Is that a bathing suit under those acid wash jeans? Welcome to Florida
Ryan Nix is currently living in Orlando. Thanks for stopping by
I'm still trying to get used to Habitat shoes
Since it's open to the public, you could get the breakdown on all the latest gear coming out in the next year whether you're a shop owner or a kid new to skateboarding. This kid got a full education on wood at the Element booth
Ryan Dewitt manned the Element booth by day and the Reservoir Bar by night
Lakais for miles
That's the Jeron Wilson X Diamond shoe at the DVS booth
Everyone's hyped on the new Mikemo shoe coming out later this year
Everyone was also hyped that Mikemo was hanging out at the Show all weekend
Reda has a Wednesday's shoe coming out on DVS soon
Adio, thanks for sweating it out with us
When Pete Kelly wasn't invading the Best Trick Contest, he was at the Dekline booth breaking down the new line to shops and kids
Looks like you'll find the new Fallens at Gator Board Shop later this year. That's Frank Branca looking over what to stock
We all do several different jobs here. Adam Kearley took a break from shooting product photos for the site and manned the grill for the Show. Scrambled eggs and sausage from the grill for breakfast was amazing
At the Atomic booth, people were getting inked up for two straight days
Companies were hooking it up serious for kids at the Show
DC did a shoe with Sabotoge
Osiris is bringing all colors of the spectrum to their new line
Adrian Lopez was here repping his company, Loser Machine
If I ever need a helmet for something, it will be one of these
The mid is a very popular shoe for all companies. Here's one of Circa's versions
I spy Eric Koston's Dunk colorway
Kris Markovich decorating some helmets at the Ergo booth
Vox and Creature go hand in hand
Theeve is a new truck company that launched at The Moat Show. It's amazing how much lighter you can tell these trucks are just by holding them. They're titanium so they're going to be expensive. When you look underneath, you'll see there's no axel going through. The entire hangar is one piece of metal grinded down to that shape
etnies has a vulc version of the Sal 23 coming out
Jose Rojo, brown n' down
Mids and chillers are in everyone's lines. Emerica is making some good ones
Globe is going the sky highway
While all this is going on, there's an all day sweat session on the Goat mini-ramp in back
After being at the Show all day, you're probably drunk when you arrive at Reservoir Bar. Good thing there's free Berentzen being given out by this girl to keep you under the influence
While out at Reservoir, the biggest un-fan of my website ramblings, Todd, was at the bar. I was wondering why he's not down with my vert jabs and commentary about how shorts can ruin skateboard careers. Then I look down and see he's got black socks and shorts along with some funny marks on his shoes. So that's it. Must be some weird ass ollies putting marks on his shoes like that. Anyway, instead of punching me in the face, Todd bought me a beer. Thanks, my fellow hater
Speaking of shoes, let's pause for a foot fetish. No one here has Todd's funny ollie marks on their shoe. We must not be riding our skateboards properly
Jovan is about to go from airport security to air traffic controller at Tampa International Airport. Don't talk to your girlfriend on the phone while guiding our flights in, please
Wow, they let the redneck out of Ruskin
Trade Show Barak in his own hometown
It was not a regular Tuesday night at Reservoir Bar
Dan Pensyl, thanks for coming to our bid'niss shindig
Someone should bring a tennis racket to whack the Spalding chick in the head with
Tommie Zam from the Finest Skate Shop was bid'niss by day and pleasure by night
Chris Pastras, Tosh Townend, and Slash - thanks for coming to The Moat Show
We're back at the Park now and it's time to finish off those 100 cases of free Asahi beer. Red Bull and Gatorade corporate are not going to approve of this
Sierra and Kevin Sullivan have just formally met. They might make a good couple but word on the street is she likes them BMX types
Schaefer with The West Coast Schaefer aka Tim Gavin
Welcome to the dark side, Drinker Sarah. She's new to the sauce and could be starting a Party Team of her own any day now
I wonder how many of these SPoT tattoos are out there? I think I've seen at least 100 or so
Andy James has a SPoT tattoo. Maybe we should start a special section of the site for this
I spy Stalker Steve. He's holding a pole up but at least he's still working
It's time for the Moat Show Throwdown Best Trick Contest. Ryan Dodge, Ryan Dewitt, and Gabe Clement are your judges on the sauce
Josiah Gatlyn - frontside half cab flip over the hip
Street Pete Kelley
A Felipe Gustavo impersonator frontside flipping the pyramid
Torey Pudwill killed it in the Contest with this feeble front board shuv it out
Sierra and Torey's girl - thanks for hooking up the Gucci Mane per Clem request. Thanks everyone for coming to The Moat Show. Dates for the next one in January will be announced soon
Looks like the Kiddie Course isn't going to be done until tomorrow. Here's some photos from our first session on the main course and some random bar antics at Skateboard Industry Night in St. Pete: A New Course and a New Bar Scene.
