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So this is Christmas and what have you done? 2011 where have you gone? Well it has been a stormer for female comps across the UK with this weekend seeing the year wrapped up with the Santa Cruz Christmas Pool Party – Hemel’s XC the chosen venue. Although the temperature was -1 degrees there was a surprising large turn out. The evening consisted of a mixture of events; Under 18’s, Old Man and the Girls mini ramp comp. Admittedly it was the Under 18’s who stole the show…anyone that small skating a pool that large airing the coping each time is always going to get the most attention!
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When they were done it was the turn of the ladies on the mini; prizes were given for tricks called out by the MC – Marc ‘Santa’ Churchill. Danielle Gallacher flowed as ever, with a front feeble, nosestall revert and a bs feeble frontside in, Harriet Shephard was slashing – as in grind, not the other! – all over the ramp, Ayumi Watanabe landed a solid feeble grind and some good 50.50s, Becky Jaques a blunt pull-in to fakie, feeble to fakie and a frontside 5.0 to revert. Little Tamsin Bunce an up and coming grom – who is not even as high as the XC’s mini yet – was pulling off some solid rock to fakies – showing just how much she’s learned since getting a mini in her back garden! Helena Long again on top notch form landed a front tailslide, early grab to rock fakie and a frontside disaster tansfer on the extension. Lucy Adams was as ever up and down the ramp in her usual laid back style; line upon line coming out of her ears! Tricks included a frontside disaster, fakie lipslide and a fakie nollie. At one point she had a few attempts at sal flip on the extension but with a photographers camera stuck in her face each time she decided to just enjoy the rest of the ramp instead.
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Churchill deemed the best overall female skater of the night to be Emma ‘Tinyhands’ Richardson and awarded her the Santa Cruz trophy. This year has been a good one for The Richardson, especially as it has now been rounded off with a flow deal agreed with Etnies UK – well done Emma! Her run was tech from the start; including a nosegrind, feeble grind, bs smith fakie revert, a ridiculous blunt to back smith and not one but three backside flips on the extension…just to prove she could land them!
Well done all and Happy Christmas!