and it was great to have some sun shine at the Willetton competition as the last few years it’s been plagued by bad weather. Skateboard and BMX both had some good numbers with all three classes having entrants. Scooter beginners again had a large number of competitors as did scooter intermediate. The riding that all of the competitors were displaying was nothing but progressive. It is great to see so many younger riders coming up and progressing from beginners into the opens. A large thank you to The City of Canning for their support. We would also like to thank our other supporters Colony BMX, The 4 skateboard company, Modus, Grit scooter and Vokul scooters.

The next round of competitions takes place, round 14, the finals on the 9th December at the High Wycombe skatepark. Check our coming events page for more info.

Clockwise from top left – Jack Foreman has been progressing so well in skateboarding and it was great to see him skate at Willetton taking the win – Thanks to Vokul scooters for sponsoring the scooter competition with some products like these brand new Meta X1 completes that the winner of beginners, Ben lee and winner of intermediates, Adam Puffler were able to take home for their hard earned first placings – Kody Law winner of the open class. The competition was fierce at Willetton with it being a very close competition – Ben Targett winner of bmx intermediates. Classic table top, great to see they have never gone out of style. More photos from the day can be found on the facebook page here

Willetton skatepark competition – 6th October 2017 – Round 12 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Scooter beginner – 1st Ben Lee, 2nd Toby Sully, 3rd Dylan Munson, 4th Connor Duffy, 5th Jett Stagrose Grose, 6th Jack Edwards, 7th Renso Schenis, 8th Jon Piccirilli, 9th Anmol Boparai, 10th Lachlan Norris, 11th Huxly Flower, 12th Ryan Spinella, 13th Ayden Kutzer, 14th Ethan Klompmaker, 15th Alex Thompson,16th Coen Gibson, 17th Angus Wright, 18th Nathan Ellison, 19th Blaire Holbrey, 20th Jye Thompson, 21th Ryder Gibson, 22th Ryan Bradshaw

Scooter intermediate – 1st Adam Puffler, 2nd Ethan Rowland, 3rd Tyson Carroll, 4th Taiyo Wright, 5th Oben Mchoull, 6th Peter Roberts, 7th Matt Boult, 8th Myles Palombella, 9th Lachlan Larsen, 10th Jordan Field, 11th Noah Neveu, 12th Tyler Miller, 13th Ethan Price, 14th Jacob Flavelle, 15th Wilder Rowe, 16th Theo McCracken, 17th Jayden Guelfi, 18th Riley Swandel, 18th Tim Schneider, 18th Boston Brown, 21st Finn Lappin, 21st Ty Newman, 23rd Cooper Chapman, 24th Jack Marrone, 25th Jarom Teki, 26th Zach Brown.

Scooter open – 1st Kody Law, 2nd Jakob Wells, 3rd Jason Meintjes, 4th Jae Yates, 5th Jordan Giacoppo, 6th Brody Groth, 7th Riley Hunter.

Skateboard beginners – 1st Koa Thompson, 2nd Huxley Flower, 3rd Isla Brown, 4th Myles Brown

Skateboard intermediate – 1st Cameron McDonnell, 2nd Zac Brown, 3rd Bailey Portman, 4th Ethan Rowland

Skateboard open – 1st Jack Foreman, 2nd Ross Local McBride, 3rd Jay Packer, 4th Sheldon Howard, 5th Isaac Doherty

BMX beginners – 1st Stephan De Haas, 1st Taj Hamilton.

BMX intermediate – 1st Ben Targett, 2nd Jy Garbin, 3rd Tyler Henderson.

BMX open – 1st Steven Heuez, 2nd Nathan Dobbie, 3rd Luke Tooze, 4th Jack Carwardine

 

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Freestyle Now at Onslow skatepark activation

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Freestyle Now recently travelled to Onslow to host some skatepark coaching workshops. Freestyle Now promotes inclusiveness at all of our skatepark activation sessions and Onslow was no different. The skatepark coaching sessions were open to all participants of any age for bmx, scooter and skateboard. Squad members Shaun Jarvis and Kieran Ramsay invited rad skater Adam Pacynko along for the journey. The trio played the “Game of life” on this trip, like on all trips, with Adam doing the most pushups. Lots of radness went down at the skatepark during the few days the trio was there. It is great to travel to remote areas and engage with skatepark users, getting them to learn new skills and help them roll out the rad. Freestyle Now hosts many skatepark activation sessions with bmx, skateboard and scooter skatepark coaching workshops, jam sessions and private sessions. If you want more information please contact Freestyle Now.

