Qualification Stops
This year, we will roll out 10 skateboarding qualification stops in 9 European countries – Austria, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia, Italy, and, for the first time, Belgium!
Here is a quick breakdown of the upcoming Best Foot Forward 2024 stops:
Next up | 2nd Stop | April 20th | Gothenburg - Sweden | Bunkeberget Skatepark
| Timetable: | |
| 12.00 pm - 02.00 pm: | Registration & Warm Up |
| 02.00 pm - 02.15 pm: | Riders Meeting by Stefan Ebner |
| 02.15 pm - 04.30 pm: | Qualifiers |
| 05.00 pm - 05.45 pm: | Finals |
| 06.00 pm - 06.30 pm: | Cash4Tricks - everyone can participate. |
| 06.30 pm - 07.00 pm: | Prize Giving |
| *times depend on number of participants | |
3rd Stop | April 27th | Helsinki - Finland | Kontula Skatepark | indoor
4th Stop | May 11th | Trento - Italy | Skatepark Trento
5th Stop | May 18th | Lausanne - Switzerland | Skatepark La Fièvre
6th Stop | May 25th | Velenje - Slovenia | Urbani park Velenje
7th Stop | June 8th | Dusseldorf - Germany | Eller Skatepark
8th Stop | June 29th | Antwerp - Belgium | Skatedepot Antwerp
9th Stop | July 6th | Rotterdam - the Netherlands | Skateland Rotterdam
10th Stop | xx | Munich - Germany | TO BE ANNOUNCED
Already in the books:
1st Stop | April 6th | Innsbruck - Austria | Skatehalle Innsbruck
It's on! Pre-register now to join the Best Foot Forward Europe Tour 2024
Europe's Biggest Amateur Skate Tour
Since 2017, the Best Foot Forward tour has grown to become the biggest amateur (AM) skateboarding competition tour in Europe. This is THE place for rising European skaters to show their talents and get the crowds stoked with their tricks. Here, young talents can connect with other great skaters and brands from all over Europe.
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The Format
The competition will run with a "Jam format", which means 2 skaters from mixed categories will ride simultaneously in a 2-minute heat. It's important to note that the two riders will be judged individually and not against each other.
There is no age limit, so everyone is welcome to compete as long as you are not considered a "Pro" as this is strictly an AM contest. The tour will include Women, Men, and Groms categories, and each category will have a podium of its own. Apart from many awesome prizes from Blue Tomato and our partners, the top three overall winners from each stop of the men's category, along with the top overall winner of each stop from the women's category, will be invited to compete at the 2024 Finals for the main prize. Blue Tomato will cover all the expenses for the competing riders during the Finals weekend. You will just need to take care of the travel costs!
Summer, Sun, Skate - Recap of the 1st stop in Innsbruck
30 degrees. 50 skaters and 7 nations - are just a few numbers from our personal sunshine reggae. This weekend the Best Foot Forward tour 2024 was officially started in Innsbruck, Austria and we couldn't have asked for a better way to kick-off the season. The vibe was awesome, and the level of skating was really high and far behind than what we could have wished for. So let's give it up for our podiums:
Men
1st place: Agustin Aquila
2nd place: Santino Exenberger
3rd place: Giuseppe Cola
Women
1st place: Laura Žáčková
2nd place: Julia Placek
3rd place: Giorgia Meini
Groms
1st place: Alessio Binkert
2nd place: Viktor Jakeš
3rd place: Kevin Loi
About the Finals
Last year, we had a complete blast during the Finals weekend in Berlin. We kicked things off with a mini ramp in the hotel lobby (yeah, you read that right), a city tour with a hop-on hop-off bus full of skateboarders, a standing wave surf session, and a welcome dinner. Followed by skate sessions in various spots across the capital of Germany, multiple Cash4Tricks events, and, of course, The Best Foot Forward Finals 2023 competition.
After such an insane Finals Weekend in Berlin last year, we are completely fired up to announce the details for 2024, so mark your calendars:
Finals 2024 | 29.08. – 01.09 | Berlin – Germany | Skatehalle Berlin
Don't miss your chance to be seen! Pre-register now to secure a spot in Europe's biggest amateur skateboarding contest.
The Prizes
We will make sure that all of the 2024 Tour winners and participants will get an awesome reward for their crazy efforts! Besides Cash4Tricks sessions that are open to anyone at each of the stops, we prepared some extras!
Special prizes
We're teaming up with Red Bull to scout for ledge legends! At stops 1. - Innsbruck, 4. - Trento, 6. - Velenje, and 7. - Düsseldorf, our head judge Stefan Ebner and the local judges will be on the lookout for skaters who can dominate the ledge. The most technical rider of the stop will get a Wildcard to the Red Bull LEDGEnd 2024 event in Vienna at the Copa Beach Plaza Skate Park on July 20th.
Big thanks to our partners - without them, our tour wouldn't be possible!
This year, as always, our skateboarding tour wouldn't be happening without our great partners, who made it possible and provided so many awesome prizes!
Best Foot Forward is an AM Contest. This means you are not allowed to enter if you have a "Pro Board" or "Pro Shoes" or if you participated in a pro category in an internationally known contest.
