The Ramp that Ruari Built...

I don't think he did it all by himself but Ruari 'Rawdog' here certainly was most complicit in building Scotland's only current vert ramp and tonight was a celebration of that ramp and skating in general. It seemed only fitting that he feature in the photo inspite of him throughly meriting the photo with this smooth frontside stalefish#.

Although it may not be so obvious, this ramp housed in the TheSpace skatepark in North Berwick, is about 12 feet high with about a foot of vert (the top section of the ramp that goes vertical).

Tonight was the SYB Vert Invitational where a everyone got together to just have a really great skate session and celebrate the return of vert skating to Scotland. There were prizes but no real competition. Basically, people were given out raffle tickets for tricks and then the prizes were given away in a raffle.

In the end there were a couple of highlight prizes that were given out and decided by the main organisers. Colin Taylor won some money for his highest air. The roof above the ramp is inclined a bit and he actually hit the roof with his board at one point in mid air. Didn't mean it but got away with, landed it and continued his run. Paul Sylvester won an Eric Dressen signed Santa Cruz glass plaque for bringing some street tech to the proceedings with the best trick in a shove-it nose slide (possible revert). Lastly Ruari won a brilliant concrete viking hat trophy for skater of the night.

Some brilliant skating and an brilliant night.



#Stalefish is a grab in skateboarding is where you trailing hand grabs the heelside of your board behind your trailing leg. Apparently invented and named by Tony Hawk in honour of the quality of food at the Swedish Skatecamp where it was invented but there is some dispute as some credit the invention to Mark Gonzales.