 

Shaun Jarvis nohanded fakie stall.

Freestyle Now squad members are always there to help skatepark users of any skill level and of any age. Inclusiveness is the key important factor for all Freestyle Now events.

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Freestyle Now skatepark coaching and competition in Karratha

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For the past several years Freestyle Now has been returning to the Pilbara and the City of Karratha to run some skatepark coaching sessions and skatepark competitions. We have met many skatepark participants over the years and we have watched them grow, progress and achieve. When you see that moment when a first trick is pulled or a goal has been achieved for the first time it is an amazing thing to witness. Although it may be very basic for the more advanced rider, it was a time that you too were just like that mastering the basics. This is one of the joys of hosting skatepark coaching sessions.

 
Freestyle Now squad members Shaun Jarvis, Mitch Harris and Hudson Goodchild were sent on the task to roll out in the City of Karratha. The trio visited Dampier, Wickham, Roebourne and Karratha skateparks for some skatepark coaching workshops and Nichol West skatepark to host round 11 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark competition series. this video highlights some of the moments when the skatepark participants achieved their first time goals as well as some skatepark action from Shaun, Mitch and Hudson. A big thank you to the Youth Shed crew in Karratha.

Shaun Jarvis at Dampier skatepark

 

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Karratha Skatepark Competition – Round 11 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Competition Series

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The Freestyle Now Western Australian skatepark competition series once again was in the north west of Western Australia. Karratha was the location of round 11. Freestyle Now did a series of coaching workshops in the Karratha region in the days before the skatepark competition and it was good to see many of the participants from these sessions making the journey into Karratha for the competition. It is always good to see the progression from the riders in the remote areas making good progress and Karratha is no different. There was a good turnout of parental support at the competition which is great to see parents supporting their children in such rad events. A big thank you to the City of Karratha and the local skatepark users for keeping the rad alive in the North West.
The next round of competitions takes place, round 12 6th October at Willetton skatepark, round 13 8th October at Stratton skatepark, check our coming events page for more info.

Clockwise from top left – Reef Chappell skated his way to the 1st place in skateboard – Zach Tattam took home the win in scooter intermediate – Brodie DeWacht mid 360 on his way to 1st place in bmx – Connor Duff hitting it hard in scooter open for a first place win. More photos can be found on the facebook page here

Karratha skatepark competition – 19th August 2017 – Round 11 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Scooter beginner – 1st Henry Miller, 2nd Jarrah Freebolt, 3rd Benjamin Elliote, 4th Michael Durack, 5th Josh Featherstone, 6th Dylan Wood, 7th Bryce Malardy, 8th Shannon Hahn, 9th Lincoln Drew, 10th Tarauriki Tenia-Harrison, 11th Lochlan Rodd, 12th Joel Williams, 13th Lachlan Pickles.

Scooter intermediate – 1st Zach Tattam, 2nd Billy Duncombe, 3rd Travis Redi, 4th Logan Hill.

Scooter open – 1st Connor Duff, 2nd Noi Phrom-oh, 3rd Brodie DeWacht, 4th Brock Guymer.

Skateboard beginners – 1st Reef Chappell, 2nd Joel Williams, 3rd Shannon Hahn, 4th Brock Guymer.

BMX beginners – 1st  Brodie DeWacht, 2nd Connor Ingram, 3rd Joel Williams, 4th Brock Guymer, 5th Clayton Hahn.
 

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Freestyle Now in Port Hedland

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Last month Freestyle Now travelled to Port Hedland once again to roll out the rad and engage with the skatepark users of South Hedland and Port Hedland skateparks. Freestyle Now squad members Shaun Jarvis, Dylan Schmidt and Kieran Ramsay were there for 3 days for some skatepark coaching sessions and skatepark competition. The game of life was played on the trip with Kieran Ramsay being the winner. (if you say the word “mine” you have to drop and give 10 pushups)Watch the video for more information on this. It is always great to head back to Port Hedland and see the progress that the crew there are making.

