Event Details
It’s time for the tie-breaker folks Regular killed it in the first GvR showdown, and Goofy came back in 2005 and 2006 and shut up all the regs quick fast. then, last year, on ‘07, the Regulars showed Goofy that a three-peat wasn’t happening. So who will break the tie and win once and for all in 2008? Stay tuned to find out on October 2-5!
etnies GvR is one-of-a-kind skateboarding event that pits goofy footed skateboarders against their regular footed counterparts in the most action-packed shred sled shindig ever witnessed by human eyes! The world’s top pro skateboarders will be in attendance, throwing down all weekend long at the etnies Skatepark of Lake Forest in California. As always, etnies GvR is free for all to attend!
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GvR Contest
SLAP Magazine’s Mark Whiteley is the Team Captains for the Regular team while The Skateboard Mag’s Dave Swift is Team Captain for the Goofy team. Each Team Captain picks five skaters to pre-qualify for their Team. These five pre-qualified skaters—the Starting Five– will go straight into the GvR Finals on Sunday.
On Saturday, qualifiers for the rest of the Goofy and Regular Team skaters take place. The Goofy and Regular skaters will compete to make the cut of ten for each Team. The ten from each Team then join the five pre-chosen skaters and these fifteen skaters then comprise each Team for the Finals on Sunday.
During Sunday’s Finals, skaters on both Teams will compete in two distinct sessions. In the first half, a coin toss will determine which Team skates first. Each of the three heats will feature five different skaters from both Teams who will skate one introductory run followed by a five-minute jam. In the second half, each team, goofy and regular, will skate in two 10-minute jams.
Each team may substitute freely after five minutes of the heat, however, the starting five for each jam must be different. Injury substitutions are allowed at any time. There will be two Heats for each team, Regular and Goofy. Finally, if less than 25 points separates the two teams, the Team that is behind in overall score will challenge the other Team to a game of SKATE in any area or on any obstacle in the skatepark they choose. Each Team will pick two skaters to go head-to-head and the winning team will receive an extra 25 bonus points towards their overall score.
SLAP magazine and The Skateboard Mag each pick 5 pre-qualified skaters for their team that advance directly to the GvR Finals—the “starting five.”
Schedule
Thursday October 2:
Hometown Heroes Qualifier
Hometown Heroes Registration 2:00 - 5:00 pm (or until 125 spots are filled)
Hometown Heroes Practice 2:00 - 6:00 pm (closed to public)
Hometown Heroes Qualifier 6:00 - 10:00 pm
Friday October 3:
GvR Practice and etnies Skull Jam Bowl Contest
Women’s Bowl Registration & Practice 11:00 - 12:00 pm
GvR / HH Registration 12:00 - 7:00 pm
Bowl Open Practice 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Women’s Bowl Contest 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Grand Masters Bowl Qualifying 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Pro Bowl Qualifying 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Grand Masters Bowl Finals 7:45 - Jam
Pro Bowl Finals 8:30 - Jam
Free Los Olvidados concert in skatepark 7:45 - 9:00 pm
Awards Immediately Following
etnies Festival Village Open from 10am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday
Saturday October 4:
etnies Girl Pro Contest & GvR Qualifier
Registration for all events 10:00 - 4:00 pm
Women’s / HH Practice 10:00 - 11:30 pm
etnies Girl Pro Contest 11:30 - 1:00 pm
Pro Street Open Practice 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Opening Ceremonies 2:45 - 3:00 pm
etnies GvR Qualifiers Heat 1 Goofy 3:00 - 3:45 pm
etnies GvR Qualifiers Heat 1 Regular 3:45 - 4:30 pm
etnies GvR Qualifiers Heat 2 Goofy 4:30 - 5:15 pm
etnies GvR Qualifiers Heat 2 Regular 5:15 - 6:00 pm
etnies GvR Party Doors Open 7:00 pm
Bad Religion concert 8:20 pm
Sunday October 5:
Hometown Heroes Finals & etnies GvR Finals
Hometown Heroes Practice 9:00 - 11:00 am
Hometown Heroes Finals 11:00 - 12:30 pm
