Events
Taranaki Secondary School Series
Get ready to show off your skateboarding skills at the highly anticipated Taranaki Secondary School Series! This skateboarding competition is all about empowering skateboarders and supporting their growth. In collaboration with the Taranaki Secondary Schools' Sports Association and the Taranaki Skateboarding Association, we're inviting enrolled college and home-schooled students in years 9 to 13 to be part of the action. With two divisions, Regional Open Seniors and Regional Open Juniors, (Boys and Girls) happening at the old indoor Hockey Rink in New Plymouth Central. Don't miss out on the chance to compete, be recognized, and connect with a rad community of skateboarding enthusiasts. Register now through your school sports or PE coordinators and get ready to shred!
Oakura Easter Competition
This is a free skateboarding (bowl) competition
open to the public. Categories include: Under
13s, Under 16s, Opens and Girls. Whanau bring
your picnic and support the rangatahi as they
showcase their skateboarding skills.
Western Bay of Plenty Skate Fest
Drop Deep and Western Bay of Plenty District Council collaborate with Youth Engagement Events “Paving the way for rangatahi to excel through skateboarding”. Look out for this series again next summer.
Festival One
Festival One is back!
Don’t forget your skateboard! 🛹🔥👊
Check out the Festival One app for our program. 🎵🛹
See you there😎❤️
Christmas In The Pa
The Huria Trust has invited Drop Deep to take part in their Christmas celebration, which they host for their whanau each year. We look forward to engaging their tamariki with skateboarding ramps and activities and celebrating this special event.
Merry Christmas everybody from the Drop Deep crew!
Secondary School Series
In an attempt to integrate school and skateboarding and increase student participation, Drop Deep has launched its 2022 inter-school Skateboarding Tournament Series. This is an opportunity for students to represent their school in skateboarding and is scheduled for the third term of the school calendar.
These events are open to all enrolled secondary students and homeschooled students across the Taranaki and Wellington Regions who would like to compete for their school in Skateboarding.
Registered students will make their own way to the venue instead of their normal classes at 9am.
Prize-giving will be held at 2:30 pm, students will then be dismissed.
Divisions: Regional Open Seniors and Regional Open Juniors. Mixed-gender is welcomed into this competition.
Taranaki Monday 26th September at the Skating Arena Cancelled due to Queens public holiday
Wellington Wednesday 28th September at the Kilbirnie Recreation Centre
Time: 9am - 3pm
Register through your School PE or Sports Coordinator
A special thanks to our sponsors and partners - College Sport Wellington, Taranaki Skateboarding Association, Taranaki Secondary School Sports Association, and Backdoor
Festival One 2022
Sadly, due to New Zealand moving into the red traffic light system, Festival One has been cancelled this year.
For more information please visit the link below.
https://www.festival.one/news/red-traffic-light-cancel-festival-one
Best Trick Competition and Demo
Drop Deep Skateboarding have partnered with Katikati Community Centre and will be doing various activities over the second week of the school holidays in an attempt to engage with the youth and communicate the new employment services being offered by the community centre. These activities include, a crew of Drop Deep skaters from different parts of the country, skateboarding local skate spots, running skateboarding lessons, a skateboarding demo and a best trick competition. There will be various prizes and a free BBQ at the Best Trick Comp and we are hoping for a good turnout not just with youth but the wider community too.
A Special Thanks To This Event’s Sponsors:
Backdoor, Acid NZ, Katikati Community Centre, Garcia Contracting Services, and Rack-It-Up NZ.
Drop Deep Roadie
We had a rad time road tripping around skate spots in the Auckland,
Waikato, WBOP and BOP regions together with Matt Markland, Tobias
Mondi (Wellington Regional Secondary School Champion), Oscar Woolston
(Waikato Secondary School Regional Champion), Josef Clark (Waikato
Secondary School Junior Regional Champion), the Mounts own Skylam
Harvey, Hamilton’s favorites Luca Woolston, and Mac Stroud. We are
looking forward to more trips like this.
