Apols for the Radio Silence!!!!!! It has been one busy summer but rather than write about it, I'll do a recap in pictures of the trips/events I've been to this year! Regular updates will resume from now on :)
First up, Malmo! Girls Get Set Go was at Sibbarp this year! I went out and met up with a full UK lady contingent in the form of Helena Long, Stef Nurding, Rianne Evans, Amy Ram and Sam Bruce..
Then there was Girl Skate Jam UK at Pioneer Skatepark! Managed to get second in Street and Miniramp!
And lastly we had the Unicorn Girls Skate Jam at Mile End Skatepark! Stoked to win that one!
After not having posted frequently for a while, this is
gonna be an almighty blog post about the most awesome comp I’ve ever been to! Malmo Ultra Bowl! The girls comp is known as Women’s Get Set
Go and this was the 4th edition, now taking place as a street comp.
The early morning flight to Copenhagen was taken by myself,
Hannah Neon Stash, Becky Jaques and Stef Nurding – quite a crew! We landed by
10am and so decided to spend a bit of time in the city and check out a few
spots.
The first park was pretty rad and warmed us up nicely
(footage to come!) for the Faelledsparken – the hugest skatepark I’ve ever
seen. The park had a pool, a bowl snake run type bit, an overhang gnarly bit, a
whoop-de-whoop middle bit with hips, d/ways and speed bumps and a street plaza.
It was the shit! I immediately got involved with some airouts that a queue of
kids were hittin up whilst Hannah was given a dropping-in lesson from Becky! Nice
one Hannah!
As the evening we headed over to Malmo to meet up with Lovenskate
boss and rider, Stu and Ewen! A little skate at Stappel before dark and an early
night went down well.
Saturday morning saw the quarter finals for the girls comp
and there were 29 girls in total! How rad is that?! It was cool to see the
standard being so high amongst the riders and some really serious stunts. Sarah
Meurle killed it on the Saturday, nollie heels mid run was a shocker! Julia
Bruekler and Kristin Ebeling also ripped hard and made things look easy.
That afternoon Stu, Ewen, some other Brits and I all went
off to check out Malmo’s other impressive skatepark offering that is Sibbarp!
Swimming in the sea, Texas plants and a Chinese that served pizza (#unexpected)
were all on the agenda!
Stu FS wallride, Sibbarp
Sibbarp
#perfectblues and backflips
Sunday morning played host to the semi’s and the finals!
Good news was that Stef, Lois and I all made the cut for the semi’s! Stef
landed a FS flip on the quarter which she’d only learned a few weeks back and
Lois honed around. Julia, had a few more tricks in the bag too and Kristin was
as powerful as ever.
6 made it through to the finals – Lois and I got in! It was
sick! I wanted the Sal flip over the spine but I had to make do with a savage
slam instead. Good enough to get 3rd and be stoked forever more with
a badass board cheque J