Pro Street Finals Practice 12:30 - 2:00 pm
etnies GvR Heat 1 Goofy 2:00 - 2:10 pm
etnies GvR Heat 1 Regular 2:20 - 2:30 pm
etnies GvR Heat 2 Goofy 2:40 - 2:50 pm
etnies GvR Heat 2 Regular 3:00 - 3:10 pm
etnies GvR Heat 3 Goofy 3:20 - 3:30 pm
etnies GvR Heat 3 Regular 3:40 - 3:50 pm
Halftime 3:50 - 4:20
etnies GvR Heat 1 Goofy Jam 4:25 - 4:35 pm
etnies GvR Heat 1 Regular Jam 4:40 - 4:50 pm
etnies GvR Heat 2 Goofy Jam 4:55 - 5:05 pm
etnies GvR Heat 2 Regular Jam 5:10 - 5:20 pm
GvR Extra Point Jam 5:30
Music in the Park Immediately Following
etnies GvR Awards in park 6:30
PRIZE PURSE BREAKDOWNS
etnies Bowl Jam Purse: $15,000 Total
Pros: $8,900
1. $3,000
2. $2,000
3. $1,000
4. $800
5. $600
6. $500
7. $400
8. $300
9. $200
10. $100
Masters: $6,100
1. $1,500
2. $1,000
3. $800
4. $700
5. $600
6. $500
7. $400
8. $300
9. $200
10. $100
etnies Girl Dawn of the Shred Contest: $10,500 Total
Women’s Bowl Purse: $1,500
1. $500
2. $400
3. $250
4. $150
5. $100
6. $100
Women’s Street Purse: $9,000
1. $2,500
2. $2,000
3. $1,500
4. $1,000
5. $600
6. $400
7. $300
8. $200
etnies GvR Skateboarding Purse: $75,000 Total
• SLAP magazine and The Skateboard Mag each pick 5 pre-qualified skaters for their team that advance directly to the GvR Finals—the “starting five.”
• Each of these skaters automatically receives $1,000. TOTAL - $10,000
• Each skater on the losing team receives $1000 x 15 skaters. TOTAL - $15,000
• The MVP of each team (as voted on by members of the team) receives $2,000. TOTAL - $4,000
• The winning team receives $46,000 as follows:
1st place skater = $15,000
2nd place skater = $10,000
3rd place skater = $5,000
4th place skater = $3,500
5th place skater = $2,500
6th through 15th = $1,000 each = $10,000
Band Bios
In a world ruled increasingly by superstition and intolerance, Bad Religion’s rousing wall-of-sound punk seems about as necessary now as ever before. It is the impassioned sound of reason, anthems of a bittersweet idealism and a guarded hope set to propulsive guitars and charging drumbeats. And while most groups with even half the artistic output have long ago morphed into stylistic self parody, Bad Religion is currently surging forward with a renewed creative intensity. Their fourteenth album, entitled New Maps of Hell, is both a nod to the band’s defiant past and an undeniable step forward in the evolution of a genre they helped to define. While many of the new songs are as brutally fast and unflinchingly heartfelt as anything the band has done before, the record is also filled with unexpected sounds, inventive rhythms and lush pop choruses.
“I think we’re reaching back to our roots as a garage band and doing some really aggressive music,” guitarist and co-songwriter Brett Gurewitz says. “But we’re also trying to look forward and write some really interesting new rock songs.”
After some years away, Gurewitz has been back in the fold for the previous two records, Process of Belief and The Empire Strikes First, both discs widely accepted as a return to form for the veteran band. He is again accompanying his longtime friends, co songwriter and singer Greg Graffin and original bassist Jay Bentley. The (slightly) newer band members read like a punk rock all star team, with guitarist Greg Hetson of the legendary Circle Jerks and Brian Baker of hardcore pioneers Minor Threat. The latest addition being a startling young drum prodigy and sought after session drummer named Brooks Wackerman.
For this latest record, Bad Religion convened with renowned producer Joe Barresi at a downtown Hollywood recording studio just blocks from so many of the nightclubs and halls where the band first inspired legions of like minded young malcontents amidst the vibrant eighties Los Angeles punk scene. Back then, the band members had been young teen rebels from the dystopian suburbs of the nearby San Fernando Valley, leather clad intelligentsia lashing out at a pervasive culture of greed and conformity. And while the band might now look less like brash young upstarts and more like hip college professors (singer Graffin is, in fact, a college professor) - there’s still a whole lot to rail against and the band is undeniably up to the task.
