“Transmitting to all cosmonauts out there… Resistance is futile… Grind Challenge 8”. You can check all the entries for the 2022 edition of the Syeahskate Challenge here on this Youtube Playlist.

Rules

• Make a blading edit in 35 days
• 3-6 crew members
• Complete Challenges for points.
• No skateparks.

Gc8 CHALLENGES (The Elders will judge your work in the following order): Skating, Video Aesthetics / Creativity, Humour, Challenge points.

The Top 3 teams will be selected and history shall be written. All the rest shall perish and vanish into obscurity.

Gc8 CHALLENGES

THEMATICS (400💎)

• Make a “Sci-Fi” themed video. (Just adding random shots from StarWars is not a “theme”)
• Make a “Comedic Documentary” about your local scene.

AERIALS (50💎)

• “180 Liu Kang” a bank (transition) // 540 it for (100💎)
• “Grab” to “late 360”.
• Sickest “Rocket grab” wins 🚀
• Try make a “Little Buddha” grab look cool! Tough luck!
• “Wallride” a tall street sign. Use any way to get up there! (100💎)
• Longest “Gap” wins (100💎) (film with a long lens so we can tell the distance)
• Do a “Medspin to Fakie 360” on stairs/drop
• Coolest “Launch/Drop” into water wins (100💎)
• Drop-in on a wall

ON FLAT (50💎)

• Long “Ufo cessslide” 🛸
• Do a “540 grabbed Medspin aka Mono”
• “Royale Cess” “540” out
• “Full torque Cess” “540” out
• Do something we’ve never seen before (150💎)

GRINDS (50💎)

• “Rocket makio” on an up-rail / up-ledge. If you gap or drop out (100💎)
• “Ufo” a handrail
• “True rocket makio”! Aaahh shiit
• 3 Switch Ups, starting with an “AO Topside”
• Longest “Back Sav” wins! So edgy!
• “Fastslide” a handrail (100💎)
• Longest “Front Torque” wins (grabbed)
• Coolest “True Top Porn” wins
• “Fish” to “AO fish” // “AO Fish to Fish”-. for (100💎)
• “True soul” 540 out the hard way😉
• “Powerslide” to Grind
• Grind a supermarket cart 🛒
• Roll on a square handrail

LOCATIONS (150💎)

• Skate a planetarium / telescope or use it as background
• Skate a science fiction themed statue/monument/anything or use it as background 🛸
• Skate a scientology church.
• Skate a ditch
• Skate a roof
• Do something cool on the shittiest skatepark you can find, shittiest one wins extra (50💎) (You are allowed this once to visit a park!) 💩

WHAT?? (150💎)

• Skate the weirdest obstacle/thing/location you can find. Weirdest one wins.
• Get out of the train/metro/bus on a stop, do a trick and get back in before it departs.
• If you bail close to random people, act dead. If they come close to check you get the points.
• Get sparks coming out of your skates. ⚡️(Don’t use wheels that spark)
• “Fakie Stairbash” on one leg. (Most stairs) 🦵🏼
• Find a mom who can “Royale”!

BEST OF’ (300💎)

• Longest rail
• Most kinks in any street spot
• Most transfers in any street spot
• Best DIY launch for a street spot
• Funniest “Meme” on Facebook event
• Best line wins (3+ obstacles, easy enders dont count)
• Best Bail

RESPECT ✊ (200💎)

• If you announced your team on time🕰
• if you used a science fiction themed team name
• Any injury requiring a visit to the hospital🏥 (Must provide evidence in the video)

The Agrarians, leftovers (Varna, Bulgaria, 2021). A video featuring Ivo Zahariev, Evgeniy Penkov & Aleksandar Kostadinov. Filmed & edited by Milen Vichev, second camera: Siyana Sazdova. Check the full Agrarians 7 entry here.

Syeahskate GcVII (GRIND CHALLENGE VII) - 17 teams battle for survival. Proudly organised by Syeahskate (Rules). Calling out to all survivors around the world. This is THE AFTERMATH. Make a blading edit in 33 days. 3-8 crew members. No skateparks. Check all the entries in this Youtube playlist + Results.

GcVIII (GRIND CHALLENGE VII) - 17 teams battle for survival. Proudly organised by Syeahskate (Rules). Calling out to all survivors around the world. This is THE AFTERMATH. Make a blading edit in 33 days. 3-8 crew members. No skateparks. Check all the entries in this playlist.

The Agrarians (Varna, Bulgaria, 2021). A video featuring Ivo Zahariev, Evgeniy Penkov & Aleksandar Kostadinov. Filmed & edited by Milen Vichev, second camera: Siyana Sazdova.

Grind Challenge VII by Syeahskate - This is THE AFTERMATH.

