Kieran Woolley Claims First Place in Bowl Skateboarding Contest
Monster Energy's Skaters, Woolley and Liam Pace, took 1st and 2nd place at Concrete Jam Bowl Skating Competition in Tampa.
The most epic skateboard competition returns! Monster Energy congratulates team rider Kieran Woolley on taking first place in the Concrete Jam bowl skating contest at the 31st Annual Tampa Pro. In the iconic skateboard competition at sold-out Skatepark of Tampa (SPoT), the 21-year-old from Kiama Downs, Australia, took the top spot with explosive skating. He was joined on the Concrete Jam podium by 24-year-old Liam Pace from Tucson, Arizona in second place.
In the Opera Balcony Best Trick contest inside the concrete bowl, 22-year-old Jake Yanko from Melbourne, Florida, took first place with a technical trick. For a special tribute, 32-year-old Kelvin Hoefler from Sao Paulo, Brazil, received the Legend Award from skateboard outreach organization Do By Heart with a $1,000 payout.
Presented by Monster Energy as the title sponsor, Tampa Pro is the most respected grassroots contest in skateboarding and is now the longest-running contest in the sport. In a high-energy session, spectators experienced some of the top international bowl skaters showcase their best tricks in front of the festival crowd.
When the dust settled, Kieran Woolley convinced the judges by covering every angle of the challenging concrete course with difficult tricks. Standouts including huge frontside boneless, alley-oop frontside 5-0 grind, frontside feeble, and frontside nosegrind over the door gap, backside boneless the balcony board, kickflip Indy the deep end, eggplant revert, hip transfer to frontside 5-0, ollie backside Smith the extension, backside air disaster, frontside invert revert earned Woolley first place.
Woolley was joined on the Concrete Jam podium by Liam Pace in second place. Heavy tricks such as Indy 540 nosebone over the door gap, frontside Smith stall 180 on the balcony obstacle, backside boneless on the fence, and shove-it noseslide fakie the bowl corner earned Pace his podium spot.
Following the Concrete Jam, the Opera Balcony Best Trick honored the most difficult move on the balcony deck obstacle above the bowl. In the intense session, 22-year-old Jake Yanko from Melbourne, Florida, upped the ante with an ollie to backside tail stall 180 into the bowl for first place.
