Thrasher Magazine

By Aaron Brown
Photos Guille Gonzalez and Laurent Meuzy

Last Friday, Globe Europe hosted its first invitational shop-vs-shop mini-ramp contest at their head office in the South of France. Teams flew in the night before to camp out and drink wine together before the event. Blessed with beautiful sunshine, baking heat and sporting a few headaches, the eight skateshop teams battled through the night on the mini for their chance to win 2,000 Euros. Mark Appleyard joined Globe EU riders Danny Leon and Charles Collet on the judging panel, watching (and scoring) as the shops went head to head, skating well into the night.

Ewoud Breukink hot out the gates with a backside Smith grind in the first qualifying round

Titus Berlin's Roland Hirsch with an early appearance on the ramp

Vincent Milou and a trick you never see him do—frontside flip

All the way from Portugal (by van) and flying the flag for the POP Crew, Lawrence Aragao feebles his away through the qualifiers

Jelle Maatman from the Netherlands showed up with and array of sexy shirts—5-0 to fakie

Fourteen-year-old Noah Mahieu representing local French skate shop Buzzz. He was a complete standout start to finish

Belgium's Jeroen Bruggeman pulling magic out the bag despite his impressive wine consumption the night before

Charles Collet stretching his legs between rounds—front rock

Judge Danny Leon jumped on the ramp with his very best Hercules impression before things kicked off

ABS Lyon's very own Uryann Raudet with a wallie into the ramp

Local lad George Poole with some wizadery—switch backside feeble to frontside Smith

Vincent Milou going up

Vince and Teun Janssen snaking

Noah Mahieu spins a backside 360 nose grab

Roland Hirsh sliding his way into the semis

Ewoud Breukink with the flick at dusk

Burnside shop’s team effort. The Dutch team kept things pretty weird all weekend

Jelle Maatman, lien air—and probably his new Tinder profile pic

The finals kicked off after dark. Luckily, there were lights—Vincent Milou, frontside tailbone

George Poole with a lien under the stars

Noah Mahieu, frontside air to disaster

Vincent Milou looking spooked with a frontside flip to disaster

Spanish transition killer Enrique Giles crept his way to the finals by doing the above

Ewoud Breukink, frontside Smith

Probably past Noah Mahieu's bedtime but he couldn't miss the finals! Backside nosegrind

Noah Mahieu, back D

Appleyard battling with jet lag and score sheets. Danny Leon keeping things in check

As night fell the crowd got huge! Word must have got out about the free beer…

Champagne showers

For unlimited free beer all night all you had to do was buy this cup for one Euro. Thank you, St.Andrews

If Fries Taillieu wasn't skating, you could usually find him near the burger stand, heckling for more free food. Robin Pailler, a Bordaux local, finishes his gifted grub

Judges from the US, Spain and France kept things fair—Apples, Danny Leon and Charles Collet on the panel

Judges’ POV and a full house

MC Grego and the judging panel, pre-champagne soak

Night crowd

Winners: Vincent Milou and his shop Buzzz. Vive la France! Thanks for the great event, Globe! Hope to see you in 2019