“I think at heart, Bad Religion has always been anti establishment and about open mindedness,” Gurewitz says. “Since we we’re kids, this country has vacillated between varying degrees of anti intellectualism, machismo and religiosity - maybe now more than ever. And we write with a secular humanist world view which really goes against all that.” This sentiment is echoed in his lyrics to the blistering state-of-the-art hardcore of Welcome to the New Dark Ages. As a frantic wall of guitars power a rousing sing along chorus, Graffin’s surprisingly soulful voice calls out: ‘Welcome to the new dark ages / I hope you’re living right / these are the new dark ages / and the world might end tonight / So how do you sleep - there’s nothing to keep. This is deep / because we’re animals with golden rules who can’t be moved by rational views.’
It is this world view which infuses so much of New Maps of Hell. But there is also a sense of inner turmoil absent from the band’s previous efforts. Where before there had been a defiant questioning and call for change, there is now an underlying sense of lost idealism - an acknowledgement that all the angry protest songs in the world could not prevent the mess we’re in. And as unsettling as this sentiment might be for the longstanding firebrands, it has undoubtedly inspired a vital and emotionally charged record.
“Living in this world can leave you with a pretty bleak outlook,” Graffin says, at the recording studio. “But then we still have that same naive hope we had as angry idealistic teenagers, that human beings will hear this music and think, ‘This isn’t right and I’m gonna do something about it.’ There’s a song called Requiem for Dissent on this record which is actually one of the more uplifting songs - the idea behind it being to try and raise the dead rebel from his grave.”
And while a stunning new record from one of the most influential bands in recent history may not be enough save this messed up world, it might very well inspire a few defiant souls into action. Watching the band rip through a live set in front of a few thousand exhilarated fans days after completing New Maps to Hell, the sheer power of Bad Religion’s music is unquestionable. The kids are pressed against the barrier, many with eyes closed and fists raised, singing each lyric as if it means the world to them. The entire affair has an intensely inspirational and cathartic air, like some riotous punk rock baptism in the name of free thought and dissent.
“I think a lot of our fans are just angry nerds like us,”Gurewitz says afterwards. “And that’s really who we write for. Being a humanist and an intellectual is about as rebellious as it gets these days.”
“In the end we do this because we still care deeply about inspiring people,” Graffin adds. “I know that may sound a little lofty, but the truth is when I was a teenager, music was only thing that gave me hope in this world.”
Live and Direct from the Honky Tonk of Electro. Behold the all time greatest 50’s Doo-Hop, Electro, Hip Hop Group from the 80’s. Three shit-faced extra terrestrials known amongst the elite simply as Donny, Preston and Holly. A couple of real gentlemen and one broad with a steady diet of cotton candy and flat soda pop to calm the nerves. Donny “Ponyboy” Fontaine is a straight shooter, who once won a trip to Reno, Nevada in a James Dean look-a-like contest. Despite his uncanny looks, he still has trouble with low self-esteem at times. Donny began rapping in the summer of ‘56 and has not stopped since. One of Donny’s greatest achievements was a freestyle battle he won at the Country Manor Home for the Mentally Disabled. “As far as I’m concerned none of these retards stand a chance”, said Donny, prior to his landslide victory. With the wits of a pigeon and an ego big enough for five men, Donny is destined to be a pretentious rock star of epic proportions.
What would the greatest Electro/Doo-Hop group of all time be without a super producer/dj extraordinaire? His name is Preston Moronie, a cool customer on the computer buttons with a pension for domestic violence. In an interview Preston once asked a reporter “What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?” “What” the reporter replied. “Nothin’ you already told her twice”, he yelled, as he strangled the broad next to him. Despite being a convicted felon and full time alcoholic, Preston sticks to his passion of creating timeless works of art. Donny and Preston first met in the fall of ‘62, during a fist fight at a local Denny’s in the city of San Fernando. The two were involved in an altercation over what song was to be played over the jukebox. Preston wanted to hear some “Fats Domino” and Donny of course, insisted on “Martha and the Vandella’s”. The waitress who stopped the quarrel was none other than Holly “Baby” Valentine a big time hussy with a foul attitude and a mouth full of bubble gum. Holly was born in the jungles of South America, but moved to the states after killing several cops. With a voice like an angel and a mouth like a truck driver, Holly hit it off perfectly with Donny and Preston. The three decided to start the Doo-Hop, Electro, Death-Core super group “HYPER CRUSH”. Hyper Crush is part of the San Fernando Valley’s aristocratic super elite known as “Le Brethren De Molak”, and are said to have ties with such people as Ralph Macchio and the ever elusive Corey Haim. HYPER CRUSH seems to have the “rap game” in a constant choke hold status with songs like “Sex and Drugs” and “Disco Tech”. It seems to be that once these three mad geniuses set their minds to ruling the universe at large there is nothing standing in their way!
