Survival Of The Sickest Event

What is the Survival Of the Sickest?

It's a Junior event made by Skateboard GB. This is a fun event with a great opportunity for up and coming Skateboarders who want to compete in a friendly atmosphere. It is a one day event which runs at SBGB Hub Skateparks with two age categories, Under 16 and Under 12. 

On Saturday the 19th of November 2022, Survival of the Sickest was Hosted in Nottingham’s Flo Park, where a load of Skaters came down from all over the UK including Miriam Nelson, Kellen Turner, Nico Belloli, Corey Roper and many more. For some of the Skaters it was their first time they had entered an event like this or had been to a Skate comp, so to have this experience would have felt awesome, making new friends and having an amazing time shredding around all day. 

The Survival of the Sickest is being held over 6 months. The first one was at Baysixty6 Skatepark. This one was at Flo Skatepark and the next one is at Graystone Action Sports. 

This event the sponsors were Triple8, Fallen Europe, Stance Official, Enuff Skateboards, Grizzly Griptape, Rock Solid, Forty Two Shop and Dwindle Uk.

The survival of the sickest had 4 categories, U12 Street Boys, U12 Street Girls, U16 Park Boys and then U16 Park Girls. 

U12 street boys winners were Rory Buckly in First, Nile Emmanuel in Second and Corey Roper in Third.

U12 Street Girls winners were Ayva-mae Whittenbury in first, Dottie Kleinberg in Second and Amelie Thomas in Third.

U16 Park Boys Winners were Caitlin Cox in First, Olive Newman in Second and Miriam Nelson in Third.

U16 Park Boys winners were Tay Cunningham in First, Jack Wallbridge in second and Kelly Turner in Third.

Ayva-mae Whittenbury and Nile Emmanuel walked away with the U12 best trick and Miriam Nelson and Jack Wallbridge walked away with the U16 best trick. 

There were 4 coaches from the Skateboard GB Pipeline project there as well and each have a team of Skaters who they help coach and support at competitions. The coaches are Alec Fenton from Flo Skatepark, Hector Barnett from Baysixsty6 Skatepark, Danny Markham from Graystones and Frankie Lanni from Mount Hawke Skatepark. 

We’re already looking forward to the next Survival of the Sickest event on Saturday 24th February 2023, so watch this space!