Organisers were forced to cancel the competitions at the Skate-o-Rama Festival when it was held in July.

While the day went ahead with a barbecue and music from five local bands the main event was postponed until this week.

So Wellholme Park, Brighouse, was full of skateboarders keen to show off their impressive ollies, kickflips and other moves after the delay.

The competitions, which are sponsored by Nikita and Vans, took place on the ramps in the park and were judged by Andy Wood from Endemic Skate Store in Huddersfield.

However, unable to fund a repeat performance from the live bands who appeared last month, there was music played from speakers set up in the park.

Organiser Katie Clay-ton, 25, said this was the third annual festival held in the town since she came up with the idea for the event.

She and her friends, who pitch in to help pull it off every year, regularly use the half and quarter-pipe ramps at Wellholme Park and have done so for years.

"It has got bigger and bigger every year. It is quite overwhelming.

"We are just glad that the wet weather before and a bit of rain earlier did not put people off.

"You can't really predict the weather but it has been a great day anyway."

In 2006 Katie secured funding from the Community Found-ation for Calderdale to help pay for the day and Calderdale Coun-cil's backing.

Mark Dempsey, of Calderdale Council's parks department, said the council were keen to get involved and acknowledge the skateboarders use the park as well as families and older people.