Freestyle Now

Round 2 of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series took place at a packed out Kwinana skatepark. It was a large night. With a record number of competitors in all disciplines, scooter, skate and bmx its rad to see so many people enjoying some good skatepark activity. The Kwinana skatepark has been there for a few years now with the old metal halfpipes being at least 17 years old, it is a highly underrated skatepark. The layout is good with many different lines and obstacles to be used. The skatepark was put to good use on the Friday night competition.
Jiordan Giacoppo was on fire in the scooter advanced class with speed and large tricks, his inward up the stair gap to bars out was one of the high lights, Brandon Black tried hard but a 2^nd was all he could take but not from the lack of trying, good halfpipe runs for sure. Wade France took out the 3^rd place with some good lines through the park. Skate advance was awesome, Brendon Cross took out the first place and took home a new skate deck as well as nailing an ally-oop 270 grab over the transition hips, was crazy. Young Zac Clinkers showed up, skated well, kept his board under his feet well over his 2 minutes of skatepark run and took home the 2^nd place for doing so. Mason Brown  took home the 3^rd place and was stoked to skate the Kwinana skatepark for his first time. BMX advanced was all about madkins. Matt Adkins hit the big tricks and took the win, back flip fakies, cannonballs and flairs were just some of his radness. Mitchell Pianto took out the 2^nd place with a solid run of park lines and radness all mixed together. Young Regan Lothian took out the 3^rd place, stoked to see him do the stair gap into the bank.
All up the Kwinana competition was nothing short of rad. Good vibe all round with some great competition going on. Lots of competitors went home with a prize product thanks to our supporters Local BMX, Sacrifice scooters and 4 skateboard Co . A big thank you to Arbie and Russell from the Kwinana youth zone for all the good work and to the City of Kwinana.

Matt Adkins is not call Madkins for nothing, awesome flip to fakie at the end of his last run.

Clockwise from top left – Brendon Cross skates wide open – Dylan Van Pudua wants to fly – Jack Carwardine is progressing at bmx really well. Lookback over the hip to a 1^st in beginners – Brandon Black hits the rail and proceeds to take 2^nd place.

Kwinana skatepark competition – 13th February 2015 – Round 2 Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series – Official results

Girls – 1st Mikayla Michel, 2nd Stefany Bilick, 3rd Skyla Ryan

Scooter beginners – 1st Brody Groth, 2nd Kie Underdown, 3rd Ben Gulbis, 4th Luka Barjaktar, 5th Connor Atkinson, 6th Taylor Webb, 7th Chris Kelly, 8th Ryan Larkan, 9th Zac Montgomery, 10th Seth James, 11th Zac Bilick, 12th Connor Carey, 13th Jay Lawler, 14th Jon Kelly, 14th Cooper Bennett, 16th Dolan Kelly, 16th William Larkan, 18th Jack Willis, 19th Marko Barjaktar, 19th Michael Ryan, 21st Anthony Ricetti, 21st Bodhi Fitzpatrick, 23rd Brandon Ryan, 24th Ruben Blakey

Scooter advanced – 1st Jiordan Giacoppo, 2nd Brandon Black, 3rd Wade France, 4th Dylan Van Pudua, 5th David Lowery, 6th Caleb Pratt, 7th Levi Mills, 8th Ethan Mackenzie, 9th Talyn Galic, 10th Jacob Hodson

Skateboard beginners – 1st Brody Innes, 2nd Liam James, 3rd Ryan Rigg, 4th Cody Nahirny

Skateboard advanced – 1st Brendon Cross, 2nd Zac Clinkers, 3rd Mason Brown, 4th Josh Birtwistle, 5th David Robinson

Bmx beginners – 1st Jack Carwardine, 2nd Connor D’evelynes, 3rd Jesse Whitehead, 4th Jaden Coleman, 5th Jesse Nelson, 6th Carlo Scenini, 7th Cooper Morrow, 8th Bailey Jokic, 9th Brett Hart, 10th Cooper Bennett, 11th Ryan Larkan, 12th Dylan Hautapu

Bmx advanced – 1st Matt Adkins, 2nd Mitchell Pianto, 3rd Regan Lothian, 4th Kyle Cusack

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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