Battle Of The Shops!

Posted 04.12.2009 by Vans Benelux

The Battle of The Shops is an invitational shop team contest. The first edition of this skateboard comp was organised in 2005. The purpose of the contest is to compete in a ‘team’ battle. Each team has 3 riders who try to skate their best run. Almost 100 skateboarders represent skate shops from Benelux & France. The VANS BASH has become an important event on the Belgian skateboard calendar and has been much appreciated all over Europe.

     

 

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This year, the VANS BASH will be a real battle at sea. We are not only expecting pirates from BENELUX, France or Slovakia just like last year. But also riders from U.K., Switzerland, Italy and Estonia who will battle for a 4000 dollars’ worth of treasure. We also take the opportunity to celebrate Zumiez’ 12th birthday. In other words, you will attend one of the sickest contests of the year followed by one of the most legendary parties of the year. Live music, free beers, DJ’s & all-night-long skating is the best way to describe this notorious party. Just like last year, we are hosting the Red bull Best Trick Contest. This is an individual contest on an obstacle built especially for this occasion. Any one who pulls the best trick in half an hour will take home a $ 1000 ( € 675) reward.

 

Format

° Every team consists of 3 skaters who will skate for 2 minutes

° Only 20 teams of Benelux & France will be invited.

° Four international teams will directly be qualified for the semi finals. The following teams won the vans

shop riot in their country:

- Beach Mountain, Bern (Switzerland)

- Bastard Store, Milano (Italy)

- The Black Sheep, Manchester (United Kingdom)

- TBA (Estonia)

° Last year’s top 4 will also directly be qualified for the semi finals:

- Zumiez, Wevelgem (Belgium)

- Twits, Leuven (Belgium)

- Burnside, Deventer (Holland)

- Rock’n’Roll, (Slovakia)

 

Shoplist

Below you will find a list of last year’s participants:

1. Zumiez

2. Twits

3. Burnside

4. Five-O

5. Rosh

6. Supervet

7. Steve's Sk8shop

8. Left

9. Lockwood

10. Bonk

11. 911

12. 1st8

13. Bamboo

14. Rollin

15. Switch

16. Edge

17. ODK

18. Lowdown

19. Streetmachine

20. Toms

21. Alfonce

22. Real Deal

23. Sevenply

24. Reality

25. Revert

26. Fleshwound

27. Lowdown

28. Slide

29. Poopoostyle

 

This may seem like a list of shops that are located in the ‘Low Lands’ only but last summers’ European contests have shown that there are a lot of good skaters in Benelux. Below you will find some examples:

 

Phil Zwijsen; 2nd place European Championships Basel 2009,

Ricardo Paterno; 1st place Volcom Amsterdamnam 2009

Rob Maatman; 1st place Volcom Amsterdamnam 2008

Axel Cruysberghs; 1st place European Championships Basel 2009,

Tim Zom; 1st place Grand Prix Rotterdam 2009

Youness Amrani; 3rd place Volcom Amsterdamnam 2009

Fabian Verhaeghe; 4th place Simpel Session Tallin 2009

It goes without saying that there are a whole lot of more good skaters to add:

Jonathan Thijs, Douwe Macare, Niek Zandstra, Manual “Slick “ Thierry, Steve Achten, Yanto

Drèze, Kevin Tshala, Gregory Lagast, Timothy Deconinck, Christian Plettner, Nassim Guammaz,

Onrej Leskoviansky, Peter Molec, Nelson Mosikili, Jelle Deschout...

 

12th B-Day Party

Traditionally we will celebrate Zumiez B-day party after the contest. The concept is simple and decent: live music, DJ’s, free beers & skateboarding. This year we are glad to welcome THE GO HARDS, GREASEMONKEY & DJ LOTTO. You might remember THE GO HARDS, they did the opening act of our 10th anniversary and they managed to entertain the crowd with their ‘70’s punkrock style. Greasemonkey is an Antwerp stoner band. DJ Lotto, K-town’s finest, will

play a style that has to be everyone’s cup of tea. Of course you will be able to skate all night long while enjoying the music and booze.

 

Program

10:00: Park opens

13:00: Start Qualifications

15:00: Start Semi Finals

17:00: Start Finals

18:30: Start RedBull BestTrick Contest

19:30: Prize Ceremony

20:00: Live gig: The go hards

22:00: Live gig: Grease Monkey

23:30: DJ Lotto

04:00: Closing Time

 

For your info

Spectators will not be allowed to skate before 20h. To avoid any problems, we expect you to hand over your board at the entrance, so you can save your energy to skate from 20h on until the early morning. Spectators will pay the silly amount of € 7, 5 and receive a free ticket for the party. At 20h we will swap the entrance. You can enter the party around the corner via the big gate in Kouterstraat. Price is € 7,5 and you will get a 5 euros worth of drinking ticket for free. Disguised pirates only pay € 5.

 

About Zumiez

Skatepark Zumiez was founded in Wevelgem in 1997. Continuous reconstructions of the park and the implicit

commitment of the Zumiez crew are 1 of the main reasons why Zumiez is by far the only valuable indoor skatepark in

Belgium. Yearly, Zumiez has over 15,000 national and international visitors. Various demos and international events

make Zumiez not just a ‘local’ skatepark. Local skaters like Axel Cruysberghs, Fabian Verhaeghe, Evelien Bouilliart, Fries Taillieu or Kevin Tshala are making the international character of the park. The park has especially been reconstructed for the Vans Bash and will certainly be the perfect battle ground for all these good skaters.

 

Contact Info

Adress:

Vlamingstraat 6

8560 Wevelgem

email: vansbash09@zumiez.be

tel: 03256326902

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