'Bish Bash' Outlaw Slalom

Yesterday saw an 'Outlaw' slalom race being held at our secret spot. About 20 Skaters turned up some coming from London, Hove and even Gosport. We were given a precise weather update which was accurate to about 3 minutes by our SkateNewZealand Weather Support UKMet. It rained for 20 minutes just before 11 but dried up quickly - as expected.

Martin went about setting a testing course and we started to skate. It was excellent to see the likes of Paul Price, Mike Stride, Marting Drayton and Sam G really pushing themselves through the course.

After a little while Munch went and had a big old slam and after a bit of magic by Curt it was decided a trip to the local hospital was in order. An X-ray later and it turns out Steve had broken his pinky! Sufice to say he was a bit gutted not to keep skating but took on the time keeping duties with grit and determination!!The racing was pretty fast an furious. All the usual suspects getting remarkably quick times. After about 6 runs each we totted up the times and the results were as follows.

1st: Paul Price 11.91

2nd: Michael Stride 11.98

3rd: Sam Gordon 12.25

4th: Martin Drayton 12.42

5th: Nat Halliday 13.05

6th: Pat 13.57

So I got 5th! And thanks to the kind generosity of the 4 'Pros' I walked away with a bottle of Leffe beer and a new set of 70mm Zig-zags! A very happy nat!

As well as the competition, the day had another purpose. To raise some money for SkateNewZealand's Charities Lowe Syndrome and CanTeenNZ. Over £50 was raised on the day and more is to come. Thank you to everyone who donated, it was an excellent way to celebrate Bish's 40th.

Photos from the day are HERE

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