BOWLZILLA: 16 & UNDER RECAP, RESULTS, PHOTOS

BOWLZILLA: Jake Thatcher is ASF Australian Park Skating Champion 2021 in the 16 & under division. He won BOWLZILLA 2021 in front of Freddie Arnold and Logan Graff. The entire 16 & under division was lit and the final was close as can be. The level of bowl skateboarding by these young rippers was definitely a national championship worthy. Find photos, recap and results below.

The 16 & Under podium

The 16 & Under podium


The young skaters gave it all they had in this year’s BOWLZILLA 16 & Unders contest. The 24 boys were the first to drop into the Elanora bowl on Saturday morning - and what a start to the day.

Huge airs and technical lip tricks were thrown all over the place. No-one played it safe and the crowd was in for a treat.

So many good young skaters are coming through. Yet, the judges could only send 8 of them on to the finals and amongst them was little Louie Daiguchi - he’s only 7 years old. Yeah, the future sure looks bright for Australian bowl skateboarding.

Zen Dickson did an on edge run and even if he didn’t make it into the finals he still made his way to the podium as his coach Trev Ward pulled him up and gave him the $100 he won himself - so deserved and what a coach.

The final was a true firework of energetic skateboarding at a level never seen before in the 16 & unders. Jake Thatcher, Freddie Arnold, Logan Graff, Nakula Boag, Lukas Byers, Harvey Campbell, Jack Lewis and Louie Daiguchi gave the crowd what they came for. Thanks boys!

All 23 competitors did amazing and they can all be so, so proud of their effort. We are definitely excited to follow their skateboarding journey in the future and hope to see many of them back at BOWLZILLA 2022.

SEE PHOTOS AND RESULTS FROM BOWLZILLA 2021 BELOW.


Gold Coast local, Jake Thatcher took home the win with stylish and technical runs.

His runs included: Backside air – stall – front salad – BS 360 – FS no comply tailslide

Jake Thatcher, no comply to tail slide

Jake Thatcher, no comply to tail slide

Jake Thatcher, no comply to tail slide

Jake Thatcher, no comply to tail slide

Jake Thatcher, caballerial (fakie ollie 360)

Jake Thatcher, caballerial (fakie ollie 360)

Jake Thatcher, backside air

Jake Thatcher, backside air


Freddie Arnold came in close with massive airs and a powerful run.

His runs included: Back 5-0 – MASSIVE BS air – fs tailslide – frontside invert -invert HP – nosegrab

Freddie Arnold, crail slide

Freddie Arnold, crail slide

Freddie Arnold, 540 McTwist

Freddie Arnold, 540 McTwist


Logan Graff has progressed heaps since 2020 and made it to the podium with a solid run.

His runs included: Massive BS air – FS tail grab – BS 50-50 – FS air – FS smith – tried 540 McTwist, didn’t land – FS tailfish

Logan Graff, frontside stand up grind

Logan Graff, frontside stand up grind

Logan Graff, backside air

Logan Graff, backside air

Logan Graff, backside 50 grind

Logan Graff, backside 50 grind


Everyone went all-in and was ripping the Elanora bowl on Saturday.

Nakula Boag, backside smith grind

Nakula Boag, backside smith grind

Louie Daiguchi, frontside air

Louie Daiguchi, frontside air

Lukas Byers, boardslide

Lukas Byers, boardslide

Lukas Byers, frontside smith grind

Lukas Byers, frontside smith grind

Lukas Byers, fakie ollie tuck knee grab

Lukas Byers, fakie ollie tuck knee grab

Lukas Byers, frontside lip slide

Lukas Byers, frontside lip slide

Jack Lewis, frontside smith grind

Jack Lewis, frontside smith grind

Harvey Campbell, frontside disaster

Harvey Campbell, frontside disaster

Harvey Campbell, frontside air

Harvey Campbell, frontside air

Harvey Campbell, backside 50-50 grind

Harvey Campbell, backside 50-50 grind

TJ Lewis, frontside slash grind

TJ Lewis, frontside slash grind

TJ Lewis, frontside slash grind

TJ Lewis, frontside slash grind

TJ Lewis, boardslide

TJ Lewis, boardslide

Jacob Hanson, backside air

Jacob Hanson, backside air

Backside 50-50 grind

Backside 50-50 grind

 

RESULTS BOWLZILLA 2021

16 & under

1.    Jake Thatcher – ASF Australian Park Skating Champion 2021

2.   Freddie Arnold     

3.    Logan Graff         

4.    Nakula Boag        

5.    Lukas Byers        

6.    Harvey Campbell 

7.    Jack Lewis          

8.    Louie Daiguchi    

9.    TJ Lewis 

10.  Jacob Hanson     

11.  Aston Lawrence   

12.  Kalani Salussolia 

13.  Kruz Lovett          

14.  Zen Dickson        

15.  Kai Gould

16.  Jesse Pratt          

17.  Oliver Macdonald

18.  Cayden Hawker   

19.  Henry Dunne       

20.  Alex Santos         

21.   Asher Watt          

22.  Max Hanson        

23. Elijah Jack Smith





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