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. We're hyped on The Body back on the mic with Ryan Clements joining Porpe and I on the lens and registration. On that day, we will also announce a new full time addition to The Boardr staff that will complete our A-Team crew of skateboard shindig organizers and all that. We're still building our 2014 and things are looking nice. I hope your year is coming together as nicely. I've got a few photos from the short time we were there today.
Sound Check and Prep at Lakeland Skatepark for the Contest Next Weekend
Published 2/23/2014 by Rob Meronek
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That's the flow bowl where the bowl events will be.
The street contests will be here.
Porpe is doing a sound check so Clem and Body can properly entertain you all day long.
On the way back, we stopped at a contest going on today that we used to do. We borrowed the Shop vs Shop concept from MIA and added to the format of allowing a shop owner or TM to join the jam, then added the bracketing system to the Finals for it. We should do that again except maybe like on a national level where we divide the country into regions for the qualifiers and have a big finals somewhere out in California. We'll see. Anyway, John Montesi was there doing one of my favorite street plants that I never learned, the ho ho plant.
The Editor is taking The Mag all cutting edge and putting sequences on. Remember when magazines used to do that? This is Drew Hasselhoff and we'll see him shredding next Saturday. Register on site or right here online.
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