The Whistler Skateboard Club together with Gibbons Whistler and the Old School Initiative are bringing the first-ever skateboard competitors to the Whister Skate park on Saturday.
The Whistler Skateboard Club, together with crucial sponsors Gibbons Whistler and Whistler Old School Initiative, will be hosting the first-ever skateboard competitors at the Whistler Skate Park, Mayhem in the Mountains, on Saturday, Sept. 11.
The occasion will include 4 classifications: guys’s and females’s amateur and guys’s and females’s expert. The 2 expert classifications will have equivalent prize money with $1,500 for top place, $750 for 2nd location and $375 for 3rd location.
Competitors in the amateur classifications will be contending for different item rewards.
There will likewise be a best-trick competitors with a prize money of $500.
The contest will occur mainly in the brand-new area of the park and will include a certifying round of 2 45-second runs for each rider with their finest rating being utilized towards getting approved for the finals.
Time-allowing, the finals will include 3 45-second runs for each finalist with the single finest run taking house the leading reward.
“So we’ll have a set course that the competitors will use and then it’s whatever they decide to show us in that 45 seconds,” stated Harry Gray, owner of the Whistler Skateboard Club. “So this is where the variance of individual style of the way you like to skate will make it interesting, because there are so many different options for the one park. Someone might want to go fast and big and do a lot more transition and other people might go a little bit slower, be a little more technical and use some of the street features, but they basically have 45 seconds to show us what they can do and we judge what they can show us.”
The competitors will have 3 judges consisting of Gray, expert skater Alex Chalmers, and a 3rd who is yet to be called.
Registration for the occasion will occur in between 9 and 10 a.m. the day of, with competitors beginning in between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.
DJ Vinyl Ritchie will be on hand spinning tunes for the entire day and the sponsors will have cubicles established with activities and free gifts for viewers to take part in.
The occasion is complimentary to participate in for anybody 6 years of age or older