QOTD Premiere + EES

All edits have to be complete by this Friday latest and handed into either Boarderline or at the skatepark, in CD format. Cheers, see you all for a few beers on Saturday night.

Relentless Photo Incentive Update

As you are no doubt aware, Relentless Energy Drink is backing a Transition wide photography contest during the Winter 2008/09.

There are 5 categories:

Best Indoor skatepark shot
Best Outdoor skate/BMX shot
Best Indoor climbing shot
Best Outdoor climb/mountain shot
Best Overall Entry

Get your entries in now and you could see your photo blown up and mounted on the wall within Transition….permanently.

We’ll be displaying all entries throughout the centre during December until we announce the winners in the New Year.

Please provide us with your image in a digital format, saved in the highest possible resolution.

The outdoor shots should be taken at local spots and be recognisable to other users.

Good luck.

'Brighton Ain't Ready' Video Premiere

BAR premiere from alex donnachie on Vimeo.

20Twenty put on the 'Brighton Ain't Ready' and Kink's 'Safety First' video premieres the other night. Both videos were super good and the riding beforehand was amazing. Here is a wee clip of the action that went down in the park:

Thrasher's Skater of the Year 2008

Congratulations to Silas Baxter-Neal, Thrasher's Skater of the Year 2008.

Sponsors: Elwood Clothing, Habitat Skateboards, Spitfire Wheels, Krux Trucks and Adidas Shoes

Dull times

The weather is pretty trout right now, make the most of what sun shines and get filming for 'Queen Of The Deen', good luck folks!

20Twenty Video Premiere

20Twenty will be hosting the Scottish premiere of the new Brighton Ain't Ready video on Friday the 21st of November. They will also be showing the new Kink video on the same night. Get on it YO!!!!!

Whitelines Article

Local photographer Sam Longmire recently got some photos on the 'Whitelines' website, go have a gander for some super dope snowboard pics.

www.whitelines.com/features/category/debris/first_scottish_session

Barca tease

Scottish Vacation from Sean Nguyen on Vimeo.

Filmed by our new buddy Sean Nguyen 'Rabs idea of fun is a ginger princess with no legs giving him a skateboard.'

The boys would like to thank Keith Allan for letting us crash at his pad and to all the other fantastic folks that showed us around. Cheers!

More antics to come...

The Wednesday Comp son!!

The first Wednesday night comp started with a bang! Well a lot of bangs actually – it happened yards from Aberdeen’s biggest fireworks display in years. Some of us even got to see them going snap, crackle and pop. As for the comp we had some true bangers, some crazy pop and some screaming Scotsmen (if that isn’t a name for a firework - it should be). It took most of the night but we got there in the end. Tea mugs were tagged up in the traditional Wednesday cup livery by our very own president elect Barrack O’bam’r. And they looked the dogs’.
One went to Flying Ryan Gibson (AKA Sheckler) for winning the under sixteens. The other went to Dan G for winning a very hard fought battle with transition staff tech dog Pete C and all round ruler Callum ‘the first black president’ Barrack.
Notable moments came from both groups. Wee Lee Ross and Neil 2.0 comping each other on every trick and ending up with the same score, best of all was Mark his last name is Paterson, laying down the hardest trick of the day: a switch mayday. Then to his horror four people got it! Some of whom have never even tried it before. See you here next week for more cups, prizes and banter.

Mike H

Horror Business Pics part 2

Gnarly as Raberdeen
Are you ready for death?
Joe, lock up your daughters!!!
Campbell getting hesh sporting the creature mask
Death Death Death
Patty Jones rocking some very smart attire
Scared Princess Tom, what would Childress think?

As promised, here are the rest of the Halloween Horror Business photos courtesy of Sam Longmire. Cheers braaa!

WCC results

Under 16 comp results:

1st - Ryan Gibson
Joint 2nd - Neil 2.0 and Lee Ross

16 and over comp results:

1st - Dan G
2nd - Pete Copeland
3rd - Callum Barrack

Remember remember the 5th of November

Aberdeen City Council are holding a fireworks display at the beach tonight and they are claiming it will be the best in town. Live music and street entertainment will kick off the night at 7pm followed by the main event which will start at 7:30pm with a spectacular 20 minute aerial fireworks display. Just in time for the 8 - 10 session at the park.

This Wednesday there is a comp

And this comp is going to be the first of many.

O and it starts at 7pm...

SNOW YO!!!

The Lechts snow
The Gorms snow

Photos courtesy of http://www.winterhighland.info/ (Now added to the 'Click It!' section)

Two Scottish Ski+Snowboard resorts managed to open their doors this weekend: The Lecht and Cairngorm. Get up, get yer jib on and get cold!!!

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Old and New

More Skateboarding Videos >>
A banging wee edit from Paul VX, full length video out December, I think.

Horror Business pics

Doubles yall, Photo: Gareth Morgan
Princess Tom hitting up a feeble in the deep end, Photo: Gareth Morgan
Rory the dirty Mexican getting inverted, Photo: Gareth Morgan

Thanks to all that came and made the effort to dress up, more photos to Come...

Staff Battles + G

October edit, featuring Hayden Morgan, Callum Barrack, Pete Copeland, Gareth Morgan and Lee Ross.

Music: Belle and Sebastian - Sukie In The Graveyard

Wednesday Comp

The History of the Wednesday Cup goes way back to the Stoneywood skate park days. It was a competition born out of boredom and purely done for fun, kudos and the worst looking ‘trophy’ on earth. It cost twenty pence to enter, and if you won you got to take home the prize fund, a mars bar or Snicker’s and of course, the coveted Wednesday Cup. Four or five people usually entered, so about one whole pound was up for grabs. But you could say with pride, you’d won the Wednesday Cup. And you had it there in your hand as poof - a dirty plastic pint glass covered in duct tape and stickers with the words Wednesday Cup Winner scribed into it with biro. The Wednesday Cup!

Transition skate parks version of The Wednesday Cup is five separate games of SKATE held on five different obstacles in the skate park, the five obstacles will be chosen at random from the fallowing options, so it will never be the same five two weeks in a row.

- Flat ground
- Micro ramp
- Grind box
- Small hip
- Small driveway
- Whippy quarter
- Flat bank
- Wild cards (6ft mini, round rail and big hip)

Rules

- Everyone must pay one pound into the prize fund for their age group
- The youngest person in each group always sets the first trick
- Only one trick per turn.
- Only one try per letter
- No two try’s on last trick.
- No heckling, no gloating, no casper’s and strictly no pressure flips!

Every Wednesday at 7o’clock any skateboarder who wants to compete in the Wednesday Cup can do so by paying one pound into the prize fund (but must of course have paid to enter for that session). The competitors can be any age, and they’ll compete in two different age groups; under 16’s and over 16’s. All riders must compete on every obstacle and each game will fallow the same standard game of SKATE rules

The scoring of each competition is the key to the Wednesday Cup, without it the over-all positions would become impossible to tell. Only first and second places will get points! One point for first place and half a point for second (so even if two or more people go out on the last trick, they’ll all get the same – a half point). Then after all events have run there course. The person who wins the most points over all five sections will obviously win their age groups Wednesday Cup and all the money in the prize fund. But all points will be added up, to work out who comes in 2nd and 3rd place in both age groups and there will be some prizes for them too, given to us by our sponsors. Thanks to Power Dist, Revival, Carhartt, Relentless and Boarderline.