Published 2/14/2017 by Rob Meronek
The Grind for Life Series is a national, all ages and skills series benefiting the Grind for Life Organization, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that assists cancer patients with travel expenses.
This year's first stop was in New Smyrna, Florida where 144 entries went down in 14 divisions in bowl and street skateboarding.
Rob and Dylan setting up registration, which you can skip if you register online. Do that so you can go straight to skating.
If you're running contests, I hope you're using The Boardr Live. It removes all the stress caused by the boring stuff like arranging jams and crunching numbers. Even with 144 people in the Contest today, towards the end of the day, we had to stop and take breaks because we were getting too far ahead of published schedule. Hit us up at Help@TheBoardr.com if you want to use our tools.
Little man is currently in negotiations to take an entire box of Marinela.
Lauren Canoura on the big quarter. Thanks to the record number of girls that entered this weekend. That was nice to see, especially with so many of you in your first contest ever.
Leave things around, and skateboarders will make it skateable. Interesting how that happens even with noobs like this.
Nash Barfield, Myles Gentry, and Ryan Saueracker took home the top 3 spots for Street 9 and Under.
Elijah Allred, Preston Arey, and Jake Malick took home the top 3 spots for Street 13 to 15.
Georgia Martin, Lauren Canoura, and Carlin Makibbin took home the top 3 spots for Street Girls.
Thanks to the Wings Team.
Skater Mom selfies. Thanks for supporting your kids and GFL.
Thanks to everyone that came to watch.
Best Grip of the Day goes to whoever owns this board.
Jake Yanko, Chris Hatten, and Malachi Macera took home the top 3 spots for Street 16 to 29.
Michael Wiegner, Omar Delgado, and Tary Valle took home the top 3 spots for Street 30 and Up.
Braden Stelma, Tyler Kirshenbaum, and Landon Swan took home the top 3 spots for Street Sponsored.
Not my lucky day.
Nash Barfield, Myles Gentry, and Ryan Saueracker took home the top 3 spots for Bowl 9 and Under.
Reef Orlando, Gavin Liller, and Xavier Schwarz took home the top 3 spots for Bowl 10 to 12.
Tary Valle, Kainalu Canubida, and Dan Boulter took home the top 3 spots for Bowl Intermediate.
Lauren Canoura, Jordan Santana, and Stacie Roberts took home the top 3 spots for Bowl Girls.
Jimmy Marcus, Rodney Mead, and Omar Delgado took home the top 3 spots for Bowl Masters.
Lenny Byrd, Mike Rogers, and Dan Booger Brown took home the top 3 spots for Bowl Grand Masters.
Jake Yanko, Brandon Yarborough, and Drew Hoffman took home the top 3 spots for Bowl Sponsored.
Register ahead of time and you can skip this line.
3/14/2017
The second stop of the season is in the books for the Grind for Life Series Presented by Marinela. Thanks to all 154 of you that entered, and the 54 of you that skated GFL for the first time. We hope you had as good of a time as we did.
5/8/2017
The Grind for Life Series is a national series of contests for all ages and skills levels in both street and bowl. This was the fourth stop of the year at Fort Lauderdale. Next one is June 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
6/12/2017
Stop number five is in the books for the 2017 season of Grind for Life. Next up is Houston this weekend! The Boardr Bus is driving straight from there to Texas as we speak. Thanks to everyone who skated at this stop. Nate has a video recap and Chaz has photos here.
6/20/2017
The Grind for Life Series expands across the country this year. Houston at Southside was our first stop ever in Texas. Chaz and Nate got the recap in photos and video below.
7/3/2017
The Grind for Life Series expands across the country this year. Huntington Beach was our first stop ever in California.
7/17/2017
As you know, Marinela has been backing what we're up to in skateboarding here for a couple years now. They helped us expand the Grind for Life Series across the country this year with two new stops in Californa. While we were out there, we did some demos at a couple stores with Ish and Dilo out there shredding for the locals in between snack sampling.
8/12/2017
We learned something at this stop: skateboard contests on a Tuesday aren't going to be super packed. We figured in Souther California when schools out, Tuesday would be like a Saturday, but it wasn't. Oh well, there was still a good crew of you that came to have a good time and that still went down.
10/17/2017
The 9th stop of the Grind for Life Series Presented by Marinela is in the books. Trap Nate has the video recap and Chaz has photography.
10/20/2017
Check our events list to see where we'll be next for some fun demos with Marinela at stores around the South Florida region. Bring your board and feel free to roll around with us! Chaz has photos below from the first few.
2/27/2018
The second stop of the year for the Grind for Life Series Presented by Marinela is a wrap. Check out Trap Nate's video and Chaz's photography here.
5/21/2018
Fort Lauderdale, Florida was our fifth stop of the year for the Grind for Life Series Presented by Marinela, an all ages skateboarding contest series in both bowl and street. We're doing 12 across the United States this year.
6/19/2018
Orange, California was our sixth stop of the year for the Grind for Life Series Presented by Marinela, an all ages skateboarding contest series in both bowl and street.
