Page 21 of 22: Event Coverage and Blog
Sound Check and Prep at Lakeland Skatepark for the Contest Next Weekend
2/23/2014
We stopped by Lakeland Skatepark today to do a sound check and a general planning session to prep for the first stop of the Grind for Life Series Street and Bowl Contests there this Saturday, March 1. The Bowl Contests are in the flow bowl and the street contests are in the main street course section.
See You in Copenhagen This Summer, August 28 - 31
2/20/2014
You know the fine folks that have been doing the skateboard shindig in Copenhagen for the past seven years? Year after year, many of your favorite pros refer to that as one of the best pro contests of the year. We certainly think the same. This year, they're changing it up a bit. It's the CPH Bowl and will be held in a new transition structure built inside the Copenhagen Skatepark. The dates have just been set for August 28 - 31. We'll have more details soon. For now, here's the basic schedule.
The 2015 GFL Skateboarding Contest Series
2/13/2014
In 2014, The Boardr and Grind for Life partnered up to bring back the Grind for Life Series of all ages bowl and street skateboarding contests around Florida. We're already looking forward to 2015 and will have more details as each event gets closer.
A Florida Road Trip to the East Coast
2/1/2014
This past weekend, Porpe, Clem, and I took a road trip to the East Coast of Florida to bring Sean Malto, Matt Miller, Brad Cromer, and Steve-O to surprise our friend Jacob at his bar mitzvah. We skated, hung out at the party, and got some other business done while we were in town. Thanks Jacob and family for having us as part of your weekend. We had a great time. Maybe The Boardr should start doing celebrity birthday parties, too? I've got a camera dump here.
2nd Annual Tampa Bro Presented by The Boardr
1/30/2014
Please join us on Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 2pm for a BBQ and skate session on the Dream Driveway at Ryan Clements' house.
Registration Is Now Open: Grind for Life Series
1/23/2014
The Grind for Life Series in Association with The Boardr is a Florida series of all ages/skills skateboarding contests. You should pre-register now to save your spot. We are certain that most divisions will fill up and have no room for on-site registration. We will do our best to accomodate spots in the more popular divisions that fill up, but space and time is limited. Thanks and we'll see you at the Contest!
Volcom's Wild in the Parks at Surf Expo
1/10/2014
Today I spent some time at Surf Expo taking some headshots and updating skater profiles for everyone who skated in Volcom's Wild in the Parks Contest. They'll have the results on their site later. Check your updated skater profile here and a few sequences here.
Throwforward Tuesdays: A Florida Skateboarding Series With Grind for Life
1/6/2014
We're still lining up plans for a big ol' am series and all that, but while we figure that plan out, we went ahead and set up an easy one. We're proud to announce that Grind for Life has teamed up with us to bring an all ages/skills series contest to our home state of Florida this year. Each one is a street and a bowl contest except for the last one at The Boardr Headquarters. The Grind for Life Series in Association with The Boardr has five stops set at various parks all around the state.
The Boardr BBQ at the Dream Driveway
12/5/2013
If you were at our BBQ yesterday at the Dream Driveway, thanks for stopping by for a roll and some sauce from either Red Bull or PBR depending on what side of 21 you're on.
The Copenhagen Project
11/16/2013
The women are beautiful. Men are cordial. College is free. And oddly enough it’s the site of the world’s raddest skateboarding gathering: The Copenhagen Pro.
How to Run a Skateboarding Competition: The Boardr Live
11/13/2013
The Boardr Live is a live and instant real time scoring app I wrote to help people run their skateboarding events and competitions quicker, easier, and with less of a headache, fumbling with paper, spreadsheets, etc. I just recorded this quick demo that shows the entire process from start to finish.
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2013
11/12/2013
Fun Fun Fun Fest requested the services of The Boardr so Ryan and I were in Austin, Texas to help coordinate some skateboard events this past weekend.
A Review of Progressive Skatepark in Atlanta, Georgia
11/2/2013
We recently took a trip to the north of the south, Atlanta, Georgia, where just outside of that super city is Progressive Skatepark that shut down about a year ago. What's it going to take to re-open this place?