Drop Deep Skateboarding Festival One 2021
Each year we look forward to connecting with what has now become our extended whanau at Festival One. The music and skateboarding never disappoints and the local talent really brought the heat this year. Thank you to the amazing crew who worked to make it happen behind the scenes, you know who you are.
Thank you to those who participated in either our skate comps, action sport panel, zoom chat with guest speaker Ryan Ries, from The Whosoevers, the movie premiere of “The Full Send Tour”, and/or simply hanging out in our hang out space listening to live music. The conversations and connections will last a lifetime. See you next year - Drop Deep Crew
The Drop Deep Skateboarding College Regional Series 2020
In an attempt to integrate school and skateboarding and increase student participation, Drop Deep Skateboarding has launched their 2020 inter-school Skateboarding Tournament Series. This is an opportunity for students to represent their school in skateboarding and is scheduled for the third term of the school calendar.
These events are open to all enrolled secondary students across the Waikato, Taranaki and Wellington Regions who would like to compete for their school in Skateboarding.
Registered students will make their own way to the venue instead of their normal classes at 9am.
Prize-giving will be held at 2:30 pm, students will then be dismissed.
Divisions: Regional Open Seniors and Regional Open Juniors. Mixed-gender is welcomed into this competition.
Dates Time and Venues: 9am -3pm
Taranaki Monday 7th September at the Skating Arena
Wellington Wednesday 9th September at the Kilbirnie Recreation Centre
Waikato Friday 11th September at the Leamington Domain Cambridge
How to participate: Register through your School PE or Sports Coordinator
The Drop Deep Lockdown Challenge
With everyone being unable to get out and skate in the community, we decided it was time to take action and continue doing what we do best, bringing people and communities together through skateboarding. That is why we created The Drop Deep Lockdown Challenge.
The challenges vary, are within the COVID-19 lockdown limitations, and designed to help you push yourself as a skateboarder & stay connected to a wider community while learning about different topics related to skateboarding through a variety of guest speakers, like Christian Hosoi, Steve Caballero, Brian Sumner, David Read, Josh Harmony, Chris Wood, Anthony Leggitt and more.
The 3 Day Online Challenge
Are you sick of being isolated, love Skateboarding, and aged between 12 & 18?
Check out our 3 Day Online Skateboarding Challenge, where you can win prizes, meet other skateboarders including Vans Marketing Manager and Pro skater Josh Harmony, Nitro Circus Pro skater Beaver Fleming and the legendary Eddie Elguera
For more info and to register email dropdeepskateboarding.com - limited spaces so be quick
🎥 Sam Wright
Drop Deep Skateboarding @ Festival One
Festival One has become a staple in our annual event calendar. It is an incredible wholesome environment where meaningful relationships are established through purpose, friendship and skateboarding. Each year surpasses the next and 2020 was no exception.
Thank you to all the volunteers and workers who made this excellent adventure possible, we value and adore you. Shout out to the Festival One team, Beaver Flemming, the Woolston family, the Gemmell family, little Annabel, Luke Larking, Ben and Josh Wallis, Grace and Faith Nunns, Mari, Ephraim, Helen, Logan and Carmen Mills, Casper and everyone who competed and enjoyed our ramp set up. See you next time.
The Drop Deep Skateboarding College Regional Series 2019
Regional Secondary School Skateboarding Tournament Series
Drop Deep recognizes skateboarding is on the rise due to the fact it has been selected for the Olympic Games. Drop Deep believe a Skateboarding School Tournament Series creates an atmosphere of sporting competitiveness, giving the competitors a sense of achievement, reinforcing their well-being, and providing a stage to showcase their skateboarding skills within the school protocol. Our hope is this inaugurated competition will become a series and potentially become the first Aotearoa New Zealand Nationally sanctioned skateboarding school event, marking the beginning for the next generation of Aotearoa New Zealand skateboarders, by providing a platform to launch off to pursue their dreams and potentially become an Olympian. We cannot do this without support, so if this is something that gets you fired up, we would love to hear from you.