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Tony Hawkster Does It Again

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WILMINGTON, NC — Youth across the U.S. continue to lead the charge for free, public skateparks in their communities. Skateboarding is now practiced by more than five-million Americans, though it has yet to receive the recognition or level of service afforded more traditional sports. And it’s the skaters themselves who are campaigning to put skateboarding on the recreational map, with most of the approximately 3,000 skateparks across the country resulting directly from local youth advocacy efforts.

Since 2002, the Tony Hawk Foundation has been assisting communities in their pursuit of free, high-quality permanent skateparks for their youth. With its team of skatepark experts, the foundation provides critical technical support to advise local advocates, promoting best practices for creating a local skatepark campaign and working through the obstacles common to these important facilities. THF also provides grant funds to help build free public skateparks in low-income areas.

This week, the foundation Board Of Directors announced the recipients of its latest skatepark-grant awards. These eight recipients join a list of 574 communities that have been awarded THF skatepark grants, and represent towns and cities large and small, from across the U.S.

With a campaign prominently led by its local skaters, Wilmington, North Carolina’s Ogden Skatepark project is an exemplary effort, and earned the foundation’s top award. “We are proud to support Wilmington in this way,” said Tony Hawk, whose previous visits to the area provided insight into the impact the park will have on local youth. “It represents the type of community efforts that we encourage through our skatepark advocacy. It is also a project that is close to my heart, so I plan to be involved with the park design and construction.”

As with each of the nearly 2,000 applicants for THF grants, Hawk has provided direct feedback on the Ogden Skatepark design. “We are thrilled to be the recipient of a grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation,” said Tara Duckworth, Director of New Hanover County Parks and Gardens. “His support means so much to this project and our community, and helps us bring more diverse recreation opportunities to meet the needs of all of our citizens. The skate community has been waiting a long time for this, and we are so excited to see the Ogden Skatepark become a reality.”

Spring 2016 THF Skatepark Grant Recipients
Wilmington, North Carolina — $25,000
Bristow, Oklahoma — $15,000
Palouse, Washington — $15,000
Tillamook, Oregon — $10,000
New Richmond, Wisconsin — $10,000
Macon, Georgia — $5,000
Ely, Minnesota — $5,000
Lincoln, New Hampshire — $5,000

Hoverboard Newest Hits World

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Geek.com reports Lexus built their own skate park, with a special metal track embedded in the ground throughout the area. That track works as one giant magnet, which when met with the 32 super conductors built into the Slide, repels the board a few inches off the ground. In order for the super conductors in the Slide to work, they have to be cooled to -321 Fahrenheit. You have to “refuel” the board with 50z of liquid nitrogen every ten minutes to keep those crazy magnets cold. Read it all on GEEEK

FL Skaters Air on TV

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Two Florida contest skateboarders made national airways this week when their skating skills opened the doors for an opportunity to be part of a national television commercial for Office Max and Office Depot. The two office supply companies merged last year in a big deal on the New York Stock Exchange. More to come as the story is finalized for publication.

It all started a couple months ago when a talent agency in Naples, FL began searching for skateboarders who could “drop in a huge half pipe”. That announcement captured the attention of several skaters in Florida who tried out at the casting call in Miami. But before you could go to that actor audition, Schilling Advertising Agency, from New York City mandated that each skater needed to film themselves dropping in a big ramp and say a couple of corny punchlines. (It was obvious they agency wasn’t that well versed in the skate scene.)

The talent agency submitted 31 applications in total to the casting agent for the top 3 jobs which included $2,500 for the main role, and two (2) $250 background skater roles. Two skaters earned some cash, as Titus Massinello and Will Schumatti were selected and asked to return the day before the shoot to prep them for their roles. Both were well above what the agency needed in skill level for their roles as “extras”. The main role was secured by an actor Mavrick Moreno who had to spit out the line “Cool computer, where’d you get that?”

Titus and Will both made the most of it, basically getting paid to skate in Brian Piccolo Skate Park in Cooper City, FL. When the commercial aired on national television this month on ABC, NBC, CBS channels just in time for “back to school”, both boys were not visible in the tv ad, though Will made the opening scene (see the blurry image of a skater on a ramp in the upper left corner) hahaha. Pretty funny we thought!

On a side (and funny) note. The Director tried to control the rambunctious skaters who did what skaters do best, skated! And when he said “Cut!”, the two just kept skating. When the Director yelled “ACTION!” it really didn’t matter because the skaters were already skating (lol). When it was over and the Director screamed “that’s a wrap!”, as you can guess, the two didn’t even hear him; they just kept skating. In fact it was tough to get them two out of there when the shoot was finally over!

The entire production was licensed in Florida by Highland Talent payments.

 

 

Seeking Practice Skate Location

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UPDATE: Thank you South Florida Skate Parks – FLSK8 received a few generous offers to facilitate our need for a competitive skate environment for our shredders who wanna compete and we want to say thank you!

In our original Post, we wrote: – We have a group of EXCELLENT skateboarders who desperately need a location like a warehouse or open parcel of land to erect a private SKATE RAIL to practice for competition. Or in the best circumstances, a custom mini skate “park”. We do not need the full Monty of a park, just a down ramp to gain speed to hit the rails. We need a warehouse or raw land (paved), and a welder for rail manufacturing. We also need construction pros to help build what we need to compete, and lumber yard and steel donations to make the ultimate grind facility.

Skateboarders: if you know someone and want to give us their contact info to contact them about this, that is fine, just contact us via text or email to get started.Our skaters are mostly in Palm Beach County but we will travel for a location.

My inspiration to get a skateboard practice location.
My inspiration to get a skateboard practice location.