Londoner Richie Bullbrook has become one of Canada\u0027s top skateboarders and is heading to worlds a year after his dad\u0027s passing
“When the Canadian coach texted me Monday and said, ‘book your flights, you have a spot,’ it was just amazing. I can ask for nothing else. This is the best.”
“The week before he died, I was invited to a Team Canada training camp in Texas,” Richie recalled. “I told my dad about it and knew he would die in the next couple of days. He wouldn’t let me stay home. He made me go. It was super difficult, but he said ‘when are you going to get this chance again?’ “It was our thing that we did together,” Richie said. “He would take me out to California to train. He was the backseat driver and a lot of fun to be around. When I was younger, I used to go to Woodward in Pennsylvania, which was the best place in the world for under-18 skateboarders to train. My dad started working there – volunteering, driving kids to the hospital, being like a camp dad – so I could stay and train longer.
“That’s the nature of skateboarding,” Richie said. “I fall way more than I make stuff. The way a park contest goes, it’s judged by how well you use the entire course. You’re doing back-to-back tricks on different walls and it’s like snowboarding slope-style.Skateboarder Richie Bullbrook is shown at the Medway Bowl in London on Thursday August 3, 2023.
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