Comments on: NEW CONTEST AND JUDGING FORMAT

By: admin

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:06:09 +0000

Hi Joe, this is Thumper! Good to see you back in blading!
anyway yeah there needs to be a change of some kind in vert skating. Just to get more interest in it. We want to eventually throw in a best trick and height award too at contests. It’s all in the works. Nothing is set in stone and suggestions are appreciated!

By: joeackler

joeackler — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:50:47 +0000

also, i like the incorporation of Best Trick into the mix. Some people like myself are stronger with Best Trick instead of a full minute to throw everything you’ve got, so this will include a few different types of skaters in the mix, kudos. My only concern (small one) is with the jam session, if it will be tough for the judges to be accurate in their judging with a bunch of people constantly going back to back and the judges have to take into account style, amplitude, line, technicality, creativity or whatever for each person.

I would love to see vert somehow be incorporated into WRS. It is a part of rolling that really never got that much respect, even from it’s own skaters sometimes.

Maybe for shits and giggles throw in a height contest?

By: joeackler

joeackler — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:47:03 +0000

I like the ideas so far, but i’m wondering why you choose to steer away from the 60 second runs old-format into this new one. I was never a fan of the 60 second runs i felt like i had to be a robot for a minute.. is that where youre coming from, or something else?

By: Matt Lindy

Matt Lindy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:44:30 +0000

I like those ideas. One of the reasons we want to have the head judge for Vert Competitions be an ex-vert skater is so that judge can oversee the integrity and value of Vert skating as a whole. That includes all aspects, amplitude, difficulty, line, and the combination of those elements.

We wish to keep the jam session open, and in a true “jam” format. If 20 minutes proves to be too short of time frame for the jam finals we can do 2 things. We can either extend the final in the rules so that it is a longer time. Or, we can have a 20 minute jam session and at the Head Judges discretion the jam session can be extended another 10 minutes. Why that is good is because if all the riders have landed their runs or are getting tired, the session can end as scheduled in 20 minutes. If the energy is high, the fans are into the show, and the skaters are going off, then we can extend and blow up up the event for another 10 minutes.

Great ideas keep them coming everyone

By: Sk8r808

Sk8r808 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:10:14 +0000

You guys have put a lot of work into this! Great job, well thought out and the consistency it will bring should really help the sport. Only thing it seems like 20 minutes is an awfully short time for the jam session. You want people to have fun and show their stuff without it becoming a snake session or unsafe with so many people trying to go. With 50% score riding on that round, maybe do 5 at a time in 2 heats? Or one at a time, max 3 tricks in a run & go through the whole line up a set number of times?

And make sure the judges know one trick from another and their level of difficulty– what’s harder, a 9 foot 540 or a 5 foot flat 900? If the judges aren’t very skaters, they need to be taught the differences and drilled on it and to really know what they are looking at.

And the announcer needs to focus, too. Sometimes it seems like the announcer is awol and all the skaters deserve the announcer to be talking up the skater’s tricks for the judges and for the crowd so they can get excited and feed the skaters.