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The fourth annual Ramsay Park Skateboarding Comp. was
held July 21. The City of Watsonville and Parks and Rec., making
the best use of what they have, go all out to make this competition
a success and it's very much appreciated by the local skaters. De-emphasizing
the competitive element, everyone who entered had their names announced
and was recognized with a prize for their participation.
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| Alex Samuels |
| This was the first year Real Skate cosponsored
the event and it was well worth it. My apologies to the skaters,
my camera was refusing to let me take action shots and my brain
was refusing to remind to get all the names. |
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| Billy from SCAB in Aptos came by to dump off a
bunch of stickers for us to flow. Altogether we gave out about
600 stickers also donated by Consolidated, Santa Cruz Skate
Shop and us, Real Skate. We donated two cases of ice cold water
which went VERY fast! We also served as a makeshift first aid
station, garbage collectors, sewed some torn pants up with stickers,
and my xacto knife came in very handy for all types of artistic
sticker adornment from cell phones, boards, helmets to casts! |
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| Pads required—OH DRATS! You can see Marie
Tibbitts in our booth in the background. Also helping set up
our booth was Troy Martin, thank you! |
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| Announcers and judges did a great job! |
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| Watsonville Parks and Recreation staff. These
guys ran the contest, cooked up delicious grub all day, setup
and strike, you name it they did it and they worked hard in
the hot sun. I think they should get a raise! |
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| Jerry Shallenberger and Irving Prieto. Jerry and
Marie Tibbitts helped me run the booth which was pretty busy
all day. We drummed up tons more interest in our grass roots
effort to build a state of the art concrete skatepark on the
Ramsay site. The skatepark is memorialized by the 5 popular
Ramsay skaters who died tragically in an auto accident two years
ago. Their families constructed an awesome permanent memorial
for them which exists at the entrance of the existing park—5
benches, plaques, concrete artwork, and a water fountain. They
are: Julio Prieto, Andrew Tibbitts, Matthew Escamilla, Evan
Kuhn, and Tami Uresti. "Rest in Paradise." |
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| The band Pt of Watsonville played—but
not for long. A neighbor apparently doesn't have a sense of
appreciation for good music. |
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| And at the end of the day the winners and losers
were all smiles... |
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| ...especially the winners! |
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| Thank you Ramsay skaters for a good time! Hope
to see you skatin a new park soon! |
12 & under:
1. Tyler Grimes
2. Omani Murphy
3. Marlon McNary
Best Trick: Shane Knowd
13–17:
Amateur:
1. Jorge Bravo
2. Gavin Hunt
3. David Magaña
Sponsored:
1. Autrey Maldonado
2. Dylan McKay
3. Stephen Moulding
Best Trick:
Amateur: Gavin Hunt
Sponsored: Blake Spencer
18 & older:
Amateur:
1. Austin Goodman
2. Jason Evans
Sponsored:
1. Michael Beddow
2. Chad Ridout
3. Knox
Best Trick: Knox
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