Holiday greetings to all!
I stuffed my face at Thanksgivings and I’m totally looking
forward to the rest to the season. Whatever you celebrate,
Ckannaka, X-mass or Kwanzaa, the food always rules! Right!
Well the ASA finals came and went. New faces and old places.
Levi’s provides the after party….but do we really care. My
concern is if a corporate non-skate company comes in to sponsor
us, are they willing to work with us at a grass roots level? Help
out the amateurs and most of all recognize women skaters is
what I say!
OK. Enough with all that complaining…
at the finals I meet some
pretty impressive new girls.
13 year old Fallen Heffernan won AM
vert and took second on AM Street but unfortunately she isn’t
able to turn Pro because she’s too young. She was busting 540 and
miller flips trixs I can’t do for sure.
Arlo Eisenburg Skate Park’s pride and joy, Stephanie Tolle, who’s
13, did however qualify pro when she won AM Street. She’s as
smooth as Fabiola…no joke.
Shasta Tumillo from California
For your interest on who placed - it goes like this:
- AM Street Finals:
- 1st Stephanie Tolle
- 2ND Fallen Heffernan
- 3RD Lissa Kinn
- 4TH Renee Ugis
- AM Vert Finals:
- 1ST Fallen Heffernan
- 2ND Amanda Pennacchini
- 3RD Stephanie Tolle
- 4TH Shasta Tummillo
- 5TH Lissa Kinn
The Pro women were out in style. Sometimes I can’t believe I’m
skating with that many kick ass women at once when I go to these
competitions. Girls from all over the world with the same
passion as me. I love it!
The biggest surprise of the comp was my
hometown girl (well close to my hometown, she’s from Hoboken,
NJ) Kelly Mathews taking first place.
Actually I knew she could
win because we skate together all the time, but this time she blew
it up! She pulled beautiful transfers to grinds, floating airs and
huge wall transfers. She landed everything. Congratulations
Kelly, you’re my hero!
The Pro Street results goes like this:
- 1st Kelly Mathews Hometown-Hoboken, NJ Age16
- 2nd Jenny Logue - England - 16
- 3rd Fabiola da Silva - Brazil - 19
- 4th Jenny Curry - California - 14
- 5th Katie Brown - Florida - 16
- 6th Ayumi Kawisaki - Japan - 14
- 7th Sayaka Yabe - Japan - 23
- 8th Salima Sanga - Switzerland - 23
- 9th Neda Gane - California - 23
- 10th Carrie Weldon - Texas - 17
- 11th Kate Gengo - NYC - 34
- 12th Michele Scott - Canada - 26
Pro Vert results goes like this:
- 1st Ayumi Kawasaki
- 2nd Fabiola da Silva
- 3rd Katie Brown
- 4th Judy Eilmes - California - 23
- 5th Michele Scott
- 6th Robin Miller - Ohio - 25
- 7th Jenny Cury
- 8th Donna Vano - California - 45
Competition isn’t for everyone, but I think we all know that. The
one thing I always get from these events is the opportunity to
skate with the best. It’s thrilling and challenging a rolled into
one.
Even if you think you can’t do well at a competition the
experience of it all is worth it.
So try it some day or come to my
event next summer for girls only. Come jam with girls from all
over the world. Check back for an update and check out the
interview with Pam Stevens, an amateur with the heat of a Pro.
E-mail
me and let me know about your skate adventures.
Kick ass and “party till it’s 1999!”
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