This is the 2nd year we have made the trip up to Longmont to participate in the Rumble at the Ranch skateboard competition. The event started in the afternoon on of 6/21. It’s part of the 2008 Mountain Madness Series which is suppose to bring you the best in Colorado grassroots skateboard competitions. We always have fun meeting all our skateboard friends at these sort of things, but we should probably just do that once a year rather than meet for a “so-called” competition.

Here’s the problem, and it’s an issue with most of the mountain madness series competitions. Rarely, are the judges unbaised on their scoring. Most of the time, they are from the community where the competition is being held and are friends with the local skaters. You can see them high-fiving each other when the locals hit their sketchie tricks and ignoring the unknown kid’s skate routines.

I don’t want to come off as a “sore loser” because I actually won 3rd place in intermediate bowl. I just think this shows how far we need to go here in Colorado. It’s too bad there isn’t an organization that can qualify judges and make sure that they are being objective for all the participants. To me, it seems like this would be a good role for skatecolorado.org to take on since they appear to be sponsoring the competitions. Does anyone know of a national association that is talking about this topic? I’d enjoy hearing from you. Until next time: SK8NE1?

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