Newtons Playground 2009!

A long overdue post. Here's my write up on our trip to Bathurst:






December 27th - 29th, 2009, Team Melburn (minus Oscar who abandoned us for camels and shisha in Bahrain) headed to Bathurst, NSW Australia for our first ever race, 2009 IGSA World Championships Newton's Playground!

We hooked up with Abdil Madhzan, a street luger from Malaysia in Melbourne and flew into Sydney 3 days before the race. We rented a van for the drive to Bathurst and hooked up with another longboarder from the Philippines (Loren Guevera). But before we started our journey we were left stranded waiting in the Sydney airport for about 4 hours. Somehow JuanDiego managed to miss both his flights so we had no choice but to leave him behind and hope he manages to find his way there with Sean.




After about a 4 hour drive we finally made it to Bathurst!!






The course was pretty insane with loads of crashes to keep the track marshals busy.





Start


Fendy


G


Juan


Ching


Freeride!



Hanging out at the Rayne corner of pain!


Jeremy, Josh and Kurt


Yvon's crash


Winner's ride








Here's Boardshop.com.au's coverage of the race



After 3 days of racing I'm proud the report that most of us managed to qualify and had pretty decent results considering this was our very first race.

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Downhill Skateboard Open

45. Gilbert Wong

53. Fendy Gan

67. JuanDiego Millones

86. Ching Ho

87. Sean Meaney

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Women's Downhill

5. Ching Ho

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Congratulations to all the riders that made it down the mountain and thanks for all the support!

Stoked for 2010!
Ching

P.S. Big thanks to Loren for all the pictures as well.