| Benjamin Avancena a.k.a. The Man competes in his first skateboarding competition. Game of Skate is just like the skateboard version of playing Horse in Basketball. One skater starts with trick that he has to pull(land without touching the ground), and the skater after must do the same exact trick (without touching the ground).
Okay onto the story, Aggro Alliance owner Willie D. was contacted with an event that would be taking place in Malibu, CA. This became a good opportunity for Ben to finally mix it up with other talented skaters. Willie told Ben about the competition 2 weeks before it was to happen.
Ben was pumped up and nervous at the same time. He's never competed before. So he didn't know what to expect. Ben spent every possible hour trying to gather up enough tricks to 'bust out' at the ocmpetition. For support he seeked his fellow friend Alex Castillo, an up and coming skater that Ben is taking under is wing, and the two ventured out of Hollywood, CA, down Wilshire Blvd., up PCH, and finally arrived at the Skatepark in Malibu.
Ben first sees the skatepark with a lot of ramps and street courses. Let me remind you, Ben is a tech-skater. It's basically a cross between street skating and flat-skaing. It finally sets in that Ben is actually going to compete for the first time ever.
Ben practjced tricks he was going to use in the contest, and to his surprise things went wrong.
Right before the competition, all the competing skaters felt a little bit intimidated by Ben's flatland tricks. Most, if not all the competitors, didn't know how to do any of the tricks that he did. So as a last minute resort. Several skaters decided to inform the judges that NO FLATLAND TRICKS ALLOWED.
Ben was very surprised and upset at the same time. Being as Aggro as he is, he still went on to compete. Throwing out all of their difficult tricks, Ben tried his best to stay in the competition without his arsenal of tricks that they disallowed. It was tough. But in good spirits, Ben hung around with Alex and enjoyed the rest of the time skating at the skatepark.
More to Ben than just a competition, he gave Alex the experience of attending live at a skateboarding event. The two closed it the rest of the intense filled day in Hollywood. With a positive attitude Ben says, "Well,... Go to the next contest and see what happens." Right on Ben, for competiting on your first contest.
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