Everyone else can feel free to post there write ups in this thread too!


Cyclone Syndrome 3 (through the eyes of me)

Pre-sesh

Did the most hyped UK fingerboard event of all time live up to all the hype? if you want a one word answer, then yes. it really really did.

The journey began on Thursday at 5am. after 3-4 hours on the coach I finally rocked up at Shudehill Interchange in Manchester. Was due to meet thom at 9-10 so quickly nipped to costcutters and grabbed a bacon and egg sandwhich (bacon and egg sandwhich's became the official food of the event i think).

At around 10am I met with the legend that is Thom Mcinally, it'd been a couple years since i met the guy but he was just as chill as i remembered/ expected him to be. We had a search for a couple of outdoor spots and some mini sesh's and then met up with Eddie. Eddie wasn't too hard to spot, we just had to look for the only guy in the the whole of England who'd made the bold choice to wear shorts on that day.

we made our way back to eddies car and my optimistic boast of "don't worry about there being no room in the car, i can fit underneath the big mini" was about to be tested.
I squeezed into the small footwell next to the backseats and we were on our way to harrys. the 4 jumpers and coat i was wearing were really quite hot and when we arrived at harry's i wasn't feeling tooooo well.

i promptly sat on a wall outside harrys house and threw up (twice). we then went and knocked on harry's door, only to be greeted by an old man who had no idea who harry was (and i assume even less idea why we were searching for a 13 year old boy, or why i'd just thrown up next to his front garden).

With that mornings bacon sandwhich out of my system, we re-located harry's house and were once again on our way. this time we'd found the right place and i think we were all quite relieved. we were warmly greeted by harry (the perfect host) and harry's mum who was just brilliant (very trusting and happy to let us all get on with our own things!). Harry buzzed as the big mini was brought in to his house and his enthusiasm for the whole day was really great to watch... amazing stuff.

For a while, the 3 of us happily seshed the big mini, thoms amazing ledge and harry's street course. After a couple of hours Danny Hynam and Jonny Sivel turned up and the seshing continued. Danny and Jonny were great to meet again too, both very funny and some great skills on the fingerboards too.

Eddie and Thom left harry's to pick up Kerry, Anna and Ross. A Few hours later they returned and everyone really met everyone for the first time, much fun, laughs and jokes were had. FBing on the whole was discussed and it was just great to finally talk to these people you've seen online for over a year in most cases. As a group we left for Mcdonalds/KFC and got some 'chicken'.

After that we were about ready to call it a night and the pre sesh was over. Back to the hotel (very groggy) and then got a little more groggy (by choice) and played some grand theft auto. Damn Me for forgetting to bring Skate3. Just as we all started to fall asleep, WillD arrived and said "hello"... His journey to the event sounded like a right mission! We all fell asleep and the sesh was over.



The Day Of the Event.

judgement day rolled around and everyone was buzzing. There wasn't a huge amount of room in the car so Thom, Ross and I decided to walk to the event... slightly more of a walk than any of us expected i think!
Ross (the owner of Blosom Decks) was a fantastic guy to meet. very sociable and funny and just a very comfortable guy to be around and Im pretty sure at one point or another this was echoed by every person who went.

After an hour or so we turned up at the event and walked in to the crowded room.

Lot's of familiar faces. Although i didn't say hello to everyone I spoke to lots of people and the good vibes were buzzing through the room. Was great to see people enjoying watching others sesh and lots of people filming and taking photos. Compared to Ukr1 (which had a max attentance of 10) this was the fingerboarding mecca. around 30 people had turned up and everyone just seemed to be having such a good time.

The event was over far too quickly and it felt like we were leaving as soon as we'd arrived, but time really does fly when you're having fun, right?!

After the event, Xi, Eddie, Euan, Finn, Ross, Tom colbert, Charlie Murray, Danny Hynam, Jonny sivel, Thom, Kerry, Anna, WillD and myself went to the trafford centre for some more seshing.

