Big round of applause for our third-time winner: Ibrahim Wadhai who stomped all of his tricks and won the éS Game of SKATE in Dubai this weekend. Also congrats to the runner-ups 2nd:Kyle Smith and 3rd: Evan Collisson for making it to the finals! Have fun in Paris Ibrahim!
With heats up to 45+ celsius during the summer, we held the event indoors right outside our Dubai Festival City shop. There was great surprise and onlooking action from shoppers passing through. Skaters crammed the hallway as each skater went head to head.
Evan Collisson 3rd Place
Kyle Smith 2nd Place
Ibrahim Wadhai 1st Place with a ticket to Paris France!
Kader on the mic and Shahriar holding the medals
Top Three!
Here’s everyone that came down and stayed for this quick photo (everyone else went to the skatepark or they just weren’t here because they left the country!)
Thanks to all the skaters that came down, as always with each year we throw this amazing event, the level of skating keeps rising. Although the cream always rises to the top and it’s no wonder because this was Ibrahim’s THIRD éS Game of SKATE win!!!
Congrats Ibrahim! Hold it down in Paris! We got your back!
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!
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…
