Chris: Working on designs, clothes, shoes, extras. Things around here are great.
What are the most played songs in you Ipod?
Chris: I don't wanna say what I listen to cause it will be played out. But, I
just got a new one cause my old one was f--ked up.
I didn't get the iPod Photo though 'cause that is idiotic.
Someone steals your iPod or you loose it and there are pictures of you and your girl, your friends, family. F--k that.
What was the last thing you bought off Ebay?
Chris: A pair of jeans that were discontinued by a store and I am getting a back stock
while I wait on my Fallen jeans to come in.
I also bought an Alexi Laiho esp rv 350al guitar. It is black and yellow from Japan. So ruling.
Where can kids find the Hotwax video?
Chris: Local shop, or mailorder. You can email one of the guys about purchase if you
can't find it any other way. hotwaxisruling@aol.com
Note from Rob Meronek: Fool, get it right here: Hotwax DVD.
Who all is in the Hotwax video?
Chris: Dan Hornung, Ryan Beck, Jay Fahnestock, Pat Palodor, Bill Sands, Timo(team-o), Ian Berry, Matt Ashby, me.
How much time do you have left to film for the Zero "New Blood" video?
Chris: Two or three weeks. That question gave me heart problems.
What would you rather be doing right now instead of answering these questions?
Chris: Absolutely anything that is more fun than this. Shopping for guitars.
Dan: My face. Eyesight...both eyes...still got crazy flashes in my right eye where the accident occurred, but can see...
How many cups of Starbucks do you drink a day?
Dan: Good balance...one mocha, one machiato, one latte, and one chai...more on rainy dayz...I think I'm shrinking.
Where was the last place you skated?
Dan: Zero/Mystery Park...daily with the Black Box squad.
Did your eye heal 100% after you got a stick jammed in it?
Dan: Well I found it with my cell phone light...put it back in therr. Like I said, got my sight back in a few weeks, but I get crazy lightning
flashes on one side of my eye...guess it could be a result of the coffee intoxication...nah.
What Nike's are you wearing right now?
Dan: T19's. Named after some skate shop in Japan or something. Dunk high tops...love em'. All blue...blinding blue...
What do you like most about going to Tampa?
Dan: Schaefer...good guy. Funny too. Watchin' Sinclair whoop some ass
on the grown man minny ramp tip. Oh yah, the beer is good too, but dangerous.
Might lose an eye.
What was the best thing that happed at Tampa this year?
Dan: My little mocha java girlfriend flew out from norf cacks...damn she tastes good.
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.
