Congratulations to Louis “Slipa” Selby on winning this year’s UKSSA British Championships. Louis is sponsored by Pavel/GOG, Octane Sport, Cult and Pistache Clothing. Despite
picking up an ankle injury at Bo Peep early in the season, Louis fought hard against stiff competition from the ever improving Pig City racers as well as his good friend and fellow Octane/Pavel team-mate Bruno Oliveira. Points were awarded to all racers throughout the year using the ISSA scoring system – we may try and adopt something a bit better for the 2012 season?

Louis in celebratory mode enjoying our sponsors product at NASS back in July - The Beer of Champions!

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Sideburn Magazine – “the world’s most suave motorcycle magazine” – were the organisers and promoters of Rollerburn, the first cross genre event of its kind. Combining a custom bike show, Roller Derby, a “Rollerball” style drag race, live bands and DJ’s, numerous vendor stalls, guest appearances from TT racer and star of BBC TV’s “The Boat that Guy Built” Guy Martin and frizzy haired comedian extraordinaire Charlie Chuck – and thanks to Dave Arnold and Trawler Lawler, a Slalom Skateboarding demonstration! The event was being held indoors at the George Stephenson Hall at Newark Exhibition Centre in Nottinghamshire. Read More »

Chris Charalambous vs Bruno Silva de Oliveira. Photo: Dave Arnold

The UKSSA had been invited along to race at the Hogtoberfest event by Timmy Peters, one of the Southampton University crew, who had set the event up as a fun weekend featuring  various workshops and downhill races for all skill levels. He had also encouraged universities to bring “fresher’s” along to share the stoke of downhill skating in all of its disciplines.

The mid October weather was very kind to us, with clear skies and glorious autumn sunshine bringing riders out in their droves. Louis and I got sign up going whilst Michael and an army of willing volunteers got the ramps and timing set up and Bruno and his helpers set the Hybrid course. Mick Reiss came along to watch the proceedings and very kindly offered to run the spreadsheets for the day.

We actually started our racing a lot later than anticipated this was largely due to Louis and I manning the main Hogtoberfest sign-up desk, it took almost an hour and a half to register the 150+ longboarders, downhillers, buttboarders, slalomers and in-liners who had shown up for the weekend. This is something that needs to be addressed for future events, we need to move away from people paying on the day where possible, it just takes far too long and eats in to precious time that could otherwise be spent on the track – but I digress!

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Ernst vs Markus in the Tight Final

Race Report by Rob

The last scheduled race on the Dutch calendar took place on the hottest October weekend on record in Europe. The first ever Longboard Only Marathon had been held on the Saturday. Which saw skaters completing 18 gruelling laps around the Sport Park Sloten 2.2Km cycle track to make the 26 mile skate – no mean feat in that heat. The Race was eventually won by Paul Brunninkhuis who completed the Marathon distance in 1 hour 44 minutes with an average speed of 24 MPH.

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Louis Selby and Bruno Silva De Oliveira are the latest additions to the Cult wheels posse following their stunning skate prowess at the Bristol Board Meeting on September 10th.

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“We welcome with open arms the UK Slalom One and Two into the mystical communion that is The Cult.”

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Congratulations gents!