Hop's News Stories (19)

Monday 31st October, Giant Slalom @ Dique Punta Negra

Live feed pulled from YouTube/World Skate Tv due to copyright infringements.

Words from Jack Meyn - Australian Team Manager

The Giant Slalom day. An exciting day, and a…

Special Slalom - Sunday 30th October 2022

Words from Jack Meyn - Australian Team Manager

Late start due to winds, and extreme temperature change contrary to the prior 3 days at Villicum Racetrack. Track…

Words from Jack Meyn - Australian Team Manager…

We have updated the ASRA membership form. 

You can now pay and subscribe with a credit card, you do not need Paypal.

We are just testing and adding new features this week. 

New membership form is here

We can not embed the form, it is a link that goes to Jotform.

Anyone interested in 2018 tees. We have a few left.

To buy a tee click here

ASRA will do its annual AGM on 2nd September 2018 at 3pm. It will be a live Google Hangout. You can watch online or later. More details soon.

AGM has been put off until 9th September. I forgot it was Father's Day on the 2nd, and due to lack of nominations, we can't really have an AGM. I'll write more soon.

This is an old announcement

Updated 9:08pm 7th September

Nominations have closed

The ASRA AGM is here, and we are looking for Board nominations. 

We announced the AGM for Sunday 26th August at 3pm however, the nomination forms did not make it online. We are…

This year at Newtons, we are donating all our haybales to the Burrumbuttock Hay Runners

We have started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to help offset the cost.

A haybale costs us $10 to buy, we have 650 of them at Newtons. If you can spare $10, sponsor a hayebale, it is an amazing charity. Hay is collected around NSW and trucked to farmers in need.…

ASRA is opening up the Friday practice day for skaters who want to freeride but not race. This also includes Gravity Bikes, Inline Skaters, Roller Skaters and any type of Luge. Excluded activities are drift bikes, billy carts and skullboarding.

Price is $100 for a full day of skating includes a competitor tee shirt.

Compulsory safety gear is…

Volunteers are the best people

Without ASRA volunteers, events do not happen. ASRA is run by volunteers, we have no fultime paid jobs at ASRA, we do what we do becasue we love it and we want to see the sport grow.

What we will achieve on Mt Panorama will be pure magic. You will be part of a team that can say WE DID IT!

No matter who who are, there is something you can do. Friends, family, mums, dads, locals, skaters, or just want to be part of a…

Cre8ive Sk8 has become a marque sponsor of the IDF World Cup race on Mt Keira

The finishline will be flagged, bagged, tagged and bannered by Cre8tive Sk8.

Cre8tive Sk8 is owned and operated by Australian legend Adrian "Ado" Alderson. He is the original and till the best. You can not call yourself an Australian luger or longboarder if you have not called the guru from Townsville on the phone, and bought some gnar gear. More racing bling lives in Townsville than…

Basement Skate have stepped up and become the first big sponsor for the Mt Keira IDF World Cup.

The crash corner we all know and love will be the Basement Skate corner this year. This corner is the last big corner before the straight to the finish line. Racers legs will be burning, they know their last chance to make a pass is the Basement Skate corner, it is risky, most try it, and as their wheels break, they…

ASRA needs you!

We are a volunteer organisation, the only way we can put on rad events is with your help. Riders, skaters, parents, brothers, sisters, friends, partners, martians, teachers, spectators, and freaks (we don't…

Brennan Bast leading the Wild Wild West 2015 final  Photo credit: Bob Lee

There is fierce racing rivalry in Australia, tribe vs tribe, crew vs crew, state vs state. However, there is one thing we can all agree on, we don’t care who wins…as long as we beat New Zealand.

New Zealand sent over some real contenders to the Wild Wild West race in July.…

Mitch Thompson fought a close battle with Tyron Knight to win the Juniors race.

First day of Wild Wild West (WWW) was all about the juniors. There were 18 racers in the junior category, and they pushed their limits on a fast track.

Jackson Shapiera, race organiser, stepped up the race to a sanctioned event in 2015 and started the course…

Last night, if you saw it live or watched the Youtube video, ASRA had their annual AGM and has a new board.

The new ASRA board is:

President: James Hopkin (myself):

Vice-President: Tony Streets

Secretary: Bruce de Graaf

Treasurer: Haggy Strom

Three Committee Members

Jackson Shapiera

Michael English

Pete Smith

I am not going to introduce them, we will do some news articles in the future about the new…