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New Kids On The Block Contest

December 2, 2007 on 7:16 pm | In Allgemein |

New Kids On The Block Contest
Yesterday there was a Contest for Kids up to 14 years. Around 50
young guns appeared at the skatehall revaler straße to show how
Berlins Offspring is doing. The idea was that those kids get in touch
with the older guys, or how it was announced, with the “Pros”, they
only know out of magazines.
If it is really necessary to bring children to competitions that
early? I don’t know, I guess not. I grew up skating very different,
with a bigger distance to the companys and the competition part of
skateboarding. Which I’m happy of.
In spite of everything I agreed taking part in this contest which had
been arranged for the second time. Sponsors were Search & Destroy,
Radio, Skatehalle-Berlin, Adidas, Robotron, Pivot, été and Irie Daily.

After a big party night on friday with a few to many drinks getting
up for the contest at noon was a bit too early. I felt like shit when
I arrived in Friedrichshain, but still was one of the more fit guys I
guess. Every one of us with the purpose of being kinda an idol for
the kids appeared with small dark circled eyes.

Anyways, after a while of skating and sweeting I felt quite well
again and the hole thing became fun. The little Jamahl u see up there
was on of the 2 guys I had to take care of. He’s skating since just a
few months so it was hard to perform some kinda show. With Valle
(shitty we didn’t take a pic yoah) it was realy challenging to skate
a good run though. The 14 year old Berliner is quite a talented
Skateboarder kickflippin’ over the box me lying on top of and shit.
Our second final (double) run was almost stay-on with more than 15
tricks I think. Yeah, congrats for the second place Vallentin! It was
fun.