Ryan Scheckler : photo courtesy The Global Asault

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16-Year-Old Ryan Sheckler wins The Global Assault

Results & Webcast replay

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 11 February, 2006 : - - The future of skateboarding is assured if the results of today’s Global Assault are anything to go by, with first and second place getters aged 16 years and 11 years respectively. Ryan Sheckler, 16, from California thrilled the capacity crowd at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia with an awesome range of flip tricks, grinds and airs in to take out the contest and US $30,000. 

“I feel really good – I don’t know if I expected to win but I definitely expected to skate the way I did and how it all ended up was fine,” Ryan said. After five years of staging the world’s largest skate event in conjunction with World Cup Skateboarding, GLOBE decided it was time for a change and put together the Global Assault as a stand alone event with a focus on the skateboarding – not the time or the points. The result was the most fair, legit and open format skateboard competition ever. 

“The new format was good, everyone had a chance to skate really well and the chance to land tricks but didn’t have to do it on the first shot,” Ryan said. “The course was really fun too – Melbourne is great, the crowd was awesome.” Ryan said he wasn’t surprised he and second placed Nyjah Huston, aged 11 from Florida, had done so well.

“We didn’t care, we’ve got nothing to worry about, it’s all uphill for us and we’re just going for it.”

The best line-up of skaters ever assembled under one roof were skating the most progressive street course ever created for a cash purse of $100,000. Appleyard, Rowley, Biebel, Cole, Koston, J. Thomas, Dias, McCrank, Rogers, Sheckler, & Anderson were just some of the skaters at The 2006 Global Assault

After 5 years of staging the world's largest skate event in conjunction with World Cup Skateboarding, GLOBE has decided it's TIME FOR CHANGE and hosted its very own stand-alone event on February 11th 2006 at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne Australia.... The GLOBAL ASSAULT!

The evolution of this event attracted the deepest talent pool of skaters ever assembled anywhere in the world. The invite-only skaters were treated to the most interesting, legit, open format skate contest ever held. The focus was once again on the skateboarding, not the points, not the time, and not the cash…WAIT!!!!

Tune into www.globe.tv/globalassault or follow the link from www.skateboarding.com to see the webcast and replay.

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CONFIRMED SKATERS

Mark Appleyard
Geoff Rowley
Brandon Biebel
Chris Cole
Eric Koston
Jamie Thomas
Sandro Dias
Brian Anderson
Chad Bartie
Chima Ferguson
Chris Senn
Colt Cannon
Cory Shepherd
Darrel Stanton
Danny Hamard
David Gonzales
Adam Dyet
Greg Lutzka
Jake Duncombe
Jereme Rogers
Kyle Berard
Matt Mumford
Nyjah Huston

Omar Salazar
Paul Machnau
Rick McCrank
Ronnie Creager
Ryan Sheckler
Shane Cross
Stefan Janoski
Tosh Townend
Wieger Van Wageningen
Pierre Luc Gagnon
Jake Brown
Rob Lorifice
Renton Millar
Jocke Olsson
Dylan Reider
Terrell Robinson
Angel Ramirez
Tony Cervantes
Silas Baxter Neal
Brian Brown
Kurt Winter
Nick Mitchell
Russel Grundy

Tommy Fynn
Chris Wood
Shane O'Neil
Nick Lister
Ben Gauci
Elissa Steamer
Vanessa Torres
Lynz Hawkins
Lauren Perkins
Patiane Frietas
Violet Kimble
Monica Shaw
Lacy Baker
Amy Caron
Evelien Bouilliart
Marissa DelSanto
Elizabeth Nitu
Sophie Poppe
Ross McGouran
Kilian Heuberger
Philipp Schuster
Severin Von Ow

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