Grind for Life Series Presented by adidas at Lakeland
Published 2/24/2015 by Rob Meronek
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This crowd is early to rise. The line forms at 9am with Cap'n Casey checking you in.
We set up The Boardr Pop Up Store with some basic skate supplies and a selection of adidas. Parents are kitting up the kids here.
When we did The Boardr Am at Stoner in Los Angeles, the cops were called because of that enjoi banner. No one in Lakeland is that uptight.
The tykes start things off in the Street Divisions. Roman and his golden parachute ollie down the stairs here.
These parents have all the tailgating supplies.
Is that an OG VHS dad cam?
Mason Munar committed and took the spill multiple times on this noseslide, but kept on it and made it.
Tyson's a young ATV that's going to be fun to watch grow up. He's kickflipping the stairs here shortly before going to shred the bowl.
Dane Dowding had all the judges hyped so they gave him the Z-Flex Always Radical Award for this stop.
So much raffle madness coming from the GFL tent. Hope you got some.
Ricky Rosay BMF at The Boardr Store.
Eric McKenney brought the whole SPoT crew and ripped right along with them. That's a 360 flip off the bump.
Uncle Sam had all the creative moves like this ollie over to firecracker finished with a nose manual into the sunset.
Derick Wynn has a nicely snapped straight no comply.
Eric wasn't going to skate but we threw him in there to even out a jam. Thanks for jumping in to shred. That kickflip out of this 5-0 looks like it was done out of a launch ramp!
Once boardslide guy, always boardslide guy. John Party slides into third.
After a certain age, it doesn't matter.
For the first few minutes, it was funny that this classic small town Florida kid who works for Publix wanted to take over the mic with his rap skills. He referred to himself as 3 Chainz. We called him Two Hoagiez instead.
The fishing star poster boy of Street League, Alejandro, has a good leveled out wallie over the whole bench.
JC Mazza on a front bluntslide. JC has two homies from Peru here to skate The Boardr Am next week.
Angelo is here from Peru. We'll see him in The Boardr Am this weekend at Brandenton. That's a backside 180 nosegrind.
Top three in the Street Sponsored Division. Uncle Sam even has tricks when he's getting his trophy.
I hope you made some time to get trimmed up at Second 2 None Barber Shop.
The Editor can't remember if there's ever been a girl on the cover. This could be a first.
There's some sub-coping slashing in the older bowl divisions. I hope we're all still rolling and shredding when we get up there. Take care of yourself. This is John Pingston.
After it's all done, Intern Nate is already at work logging it for HiDefJoe. Thanks to everyone that came out and see you at the next stop!
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