Southeast skate calendar, news, events & adventures

It’s time for the pre-4th of July fireworks, known as GSD! June 21 is time to show up and blow up at your local skatepark!!!
Celebrate the Joy of FREE PUBLIC concrete skateparks, all around Georgia.(I’m told I’m not allowed to name a certain free public skatepark)
so load up your picnic basket, grab a few ice cold sports drinks, come on out and enjoy the day riding skateboards.
it’s all about having fun.

we’re gonna have fun…

on a positive note…the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico has not resulted in any harm to the Gulf’s Walrus population!

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the skate camp at(can’t name the skatepark here) is FULL, and there’s a waiting list.

at last check, the only Athens summer camp that IS NOT FULL is the Tennis Camp.
which reminds me…ACC continues in it’s quest to build it’s 2.2 million dollar tennis center…YOU do the math…heh heh heh

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summertime…and the skatepark’s getting crowded. and annoying…
here’s some simple things to make you a better person to be around:

SK8 trick tips…Don’t give’em, if you can’t do the trick yo’self! (unless you simply enjoy being a KOOK)

oh…and if you gotta’ ask, well then NO-you’re NOT good enough to be sponsored. Skate for the LOVE of skateboarding, or KILL YO’SELF!

that’s all for now.
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just about every afternoon, the “international community” of Athens has their soccer league tournaments at Bishop Park. Go check it out…these are serious competitions amongst dozens of players…enjoying the freedom to meet at a public park and enjoy their favorite activity. It’s pretty cool…
somehow, they’re referred to as “pickup games”.

at Memorial Park, as you go to see the baby bears in the zoo…you’ll pass the basketball courts, where dozens of B-ballers meet up and play a tough game of hoops. I don’t see parents dropping their kids off to join in the games…heh heh heh.
these are referred to as “pickup games”. sounds safe enough, yeah?

at southeast park, if a group of skateboarders wants to meet up and ride skateboards at the skateboard park…they’re being referred to as “renegade events”. (unless they seek permission and have “event insurance”?)
I guess you can’t have a “pickup game” of skateboarding.
pretty cool, ACC seems to be trying to keep the act of skateboarding a “bad boy” activity.
renegades….PUH-LEEEEEZE!!!

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apparently, my previous post has painted a negative picture…making it look like “SKATERS vs GOVERNMENT”.

according to the ACC Parks guy, “if we all work together in a positive manner, we can make things happen.”

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so puh-leeez stay away from SPOA unless you’re 2-wheelin’ or observing the event!

…not that “you people” know anything about respect anyways.

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…will not be happening this year.

remember how much FUN all the local skaters have had at the Concrete Rodeo?
click for photo gallery from;
2009 event
2008 event
2007 event

…and life goes on.

afterparty spills into spoa(burp) at 9:30am tuesday…

HERE’S the latest…

Special Guest Roadies Announced for East Coast Skate Rock Tour
Posted on April 20, 2010
Featuring Bad Shit and The Goat & The Occasional Others

2 bands, 2 vans, 2 filmers and 2 photographers, over 24 skateboarders and 1 baby equals one insane tour!

The bands have confirmed their special guest roadies for the East Coast Skate Rock tour of duty, which kicks off Monday night in Athens, Georgia with Bad Shit and The Goat & the Occasional Others along with the entire Altamont skateboarding team.

Special guests:
Emanuel Guzman, roadie (Bad Shit)
James Hardy, roadie (Bad Shit)
Chet Childress, roadie (The Goat)
Chris Cole, roadie (The Goat)

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get the saturday Athens Paper…or, click here for the article in www.onlineathens.com

sunday session at noon. B-there…

me and steven cobb drove down to daytona for the opening week of STONE EDGE SKATEPARK(1989?). we rode the park twice, then the city/county Code people shut it down after a few days until they got stuff fixed.
we skated vacant beachfront hotel pools instead! it was siiiick.

the last time I skated Stone Edge with all the concrete remaining…the big huge blue vert ramp was still there…and it had tons of bumblebees nesting in the aging structure. so the kids who worked at the park had to run around with tennis rackets and swat the bumblebees dead, before they could get together for a swarm attack on skaters…that was some of the craziest stuff I ever saw at stone edge. the people mackin’ at ryans musta thought we was crazy.

then in 2002, they started destroying the historic concrete.

thanks to marty/KONA for saving what they could.

playin at 2010 lollapalooza…with cypress hill, greenday and more!

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