The Boston Street Battle this year is on November 14th. As a cold street contest this event marks the end of 2009 and comfortable street skating weather and the Beginning of indoor winter skatepark sessions in New England.

This year it’s less of a marathon style contest and more of a spot battle, this way if you don’t like a certain spot then you don’t have to skate it. Who ever destroys a spot the most will win stuff at that spot. You can win as many spots as you like and whoever wins the most spots is the champion. Prizes for the top 3 at each spot as well as best trick(s) a “grom” 17 and under award a old man 30+ award and other give a-ways where deserved.

The meeting spot and warm up session is 10:00AM at:
Hyde Park Skate Park.
1 Reservation Road
Hyde Park, Massachusetts 02136

we need to start earlier this year cause it gets dark early in the fall.
$13 if you pre-register online before November 6th. $20 if you register the day of.
Visit www.myspace.com/bostonstreetbattle for more info and online registration.

4th annual “Skate the Hate” at Carlisle, Ma

Skate the Hate was successful once again in 2009. We had a great turn out and after a few days of rain we got very lucky with the rain stopping and the sun coming out in the morning just in time for the first heat. Full results and media from the comp is up at www.myspace.com/skatethehate

Hundred Dollar Hustle
31st and Morgan
Chicago, IL
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
$100 to the winner
$3 to enter
Hosted by David Depew
Special guest Drew Bachrach

Street Battle Seattle…Aug. 8TH 2009

Now in it’s 9th year due to the success from our sponsors, the skaters, and all other supporters locally, nationally, and internationally. Over the years I have seen the contest take shape and become what it is today. The SBS contest is not only just a rollerblading street contest. It’s rollerblading history. First of its kind in the Seattle area and remaining to be one of the largest street contest on the west coast. Not to mention when it first started 9 years ago street skating contests were just evolving! Now in its 9th year the contest has matured to be what it is today. It takes time. Time to fail, time to learn, and time to succeed. Over the years I have learned allot! One of the many problems is my lack of professionalism and procrastination. Those 2 things over the years I’ve noticed make the largest impact on the success. This year is going be different. SBS2009 isn’t until August and already I have almost everything I need to make an outstanding contest even better! Things are going to be different from the start. As you can probably already tell. The actually event is going to continue in its original format the only changes this year are going to be how we promote, sponsor, and deliver!

Here is the tentative plan for the Windy City Riot this year.

Chicago, IL

$10 Registration fee if you prepay online
$20 Registration fee if you pay on the day of

17 and under bracket
Pro/Am bracket
Old Man bracket (24+)

Friday, July 31st
7:00pm ish | Precontest (flatland, high jump, long jump, etc…) in the city
9:00pm ish | Two spots in the city
12:00pm ish | Afterparty at a bar or someone’s house in the city and/or post session at a skatepark in the city

Saturday, August 1st
3:00pm ish | Three spots in the suburbs
9:00pm ish | Post Session/Award Ceremony at a suburban skatepark near the spots.
11:00pm ish | Afterparty in the city

Judging will be done just as we’ve done in the past: Spectators and competitors vote.

1st Place – Adam Robert (San Francisco, CA)
2nd Place – Chad Carouselli (New York City, NY)
3rd Place – Sean Keane (Sacramento, CA)
4th Place – Jon Lee (Berkeley, CA)
5th Place – Kevin Yee (San Francisco, CA)

Previous Park Jam…

1st Place: Mike Dempsey (Cheshire, CT)
2nd Place: Jeff Dalnas (Cranston, RI)
3rd Place: Evan G. (NewYork, NY)
4th Place: Jesus Medina (New York, NY)
5th Place: Franco Cammayo (Staten Island, NY)
6th Place: Nick Taylor
7th Place: Casey Gerraghty (Milford, CT)
8th Place: Andy Leiterman (Boston, MA)
9th Place: Scott Cambell
10th Place: Tom Ferrante
11th Place: Trevor Johnson
12th Place: Adrian Morales
13th Place: Julio Ayama
14th Place: Harry Doyle
15th Place: Pat the Rat aka Patrick Collins

Laced in RI 2008 Edit

Vimeo Edit

Top 4 (no particular order):
Jeff Dalnas (Cranston, RI)
Kyle Couture (Rollinsford, NH)
Gabe Holm (Amherst, MA)
Craig Nogler (Woonsocket, RI)

