Julian Christianson was the overall winner of the 2011 MAKE IT COUNT Contest Series, which took place at the Element YMCA Skate Camp in Sequoia, Ca.

1st Place – Julian Christianson
2nd Place – Adriano Lachovski
3rd Place – Mitch Phillips

Elemental Awareness takes it’s interns and instructors to Winter Count, a wilderness skills gathering in the desert outside of Phoenix, every year to train them for the upcoming summer at Element YMCA skate camp. The education that they receive will help them teach the wilderness program at Camp. Special thanks goes out to Dave Wescott and Back Tracks for hosting the event.

The next stop of the 2011 MAKE IT COUNT International contest series will be held in Santa Ana, CA this Sat! The contest will be held at Santa Ana Park this Sat March 12th! Along with a trip to The Berrics, the overall contest winner will compete against other contest winners for Element Sponsorship at Element YMCA Skate Camp! See you there, and good luck!

Check out the video from the 2011 MAKE IT COUNT CONTEST series in Middletown, RI! Congrats to Kevin Phelps, the overall winner of the contest! Kevin will join other contest winners from all over the world at Element YMCA Skate Camp for finals in June, along with a trip to The Berrics!

Next stop of the 2011 Element “MAKE IT COUNT” Contest Series takes us to Atlanta, GA Jan 22nd at Hazard County Skatepark! The overall winner of the event will receive an all expenses paid trip to Element YMCA Skate Camp to compete for Element sponsorship, as well as a day at The Berrics! Pre-Registration starts the night before at Chipotle Mexican Grill in Brookfield, and resumes day of event.