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Clint Bangs/Josh Steals Show

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With guns blazing, Clint came out banging, at the finals of the sponsored division at the Valentine’s Day Massacre at Tampa skate park where a rare spectacle of talent as Douglas, Beswick, Hunt, Foy and Montoya took the course by storm. Pumping on adrenaline from hard-fought battles all afternoon long, these 5 showed why skateboarding is the REAL talent in sports these days. Assembled as a 5 minute jam, each skater used the park to carve out distinct niche’s in matching their talent across the course terrain.

2015-vdm-bannerDespite Beswick’s smashing run, Josh Douglas stole the show. He overpowered all, even Montoya to claim victory as the champion at Tampa’s VDM. Marcos Montoya was rocking it hard, but in the judges eyes, it wasn’t enough to grab the top platform on the podium. Jamie Foy and Dakota Hunt were on course to rank among the stars; placing 4th and 5th respectively.

The Sponsored Division finals are where Clint and Josh killed it along with Dakota, Jamie and Marcos. Here’s the video of that 5 minute jam.

The judges for the contest repped the Dickies brand all day long!

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Family Embarks to Build Park

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Skatepark designer Tony Misiani has been enlisted to develop a top-notch skate park in Lake City, FL.

LAKE CITY, FL -A family is doing all they can to bring attention to the need for a skate park to be built in the community of Lake City in Florida. The plans started after a 9 year old boy and his dad began to imagine how great it would be for the kids to have a skate park built. So they went to the town officials and started the lobbying process to have a skate park constructed.

After a short period of time, they realized how difficult it was, and started reaching out to others who might of experienced similar dismay. they contacted the Tony Hawk Foundation, and had architecture renderings of the “park” drawn.

This is a 20,000 sq ft facility that will have a 5ft x 24ft mini vert, 13ft x 52ft vert ramp, 9ft deep and 6 ft shallow pool and plenty of flow for all skill levels. This facility will cost between $850k – $900k.

After a few meetings with the town prolonged their desired result, they rethought their plans and decided to go “BiG”. That’s when they reached out to Tony Misiano, skate park developer and architecture guru to help with their plans. Now they have some initial drawings on how the park might be built. But their story is just beginning and we are trying to get the word out for them, so if anyone can help these guys out, please reach out to them, here: Organizer Lawrence Lerwick  [email protected]

Please Attend Our Town Meeting on January 20th at 6pm!!!!!

The following information are those who people can contact to express their wishes to have this built and for competitions to be held there as well.

The Board of County Commissioners

Office Hours:
Monday-Friday
8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Location:
135 NE Hernando Avenue,
Suite 203
Lake City, FL 32056-1529

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1529
Lake City, FL 32056-1529
Phone: 386-758-1005
Commissioner Scarlet Frisina
Contact 386-758-1005 or 386-365-0687

Commissioner Bucky Nash
Contact 386-758-1005

Commissioner Rusty DePratter
Contact (386)-752-2451

City of Lake City
205 N. Marion Ave. Lake City, FL 32055
(386) 752-2031

Wendell Johnson
City of Lake City
City Managers (386) 719-5784

Stephen M. Witt
Mayor at Lake City
Home: (386) 755-0876
Office: (386) 755-2863
[email protected]

Drop-In Jams!

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We just received word that our comrades at Drop-In Complex released a vid of their bang-up contest. We want to send a shout out to them for keeping skateboarding on the map in South Florida. Sorry we missed it, we’ll be releasing more on them soon so check back here.

About the Event Organizer: Drop In Action Sports Complex is South Florida’s premiere complex for all action sports is  hosting an annual Holiday Jam & Skate Contest for Palm Beach/Broward County! For more info check out our event page on FLSK8.com

Check out the event pics!

Check out the skate contest video:

Champ Retains Harvest Crown

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Oh Cake Skateboard creators Nathan Melbourn and Chad Deamis show off sponsored skater Jomar from Puerto Rico.
Oh Cake Skateboard creators Nathan Melbourn and Chad Deamis show off sponsored skater Jomar from Puerto Rico.

Tampa, FL 2014 – Cold weather, wind and clear skies gave way to the appropriately names Harvest Jam, the Skatepark of Tampa’s annual who’s who contest for Florida skateboarding. Mr. Schaefer and his crew put this event TOGETHER. Nice job! It’s always a great experience when the day goes off without a hitch. The newer photographer DrBlowTorch is a bomb of a photographer and as always we met some really great people in the skateboarding business like newly created Oh Cake Skateboard Co, who promises some new technologies in skateboarding.

As the day unfolded so did the Sponsored Finals and last year’s champ was back to defend what he earned last year. A now older, and wiser Zion took to the beautiful new course and carved out a picturesque run using every piece of the course. He tossed when others turned and vise versa. It was like he planned his near perfect execution with ease.

With the photography work of Dr Blow Torch, SPOT has stepped up their game in the online skateboarding space.
With the photography work of Dr Blow Torch, SPOT has stepped up their game in the online skateboarding space.

An older, not nagging leg injury (obviously) didn’t stop Zion Wright’s top performance which could land him in one of the top slots at the upcoming 2014 Tampa AM in December at Skate Park of Tampa. The swinging antics of Mr. Wright included a charismatic display of unorthodox tricks that keep even most of his comrades in “Awe”. So its easy to say he is a crown favorite for a lot of skaters, and  a polite kid. Sponsors listen up, Zion could be your man! he’s a pretty cool kid.

S.P.o.T. front-man Brian S. put on a solid show at this year's Harvest Jam 2014. The Sponsor Division sold out and that means SkatePark of Tampa is getting some well-deserved respect these days. Congrats!
Front-man Brian S. put on a solid show at this year’s Harvest Jam 2014.

That’s not to say the other kids aren’t cool. Most everyone of them has a unique personality which makes skateboarding a very interesting lifestyle. When you dress up in a suit and tie every day for the rest of your life, you realize these “kids” are pretty cool. Zy came out swinging two years in a row to hold onto his Harvest Jam 2014 crown. Now his sights are set on Tampa AM. Last year he put on great performances at Damn AM, Tampa AM, and many others so it will be interesting to see how he does. My opinion is that he’s on fire, so competitors take notice, you’ve been warned!

When the Sponsored finals went down, they resulted in this finish: Click Here to View Results