Gainesville Skatepark Contest
Posted on Monday, February 2, 2009 by MikeD
The new Gainesville Skatepark in, well, Gainesville, hosted a Contest last weekend with FTK and invited shop teams from all over Florida to compete for some loot. Let me see if I can get this format right. Each shop involved entered any five skaters from their team (unless you're Westside and have like three teams of five) and the skaters are given $10 - $50 depending on the difficulty of tricks landed in each timed jam. The money given out was kept track of on a clipboard by the guy next to Billy Rohan on the megaphone. They decide what trick is worth money by...I don't know, I couldn't figure this part out. Regardless, whatever team had the most money after skating the six different obstacles won the Contest. At about 5pm and they were only on the third obstacle, so we decided to head back home-side.
The skaters were really hyped on the fact that they got cash right away and it was cool to see FTK and the Park do it like that. However, due to a bit of confusion I realized why certain rules apply when running contests in general. Here are a few that might have helped out:
- You should probably not have have pros and pro-caliber skaters in the same jam with 10-year-olds wearing helmets. It endangers the kids who are still learning how to "dodge" and the pros who have worked long and hard to acquire the skills they possess
- Six obstacles is a lot of skating, especially considering one of the obstacles was a big set of stairs. If there are only five skaters on a team and six obstacles to skate, it makes it really hard to have your skaters put their "all" in for every obstacle
- The scope of the Contest was a little overwhelming with 30 teams of five. That's 150 skaters, which is just too many kids trying to skate at the same time
Young Westside Team: First
Graffiti Skate Zone: Second
Orlando Mesh: Third
Mike D.
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