Recently one of our fellow riders has found a whole lot of success in the sport. That rider is 12 year old Cameron Ward. You might recognize his name from some of his competition performances. His first ever competition was SD2, where he took 1st place in the beginner division. He recently entered both the first and second round of the Raise The Gnar Tour Competitions stops, where he also took 1st place in the intermediate divisions. With competition performances like this, you might think he’s been riding for years…However, he has only been riding about a year and a half.
To say that competitions are the only place Cameron has found success wouldn’t be quite accurate. After winning both tour stops of the RTG competitions, he was asked to come to a city council meeting. Where he was presented a “Certificate of Recognition” for his accomplishments on his scooter, from the Mayor of his city. The city planner then asked Cameron if he would like to participate in the annual “Extreme Nights Show”. Cameron accepted, and showed up to find that there was also a professional BMX Team performing that night. Dave Ward, the owner of DSA Scooters, asked the Team if they would be ok with Cameron riding the ramps. At first they were quite hesitant and unsure of this. However, after they saw Cameron start to ride, their minds were changed very quickly. Following shortly, they would ask him to be a part of their performance that night. Where Cameron would continue to match them trick for trick on the ramps, and blew them away in street.
His success would continue when he was approached by Darren of Nextsport, where Cameron was asked to help promote the new Spencer Hawk, H2 Model from Fuzion/Nextsport. Cameron agreed to help them film their promotional video, at none other, then Tony Hawk’s house. While at the Hawk house with fellow riders, Capron and Corey Funk, they started riding, and Tony came out for awhile to check it out, and he was really impressed at what he saw from these guys.
In conclusion, I am going to leave a link to an article that a newspaper columnist did on Cameron Ward. There is a video interview, and also the written story. I advise everyone to read it, it’s well written, and has some great quotes from one of the oldest riders in our sport, current Team Razor Manager, Ali Kermani. So check out and a big congratulations to Cameron Ward from Inside-Scooters.
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kid is so rad. just really hope he deosnt turn into another dakota. i dont think he will judging by how cool him and his dad were at xw.
ReplyDeleteHaha yeh kid looks like a maddd little shredder
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