The day started with a massive turnout of rollerbladers from far and near, congregating at suncorp stadium aka ‘lang ledges’.  The session only lasted for close to twenty minutes or so before an intervention with mother authority or the ‘boys in blue’.  The comp also ended here for skatebiz team rider Matt Stansfield who twisted his knee yet again on those lil suckers.  The street comp then turned into one of the biggest sessions the infamous ‘paddo skatepark’ has seen to date.  The main focus was the square rail and ledge transfer and box getting killed by rollers of all sorts.

            

Right to roll five then moved onto a street spot involving a fat flat rail to drop ending 12 or so feet.  Skaters sessioned the spot from both a natural and ‘BYO’ 4foot kicker.  Mark Stamer destroyed this spot with his flawless European style skating it like coping, i.e. 360topsoul, topsoul-bslide-truesoul-270soul, bs shifty-truesoul 360out.  Cj Wellsmore also burnt the spot with a bs noogs-bs unity-bs noogs 540 out and hand picking a nice sprig of bush before landing.  While Hayden Watt still proving he can skate, laced fs shifty to bs noogs, fs sav and mauled the dodgy ‘BYO’ kicker with a styled fishy and more.  Sydney and Canberra locals Simon D and Shaneo O also killed the spots with styled topsouls from the dodgy kicker.

    

Next spot was the notorious Milton square dropper.  Hayden and Gavin Drumm wasted no time in getting stuck into this badboy.  Hayden dropped a kg, fs sav, grabbed bslide and a crazy wall tap to fs shifty.  Gavin landed a macking medspin that grab 360 over the set and tspin soyale.  Mr Brock Midgley randomly decided to 540 the set first go and also frontsided the rail with style.  Melbs local Chris Pullar fishied and also dropped a wall tap topsoul first attempt.  Rhys Bell a ‘Canthrax’ killer dropped a tasty cheddar chopped bs sav down the steep square dropper. 

    

Following this the intense comp moved up the hill to a killer of a gap, far from perfect (Marlon).  This spot was pefect to unleash the raw animal in maddog ‘Toby Reih’ who forwards the gap after a few nasty attempts and ventured to frontside to gap and drop the square outrail, resulting in blood.  Cj Wellsmore also laced a styled bs shifty 450 out on the same rail after zero spinning and 540ing the gap.  Hayden laced a perfect 540 and also topsouled with steeze the square outrail to gap/drop.  Also worth mention was that Rhys Bell landed a smooth 180 over the gap.

  

The finale was the newly redeveloped 20stair chromish ‘eternals rail’ at anzac square.  Upon our arrival we saw the local cool cat Thomas Bartley suppreses the pain and had randomly decided to skate and re-enter the comp with a ‘you know how he does, steezed Barto top porn’, but his back was still playing silly buggers, so no show.  Whilst Cj and Hayden battled it out for that shiny wrestling belt and 1200 bangers.  Cj laced styled sweaters, top porns to bs shiftys both switch and natural.  Hayden landed smooth kg’s and a fs sav, and almost sealed the deal with a few very close 360 soul attempts, to an immediate end by mother authority once again.  Mass the Dubian, from Sydney, wasted no time in landing a tasty ‘chilli bomb’ front torque down the sticky bad boy of a rail to clearly steal the best trick. 

    

Big shout-outs to Gerard and the VC posse for making in my eyes, the best right to roll to date which defied both mother authority and nature.  Also, mad shout-outs to our boy Marlon and Toby ‘Maddog’ Reih for upping the cash prizes and for choosing deadly spots that in the end got destroyed.  Big thanks to skatebiz for the ever strong support, and the new additional support from Skater HQ and Bayside Blades.

Results- Lets just say I would of hated to judge this, as Cj and Hayden were both on fire all day and threw themselves for the 1200 bangers and belt, shout-outs to both boys for killing it .

1^st place-  Hayden Watt

2^nd place- Cj Wellsmore

3^rd place- Gavin Drumm

Best Trick- front torque Mr ‘Chilli bomb’ Mohammed Mass

Typed through the fingers of Matt Stansfield

Photos through the eye of Ben Granero.