World Cup Skateboarding (WCS) and Frontside Events are very proud to announce a new 5-year relationship starting in 2012 for the expansion of the BOWL-A-RAMA™ series.

This comes after an already successful 7-year term between skateboarding’s official global body and Australasia’s premiere skateboarding competition in both Bondi and Wellington. “We are very excited with BOWL-A-RAMA’s™ growth and development. It is now considered one of skateboardings’ greatest events. Signing this deal ensures that BOWL-A-RAMA™ will remain one of our priorities and the premiere event for the region and Bowl riding” Don Bostick – Director WCS.

“We are stoked to have signed this agreement with WCS and look forward to exciting developments over the coming years for skaters, spectators and the industry alike.” – Chad Ford, Director Frontside Events (Producer of BOWL-ARAMA™)

BOWL-A-RAMA™ is all about showcasing the best elements of Bowl skating – a hybrid of vert and street skating. It gives professional riders a unique platform to express their passion and skills as they fight it out for WCS points and ultimately, a WCS title.

This new partnership ensures that BOWL-A-RAMA™ continues to be the official Australasian leg in the World Cup Skateboarding tour. It also provides the opportunity of continued growth and development of both BOWL-ARAMA™ Bondi and BOWL-A-RAMA™ Wellington.

WCS has granted Frontside Events an extension of the BOWL-A-RAMA™ series to other cities. Both WCS and Frontside Events are committed to building the only truly international “bowl” skate comp tour. Frontside Events are currently vetting proposals from many territories throughout the southern hemisphere and Asian region to roll out other BOWLA- RAMA™ stops, as part of its proprietary tour. The fans not only get to see the best pro riders fight it out for WCS points but also enjoy a weeklong festival of cultural events.

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For media enquiries please contact:

Valentina Zarew

N E W R O M A N T I C

valentina@newromantic.com.au

+61400 277 117

For WCS enquiries please contact:

Don Bostick

World Cup of Skate

don@wcsk8.com

For Frontside Events enquiries please contact:

Georgie Versi

Frontside Events

georgie@frontsideevents.com
+61417416481

ABOUT WORLD CUP OF SKATE
World Cup Skateboarding is a result of the once thriving National Skateboard Association in the United States.
Focusing on the professional skateboarder, WCS has grown the pro tour since 1994 from 3 events to over 20 events
a year which have included such countries as the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Czech Republic,
France, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Malaysia, China, Korea, Dubai, Mexico and Brazil.

In 2000, WCS started maintaining a World Ranking System for Street and Vert. That same year with the advent of
many concrete skateparks being built around the country, the Concrete Challenge series kicked off in Colorado. The
2 event series paved the way for an International Bowl Series and World Ranking a few years later in 2004 with
competitions in France, Austria and several states in America. In 2006, the Bondi Bowl a Rama in Australia was
added as well as the New Zealand Bowl a Rama 2 years later.

For 2010 Bowl Skating is live and growing at an amazing rate as skateparks are being built on a daily basis around
the world.

WCS International Bowl Series 2011- Featuring Pro and Masters
February 12 Wellington Bowl a Rama – New Zealand – NZ $30,000
February 19 Vans Bondi Bowl a Rama Bondi– Australia – AUS $60,000
May 20 & 21 Pro Tec Pool Party – Orange, CA- USA - $102,250
June 23 – 26 Orange Freestyle Cup (Bowl) – Marseille, France - 10,000 Euros
July 2 & 3 Rome World Cup (Bowl event) - Rome, Italy
July 8 – 10 Mystic Sk8 Cup, (Bowl event) – Praque, Czech Republic
July 28 – 31 X Games – (Super Park event) - Los Angeles, CA - USA - $94,000
Dec. TBA Hawaii
WCS National Bowl Series 2011 – Featuring Pro, Masters, Amateur and Girls
January TBA Amateur Combi Pool Classic, Orange, CA
March 19 Florida Bowl Riders #1 – New Smyrna Beach Skatepark, FL
March 20 Florida Bowl Riders #2– Kona Skatepark, Jacksonville, FL
August 26 – 28 Sector Nine Oregon Trifecta – Bowl Series
August TBA Chili Bowl, SF, CA
September TBA Tim Brauch Memorial Bowl, San Jose, CA
October TBA Rock the Cradle, Houston, TX
November TBA Girls Combi Pool Classic, Orange, CA

About BOWL-A-RAMA™
BOWL-A-RAMA™ is the biggest concrete event in the Southern Hemisphere. Based on Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach
and Wellington’s Waitangi Park, the event brings the biggest riders in the history of skate to Australasia as well as
introduces a week of unbeatable festivities celebrating the culture of skateboarding.

About “Bowl Skating”
The sport of skateboarding has seen many changes over the years. Starting out as a way for surfers to keep in
shape when there were no waves, it wasn’t long before skateboarding developed its own identity. From steel wheels
to urethane wheels, loose ball bearings to modern sealed bearings, flat pieces of oak to laminated concaved kicked
tail and kicked noses, wheelies to heel flips, from the streets to skateparks, local contest to World Cup events,
Skateboarding has stood the test of 50 years of change and is here to stay.
Bowl skating was the first real “modern” skateboard professional competition and it is what elevated skating from its
1960’s gymnastics routines to what we all know and love today; the most dynamic and core of all action sports. There
is good reason why bowl skating became so popular; it’s got freeform elements of surfing, the raw energy of pogo’ing
at a punk gig and most of all it’s about one of the most enjoyable things to do on the planet