Friday the 7th august the park life invitational was held in earnslaw park, queenstown as jibbers and enthusiasts alike gathered in the hundreds to watch or take part in the sickest rail jam of the season. With a super gnarly set up; a street down box, double shot gun down rail and a down ‘flat’ bar all amongst stairs the competition got underway with hammers getting thrown instantly!!!!
After impressive riding done by all the winers on the night were adam shaw collecting a massive “2 GRAND” and yours truly going home happy with a lazy $500

A massive night celebrating and my fellow comp jock’n companions and I hit the road the next morning with a 6hour drive ahead of us to Christchurch for the skull candy rail jam in SOL square!!! Although this was no park life invitational it was certainly a step up from last year and fun was had by all-not to mention men’s first place was a brand new 96 Subaru Legacy with 148,000kms on the clock filled with amongst other things a few boxes of beer!!! now if that’s not enough to get you motivated i don’t know what is!!! with the set up as a street style down bar this gave the competitors plenty of excuse to tear the S*#t out of that bag of tricks!!

crew at the park life….

skull candy rail jam… christy.

Frenchy with a front blunt switch up….

competitors….

A few trick that blew everyone apart as told by Riley Bathurst (-as tricks getting to technical for me to keep up with these days) included:

- Liam winning in the finals, bs 270 in 270 out and inside half
cab back 1 out
- Christy’s 5050 pivot back one and front boards, 1st place.
- Cline Ingle trick of the night bs 270 nose slide 270 out
- Andy C getting second with a fs 270 nose slide
- Jai Kearny 3rd for a casanova front board 270 change up
- Georgie Allen 2nd women’s front board fakie
- Ash Guthrie fs 270 in 270 out

Then after a super fun day shredding Mt Hutt it was back to Queenstown..-Not a bad weekends work if you ask me!!!