Gemma Does Sydney: Part I

Our girl Gemma Holland headed down to Sydney a few weeks ago, to get some shredding in before she heads over to New Zealand  next week on the N-Tense.D.Centz Tour. Here is what she had to say about the first part of her trip, Pt. 2 is coming soon!

  

Maga Mcwhinnie local Sydney ripper decided to organise a girls only skate weekend, which would involve skating all of her favourite spots before she headed over to Peru for a holiday. Some of the Brisbane girls planned to make the trip down but super last minute Aki got called into work and Phoebe had an unfortunate accident injuring her knee. So it turned into a one woman trip. 


It just so happened that Jacko's 'Sector 9 Wild Wild West Race' was on the same weekend Gemma said 'I had decided I was going to compete not really knowing how gnarly the hill was'. So here we go, it was around lunchtime when she left Brisbane, and if it wasn't for Triple J she might of lost her mind before she even got there.


After 13 hrs of driving, Gemma arrived at Abec 11 Australia HQ to pick up so goodies for the weekend to come. "Cheers heaps Tony for all the Zigs and Flashies!"

A few more hours of driving and Gemma arrivied at the Barnyard just in time for breakfast (that couldn't of worked out any better). After a quick feed, everyone made there way over to the hill. After driving down the hill Gemma's first thought was 'that this is too gnarly for my first race of the year'! But thankfully Jacko put it in to perspective reminding her that she did drive 15hrs so she might as well skate it. Her first run was as slow as she could go, allowing Maga to navigate her down the run but as it always goes hills always look scarier than they are. Classic Gemma, she was stoking hard and now it was time to race.

You really never know what is going to go down in a race! In her first heat Gemma ending up getting boxed in with no room to footbreak so it was all or nothing, don't worry she made it out alive. As the day progressed she started to catch people in the straight and ending up making it into the top 16! Well done Gemma! 

"Cheers to Jacko, Basement Skate and Sector 9 and all of the helpers for making this event happen!! Really got the Stoke flowing through my veins again!! Also huge thanks to the McWhinnies for the hospitality!" 

Here is a quick little video that Gemma did up of the race! Make sure you look out for Part 2 of Gem's trip to Sydney, more girls, more laughs and more skating!

Fun Run Wild Wild West 2014 from Gemma Holland on Vimeo.

Gemma rides for TSG (Supersports), Abec 11 (Go4Sports), My Life On Board, Daddow Skateboards, Bonehunter, WSE & Heelside Magazine.

Photos by Jonothan Mandl