Dylan Schmidt stretches out his arms for more lift in the air at the large South Hedland skatepark. Photo by Kieran Ramsay

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South Hedland Skatepark Competition – Round 10 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Competition Series

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The Freestyle Now Western Australian skatepark competition series headed north for round 10. Taking place in one of the biggest skateparks in Australia in South Hedland. This skatepark is large with a big deep bowl, a large combi open bowl and lots of street plaza space. The skatepark participants don’t know how lucky they have it, to have such an awesome skatepark at their disposal. There was a good turnout of spectators at the competition which is great to see the community out to support so much radness. A big thank you to the Town of Port Hedland and the local skatepark users for keeping the rad alive in the north west.
The next round of competitions takes place, round 12 6th October at Willetton skatepark, round 13 8th October at Stratton skatepark, check our coming events page for more info.

Clockwise from top left – Montell Pickett rode really well in the scooter beginners to take the 1st place. He could not believe it when his name was called out, he was so pumped – Sam Thomas bar spinning the street gap to 1st place in the intermediate scooters – Open scooter rider Jay Thornby took home a new set of wheels with a big smile on his face – Jeremy Dines smith grinding his way to a new skateboard deck from the 4 skateboard co. More photos can be found on the face book page here.

South Hedland skatepark competition – 12th August 2017 – Round 10 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Scooter beginner – 1st Montell Pickett, 2nd Jarrah Freebolt, 3rd Joshua Featherstone, 4th Ty Kilmartin, 5th Saxon Dawe, 6th Kenny Councilor, 7th Lee Farlong, 8th Darren Roebuck, 9th Henry Miller, 10th Alec Carson, 11th Kade Denney, 12th Billy-Bob Kelly, 13th Stanley Ryder, 14th Demetriarthis Cameron, 15th Corryn Smart, 16th Romane Hamlin, 17th Conner Brooks, 18th Armand Hamlin.

Scooter intermediate – 1st Sam Thomas, 2nd Jamal Doyal, 3rd Ryan Diver, 4th Noah Lambert, 5th Tremaine Armstrong, 6th Kai Mitchell, 7th Michael Brooks, 8th Kale Atkinson, 9th Brenton Kerrod, 10th Zack Smith, 11th Alexander Tressidder, 12th Rthan James

Scooter open – 1st Jay Thornby

Skateboard open – 1st Jeremy Dines

BMX intermediate – 1st Ty Kilmartin

 

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Australind skatepark opening day

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Some people believe making a skatepark is easy and happens relatively quickly. How wrong they are. Back in June 2010 the seed was planted to upgrade the Australind skatepark. This was not an easy task. The Shire of Harvey wanted the community to raise $50000 to help build the park. Right away Freestyle Now was in there to help with attending fundraising days and getting donations at our events and matching dollar for dollar those donations. It was hard work for the community to really get this awesome skatepark built. After 6 years the final go ahead was give but some of the government agency funding had been cut from what was initially going to be given. So it was a quick retry on design to try to accommodate a $1.3 million park down to $900000. The final design and build works well. Construction started early this year, seven years after it was seed was planted.

Dylan Schmidt with a superman over the new jump box at Australind skatepark

Nigel Heidt who was 10 and Dwight Eckersley who was 11 at the time were not happy with the inadequate portable skatepark that was in Australind. Dwight and Nigel, along with Nigel’s mother Sabine Heidt, put together a petition which they presented to the Harvey council with more than 400 signatures. If you want something you need to go and get it, and that is what they did.

Freestyle Now was there at the opening day celebrations to roll out the rad but unfortunately so was the rain. When the rain stopped we dried up parts of the park and let the radness flow. It rain again and we did it all over again and again and again. Nothing was going to stop the flow of the radness from the Freestyle Now squad and the locals attending the opening day celebrations.

Squad member Shaun Jarvis had a radio interview on ABC South West about the skatepark and that interview provides the soundtrack to some of the opening day celebration video footage,  be sure to give it a listen and watch. Some photos of the day can also be found on our facebook page here

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CJ Martinez – video – Freestyle Now recruits squad member

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CJ Martinez has been on the Freestyle Now recruits squad for almost a year. The young 12 year old knows how to skate and skate well. On a recent outing we managed to get some clips of CJ rolling out the rad with his style. Not really being a rail skater it was great to capture his first down rail on video. Bowls and vert are his favorite terrain to skate and we will have some more videos of this epic young shredder soon. Expect to see some more of CJ as he grows into his skating.

