Page 20 of 22: Event Coverage and Blog
X Games 2014 Skaters
6/3/2014
This year at X Games, we're taking an initial step into top am skateboarding with the first X Games Am. We complied the input from key people in the skateboarding industry like magazine editors and other influential skaters to get a short list of 12 top ams to have in this one. Then when we discovered how many of them can't make it, we return to the drawing board to rearrange. Repeat that process like five times and you're at this list of 12 confirmed rippers below. The process for Park and Pro Street works in a similar way. Watch for more on our plans for am skateboarding after we get through an already packed summer of good times at all these skateboarding gatherings. Here's the list of skaters you'll see this week in X Games Austin 2014.
Vote for Clint Walker in X Games Real Street
6/3/2014
This is the last week to vote in X Games Real Street. We need Clint Walker to win this.
X Games 2014 Course and Arrival in Austin
6/2/2014
On Sunday after adidas Skate Copa ATL, we drove straight from Atlanta to Austin where we arrived at around midnight to get to work on X Games Austin this week. I've got a few photos of the course and our short night out last night in downtown Austin. It's going to be a week of ripping rolling and top quality chill time in this fun city and skateboard shindig that includes a show with Kanye, Mac Miller, The Flaming Lips, and more. I hope you're in Austin, Texas this week.
adidas Skate Copa at Atlanta
5/30/2014
Skateboard shops from the southeast brought their crews to Kennesaw, Georgia for adidas' Skate Copa shop vs shop series. HiDefJoe has the video documentation of shredding that went down and I've got some photos. Who won? Get the results, photos, and more details about Skate Copa here.
Maryland Am at Charm City Skatepark in Baltimore
5/26/2014
Jason Chapman invited us up to Baltimore to check out his skate park and scene that he's been part of since 1994 when Charm City Skatepark started. The park's second home in that time is now in an old paintball warehouse. It's huge, has a vert ramp, and more wood than a forest. Today, Jason ran his Maryland Am Contest that we helped run with The Boardr Live, our scoring app that we run our events with. Baltimore is an interesting city with some good skateboarding. We should make it part of our long term plans. More on that later. As usual, my story is in the photos below.
Grind for Life Series at Ramp 48 in Fort Lauderdale
5/19/2014
This past weekend was very eventful for the skateboarding world. Street League Pro Open went down in Los Angeles, most of The Boardr crew was in Las Vegas for the Zappos Rideshop and Mr. Grind for Life himself, Mike Rogers, was in Orange County, California for the Vans Pool Party. But the most important event of the weekend was the Grind for Life Series at Ramp 48 in Ft. Lauderdale. Here are the photos, videos, and results.
Photo and Video Recap: Zappos Rideshop Series in Las Vegas
5/17/2014
Wow, what a great night that just went down here in Las Vegas where two city blocks were shut down for a ripping skateboarding contest. Check the results here. Congrats to Evan Smith for that insane line you see in this video.
Arrival in Las Vegas for Zappos Rideshop Series
5/15/2014
HiDefJoe, Clements, and I are in Las Vegas for the final finishing touches this week on the Zappos Ride Shop Series on Friday at 4pm on Las Vegas Boulevard and Fremont Street. Today we visited Big Al and Mean Gene putting together the obstacles and then conducted a field study of the event site. That included freak shows with everything Vegas you'd expect, with no open container laws and the easiest access to sinning you could possibly imagine.
X Games Real Street Voting Starts Today
5/13/2014
Today voting starts in the X Games Real Street Contest. Each of these 16 pros filmed a one minute part that just dropped today. Judges determine who goes home with nearly a thousand bucks a second. Yep, someone's getting $50k for first. For the Fan Favorite popularity contest, it's up to you. There's $10k up for grabs for who gets the most Tweeted votes. Your Tweet needs to contain three things: the pro's last name hastagged, the #RealStreet hashtag, and @XGames. Click on any pro below and the correctly formatted voting Tweet is ready for you to help your favorite pro come up ten large.
Grind for Life Fort Lauderdale Stop on May 17
5/6/2014
On May 17th in Fort Lauderdale is the next stop of the Grind for Life Series here in Florida. We're two stops in now and have the GFL leaderboard stats for each division here. Your top two events in the series count for your final score where we'll all high five and hang out at The Boardr Headquarters on November 22nd.
adidas Skate Copa at New York City
4/25/2014
adidas Skate Copa NYC Regionals are a wrap. Check the Qualifiers Results here and the Finals brackets progress below. Congrats to the Labor Skate Shop crew that gets an all expenses paid trip to The Berrics for the Finals in July. Next stop for adidas Skate Copa is Atlanta on May 31. I've got some photos for you here and HiDefJoe has the video recap below.
adidas Skate Copa in NYC This Saturday
4/21/2014
This weekend in NYC at LES Skatepark, we're hanging out with the adidas team including two Marks that I'm definitely going to mark out on: Gonz and Suciu. It's the first stop of the adidas Skate Copa series, a national shop vs shop contest where the winning shop gets all expenses paid to the Finals at The Berrics in LA. See you there on Saturday. We're buying food and drinks for everyone on site after the contest is over, too.