Skate rock legends Los Olvidados will be performing during the etnies Pool Jam at GvR! Los O has been rocking the skateboarding world since the first Thrasher “SkateRock” tape a couple decades ago and they’ve never let up.
Los Olvidados were one of those legendary punk bands that everyone agreed would put their town on the map… San Jose in Los Olvidados’ case! They followed in the footsteps of many great bands by breaking up before releasing a full-length, leaving studio tapes and a few key, mind-blowing compilation tracks as their legacy of radness for future generations of skaters.
Los Olvidados shambled out of the early ’80s punk/skate scene of San Jose, the huge city which anchors the bottom part of the San Francisco Bay and is home to most of Silicon Valley. With Mike Voss (Vocals/Guitar), Ray Stevens II (Bass), Mike Fox (Guitar), and Matt Etheridge (Drums), Los Olvidados had the talent and the song-writing to blaze their way across the mid-80s skate punk scene. Slightly more political than some of their skate rock contemporaries, Los Olvidados kicked musical ass while making a point.
Los Olvidados has songs on Thrasher Skate Rock Volume 1 “Skate Rock,” Thrasher Skate Rock Volume 2 “Blazing wheels and Barking Trucks,” Alternative Tentacles / Maximum Rock and Roll release “Not So Quiet On The Western Front” and on the new Los Olvidados release “Listen To This!”
All of the members have gone on to multiple bands, multiple albums, and multiple world tours- but Los Olvidados is where they started on their road to radness.
Directions To GvR
From San Diego and all points south, via Interstate 5:
Take the Lake Forest Dr exit and go right, east (towards the mountains) for approximately 5.5 miles. Turn right on Rancho Parkway. Street parking is available on Rancho Parkway, on Lake Forest Drive, as well as on Vista Terrace, Windrow and Hermana Streets. There will also be parking signs directing traffic to GvR parking lots. Please do not park in the Home Depot Shopping Center, as your car will be towed!
From Long Beach, Los Angeles, Anaheim, and all points north, via Interstates 5 or 405:
Take Bake Parkway exit from either the 5 or 405, and turn left, east (towards the mountains), approximately 5 miles. Turn right on Rancho Parkway and drive a quarter mile to Lake Forest Drive. Parking is available on Rancho Parkway, on Lake Forest Drive, as well as on Vista Terrace, Windrow and Hermana Streets. There will also be parking signs directing traffic to GvR parking lots. Please do not park in the Home Depot Shopping Center, as your car will be towed!
From the 241 Toll Road:
Going south, exit Lake Forest Dr. Go left at the light, then turn left onto Towne Center Drive. Go a quarter mile, then turn left at Bake Parkway. Go one quarter mile to Rancho and turn left. Watch for parking signs. Street parking is available on Rancho Parkway, on Lake Forest Drive, as well as on Vista Terrace, Windrow and Hermana Streets. Please do not park in the Home Depot Shopping Center, as your car will be towed!
Going north, exit Portola and go right at the light. Drive approximately one mile, then turn left at Bake Parkway. Go one quarter mile to Rancho and turn left. Watch for parking signs. Street parking is available on Rancho Parkway, on Lake Forest Drive, as well as on Vista Terrace, Windrow and Hermana Streets. Please do not park in the Home Depot Shopping Center, as your car will be towed!
Parking Map
Hotel Info
Are you coming into town and staying for the weekend? You should be! There’s a few hotels withing skating (or walking) distance from the etnies skatepark.
Hampton Inn - Orange County
27102 Towne Center, Foothill Ranch, CA 92610
Phone: 949-597-8700
Hilton Garden Inn East - Lake Forest
27082 Towne Centre, Foothill Ranch, CA, 92610
Phone: 949-859-4000
Staybridge Suites
2 Orchard, Lake Forest, CA
Phone: 949-462-9500
