NZ top skaters ready for Christchurch rooftop skating event!

October 29th, 2012

NZ’s top skaters ready for Christchurch rooftop skating event!

Zon of the Lines Skateboard Invitational Series, proudly supported by Amazon, Mountain Dew, Vans and Plan B

Zon of the Lines is coming to a city near you.

Amazon, with the support of Mountain Dew, Vans and Plan B is proud to bring the Zon of the Lines Skateboard Invitational Series to Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland.

A custom made course has been crafted especially for the series featuring street-inspired obstacles such as a picnic table, flat bar and a wheel chair ramp. The set-up will be dropped at iconic locations in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland where heavyweight line-ups will battle for their slice of a massive $10,000 prize pool.

20 of each region’s finest skateboarders will be handpicked to skate the course in Christchurch and Wellington, with two places in each event being held for wildcard entries.

The Auckland event will see 20 of Auckland’s best shredders, the winners of the Christchurch and Wellington events, along with two more wildcard entrants go head to head for cash and prizes in grand final.

Watch the teaser clip shot with Zon team riders Deen Rakich and Nick Lister, Christian Low and Mountain Dew team rider Brett Band. It shows the custom built set-up complete with a flat bar, manual/grind box, wedge to picnic table and wheel chair ramp. https://vimeo.com/51182317

Stay tuned for more info on the course and rider line-up.

What: Zon of the Lines Skateboard Invitational Series, proudly supported by Amazon, Mountain Dew, Vans and Plan B

Featuring: New Zealand’s best skateboarders

When and when:
Christchurch – 1-5PM, 3 November, Rooftop, Northlands Mall, 55 Main North Road, Papanui
Wellington – 1-5PM, 17 November, Odlins Plaza, Jervois Road, Wellington Waterfront (‘Brewery’ spot)
Auckland – 1-5PM, 1 December, TBC

Zon of the Lines – Rider Bios

Hootie Andrewes
Sharing blood ties to one of our nation’s finest snowboarders, Jake Koia, Hootie has an unfair advantage. The genes are good here, and luckily he knows how to use them. Having honed his craft in the wintery climes of Arrowtown, he has now found ever so slightly sunnier pastures in Dunedin, which he now calls home. Hootman is a welcome inclusion in the Christchurch line-up, he exemplifies the new age of skateboarder: Well-rounded, perpetually stylish and ready to rip.

James Kingston
25-year-old Christchurch native James Kingston has been a mainstay on the competition scene in New Zealand for a number of years now, claiming title after title with his relentless approach. James had a blazing run through last year’s circuit winning not only the Cheapskates Nationals, but also Amazon’s The Biggest Game of Skate and Billabong’s City Squared event in Auckland’s Aotea Square earlier this year. He’s a force to be reckoned with and a favourite for the Zon of the Lines Skateboard Invitational series.

Cade Wilson-Russ
It’s true that Cade lives on a goldmine, not only in talent, but his West Coast home is deep in gold country. Match those skills with some coaster gnarl and you have a menacing combo. Cade is a boy (he’s fifteen) but he skates like a man. There’s power and precision in his skating, something that usually only comes with years of practice.

Deen Rakich
Deen epitomises everything about the progression of skateboarding – clean, innovative and without bounds. He is leading the new breed of street skateboarding in New Zealand, and his fast and technical style is perfectly suited to the Zon of the Lines format of ledges, flat bars and (sub)urban features like picnic table and wheelchair ramp.

Nick Lister
Nick can relish in the fact that he was once capped as New Zealand’s youngest professional skateboarder – at the impressionable age of 15, he was the one turning heads. He has since gone on to win numerous national titles and film a series of legendary video parts. Nick’s skateboarding can quite confidently be used as the yardstick to measure one’s onboard skills. He’s an all-terrain wizard too, whatever he sets his wheels to gets shredded to bits.

For rider registration and info please contact David Read at david@firstfloor.co.nz

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