Transworld CUT in Austin, Texas
4/16/2014
This past weekend I was in Austin for 36 hours for the second stop of Transworld's Come Up Tour. I was surprised with how much I was able to do in Austin in the day and a half I was there.
Grind for Life Series at New Smyrna Beach, Florida: Video, Photos, and Recap
4/14/2014
I've got some photos and HiDefJoe has the video. The skateboarding at last weekend's New Smyrna Beach stop of the GFL Series was all over the spectrum of different types and ages of skateboarding as usual, but this time, the bowl portion was most memorable. The street course there is not the best in the world, but just as skateboarders do, you make the best of what you've got. There were parent/child combos, toddlers, teens, girls, grown ass men, and extra grown 50+ men all ripping all day. Thanks to everyone that made it out to another one.
Two Skateboarding Shindigs Going on Today
4/12/2014
Porpe is in Austin and the rest of us are in New Smyrna Beach. We're both running skateboard shindigs today using The Boardr Live.
adidas Partners with The Boardr for a National Shop vs Shop Contest Series: adidas Skate Copa
4/11/2014
adidas has teamed up with The Boardr to bring you adidas Skate Copa, a US series of Shop vs. Shop Team Contests that we're excited to be running. We're announcing the dates today with full details at TheBoardr.com/adidasSkateCopa. Stops include NYC in just two weeks, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, and the last stop and Finals being in Los Angeles at The Berrics. The Shop Team that wins each stop gets all expenses paid to join us at the Finals in LA. What a summer it's going to be getting all these Shops together and local scenes in one town for a fun skateboarding shindig and some friendly competition. See you at all of them!
Transworld CUT in Sacramento, CA
4/7/2014
While Rob, Ryan, and Joe were in Phoenix for PHX AM I was in Sacramento helping out Transworld with the first stop of the Come Up Tour. I got some photos from the contest. Here are the full TWS CUT Sacramento Results here.
Phoenix Am 2014
4/4/2014
We're in Phoenix this weekend for Cowtown's Phoenix Am. They're using The Boardr Live for scoring and the live webcast on Sunday. We've got two edits, one from practice yesterday and one from the Qualifiers today.
A Skateboard Contest in New Smyrna Beach on April 12th
3/29/2014
The Editor is going to put you on the cover at the New Smyrna Beach April 12th stop of the Grind for Life Contest Series we're running. Sign up at TheBoardr.com/Register. See you in a short two weeks!
Tampa Bro: A Session and BBQ in the Dream Driveway
3/21/2014
Every year before Tampa Pro, we invite our friends in town to hang out by the river, push through the Dream Driveway, and dig in on Porpe's BBQ. Thanks to everyone that came by. We're looking forward to hanging out for the weekend and watching some great skating with no work to do for a change.
ESPN Teams with The Boardr for X Games Street and Park Skateboarding
3/19/2014
A little over 10 years ago, Ryan and I started attending X Games events as they started to really get a lot of things right, like the course, the invited skaters, and the format. We've been attending as spectators ever since, watching the evolution of their big event. This year, we're pleased to announce that we're working with X Games and ESPN as the skateboarding organizers for the Men’s and Women’s Street and Park disciplines. For the next three years, we'll be mixing skateboard business and pleasure with our friends at ESPN, as we all continue to help evolve their skateboarding events. This year, X Games is in Austin, Texas starting June 5th.
The Boardr Bland Opening
3/5/2014
As we mentioned, we've got a lot more work to do before we can make this opening grand, so for now, it's bland. We put together a video and some photos of the Store for you after this week's Bland Opening of The Boardr Store. We're just getting started, ya'll. Thanks for following along.
Grind for Life Series at Lakeland Skatepark
3/4/2014
HiDefJoe has a video recap of a great day of skating from young to old at the first stop of the Grind for Life Series in association with The Boardr. We weren't sure if 1 or 100 of you would enter. Turns out it was 143 with everyone bringing a crew of family and friends for a nice day on wheels with a good sized crowd and great Florida weather to match. Damn, it couldn't have been any better. I'll tell you the rest of the story in my photos below.
Grind for Life Series Lakeland Results
3/1/2014
Thanks to everyone who came to Lakeland Skatepark today for the first stop in the Grind for Life Series run by all of us here at The Boardr. Check the Results Page for the numbers rundown. We'll have photos and video up over the next few days. It's won't be as fast this time with all the preparation for our Bland Opening we have on Monday. And video? We'll have more on a proper announcement of our new addition to The Boardr staff coming soon.
Join Us Monday for The Bland Opening of The Boardr Store
2/27/2014
That building in Tampa near the Bucs Stadium with no sign that you might drive right past? Yep, that's us at 4611 North Hale Avenue. There's no party, no fireworks, no naked ladies jumping out of cakes, and there's not even anything to skate! It's just the door opening up if you want to stop by and check out what we're up to here and maybe play a Game of SKATE on our glorious flatground in the empty TF. Join us for the low key, mellow ass, bland opening at 11am on Monday, March 3rd. We've got a lot of work left to do. Sometime down the road we'll make the real opening grand instead of bland.