Thanks to the sponsors:
Aggressive Mall
Razors
Remz
Denial
Jug

http://lacedinri.com

http://myspace.com/lacedinri

The Mile High Battle was an awesome day for rollerbladers in Colorado. While the weather was slightly hot this didn’t stop people from killing shit all day. The first spot was at Heritage High School in Littleton. It was slightly nerve racking when I showed up 15 minutes late to my own competition and there was only 2 people there, it ended up all right. About a half hour into the first spot some stupid fat lady in a car that she could barley fit in kicked us out. So off to the next spot.
Spot 2 was at University of Denver Colorado. While everybody thought we were going to get kicked out the session lasted close to 45min to an hour. These rails are long square and perfect. There were plenty of hot hot hot shit busted including true farv’s, true savannah 360 sweatys and the whole works. Jeremy Spira broke himself off trying to do a ally oop top soul and hit his lower back on a curb while simultaneously almost hitting his head on a near by pole. It then spawned the birth of his fetal twin as you may have seen on be mag. As we were all ready to leave the security guard kicked us out.
After this everybody braked for lunch. There was plenty of burritos, pizza and tokyo Joes for all.
We decided that to extend the day out a little further that the backup second spot would be used as spot 2.5. This was at the infamous pillar rails, so named because of the two large cement pillars at the end of the rail. More hot shit was thrown down by Ty Jones who we gave prize for destroyer of best spot.
After the session at spot 2.5 degraded to a Frisbee golf game we decided it was time to leave and head off to spot three. This was supposed to be a white kink rail which ty jones again killed with a ill sweaty and a true mizou. However this was short lived due to an old ass security guard kicking us out. So then it was quick thinking to the next spot which was two side by side 30-40 stair rails that went into a baseball field. The frisbee game then ensued again. However there were some sick rail transfers and even a line of five people doing a topsoul at the same time. At this point the it was time for the comp to come to an end. And the winners are.

1. Steven Tat (Bowling Green, KY)
2. Chris Burlingame (Denver, CO)
3. Zach Zemljak and best trick (Denver, CO)
4. Ty Jones (Denver, CO)
5. Anthony Baily (Denver, CO)

Those who came to the Windy City Riot this year got exactly what they’d expect. Interesting spots, run-ins with the police, sticky weather, amazing skating, wild after-parties –”all things blade”. Seven years running, the WCR has once again proven to be one of the best street contest to attend every summer in North America. The purse totaled just under a whopping $500.

This year the WCR returned to a two-day format. On the first day, everyone joined in a celebration of all things strange. The flatland contest was won by Justin “Jefferson” Augustus from Iowa. You may remember Jefferson as being one of the “most innovative” winners from years past. Then comes Antone. Anthony “Antone” Anderson (Chicago, IL) stole the high-jump title from the previously undefeated Paul John (cleared 53″ clean and 55.5″ with a brush on the pole), dunk contest (cannot explain in words) and tied the long jump contest with Matt Strobot (Cary, IL) at 223″. After all was said and done, the pre-contest proved to be one of the most exciting collection rollerblading moments of my life. We finished off the first day by skating a launch to metal planter. Too many kids to name skated amazingly however, it seems that Kruise Sapstein tore this spot harder than anyone else–especially after landing a fakie 540 topsoul to gap out. Many props to Kruise.

The beginning of day two was a “chest”. It was pouring rain and a huge event took place right near the meeting spot with forced the contest to be moved to, that’s right, lower wacker–Chicago’s depths of hell. We fashioned a launch ramp made of plywood to skate a high handicap rail. This was a great time until the biker cops rolled up and started giving everybody (myself included) $60 parking tickets. We, of course, moved on to the next spot. Walt Disney Magnet Elementary was a good solid spot with many skaters lacing tricks and many spectators yelling “Aaaaahhhh!”’s…as you should find in any good street contest. The nicest police officer in Chicago politely asked us to move on so we did. The final spot allowed for some interesting tricks to be done. This kink rail next to a ledge wrecked some and made a hero of others. Casey Bohrnell broke his ankle and John Adams may have broken his wrist. The contest proved to be a battle between Jeph Howard and Derek Larson. Derek landed the best trick of the contest by stalling the fence, dropping to a fakie roll on the ledge then dropping blind to top soul on the rail. For a better idea of what happened at the final spot, you’d have to see the footage. Here are the results:

1st – Jeph Howard (MN)
2nd – Derek Larson (MN)
3rd – Kruise Sapstein (IL)
4th – Logan Clark (IA)
5th – Brian Bruno (IL)

Best Trick- Derek Larson
Best Style- Kruise Sapstein
Worst Fall/Scariest to Watch- Dave Depew
Most Innovative – John Adams
Way Cool- Aaron Peterson
Biggest Chest- Tony Wolak
Should Have Skated- Kruise Sapstein
Biggest Baby- Mike Froemling
Most Flamboyant- Brian Bruno

This post will be edited with links to photos and video.