Free event at Greenhill's Skatepark to aid others

Cronulla skaters and friends can get involved with a free Barbeque drop in event at the Greenhills Skatepark on Thursday 22.12.22 at 4 pm where local skater Jake Brown will be there to personally sign decks and draw the raffle that has over ten prizes donated by artist Sid Tapia ,skate decks by Jake Brown, Tas Pappas, Danny Van, True Skate and heaps more.

Jake Brown who is the nephew of legendary Cronulla surfer Bobby Brown is a skateboarder who specialises in transition skateboarding and who began competing on the world stage in 1996 regularly appearing as a contestant in the X Games skateboard competition events among others.

Brown who is keen to raise as much local interest as possible said its great that skateboarders can help others who have no such support at home.

"Its a great idea just getting local skaters together " he said

Brown also successfully skateboarded the "MegaRamp" structure, on which he is the first person to ever perform a 720-degree rotation without grabbing his board as of September 2013.

During X Games 2007 he separated from his board 14m (45 feet) in the air, suffering multiple injuries in the fall, but walked away from the incident, winning Gold in the same competition in 2009 and successfully defending his title in 2010.

Now living in the USA Brown has his own Skateboard deck models and has been inducted into the SLAM Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2021.

Brown said there's been so many ups and downs, but he has stayed fairly true to the type of skating he loves.

"In my career I've skated with 99 per cent of my heroes and I'm still friends with most of them now."

Tickets are available at the Cronulla Lodown Skateboarding shop at Shop 3/14 Gerrale St and at the event day.