This is the first ever Central Ohio race event and everyone should attend. The course is made up within two parking lots with a lot of turns, 15-20mph and a possible kicker in the middle of the course. Every age and skill level can attend. Great companies sponsoring the event. Anyone who wants to attend the sunday session at Hocking Hills is more than welcome to. We are skating all day on Sunday after the event. Everyone come and join the Ohio series of skating.
Hey BeastCoasters! Looking for something to do in August? The 2nd Annual Central MA Event is gearing up to be huge – an event you definitely cannot miss. We have lots of sponsors, tons of prizes and over 130 people registered to come to Harvard, MA already. August 7th is going to be a long stoke-filled day of sick skating, good food, and all kinds of prizes that anyone could win.
Heads up! All the essential information is below:
REGISTRATION
Unfortunately, we had to cap the number of downhill registrants at 128 this year and it’s already full. Email emgeemann@gmail.com ASAP to get on the wait list. There’s still plenty of room in the Freeride and Flatland comps, so if you haven’t gotten your name on those lists yet, get on it!
Waiver
To save us all some time on the day of the event, print out this waiver, slap your John Hancock on it, and bring it with you!
Cost
This year you can save five bones by paying your registration ahead of time via PayPal. Just send your payment to emgeebay@gmail.com via PayPal. Anyone participant can also add an event t-shirt to their registration for just $5!
In Advance: $15 (+$5 for t-shirt)
Day Of Event: $20 (+$5 for t-shirt)
SCHEDULE
9am – Registration Starts
10am – Race Hill Opens for Practice Runs
11am – Downhill Racing Begins
Please do your best to show up on the early side. We cannot guarantee you will be able to race if you arrive after 11.
EVENT FORMATS
Downhill
We can’t tell you where it is yet, but we can tell you that the course has two slopes that take you to the mid-40’s, divided by a short push section (shorter this year!). We are making it more technical with super giant slalom cones on the downhills. We are shooting for a 128-person bracket that will race single-elimination in four man heats, top two advance.
Freeride
This year’s freeride is going to be on a faster slope, and will be judged by some totally worthy peeps. Hard and soft wheels will be allowed, and judges will consider the technical challenges of using either when scoring. The judges will be spread out on the hill so your whole run counts. Because there are so many skaters, riders runs will have to be spaced out, but everyone is guaranteed several runs to show their stuff.
Longest Slide
We will be having a longest slide competition again, and we promise there will be more than enough time for it! Separate prizes for hard and soft wheels.
Freeride SKATE
In our next update, we will be announcing a list of qualifying tricks to get into the Freeride SKATE comp.
Flatland
This year’s flatland is guaranteed to go down, and will be held at a dope spot within walking and skating distance of the race hill. It’s got a great place for spectating, plenty of room for tricks and a small drop-in for some extra speed.
Flatland SKATE
With the number of registrants right now, we’ll be able to play this as a traditional game of SKATE, with the order of riders chosen at random.
PRIZES
Oh, we’ve got a lot of goodies lined up for our winners. Keep an eye out for our next update where you’ll find out exactly what you can get your hands on!
VOLUNTEERS
Want to help us pull this thing off? How about a staff t-shirt? Email emgeemann@gmail.com if you can do morning set up, run registration, race marshal, clean up or just make yourself generally useful. You might even get to use a walky-talky!
No entry fee. No winners. No podium. No competition. Just a super fun afternoon of slides and tricks and silly obstacles. Oh yeah… and lots of prizes! There will be lots of awesome skaters sharing their creativity and stoke so you better not miss this!
The event will start at 2pm on Sunday, July 10th. Do not come before. We will be there rain or shine. In fact, if it rains it will be only more fun! So bring a rain jacket… and rain bearings.
The location is a spot in downtown Montreal that we call The Caserne. But I will not post a location online. So if you have any questions email me (dim.komarov@gmail.com).
AND NO EXCUSES FOOLS! BE THERE!
To help get your stoke on here’s a video from last year’s Montreal Slide Jam organized by SkateHouseMedia‘s Matt K.
If you’ve spent any time on this site then you know that we don’t normally post content like this or even talk about longboard freestyle. Jack Darby kills it with this video though and is from a small town in VA so I’m a sucker for shredders from my home state. He rides for original and definitely deserves it.
We’re starting something new here at BCL. We’ll be posting a video every week from either Kids of the Future, Team Quebec, Northern Skate Alliance or submissions/east coast videos we find that are gnarly. So if you have a video that you think is cool enough to be a Video of the Week then hit us up. The first one comes out you from KOTF and has footage from Phat Deans freeride weekend and a trip to Southern Virginia.
If you still haven’t checked out the Team Quebec site then you are messing up. Check out their breakdance battle from the same event. You’ll be seeing more of their videos on BCL to keep you stoked throughout the year but to see the majority of their awesome edits and pictures you’ll have to go to their site.
We will meet at Emily Douglas Park (2500 Wheat Street) at 9:00 AM. Race at 10:00 AM. The distance is around 11.4 miles. We will break for lunch around 12:00 PM. At 1:00 PM we will meet back up for the flat ground/trick contest behind Memorial Stadium (1000 S. Holly St). After that there will be a downhill race at an undisclosed location.
There are so many events happening now it’s really hard to keep track. This past weekend saw St. Marie in Quebec as well as the Beast of the East in North Carolina. Both had slalom, slopestyle and downhill with a few other fun events sprinkled in. On top of these contests there was also a big freeride in PA. We’ll be bringing you media from all of these in the coming week so stay tuned.
St. Marie
Slopestyle:
1- K-Money 200$
2- Ben Lavoie
3-
DH:
1.Matt 400$
2.Dimm
3.Niko
4.John Barnet
5- MGR
6- Leili
7- Fred G
8- PM
GS Slalom :
1- Louis 200$
2- MGR
3- Niko
4- Matt
Big air :
1- K-Money
1- Flavor-Flâv (Équipe France)
Luge:
1- Fred D 100$
Beast of the East
GS
1st – Evan StClair
2nd – Dave Tolley (WVA in tha house)
3rd – Mark Nix
DOWNHILL
A Bracket
1st – Evan StClair
2nd – Sean Russum (first time racer)
3rd – Doug Henry
4th – Bert Lumpkin
B Bracket
1st – Bayley Cashion
2nd – Wes Ormond
3rd – Darren “Chuey” Hodges
4th – Brad Scott
SLIDE
1st – Matt Deitch
2nd – Sean Russum
SLIDE BOWLING
Mark “Shi tbird” Nix (yes, that is the way it’s written) With an untouchable 9 pins.
OVERALL for the event goes to Evan StClair for sweeping day 1. The Beast head Stays home this year.
