Tags: australia, australian rolling open, bayside blades, chris pullar, hayden golder, matthias ogger, melbourne, owen parry, rolling victoria, vic titles 2010
From Rolling Victoria, the people that brought you the Australian Rolling Open '09 and '10, last year's Goulburn Fruit Jam, and the last few installments of the annual Victorian Titles, this year's event was even more of an interstate affair than it had already become in recent years. In fact an Englishman and a German made up the top 3 in the Open category. People travelled from 6 of the 7 capital cities around Australia to attend a 1 star WRS event that this year returned to Riverslide, a.k.a. "City Park".
Text by Chris Pullar
Photos by Hayden Golder
Edit by Craig Smith
With a few notable absentees heading of to the USA for the World Finals, the the contest was wide open, with a larger the normal field of competitors happy to throw their hat in the ring and see how they fared on the day.
Kieran Deans Massive AO Topsoul on the Bayside Blades Sub Box
It was after all the first contest to be held at the well know park since the Aussie Titles in '06 when Chris Haffey showed us how to skate it, and the park has since had a bowl end added to it. Add to that some additions made for the contest in the form of a splendidly large sub box to go in the bowl, and round rails that attached to the existing square down rails, courtesy of engineer, chief organiser and competitor, Owen Parry.
Thanks to all who made i out and specially to those who competed and made it such a great event. See ya'll in late February for the 2nd Annual Goulburn Fruit Jam!
For links to all the edits and more info of the event: http://rollvic.org.au/vics/2010/event_results.htm
Top three finals:
1. Mike Salt
2. Craig Brockelhurst
3. Matthias Ogger
And here are some selected shots from Hayden including captions:
Robbie Pitts - Victorian Champion
Left to Right) Joshua Oldfield (1st U15), Luke Pearce (1st U12), Paul Drozdzowski (1st Female), Matt Carratelli (2nd U18) and Harrison Greig-Hurtig (1st U18)
Ned Schofield - Alley Oop Miszou
Zack Debaize - The frenchman calling Melbourne Home for now... 4th Place
Mike Salt, 1st place, Transferring Soul to Soul from the Bayside Box to Coping
Man, how I miss Australia, you have no idea!
Remember skating this park, Melbourne is the shit!!
Robbie, what are you growing there ;-)
wow. looks like Down under comes up with some top notch events....
And nice box
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