- Czar
- Post Soviett Thursday with Gatorface, Monikers, New Bruises, & Rational Anthem
- 1420 East 7th Avenue, Ybor City
- Free entry for all
- Doors 8pm
- 18 & Up
- $1 Mickey's
Friday, March, 20th
- 9am - Doors Open
- Tickets are $5 & available at Skatepark of Tampa the day of
- Open Pro Street & Vert Practice all day
- 11am - 12pm - Pro Only Vert Practice
- 12pm - Team Manager/Industry VIP Street Contest
- 3pm - Am Vert Contest
- Two, 45-second runs, best counts
- Top 10 advance to Finals
- Finals
- Three, 45-second runs, best counts
- 6pm - 7pm - Pro Only Vert Practice
- 10pm - Doors Close
Friday Night
- Czar
- 1420 East 7th Avenue, Ybor City
- Free with Plastic Skatepark Wristband
- Girls free with any Skatepark Wristband
- Doors 10pm
- 18 & Up
Saturday, March 21st
- 9am - Doors Open
- Tickets are $15 & available at Skatepark of Tampa & skateparkoftampa.com
- 9am - 11am - Pro Only Vert Practice
- 11am - Pro Vert Contest
- 12-minute jams with five skaters each
- One intro run
- Top six advance to Finals
- Finals
- 20-minute jam
- One intro run
- Street Qualifiers Immediately Following
- Three skaters per heat (four if necessary)
- One, one-minute intro run
- Counts for 25% of score
- Three-minute jam (four if four skaters)
- Counts for 75% of score
- Top 24 advance to Semi-Finals to join previous Pro winners
- Top two Golden Tickets go straight to Finals
- 8pm - Doors Close
Saturday Night
- Ghostface & Raekwon @ The RITZ Ybor
- Skatepark of Tampa & Nike SB Present
Tampa Pro Contest Party w/ Ghostface & Raekwon
- Special Guests - The BASIQS, DJ Sandman, & DJ Mega
- The RITZ Ybor, 1503 East 7th Avenue, Ybor City, 813-621-6793
- All Ages
- Tickets - $15
- Doors 8pm
- Available here and at Ticket Master
Sunday, March 22nd
- 9am - Doors Open
- Tickets are $15 & available at Skatepark of Tampa & skateparkoftampa.com
- 12pm - Pro Street Semi-Finals
- Three skaters per heat
- One, one-minute intro run
- Counts for 25% of score
- Three-minute jam
- Counts for 75% of score
- Top 10 advance to Finals to join Golden Ticket winners
- Moat Race
- Pro Street Finals
- Format same as Semi-Finals, but four-minute jam instead of three
- Silver Trucks Best Trick on Tech Center
- Giant Product Toss
- 6pm (approx.) - Awards
- Gatorade's Labor of Love Award
- $2,500 and a year's supply of Gatorade
- The Fan Favorite Award Presented by The Skateboard Mag
- Doors Close
Sunday Night
- 8pm - Contest After-Party at Rock N Sports Bar
- Upstairs Centro Ybor
- 2 for 1 drafts
- 10% off food ALL WEEK with Skatepark plastic wristband
- After-After-Party - Reservoir Bar
- 1518 East 7th Avenue/Ybor City
- $1.50 Tall Boy PBR ALL WEEK with plastic Skatepark wristband
Neal Hendrix Photo Show in the Snack Bar all weekend
The full list of people skating this weekend in Tampa Pro.
What's Up at SPoT: Random Posts From Over the Years
I've been posting random ramblings to this What's Up blog on the SPoT site since 1999. Here's a random list of some of my favorite posts over the years...Rob.
You can get a free SPoT logo tattoo during Tampa Pro.
Check out Sarah's hot one. Thanks to Atomic Tattoos for hooking it up. There must have been about 40 people that got one yesterday. Semi-Finals are about to begin. Photos from the weekend should be up on Monday.
One of these days I’ll start taking skate photos again. Still way too much real work going on for me. Party photos with the chill cam are way too easy, though, so here’s another batch from another night of burning stuff and other general debauchery at the Park:
Hold your hand up to the computer screen. I'm high fiving you all over the internet. Although my skateboard was taken before I even entered the courthouse building, followed by my camera being taken, and then my phone getting taken right in the middle of court proceedings, my ticket was thrown out. Yee haw! Check out my story and some video footage of Officer Doofy fumbling about before he caught me filming him: I Fought The Law And The Law Lost. Again. Thanks, Doofy.
fake wristband
Check out Sarah's hot one
