Another awesome event by Protest Movement, hosted by Hippie Mike and backed up by DJ Layback (Jeff Cole) it was off to SBC Restaurant to showcase their latest Skateboard Video and give away some Cash and Prizes during a Best Trick Contest in the best Mini Ramp in Vancouver. 60 feet of pure speed, escalators, wallrides, copings and pool block, this ramp is made to have fun.
Doors opened at 6pm and the kids started rolling in for warm up. The beginner and Intermediate sessions went down between 7 & 8pm before the video showed. The beginner category was great to watch as 4 young rippers gave’r everything they had for 15 minutes to try and win some gear. Gus Jackson took 1st place with a layback frontside rock on the pool block section and everyone was stoked.
When the Intermediates started the crowd was started to grow so the energy level was high, these kids must have been feeling it because they were going off. Lipslides, reverts, texas plants, and big airs, watching the intermediates made you really wonder what was going to happen during advanced. James Martin won it with an air to wall ride backside 180 melon in the 4 foot section, it was solid.
The video played at 8pm and the crowd was loving it. Diversity is a short film with interviews from all the skaters followed by parts filmed in 1 day each. Starring Big Rip Kaelen Faux, Jay Mykyte, Ryan Brynelson, Hippie Mike and Eve Feaver, The video was named Diversity for many reasons, with an age range from 7 years old to 45, different styles of skaters and skating, and different opinions from all the riders on what makes skateboarding awesome.
View the video here
After the video it was back to business in the ramp. All participants paid $10 to enter the contest and the money was divided into prize money for the Advanced and Ladies categories, $85 for the Ladies and $175 for the Advanced, both to be split 3 ways.
The Ladies took the stage first and were well supported from the crowd for the full 15 minutes. Carrie Williams, Mels Bells and Alexis MacRae were shredding the whole mini and putting down solid maneuvers but Kristen Landry took the top prize with a solid fake shovit disaster in the 4 foot. 50 bucks and a new Protest deck, nothing wrong with that.
Then it was time for the finale, the Advanced riders headed up to the ramp and things got heavy for a top prize of $100 and a fresh deck. Jeff Muirhead kicked things off with the hardest slam of the night bouncing off of the flatbottom from way up the wall. Brandon Cotton showed that he needs all 60 feet of the ramp just to roll in and get his line started, nobody goes as fast as this guy and his skills make the speed 10 times more fun to watch. Adam George got upside down on the pool coping when he wasn’t flying through the air at high speed, Eve Feaver brought his usual 80’s style of tweaked airs and coping tricks, and DJ Layback even got in there with some sick layback action. But Stepan Soroka was the guy to beat almost touching hi head on the ceiling just to set up for grinds on the pool block section. Stepan took first place with a huge and fast frontside 5-0 grind across the pool block and ollie out down the drop into the 4 foot section. It left the place echoing with noise from everybody there.
It was a great show, and everyone had a blast.
Big thanks to SBC Restaurant
Beginner:
1st Gus Jackson – Layback FS Rock on pool block
2nd Presley Huska – Frontside 360 air
3rd Ryder Mulherin – Kickflip rock
Kaelen Faux – Best Hangup
Intermediate:
1st James Martin – Air to wallride backside 180 melon in the 4 foot
2nd Dalton – Carve over the death hole
3rd Gaeb Cruz – Bomb drop to flat
4th Ka-eo – Step up Lipslide on the pool block (after time)
Ladies:
1st ($50) Kristen Landry – Fakie shovit disaster in the 4 foot
2nd ($25) Alexis MacRae – Nollie halfcab rock and roll in the 4 foot
3rd ($10) Mels Bells – Layback 5-0 tailslide in the 4 foot
4th Carrie Williams – Half Cab rock n roll
Advanced:
1st ($100) Stepan Soroka – Long Frontside 5-0 on pool block transfer down to 4 foot
2nd ($50) Brandon Cotton – Backside Air from wallride into Logride
3rd ($25) Adam George – Backside Inverts on the pool block
4th Eve Feaver – Japan Air transfer from pool block to 4 foot