Featuring: Alexander Pehlev, Evgeni Gerov, Ivaylo Kunev, Pavel Kristov, Rusen Minchev, Stefan Nikolov & Ventsislav Angelov.

GcVIII (GRIND CHALLENGE VII) - 17 teams battle for survival. Proudly organised by Syeahskate (Rules). Calling out to all survivors around the world. This is THE AFTERMATH. Make a blading edit in 33 days. 3-8 crew members. No skateparks. Check all the entries in this playlist.

GcVIII (GRIND CHALLENGE VII) - 17 teams battle for survival. Proudly organised by Syeahskate (Rules). Calling out to all survivors around the world. This is THE AFTERMATH. Make a blading edit in 33 days. 3-8 crew members. No skateparks. Check all the entries in this playlist.

1st place: THE HIGHLANDERS (Scotland: Aberdeen / Edinburgh / Glasgow)

Featuring Jamie Rankin, Dan Koss, Graeme Forbes, Neil Forbes, Lewis Bowden, James Keyte, Elliot Provan & Craig Anderson.

2nd place: TEAM NØRMAL (Belgium)

Featuring Jan Delbaere (Bruges), Mathijs Delbaere (Bruges), Dennis Van Stappen (Gent), Remy Meister (Bruxelles), Gilles Buelens (Leuven) & Yuri Debouvry (Bruges).

3rd place: ANGRY SOIR (Berlin, Germany)

Featuring Gideon Dopslaf, Jung JJurek, Marcus, Nils Loster, Alfons, Sebo, Miro, Gregory & Jonas Rogge.

GRIND CHALLENGE VII (2021) - 17 teams battle for survival. Proudly organised by Syeahskate.

Check all the entries in this playlist.

Grind Challenge VII - Calling out to all survivors around the world. This is THE AFTERMATH. Make a blading edit in 33 days. 3-8 crew members. No skateparks.

Rules

Your edits will be awarded points on:

• BEST SKATING (3500 points)
• BEST VIDEO (3000 points)
• MOST CREATIVE VIDEO (2000 points)
• MAKE US LAUGH HARD (1500 points)

CHALLENGE LIST (Feel free to do any or none of them)

// THEMATICS (1000 points)

• Make a specific movie –themed edit. Go wild.
• Make a short doc that involves your friends/scene.

// BEST ONE WINS (200 points)

• Longest Rail wins.
• Best Bail - If you break no points
• Skitch the weirdest vehicle you can find.
• Coolest “Launch” into water! Get creative
• Do a cool Matthew Ledoux parkour move
• Steeziest “Rocket Fish”
• Craziest “Downhill” wins. Don’t Die.
• Longest cess slide wins!
• Grind a kids park slide.
• Send a “Rail Transfer” Sickest one wins
• Land a “540” on a stair-set
• Do a “same trick” line, normal & switch.
• “Fakie Stair-Bash” (most stairs win)
• Grind the highest spot you can skate.
• Post a funny “Meme” on the event page

// AERIALS (50 points)

• “180 Wallride to 180 out” on a stairset
• Jump over a tall trashcan
• Get speed for jump from a bicycle or electric scooter
• Do a steezy “That Grab” Don’t ask me, research!
• Do a 3-step “wall-walk” on a fence.
• “Zero spin” over a bench.
• Do the lowest legit “Wallride” you can. Get super low.
• Do something cool on any non-skatepark Fullpipe
• Do a legit Collin Martin “Compression”

// GRINDS (50 points)

• Do a “Fish” - Parallel Grabbed. ooohh shiiit
• Do a Dan Collins underhook Royale
• Do a “270 Unity” - GC6 best Meme
• “360 Inspin Mizou”
• Any legit “Hurricane” grind
• Do a legit “AO Hotdog”
• Land a “Fakie 3 True Soul”
• Do one full circle on a round rail
• Grind to Cess to Grind
• Do a long “270 Back Backslide”
• Do a 3 grind line. End the line with the hardest trick. If that is lame, no points.

// LETS GET R-TARDED IN HERE (100 points).

• Do a Kink dressed up like Farmer.
• Land something cool inside a supermarket.
• Find a spot with a waterfall in the background. Skate under it and get + 100 points.
• Skitch in a go-kart, fast!
• Get respect from the police, like a high 5!
• Prank a teammate & get a good reaction.
• Skate naked!
• Tell us a quick joke! If it sucks you lose 50 points.

// RESPECT

• If you announced your team on time you start with 500 points
• Any injury requiring a visit to the hospital earns you 300 points

// PENALTIES

• Any tricks or spots posted online will cost you 1000 points
• Deviations from the rules might cost you 500 points

// RIP

• In dear memory of our friend and fellow blader Bogos Kapamatzian, whoever sends his signature “Fakie Backflip” on a stair set will be awarded 1500 points

This is THE AFTERMATH