Congrats again to Doug Martin who won the eS Game of Skate last week in Dubai. He’s off to Paris tomorrow to enter the European leg of the event. The winner of that event gets to go to California later this summer to compete in the World Championships! Make us proud Doug!

Photos by Kader Hadri & Luke Kelly (Fisheye)

Well well well. Another year, another eS game of skate! Thanks to the good people at Emaar, we hosted the game at Dubai Mall. The event was supposed to start at 2pm, but due to a few stragglers we started a little later. Names were drawn out a hat, so the match-ups varied. Some got blasted out straight away and some stretched out their arsenal of tricks to progress. Surprise contender was Karim Nassar who came out of nowhere with a barrage of tech tricks…

The highlight of the event had to be the epic battle between the titans of the Dubai skate scene, Evan vs Maysam, who had everyone on the edge of their seat/skateboard and both contenders scratching their heads for new tricks to out do each other. After landing each set trick, it became obvious that it was going to be a tough competition. The antithesis of all this drama had to be Doug Martin. Doug turned up late, no warm up, cup of coke in his hand and decides to join the comp just before we start. In his relaxed and bi-spectacled style, he somehow chewed his way through the competition with ease to win. Something does have to be said about his final competitor Karim. Mid way through the finals Karim snapped his board, which forced him to use a new board he was not so used to. Ah well, better luck next year everyone!

Good luck Dougie Fresh and enjoy the éS European Finals of the Game of S.K.A.T.E this September in Paris!

Here’s an interview with Doug we conducted with him while he came by the office today to get his plane ticket hooked up…

Photos by Max Shatrov

AHHHH SHPANK!

 The first leg of the DSF Skate and BMX series took place this weekend. There was a big crowd and plenty of competitors ripping up the park. A sudden downpour and strong winds plagued the professional finals. However this did not stop Spanky from landing a front side lip slide down the big red rail and Colm attempting a nollie flip down the double set.

Highlights of the day included the second heat of the juniors being held off to let Mark Gavigan kick flip the double set. He did it perfect and rolled away laughing.

spanky gap to lipslide

danny, mark, colm, mark

pedalers

colm kickflip to flat

eshaaaun judging

mark gavigan kickflip

colm treflip

kyle kickflip over the rail

spanky nosegrind

doug boardslide

colm backsmith

mark and ryan, always on the podium

bmx winners

spanky, colm, doug

The competition results for the first leg are:

Juniors (skateboarding)

1st Mark Gavigan
2nd Lawrence Jokun
3rd Ryan Chambers

Seniors (skateboarding)

1st Colm Noonan
2nd Chef Spanky
3rd Dougie ‘fresh’ Martin

BMX

1ST Hassan Zayed
2nd Joe Maher
3rd Abdullah