Xi is quite new to fbhq. really glad to have met him, like Eddie, he was very generous to offer people a lift and it was really appreciated by everyone. Was really great to meet an older guy who was willing to put the miles in to come to the event despite no really knowing anyone before going... legend.

As a large group we found a nice area and some free seats and happily seshed for what must have been a good 2-3 hours. some people had a brief intermission in the arcades and we realised that Eddies the man to bring with you to the carnival... someone who can shoot 34 baskets on one of those basket ball things in 30 seconds should frankly be knighted.

From there we went back to the hotel and seshed for quite a long time. Xi was ripping the microminis with tricks no one had seen before and generally everyone just made the most of the time that we all had left. WillD was ripping it on a little gap to grind challenge we had set up (as was Thom), and i think we probably did that challenege for about an hour! (Eddie nailed the set trick first go... )
Everyone had a good laugh and i think everyone was also pretty tired!

The night came to a close and we all turned in. Will and I said good night to Bob Marley and that was that!

This was a very special event which, in my eyes, totally lived up to all the hype it had around it.

Massive special thanks to Harry and his Mum. Perfect hosts who strived to make everyone comfortable and happy, you certainly suceeded in doing that!

I've left a lot of stuff out but will defo add to this if i can think of more to say soon!




THANKS AGAIN! PEACE!

wow see you had a lot of time

cartledge wrote:

Massive special thanks to Harry and his Mum. Perfect hosts who strived to make everyone comfortable and happy, you certainly suceeded in doing that!

:')

this is it though my eyes,
i was blinded by the epicness of the day,
your so right time time realy did fly

It was a great time had by all i wish i was allowed to go to the pre-sesh but according to harry it didn't exist really fun day it's weird how the after party went on like 8 hours and the main event went on for 5 lulz

That was well good Simon made me laugh haha.
More people should do these

I lol'd when you went to the wrong house.LOLOLOL

punked246 wrote:

It was a great time had by all i wish i was allowed to go to the pre-sesh but according to harry it didn't exist

yes it did..

great event!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lul too much event to go to the pre-event, just seshed manc :3

Come to Waterstones for an interview with the new author Simon Cartledge on his book about how he went to a thirteen year old boys house and played with his fingers.

You should write a book

JackTaylor wrote:

how he went to a thirteen year old boys house and played with his wood and others wood.

fixed

such a great time, nice meeting EVERYONE

good write up too Simon, would be cool if we all did write ups and get the day/days from different perspectives....

congrats to everyone who made it their

Cheers for the replies so far everyone! think everyone seemed to have a great time!

Good read, haha. im gonna have to stay over night for the next one, must've been fun

nice simon the event was great <3
was fun meeting you again too haha

Sounds GREAT!!

I'll put mine in your thread...

Hello, not sure if you noticed me but I was the old Chinese mute with too much hair and anime skateboard grip.

Before the event:
I only just re-joined FFI a month ago and saw the CS3 thread on there. After doing a Google search, I came across this place and it had more info on the event so I joined. After hearing that there would be loads of ramps (and the big mini) and lots of stuff, I figured I should probably check this event out... as long as I'm not the only older guy there. I silently watched the thread and Blosom's and Kerry's posts made me realise I wouldn't be.

So this event would be on Friday... on the same week I got an email from a Chinese friend (who I should be expecting some kind of work placement at their company at some point) asking to check his dissertation. The deadline of this would be Friday -.- Well that was a crock of fæces. I pretty much spent the entire Thursday correcting the 69 page document of Chinglish. There were tens of mistakes on each page so I actually ended up staying up 'til 1:45am on Friday morning finishing it but then I spent some more time sending it in the email with loads of details on all the mistakes I couldn't correct. The other thing was I didn't have that version of Word on my laptop so I had to drive into uni to do it on their computers; it's 30-40 min drive and 10-15 min walk. I managed to get home at around 2:45am. No time to shower (ew), I had to fire up my laptop and recheck the location on Google Maps, recheck the thread a thousand times and save the postcode in my phone. Also I had to dump all my uni work out of my bag, find a tin to put my board in and get my arse to bed. It was around 4am when I attempted to sleep.

