Quad Pro Quo Challenge Series
Quad Pro Quo Challenge Series
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Quad Pro Quo: Turning the Skatepark on its Head
Quad Pro Quo: Turning the Skatepark on its Head
Quad Pro Quo Challenge series introduces a groundbreaking new way to spread the stoke by promoting roller skaters shredding their way through skateparks worldwide! Community In Bowls and Quad Media, Inc. are partnering to bring you this action-packed competition series that highlights the skill and diversity of talent in our roller skating ranks.
Why Roller Skates?
Why Roller Skates?
Quad roller skates have been in skateparks since their inception--and roller skates themselves predate the skateboard by almost 200 years! Skateparks and bowls are often designed for skateboarding but offer ample opportunities for roller skaters to work the same gravitational magic on ramps, rails and halfpipes as their four-wheeled board counterparts.
The dynamics are the same, but with a complicated twist: Eight wheels and hands-free riding means getting vertical can literally turn the skate park on its head!
Since 2012, Community in Bowls (CIB) has been spreading the stoke with community-run chapters of roller skaters worldwide, encompassing all genders and lived experiences in our more than 350 collectives.
The Quad Pro Quo Challenge Series:
The Quad Pro Quo Challenge Series:
We’re stoked to share our quad park roller skating tricks and skills with the world, and have invited top skaters to compete in the Quad Pro Quo Challenge with some of their best gravity-defying stalls, airs, grabs, grinds and carves. Featuring a handful of the most tricky skateparks and lines, Quad Pro Quo Challenge means our quad roller skating competitors need to get creative and find ways to outdo each other as they compete for the top prize.
How Does the Quad Pro Quo Series Work?
How Does the Quad Pro Quo Series Work?
The Quad Pro Quo Challenge is a series of events that take place in some of the raddest skateparks around the world, starting with the Clatskanie Skatepark in the Pacific Northwest. In each episode we’ll visit a different city, showcasing that area’s top talent and giving those skaters the chance to earn points in the Series finale.
For the competitions we have given each roller skater one hour to develop the most rad lines and tricks they can create. Skaters will then execute their chosen lines and get three chances to pull off their best run utilizing as much of the skatepark as possible.
During the show, we’ll meet each competitor, like CIB co-founder, Samara Buskovick (aka Lady Trample). We’ll learn more about their styles and local skateparks, then let them shred for the judges with their 3 sets of tricks and runs. Each show will place a winner, and competitors will earn points to place into a final round of tricks at the end of the season, to vie for the Quad Pro Cup!
Judging the Stoke
Judging the Stoke
Quad Pro Quo Challenge Series features veteran skater judges, including some special guest judges from the roller skating, skateboarding, and park skating communities. Using a 10-point scale, skaters will be evaluated on technical execution, including form, speed, height, and rotations, as well as artistic execution including use of park elements, selection of tricks, style and fluidity of lines.
Why Quad Pro Quo?
Why Quad Pro Quo?
Community in Bowls was founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2012, building off of the park skating culture growing in that region for decades. What started as a Facebook group grew into a worldwide community of skaters and learners, with more than 350 chapters.
Quad Pro Quo offers a formalized extension of CIB’s community-and-inclusion-based values; while the competition is open to all, we’re specifically holding space for women, nonbinary, gender fluid, and transgender competitors in traditionally cis-male-dominated skateparks. In this way, Quad Pro Quo truly aims to turn the skatepark on its head!
Through Quad Pro Quo, park skating offers roller skating competitors an opportunity to challenge themselves in a socially-distanced, non-contact setting, making it ideal for sports series production in 2021. Fans of roller skating sports, like roller derby, and skateboarding alike will enjoy watching the gravity and culture-defying mashup of the Quad Pro Quo Challenge Series!
Gravity-Defying Partnership
Gravity-Defying Partnership
For Quad Pro Quo, CIB is thrilled to partner with Quad Media, Inc., a subsidiary of Women’s Flat Track Derby, Inc. Quad’s staff includes a team of producers who pioneered modern roller derby broadcast and have brought productions to ESPN2, BBC Sports, Whistle Sports, and more. Founded by and for women-identifying sports, Quad Media, Inc. is committed to developing inclusive sports broadcast in a number of genres worldwide.
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