This year, the top 5 of each category at each WITP contest will qualify to the European WITP Championships.

The European WITP Championships will be held on the 12 of October 2013 at a location to be soon confirmed.

At the Champs there will be a 5000€ prize purse, two tickets to the USA WITP Championships in Costa Mesa, CA (19 October 2013) and million more prizes to win.

The European WITP Championships is an outstanding event that gathers skaters from so many different areas but also puts together some of the top European skaters with local heroes and up and coming talents who are entering their first “international competition”. This year this event will be broadcasted live on volcomeurope.com.

All travel information and contest information will be updated on this page.

Roberto Aleman, Mark Appleyard, Aaron Suski, Javier Sarmiento and Axel Cruysbergs were our special guests to judge all the tricks that went down on the 3 areas of the skatepark. They also were seen signing autographs and destroying the course in between heats to the delight of the audience.

The 15 and Over division final was a war with loads of tricks going down on the three areas. Bruno Senra (last year 14- winner) was a standout in the qualifications with such tricks as kickflip crooks down the hubba, but he didn’t end up making it to the podium, as well as other kids killing it such as George Poole. In the end, Matisse Blanc from France took second place, landing full speed treflips over the big gap. Belgium skaters were fully represented with Jonathan Vlerick taking the second place and Simon Duprez taking the win killing it all day. He is now 500€ richer and won so much Volcom gear that he had to ask for some help to carry it all away.

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It’s been the younger ones (14-) that started their own two qualifying heats. Great level, great tricks but after 5 minutes only they were stopped because of some rain coming down.
The rain kept falling for more or less an hour and half so all the monkeys decided to sit together under the trees at the fire of our bbq, ready for some good free sausages and drinks.
There will be time to skate during the day. And it was.

When the rain stopped to fall, in few minutes, just the time to dry part of the skatepark, the young monkeys started again their tricks making the three Judges (Jeb, Guli & Alessio) work hard to decide the finalists.
The same thing happened with the older ones, the 15 & over category. This was the most crowded division, there were three heats and the level was very high despite the cash price reserved for the Open division only. The judges worked hard because the jam sessions delivered tons of tricks everywhere, from the set of stairs to the fun box passing to the bank to bank frame, the same bank to bank who gave way to the down rail only for the Open that ruled the end of the day with the finals of the other two divisions. The thirst of the cash price made the Open monkeys literally shred the park.
Backside flip to frontside boardslide on the down rail, crail slide all along the box and some frontside smith grinds big spin out made the day through the price giving that saw Dylan Gaggini winning the 14 & under, Raffaele Pola winning the 15 & over and Guido Stazi becoming the King of the Bongo for the Open division. It’s been a great day, closing with our famous giveaways launch to all the skaters and people who reached us in Vigevano.
Now the monkeys don’t scream anymore because they’ve found their God… and He pushes.

A big thank to Burn for providing the energy we all needed and UV Control for protecting our skin.
Special thanks to our filmer Matteo “Teone” Terzoli, our photographer Alberto Bocca, our speaker Fumaz, Marchino and Damiano for the great job at the bbq, the girls, Davide and Emanuele (Cubalibre Surf Shop – via Trento 45 – Vigevano) for the support.

See you in Sevilla !!!

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