For some annoying reason I woke up at 6am and couldn't get back to sleep. I often have a messed up sleep cycle so that was probably it. I just lied in bed until 8:30am and realised I had to dash, I forgot I needed to buy some food and a 1L bottle of Kx (Tesco cheap version of Red Bull). I managed to finally leave my town at around 9am, I'm in W Yorks and it's approx 1h 24m to the event according to Google. It was pretty easy to navigate to there and when I drove to the school, I went past the front gate thinking that was a different building. There were some cars parked in the side with an open gate so I tried to get in through there. I saw some lights and open doors but it was a half renovated room in a mess with some builders there unaware of my presence. After going through another gate at the side and around another part of the building, I finally found the back door to the hall. I knew this was the place since I could hear the amplified and frequent sound of popping fingerboards.

Event:
I walked in and had a look around and it was pretty awkward not knowing anyone, being surrounded by mostly younger boys and some older parents standing around. I was really glad to have gone though. I didn't have any of my own ramps so it was a great chance to try out people's ramps before making any purchase decisions. I really didn't like the super low tables and lack of chairs. I wouldn't have minded low tables if I was sat but my back ended up killing from all the stooping. As a normally shy-natured person, I didn't approach people. I am actually pretty unsociable and dislike people in general (not as bad as in China though ha!). I was also avoiding being filmed but I guess I've failed that (sorry Anna if I was being weird avoiding the camera). I'll have to thank Blosom/Ross for approaching me though. The events were interesting to watch and who the hell was that little kid that was awesome (Sam?). Grats to the guys who won. During the sticker giveaway/throwing, I thought Harry was attacking me or something so I stood there dumbfounded before I heard the scurrying of people picking them up. I guess also one of the reasons I went was the hope to get something new as I am still riding my "OG setup" as someone called it. I won a Close Up G3 red skull hand deck from one of the raffles which was pretty neat. Thanks again to Harry and his mum for organising the event. Props to all the sponsors and attendees too.

Here's a picture since there's too much text going on:


I was going to skate but a few guys were going to the Trafford Centre so I offered them a lift. We found some nice tables and chairs to sit and generally continue randomly seshing. I would like to point out that Eddie is a beast at that rapid basketball shooting game. Thanks a lot to Euan, who I had only just met, who gave me a Close Up Nomad deck. I didn't realise this was the same kind of deck I had just won from the raffle. Also thanks to Thom, who was setting up another Close Up with rip, for giving me the other grip to put on. I've set it up now and it's pretty cool. You might have also seen some footage of the outdoor session, including Thom's completing a 180 over a water gap challenge.



After this I followed Eddie's car transporting some people to the Travelodge (and got there before him). I was prepared to go home after the event so it was cool to hang around at the Trafford Centre and now at Travelodge. We took the opportunity to do more seshing here. Thanks to Thom (I think) for those mini Unite stickers. Finn later came and brough some ramps from his room and I hogged at least one mini for a load of the duration. I decided to leave at about 11pm so I could drive home and sleeeeeeep.



Overall, it was a great experience. I'd definitely go to another North English fb event of similar scale. It's nice to see some people so commited that they've travelled so far to get there. Not only that but the generosity of some who I had only just met to offer me stuff. It was really great meeting you all.

Also, that's a Yotsuba figure in the pictures. I don't know why it took me so long to notice that the scales of action figures and fingerboards were highly compatible but now I like to pair them in pictures all the time.

really sick writeup man, it was great to meet you!

It was really cool meeting you all, and XI had a sick individual style, he was doing some mad stuff on the pockets.

nice write up XI, well done for making the effort to go

Haha, I went into the room of builders as well. But yeah, really sick write up and you had some beastly tricks