 

 CJ has got some rad skills like this handplant on the spine at Kwinana.

 

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Freestyle Now web play – June 2017

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Freestyle Now has been rolling out the rad since 1986, that’s over 30 years of radness. Freestyle Now has had many squad members come and go over the years and our current squad roster is the raddest yet. This is our first full squad web video since 2013. The concept of the video is to show the riders and their everyday riding style. The Freestyle Now squad had a diverse range of squad members that cover many disciplines including BMX (park, street and flatland) scooter and skateboard. Inclusiveness and diversity are two of the main principals behind Freestyle Now. This Freestyle Now webplay features Freestyle now reserves squad members, Jack Carwardine, Jarrod Murfit, Kieran Ramsay and Mitch Harris with Freestyle Now squad members Jason Parker, David Pinelli, Lee Kirkman, Paul Chamberlain, Ben Thomas, Matt Adkins, Tanh Ga, Shaun Jarvis, Dez Maarsen and Dylan Schmidt. Give the video a watch to see all of our squad members in action doing what they love to do, rolling out the rad….

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ROCKINGHAM SKATEPARK COMPETITION – ROUND 9 FREESTYLE NOW WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SKATEPARK COMPETITION SERIES

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Round 9 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series took place at the Rockingham skatepark. One of Perth first original skateparks built almost 20 years ago. There was a great turn out of competitors at the competition and it was rad to see a good crew of bmx riders attending, either as a competitor or spectator. When Freestyle Now hosts a 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. There is also a girl’s class to help encourage more girls to enter. We would like to thank the City of Rockingham and our supporters, Colony bmxSacrifice scooters4 skateboard Co . Be sure to check our coming events page for all the latest information.

Clockwise from top left – Jakob Wells took ut the win in the scooter open class at Rockingham, it was a very close competition with only a few points between 1st and 5th – Luke Tooze getting in a lookback transfer at the nearly 20 year old Rockingham skatepark on his way to 1st place in BMX open – Java Ru skated well and put his skills out there for others to see and skated well – Taj Hamilton is a rad kid who is always pumped to rip it up, big flying W at Rockingham for the win in the beginners.  More photos can be found on the facebook page here.

Rockingham skatepark competition – 13th May 2017 – Round 9 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Scooter beginner – 1st Connor Gale, 2nd Jasper Anton, 3rd Myles Palombella, 4th Dylan Munson, 5th Connor Duffy, 6th Rhys Norris-Cooper, 7th Bailey Marsh, 8th Steve Donaldson, 9th Ethan MacPherson, 10th Nelson Boekeman, 11th Flynn Read, 12th Lachlan Larsen, 13th Alex Thompson, 14th Tye Crawley, 15th Toby Sullivan, 16th Jye Thompson, 17th Connor Glascott

Scooter intermediate – 1st Kaiya Rid, 2nd Ethan Rowland, 3rd Zac Tarka, 4th Tyson Carroll, 5th Timothy Schneider, 6th Noah Meveu, 7th Talyn Galic, 8th Tyler Pimlott, 9th Kai Martin, 10th Connor Murphy, 11th Jordam Field, 12th Kaillem Ingate, 13th Deon Drage, 14th Wilder Rowe, 15th Kieran Hall, 16th Jacob Hodson, 17th Ruben Blakey

Scooter open – 1st Jakob Wells, 2nd Kody Law, 3rd Tyler Jennings, 4th Caleb Pratt, 5th Keiran Ramsay, 6th Brendan Latta, 7th Aden Lillas

Skateboard beginner – 1st Koa Thompson

Skateboard intermediate – 1st Java Ru

Skateboard open – 1st Jameson Johnston

BMX beginner – 1st Taj Hamilton, 2nd Jared Glascott

BMX intermediate – 1st Regan Lothian, 2nd Benny Asa, 3rd Sean Thill, 4th Alex Jeapes, 5th Jordan Morris

BMX open – 1st Luke Tooze, 2nd Peter Gibson, 3rd Kyle Birt, 4th Jack Carwardine

 

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