A beachfront event, Brighton’s Battle of the Boards is now in its 3rd year and still the biggest UK dance and freestyle longboard competition.
Full details on the Facebook event page.
Tag: freestyle
Since founder Sheree moved to surf the waves at Fistral and me having stepped away to concentrate on the magazine, our good friend Carley Barton, team rider at Smile Longboards, is now at the helm of Brighton Longboard Ladies and, together with the other team riders and myself sponsoring as Thrill Magazine, this year’s Battle of the Boards is well underway. With only a week to go now before the event, I thought I’d share its history. Continue reading “Brighton’s Battle of the Boards – a short history”
Greetings groovy rollers and riders, I have just returned from a gathering of the world’s finest flatland, freestyle dancers on this great marble. So… You Can Longboard Dance in Eindhoven, Holland, after its 6th cycle, has earned the title as the World Cup of flatland longboarding.
Continue reading “So … You Can Lose Yourself by Joe Williams”
Thrill Magazine has come on board amongst a whole realm of sponsors in support of So… You Can Longboard Dance? World Cup 2018 event in Eindhoven on April 21/22nd. Bianca Kersten, the brains behind this incredible event, gives us an insight into the history, preparation and future focus of the event. Continue reading “So…You Can Longboard Dance?”
It was another astonishingly hot day for this year’s Battle of the Boards hosted by Brighton Longboard Ladies and Smile Longboards. Not only was Tomas Januška one of the official videographers, his company Duck and Board was also a repeat sponsor. He certainly captured the super chill essence of the event.
Continue reading “Video : ‘Battle of the Boards 2017’ by Tomas Januška”
Have we ever seen a skateboarder nominated for a Sporting Achievement award? It’s pretty much unheard of, yet here is Denham Hill, a 25 year old freestyle skateboarder doing just that.
Continue reading “Denham Hill – Nominee for Sporting Achievement Award”
Set up in September 2013 to get female riders in and around Brighton and Sussex out meeting and skating together.
Continue reading “Brighton Longboard Ladies February Session”
Sun, Sea, Skate, Let’s Dance! Vol. 2
11th July 2015
By Lee Edwards
I guess the organisers must have thoroughly enjoyed the first event in April, as Saturday saw the return of the event 8 months early for a second instalment.
Meeting around noon for the usual pre-event push from Brighton train station to the promenade and then continuing on to Hove lawns, in the Saturday sunshine.
A brief free skate allowed the boarders to introduce themselves to one another and share their individual flatland styles.
“It’s great having everyone skating together in one place at events like this” Nomadeck’s founder Dan Caroll told me. “It’s very easy to go out for a skate with only your own bag of tricks and get a kind of tunnel vision. I love seeing other tricks I might not have considered, or even tricks that I have being done in different ways.”
The Olympics started with Hippie jump: The broom handle met it’s end ,at the penultimate jump, by karate kick. There was just enough handle left for Gijs Schalkx from Timber Boards to make this colossal leap, stick the landing and take first place. (see top photo)
Next up was the longest manual competition which provided another win for the Timber Boards crew. Tietse Vliegen’s speedy and incredibly well held manual made it look as though he was ” … aiming for the pier! “
The main event a Freestyle / dance competition. Entrants were only given 2 minutes per heat to show off their flair and impress the judges with their abilities.
Local judges Alexandre de Bona of Smile Long Boards , Zak Owen of LongBoardsUK and Dan Caroll of Nomadeck Boards co. were joined by Timber Boards founder Tim Snel, who travelled with his crew all the way from Friesland in the Netherlands!
Beginners category : 1st – Luca Barton
2nd – Campbell Kenneth
3rd – Phil Miles
Ben Donoghue’s huge tailspins certainly stood out and got a lot of attention from both the judges and the crowd, but sadly it wasn’t enough to compete with the Timber Board dancers.
Advanced Category: 1st – Gijs Schalkx
2nd – Sietse Vliegen
3rd – Sergio Valdelhita
Special thanks to co-host Nick Bradley from Long Board Brighton for organising the event and wielding the intermittent microphone and co-host number 2 Alexandre de Bona of Smile LongBoards, who helped organise, host and sponsored the event.A special thanks also to the following who made up a mixture of entrants judges and sponsors who also provided prizes:
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If flatland, freestyle and longboard dancing is your thing, these guys are awesome.
Nice little UK freeride and freestyle edit from the Coastside Sessions series filmed in and around Sidmouth (Devonshire).