You can get a fisheye's view of the completed street course on the SPoT Facebook Page. If you're a fan of SPoT on Facebook, you already know that we sometimes do special sales and give out coupon codes there. Maybe there might be a special just for Facebook fans next week? Who knows? Maybe. The kiddie course isn't done yet. Photos from that coming up in a bit.
On the Win an All Expense Paid Trip to Tampa survey thing, I should have added, "Stay away from the Skatpeark of Tampa Party Team" as one of the options to prevent your skateboard career from derailing. When you come to Tampa, it's easy to get spinning in the party tornado, especially when 200 of your homies are all in the Ybor hotels or the Ho Jo. If the sauce is not your scene or you're trying not to make it your scene, a nice hotel for a decent price just a few minutes up the highway from SPoT is Days Inn. If you're just looking for a lower price room, a cab ride from there to the tornado in Ybor is probably about $15 or so. There's also another Days Inn on Dale Mabry that's across the street from Mons Venus. They don't serve booze there, just boobies. Boobies never hurt anyone's career. Anyway, you have some time left to enter the Tampa trip giveaway which comes with a hotel room and $500 spending cash, among other things. Since you're not skating, we will see you at all the parties that you get passes to.
I went out to shoot photos of the Kiddie Course construction and spotted Kris Markovich hanging out. Here's what things look like as of now. Gotta go, I have a conference call with 25 people from Fuel TV. 25 people??? Yep, mindblowing. It's about the live HD webcast for Tampa Am. They should put this phone conference on live webcast.
If your company has products on our site, you're welcome to a free ad in our banner pool. On your company's product page, only the ad from your company will show up. On all other pages like articles, photos, and skater profiles, your ad will display randomly from the pool of ads. The size is 970x100 and no animation is allowed. You can update it as often as you want. Email them to me at rob@skateparkoftampa.com. Below are some samples from a few companies that have sent some in already.
The main street course is done and skateable today. The kiddie course should be done late tomorrow or Saturday. Check out some construction progress: Street Course Construction and Completion 2009.
If you're in St. Pete tomorrow night, join us at Durty Nelly's for an event that The Finest Skate Shop is putting on called Skateboard Industry Night, appropriately abbreviated as SIN.
The winners for the Globe Cruiser completes have been picked. I know at least one of them is a local - Yonis came out on top. See you on the Booze Cruise this Friday. The first $600 worth of sauce is all on me. The trucks on these boards are called "Slant" as in my eyes. Sick.
What song is this in this Tampa Am promo video? That one dude, you know, the guy who will be at Tampa Am 2009 on December 3 at SPoT then
on Friday, December 4, doing a show in Ybor for our 17-Year Anniversary Party at Czar. Yeah, him. Oh, and there could be a little bit of ripping skating going on.
Today the staff at SPoT got started on putting together all the skateboard parts collected in the Shop all year long. Through your discarded skate stuff and contributions from your favorite skate companies, we build as many completes as we can and give them away to as many kids as we can find in the underprivileged neighborhoods in our area. We call this charity Boards for Bros. Check out a few photos from what we did today: Boards for Bros November 2009 Assembly.
If you haven't entered the Globe Cruiser Board giveaway yet, you have one more day for that. Tomorrow, all the emails go into a spreadsheet and get sorted random. The top two get a Globe Cruiser complete. On Friday night for the Booze Cruise, the first $600 of sauce is paid for by eBay shoe nerds who bought some of my old Dunks.
One commenter suggested we change the website every year like we do the street course. As soon as we get one of me for every construction dude out there, we can make that happen. Check out some street course construction that just started. In case you don't know, we have completely changed the street course every single year since 1993 when this place was born. This is the first year we've had a slab of granite, however.
Stalker Steve took some nice chill shots at the Harvest Jam this weekend. The skate ones are sort of like the bennihanna of photography, not that mine were any good either. I know we both can do better than that. Check them out: Stalker Steve at the Harvest Jam 2009.
A known hater on the Skatepark of Tampa Facebook page also has photos from the Harvest Jam. Thanks Kirk Hallinan. I'm putting you on the next cover of Frontside Grind Magazine.
