Roger from Skateboarder Magazine was making free custom t-shirts all day for a long line of kids
I left this water bottle in the port-o-let earlier. When I came back for another piss, someone was nice enough to go ahead and fill it with urine and re-cap it
The camera was in the hands of many people this weekend, so I don't know who took a lot of these photos. It's either Frosty, Body, me, or some random drunk. This chick here is probably one of Dylan Perry's new MySpace friends by now
Whoever took the camera from me knows they are required to take a foot fetish shot every now and then
People were calling Tom Curran "Ton Curran" because he done blow'd up. That's him and Anton eating spaghetti
Body's on it with the foot fetish and self-portrait photos
Another one of Body's foot fetish shots
Graham Bickerstaff and Matt Contreras
Joe Penvose used to work at SPoT doing computer stuff a few years ago. He's looking pretty hyped to be hanging out with Jon Bon Jersey. You'll see how she got that nickname in a bit
Another one of Body's self portraits with Jersey Sarah. She's got the best Jersey accent. We were making her say stuff like a parrot just so we could hear how she pronounced stuff. Thanks for the entertainment, Sarah
That's Frosty with Eric Payne. Eric is either the drummer or guitarist in Andrew WK. He delayed his flight to the next show they had to do so he could hang out for an extra night at Damn Am
Jersey Sarah's got some acrobatics on the jousting thig Volcom set up on the side
Rodney Johnson couldn't have been that wasted at the bar - his wife was with him
Matt Milligan's Halloween get-up was Teenage Duncan
More acrobatics from Jersey Sarah. Frosty takes advantage
Party of Frosty's Halloween costume
Whoa, this eyeball photo thing is pretty crazy. It may be the next series type thing - upskirt, floor shot, sticker bikini, foot fetish, now eye candy
After the Contest, Outback down the street is filled with skateboarders
Adam Dyet should have skated Best Trick with that pumpkin head on
I bought 20, 18 packs of sauce over the weekend. I got to drink maybe 12 of them. You're welcome
The Fuel TV guy looks like he jogged here all the way from LA
Volcom provided some damn good catering for the weekend - all for free. Thanks Volcom
My favorite skater isn't even pro yet, but he's on his way for sure. Thanks for hanging out, Dylan Rieder
The Red Bull girls got everyone wired, especially Frosty and Body
This company called Monster Cable hooked up all kinds of electronics for prizes. We normally don't give away cash at our am contests, unless it's some kind of weird Euro thing
Launching into the inflatable thing looked pretty fun. This kid doesn't have it down, though
Darrell Stanton - thanks for hanging out all weekend. Looks like he's a fan of the redheads
Frosty, Peck, and Holly are in the Halloween spirit
Between the Semi-Finals and Finals, Nihilist rocked it
If you were in this crowd, thanks for coming to our skateboard shindig
Holy Jersey pants! That's where the nickname came from - Jon Bon Jersey on the right and Jersey Sarah on the left came from, well, New Jersey, to hang out and watch the Contest
This dog with two different colored eyes reminds me of Colin McKay's jacked up cat
Frosty snapped a ton of chill photos. Not sure who these random girls are, but they look fun
Brian Schaefer had a different costume for each day. This one almost looks like he doesn't have a costume, though
The Travel Lodge was way cooler about having a hotel party than the stiffs at the Ramada who kicked people out just for having their room doors open and too many people out front
Ryan Clements is known for using his beard to add to the effect of a costume for Halloween. He's looking properly Amish this weekend
Important dudes not looking so important - Ryan Clements, