Poland
ki
old stuff:
interview made in july 2013
about the
Polish Skateboarding
Grand Prix
NOTE: the question are made in july 2013
and maybe some seem silly
This year the Polish Skateboard Association has started a new project called the Polish
Skateboarding Grand Prix. When did everything start?
In the beginning of 2009 the official idea was born to hold a skateboarding
championship, in form of a serie of skatecontests. It took us a couple of years to get better
organized as the association. The concept was to have a couple of skatecontests, so that
the riders would have more than one chance to skate. You know, sometimes somebody
is injured, or something happens and he can’t make it to the contest. And if there are a
couple of contests, then everybody has more chances to participate.
From where this project started? Have you checked other countries that run a
championship before?
I don’t think a national championship is an original idea, I mean it’s just something really
basic. We just wanted to do it in a serie of contests. For example, there is the World Cup
of Skateboarding, were there is a serie of contests, Germany has it’s own Club of Skaters
serie of contests, there were years that also Holland used to have a series of national
championship contests. So, we aren’t doing anything special. We’re just skaters who want
to give the skatescene a push forward with something that is new to Poland.