Lakeland Skatepark Innoskate 2014 Planning
11/2/2013
The Boardr crew was recently in Lakeland for a meeting with city officials and representatives from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. to discuss an event involving the Lakeland Skatepark and the Polk Museum of Art. Innoskate 2013 was an event at the Smithsonian that brought a lot of attention to skateboarding, its influence on culture, and its amazing evolution over the last several decades. The event we're working on in Lakeland will highlight and celebrate a lot of the same things. While we met at the Lakeland Skatepark early that morning, I shot a few photos of everything there. Team Pain and the Lakeland locals that helped design it did a great job with this Park. What's wrong with Tampa and why don't we have something like this already? It's because something got old and forgotten about, then suddenly ended up being a roadblock to progression. I hope our city can work through that mess and get us out of 1970's skateboarding soon. If you're trying to go to Lakeland Skatep
Copenhagen Streets
10/29/2013
We're in Copenhagen once a year when the skateboarding world comes together at Copenhagen Pro. As you've seen from all the coverage, it's a great city with everything you need as a pusher of the wood and wheels: great skate spots, happy ass people, nightlife that lasts through noon the next day, and more. Get a sample of street shred going on outside of that party week from Hjalte Halberg, Jonas Skrøder, Laurent Gehin, Emil Hvilsom, and more in this Kingpin video they just put out. I'm still not convinced it's the last year of Copenhagen Pro. More on that later.
Detroit, Skateboarding, Art, and Community
10/26/2013
Watching the story of Ride It Sculpture Park in Detroit unfold over the years has been a demonstration of two powerful things, the Detroit community and skateboarding.
Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin Next Month with The Boardr
10/18/2013
How much does your music taste vary? I think one of the best side effects of skateboarding is that your music taste is all over the place, except for the generally terrible jock rock food court jams. A music festival is just the place for people like us. This one in Austin, Texas on November 8 - 10 will also feature some vert skating from Christian Hosoi, PLG, and others. Speaking over the airwaves while all this goes down is Ryan Clements. See you there if you're anywhere near Austin in November. It's called the Fun Fun Fun Fest.
Kimberley Diamond Cup 2013 Street Finals Results
9/29/2013
As usual, the head to head bracket format produced some skating that had us all jumping out of our seats. Check out the full Kimberley Diamond Cup Street Finals Results. Congrats Nyjah Huston for taking out Felipe Gustavo in the last round, but not before Felipe got in this amazing switch flip backside tailslide down the hubba.
Kimberley Diamond Cup 2013 Jams and Heats
9/27/2013
The live webcast starts below at 10:30am Eastern time on Saturday. I've got a few photos from today plus the full list of Jams in the South African Am Street and Kimberley Diamond Cup Street Qualifiers. Also included are the heats in the Vert Contest that had to be moved to Saturday due to high winds. It's going to be a ripping day of top quality skateboarding on Saturday in South Africa.
Six Figure Warm Ups at the Kimberley Diamond Cup 2013
9/26/2013
I'm adding photos from the early parts of the weekend here at Kimberley Diamond Cup. The ripping is already off the charts.
Kimberley Diamond Cup 2013 This Weekend
9/25/2013
The Boardr crew is on staff in a few positions from live announcing to tech to photography to judging and more. Catch Nyjah Huston, Evan Smith, Manny Santiago and many other top pros and ams here this weekend on the live webcast or on live TV here in South Africa. We've got the full schedule for you here.
Congrats Ben Hatchell for Winning Empire Backyard Party 2013
9/8/2013
This was the sixth year of the Empire Backyard Party in Montreal, where some of the best bowl skaters are invited for a backyard party style event that's getting better and better every year. I've got some photos and full results for you here along with the video recap from Empire.
Empire Backyard Party Live Webcast Today
9/8/2013
The Empire Backyard Party is on live today at 1pm at BackyardParty.ca.
Arrival in Montreal With the Editor from Frontside Grind Magazine
9/6/2013
We're in Montreal this weekend to mix skateboard bid'niss and pleasure yet again. We're getting lost around the city in harsh traffic at random skate spots and also running the Empire Backyard Party with The Boardr Live.
The Finals at Copenhagen Pro 2013
8/4/2013
The Finals at Copenhagen Pro are always some of the best skating you'll see all year. The mix of skaters that come to this contest is so diverse and unlike any other contest, which is why we started referring to it as the Tampa Pro of Europe years ago. I hope you where here, but if not, I've got a cell phone edit and photos for you.