Lohse party 2015 – Cologne, Germany

A sunny, warm and cloudy day in Cologne celebrating 15 years of the Lohse Ramp with some ripping skateboarding from german and dutch skaters. The contest ended with 14 year old (younger than the ramp) Lenni Janssen taking the win, Tim Rebensdorf with 2nd place, Nick Bax with 3rd, and Tim Bijsterveld with best trick, with the 270 boneless in (and bonus bomb drop to shut down the ramp for the day). Insert Coin started playing for the packed Lohse crowd and then Köln local hardcore favorites TSH – The Schöne Hubätz took the stage as the pit started to heat up and the rain sprinkled down, turning into a full on monsoon before the end of the third song, with some people holding up and hiding under the tarp to cover the band equipment, or lurking under the beer tent, and others overflowing into the darkness under the bridge where two new rivers flowed from up the hill through the trough of the bridge and everyone was completely soaking wet and soggily scattered into the night to find shelter from the rain.

Photos + video: J. Hay
Music: The Schöne Hubätz

Tim Bijsterveld. Frontside air.

Tim Bijsterveld. Frontside air. Photos: J. Hay

Lenni Janssen. Backside indy grab.

Lenni Janssen. Backside indy grab.

Nick Bax. Feeble to fakie.

Nick Bax. Feeble to fakie.

Bastian Conrad. Sweeper.

Bastian Conrad. Sweeper.

Tim. Frontside air to fakie.

Tim Rebensdorf. Frontside air to fakie.

Robin Schulze. Front smith.

Robin Schulze. Front smith.

Floris. Backsmith.

Floris Harteveld. Backsmith.

Tim Bijsterveld. Frontside invert.

Tim Bijsterveld. Frontside invert.

Robin Schulze. Backside air.

Robin Schulze. Backside air.

Nick Bax. Frontside air.

Nick Bax. Frontside air.

Nick Bax. Blasting out a frontside air from the crowd.

Nick Bax. Blasting out a frontside air from the crowd.

Lenni Janssen. Backside melon grab.

Lenni Janssen. Backside melon grab.

Best trick over the Channel:

Tim Bijsterveld. 270 boneless in over the channel.

Tim Bijsterveld. 270 boneless in over the channel.

Christopher Skubis. Stalefish channel transfer.  Photo: J. Hay

Christopher Skubis. Stalefish channel transfer. Photo: J. Hay

Eumel Tim. Channel transfer 5-0 grind to fakie.

Eumel Tim. Channel transfer 5-0 grind to fakie.

Bastian Conrad. Channel transfer to disaster.

Bastian Conrad. Channel transfer to disaster.

Sjoerd Vissers. Channel transfer tailslide.

Sjoerd Vissers. Channel transfer tailslide.

Tim Bijsterveld. Miller flip spine transfer.

Tim Bijsterveld. Miller flip spine transfer.

Skubis. Stalefish transfer.

Skubis. Stalefish transfer.

Check out some photos of The Schöne Hubätz in the rain from Head on the Bar

Bonus photos from Nicola Debernardi:

Sjoerd Vissers. Ollie over the hip. Photo: Nicola Debernardi

Sjoerd Vissers. Ollie over the hip. Photo: Nicola Debernardi

Lenni Janssen. Indy air.

Lenni Janssen. Backside air.

Sjoerd Vissers. Channel transfer tailslide.

Sjoerd Vissers. Channel transfer tailslide.

Tim Rebensdorf.

Tim Rebensdorf. Fakie Nose blunt.

Julian Adomako. Ollie in.

Julian Adomako. Ollie in.

Nick Bax. Frontside air.

Nick Bax. Frontside air from low to high.

Tim Bijsterveld. Andrecht.

Tim Bijsterveld. Andrecht.

Tim Rebensdorf. Frontside air to disaster.

Tim Rebensdorf. Frontside air to disaster.