Altogether 37 skaters took part in the Bowl contest and at least 8 skaters came from other cities to enter. Even more skaters that I never had a chance to count came and entered the Ollie and Power slide contests. 9 years old Tony Gao got 1st in the international Am contest and 15 years old Simon Sun got 2nd.Simon won the Chinese pro contest and 4000 RMB while Tony came 2nd and won 2000 RMB.
ZhangZiYang came all the way from Beijing and got 3rd place in both events, winning 1000 RMB.
Bobby的碗池比赛越高越热闹了, 刚刚结束的比赛共有37名滑手前来参加, 项目也更加丰富, ollie, power slide, 碗池, 女生等等. 视频很精彩.
One of the biggest standouts of the contest was Alan Ren from Xinjiang.
He skated solid in all of his runs even though he is only 8 years old he still managed to get 5th place in The INT'L AM contest and 6th in the Chinese Pro.
ATD staff helped to make sure this event went as smoothly as it did.
Jesse Karhu from Finland judged all the contests and without his help the event could not have been as amazing as it was.
The Independent truck high Ollie contest was won by Tang Shuai and Hangzhou's very own Wang Fei slid his way to victory in the Independent truck power slide contest.
The Female bowl contest was won by 12 years old Christine Chen. She calved around and did plenty of early grabs to fakie while all the other girl just fell over.
The stand out of the Girls contest was Deborah Yu who didn't give her age but had a child about the same age as me.
She manage to drop in and carve around which is pretty ground breaking for a middle aged Chinese mom.
With out the Support of Quiksilver and Roxy this event could not have taken place.
Also a big thanks goes out to: ATD skateboard distribution, Independent Trucks, Nixon watches, Vans footwear, Kickerclub.com, Pizza Boy and SMP Skatepark.
The Female Contest had 8 contestants. 7th and 8th place were both skate moms lol.
It was super cool to see middle aged Chinese women giving skateboarding a try and one even dropped in.
This goes to show that the attitude of modern parents in China is changing for the better.
I keep getting told by guys in the skate industry offices that Chinese parents don't want their children to skate but they are wrong.
Their information is based on market research done 8 years ago.
The Xgames has been held in Shanghai for about 5 years I think and other skateboarding events have been shown on TV.
This has shown modern parents in Shanghai that skateboarding is a perfectly OK activity for youngsters to start doing.
The day after the contest 2 boys that watch the event went to SMP to hire a skateboard.
So if the industry keeps supporting youngsters they will grow up and buy more products.
If they continue to just promote to 20 year olds who will grow up, find a job and quit skateboarding.(Which I have witnessed so much in my time here.)
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