Friday the 11th of August was the SRSC in Copenhagen, Denmark. The spots this year were all in one place, the concrete beach called Amager Strandpark. What could be better than to have a competition at the beach on a hot sunny summer day at probably the best spot in the country? I wouldn’t know, cause that’s not what happened…

Quite a lot of preparation went into the competition and some good foreign skaters showed up in Copenhagen from the Ignition tour and Grindhouse, so we were all less than happy when we woke up to see the city practically underwater with rain. Oh well, what are you gonna do? So we went on with everything in the hopes that it would stop raining by the time the comp was scheduled to start. We waited and hoped that if we ignored the rain then it might go away… And after what seemed like a very long morning of waiting and denial… THE RAIN FINALLY STOPPED!

The weather was grey, cold and windy, but at least it was dry so we all went out to Amager Strandpark to have a Real Street competition. After some stressing and a little late we got the competition started at the first spot, a long straight concrete curb with gaps that seemed to have been magically repaired for the competition, hhmmm. Anyway it was pretty windy and cold so the skaters weren’t really very juiced. I’ll skip ahead……At the second spot, a pretty clean handicap rail, the wind stopped blowing so much, or maybe we just stopped noticing it because of the skating. It was here that you could start to feel the excitement; Kåre Lindberg was showing everybody what stylish switch-ups look like at Mach One speed while Dominik Wagner and Michael Nielsen slammed so hard we had to give them a case of beer each! Daniel Prell, Gabriel Hyden, Martin Gade and Jacob Juul decided to show the rail who’s boss, they got so tech on it that the poor rail must have cried itself to sleep that night.

But after the first 2 spots playtime was over, the third spot was a fast drop curb with a strange angle to it that means you can only skate the outside edge. Not to mention that the curbs angle in compared to the run-up so there’s a tendency to lose your balance to the drop side…

Anybody who’d seen the spot had been looking forward to seeing the best skaters around battle it out since the spot was announced. As hoped, this day was their chance to see it. There were quite a few skaters who qualified for the third spot final that didn’t skate for some reason, we won’t mention any names… (loud coughing sound).

The people who were skating started by feeling the curb out slowly, doing a royale, a backside royale, trying to get a feeling for it. Suddenly Kåre Lindberg decided get his tricks done quickly; a topsoul (farside soul) and a fishbrain, just like that, and he took his skates off. Then Daniel Prell must have decided the curb wasn’t so tough after all cause he started bombing it with some topsides, then halfcab topsides and the competition was on!

Cristopher Herdman took 3rd place with a nice clean fullcab kindgrind, Daniel Prell took 2nd place with an amazing (semi darkside) soyale and Jacob Juul claimed the 1st place title (3rd year in a row!) with; fullcab alleyoop toppornstar, fullcab frontside savannah and a sweet hurricane (450) royale.

1st Jacob Juul 2nd Daniel Prell 3rd Cristopher Herdman 4th KÃ¥re Lindberg 5th Kenth Ulvedal

Gagi wasn’t in the 3rd round, but that didn’t stop him from tearing the spot up.

I would like to thank our sponsors for the great prizes and everything else; Toxboe.net, Grindhouse, Ignition, Izm Clothing, Budweiser, Conference (Powerslide), and Skatepro skateshop. Thanks to: Anders Toxboe, Michael Nissen, Christian Toxboe, Magnus Packness, Ronnie Skovmand, Sally Mortensen, Daniel Nestorowicz, Tom Ahlqvist, Henrik “Høne” Opsahl, Jakob Højmark and more for all their time and effort.

Prizes were given, we all met up at a club for an afterparty with even more drinking (and debauchery) and the day ended. Hope everybody enjoyed themselves!

PS: This street competition was unique in one simple of way; 1. It was legal!, we had a written permit from Amager Strandpark and the Police (woop, woop)

Would I recommend doing it again? I’ll let you know, we just received a bill from the city for about 600 Euro! We’ll see how that goes… (thank god for DSA)

The winner and other snapshots from the SRSC 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rainy, cold, late, but lots of free beer!

Martin Gade: Backside Royale budget Backside Savannah

Jacob Juul: Frontside Torque

Jacob Juul: Halfcab Backside Royale to Switch frontside royale (Photo: Jens Riis)

Chilling in very cold Denmark with Budweiser beer.

David Grant: Backside Fahvergnugen (Photo: Jens Riis)

Daniel Prell: Soyale at the final spot

Jacob Juul (1st place): 450 Royale – winning trick