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Postcard from Tokyo: Taj Branch at the World Championships
The Street World Championships 2023 Tour is happening as we speak. It’s in Toyko, Japan 10-17 December! Among the 11 Australian competitors are Taj Branch, one of Australia’s up-and-coming skaters who secured his spot through one of Skate Australia’s Performance Pathways Initiatives. We hit up the Sunshine Coast skater to find out how it actually feels like to skate at an international comp for the very first time.
Road to Paris: 15 Australians competing in Olympic Qualifier in Argentina
Road to Paris ‘24: 15 Australian Park skaters have packed their bags and have headed to San Juan, Argentina for the next leg of the World Skate Tour, continuing their journey towards qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Slabzoo is here with info on who, how and where to watch when our Ausssie favorites rip it up overseas.
Postcard from Dubai: Dani Campbell
Dani Campbell had a sick trip to Dubai for the World Championships and Olympic Qualifiers. Dani is part of Songline Skateboarding, Australia’s first Indigenous skate team. They spread positivity and love through skateboarding to communities all over while keeping the culture strong. What a legend. While not hyping kids up to skate, or competing he is often out hitting street spots with his technical wizardry— also in Dubai!
Postcard from Dubai: Poppy Starr & Taniah Meyers
Poppy Starr & Taniah Meyers are in Dubai about to compete in the World Championships and Olympic qualifier in park skateboarding in Dubai. These women have been competing and travelling together to international competitions more than once throughout the years and we checked in with them to see what they’re up to in Dubai.
Several Aussies impressed in Rome
World Street Pro Tour Rome 2022: The First World Skate Olympic Qualification event towards selection for Paris 2024 went down on 26 June - 3 July when the World Street Pro Tour came to Rome. The field was packed with experienced competition skaters and young talent booming through. Australia was represented by Shane O’Neil, Tommy Fynn and Rome Collyer in the men’s division and Liv Lovelace, Chloe Covell and Hayley Powell in women’s.
PIZZEY PARK OPENING EVENT: FROM HUMBLE ORIGINS TO OLYMPIC SKATEPARK
On Saturday 30 April the new Olympic standard Street Skate Park on the Gold Coast is officially opening (see info below).
On that occasion Pizzey Local Dain Bosworth has documented some current locals and delved into the history books to give Slabzoo’s readeers some conversation starters for Saturday… “Did you know Tony Hawk skated here in 1989?”…
BRISBANE 2032: Where will the OLYMPIC skatepark go?
It might have seemed surreal, but it did happen. You did just see skateboarding debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Millions of people worldwide watched on as skateboarders hit the Ariake Urban Sports Park to compete for medals in both street and park events.
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