The day saw genuinely shocking shredding from Sam Beckett, Sam Bosworth, Jussi Korhonen, Jake Anderson, Reiss Johnson, Oakley Lidell, Zac Kutz, Jim the Skin, Alex Perelson and others, Andy Scott literally blowing minds, and a couple of demos from certified skateboarding legends Steve Caballero and Christian Hosoi.

Check the highlights from the day below…

Sam Beckett put in a rare appearance and obviously smashed the ramp, mixing up airs and lip tricks like no other. Check the edits from the day below…

A-Group:

1st – Sam Beckett
2nd – Jake Anderson
3rd – Oakley Liddell

B-Group:

1st – James Hemming
2nd – John Nixon
3rd – Henry Jeries Calmeyer

In the overall series results Oakley’s third place was enough for him to seize victory in the A-Group over the injured Shaun Goff. A B-Group victory was deservedly claimed by Hem who rode like a wild man the whole series and is quite frankly lucky to not spend most of his life in hospital!

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Lee Blackwell:

Skateport welcome Lee Blackwell to the family… from Luke Petty on Vimeo.

Jake Anderson:

Great skating, great atmosphere, great competition at Mount Hawke today … thanks to everyone for coming all this way, and thanks to all our sponsors for loads of great prizes.
Congratulations to all the winners …

The B Group went first in a 30 minute ordered jam. Their best three runs counted so there were plenty of chances for variety and attempts at risky moves. With three of last years skaters promoted to the A Group this time around there was plenty of optimism amongst B Group’s rising stars of UK vert skating and many of them rode the best I’ve ever seen them skate. James Haney is definitely going much higher this year and with more style, Zippy (Leon Adams) always seems to raise his game for each contest and to hang on to some big moves, but this time it was James Hemming from the midlands who took top honours for his long rides, range of moves and ultimately his unique ‘nose blunt roll-in’ which he made on his second attempt, roared on by the enthusiastic crowd!

The A group had a stricter regime, using the same format as the X Games; 10 walls maximum, and only the best run counted. The ordered jam and subsequent “snake session” gave each skater at least six attempts to put together an intense, back to back display of their most, stylish, technical and spectacular vert skating. In the free-for-all frenzied “snake session” (an idea borrowed from Vert Attack 6 in Malmo last winter), everyone pushed themselves and the level of skating even higher in the competitive, action packed and hugely entertaining last five minutes. Highlight of the session was Sean’s massive backside ollie soaring over Jim’s mayday in their thrill-filled doubles run.
The legendary Sean Goff with his huge ollies and trade mark Todd Twists and his seemingly endless bag of tricks kept amazing us all and he finished equal 3rd with Oakley Liddell, who was landing several new tricks; frigid airs, blunt to fakie and a few 540’s amongst others. Second place went to last year’s vert series champion, local trickster and soon to be parent again, Jake Anderson, whose smooth blend of almost every variety of flip trick, rock solid 540’s and McTwists was only narrowly beaten by the winner, Andy Scott. Scotty’s stunning range of tasty technical tricks on the coping, inventive inverts and huge airs all pulled off with the smoothest of styles gave him his first win of the series this year.

B group best trick was won by Manfred Kuts for his 50-50 transfer.
A group best trick was won by young Matty Carlisle for landing a 720.

Many thanks to our series sponsors for some great prizes, to Monster Energy for drinks all round and to Mount Hawke for hosting us.
Thanks to Dave Anderson for providing some very stylish trophies.
Thanks to judges Paul Atkins, Sam Bosworth, Ben Liddell, James Haney and James Hemming, and to compares Sean Goff and Mike Stanley.

Check the official clips from the day below.

A-Group:

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1st Andy Scott
2nd Jake Anderson
3rd = Sean Goff and Oakley Liddell
5th Adam Halvorsen
6th = Paul (Jim Skin) Atkins and Matty Carlisle
8th Zak Kutz

B-Group:

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1st James Hemming
2nd Leon Adams (Zippy)
3rd James Haney
4th Rico Camargo
5th Manfred Kutz
6th Michael Stanley
7th Jesse Thomas
8th Reece Douglas
9th Lois Pendlebury

Check forumite Nextman’s two edits from both the A and B group sessions below now to witness some next level UK vert destruction from all involved. Full report from the day coming soon…

A Group:

UK Independent Vert Series 2012 – Mount Hawke A Group

Results:
1st – Andy Scott
2nd – Jacob Anderson
3rd = Oakley Liddel & Sean Goff
5th – Adam Halverson
6th = Matty Carlisle & Jim T Skin
8th- Zak Cutz

B Group:

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Results:
1st – Hem
2nd – Zippy
3rd – James Hayney
4th – Ricardo
5th – Manfred Kutz
6th – Mike Stanley
7th – Jesse Thomas
8th – Reese Douglas
9th – Lois Pendleberry

See for yourself what went down by clicking below…

At 11am there will be signings and giveaways at the shop, before heading over to Southport skatepark at midday for demos from the DC team, Ben Grove, Eddie Belvedere, Andy Scott, Jake Anderson and others. The Skateport crew will also be keeping an eye out for local talent to put on the shop team, so be sure to get yourself in the mix.

Unit 12, Cambridge Walks, Southport, PR8 1EN

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Qualifications took place yesterday, though from 11am today you can tune it to watch the likes of Ben Hatchell, Jake Anderson, Sean Goff, Wingy, Lois Pendlebury, Sam Bosworth, Andy Scott, Jocke Olsson, Alain Goikoetxea, Reiss Johnsson and plenty of others as they take care of business in the semi’s and the final’s of both the Masters and Pro/Am categories.

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