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Mentor Skateboarding Session
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Lee Blackwell - benihana
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It was unquestionably the most expected contest of the year. Everyone was hoping
that in our country there would be organized a competition in European style...
but unfortunately not everything went according to the plan.
In my point of view is that the guilty part was the lack of adequate advertisement.
However, it doesn't really matter how good it could be, but how good it was. For
the first time in Poland a professional skateboard skatepark was built and what's
more important, the skatepark stayed here, in our country! There were not many
skateboard stars from the west, except Stefan Lehnert, but our Polish riders showed
their best style.
The first day wasn't very interesting and nothing important happened. On the second
day almost 90 riders participated in the eliminations. There were only 6 foreigners, but
only 4 of them competed in the end. The best was Lehnert's run who rode in the skatepark
with a wide smile and with no signs of concentration when doing tricks like backside
lipslide. English (Lee Blackwell and Dan Leech) specialized in "flights" - benihanas,
frontside flips over the coping and perfect grabs made the audience cheer. Jacek Jakubowski,
Blazej Lewandowski and Tadeusz "Gutek" Szymanski had the best runs of the Poles. Jacek
took 3rd place after the eliminations, so he had already got to the grand final.
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Tadeusz Szymański - transfer to backside tailslide
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On the third day there were a lot of attractions, semi-finals, the grand final and
The Best Trick contest. The audience, which was much bigger than on the previous days,
should have been satisfied, as they saw many fascinating moments. Riders concentrated
on better quality of tricks so the level was higher than in the eliminations. Tadeusz
Szymanski did backside tailslide and transfer backside tailslide on the rail, Benjamin
Kojlo nollie heelflip, smith grind and lip slide. In the finals the best runs had, except
Stefan Lehneret of course, Tomek Kotrych with nosegrinds, backside nosegrind. Blazej
Lewandowski and Krzysiek Poskrobko specialized in rail tricks. Each of them showed frontside
boardslide, 50-50, Blazej even did 5-0! Gutek performed the best technical tricks, and
he was the one who won The Best Trick with kickflip on crooked.
After the contest not everyone were very satisfied with the contest, because it could
of been better... more international. However, there is nothing to be worried about, it's
only the beginning! See you soon at the 2nd Mentor Skateboarding Session!
The final results:
1st Stefan Lehnert (Germany)
2nd Tomek Kotrych (Warsaw, Poland)
3rd Lee Blackwell (England)
4th Tadeusz Szymanski (Warsaw, Poland)
5th Blazej Lewandowski (Plock, Poland)
Rodzyn
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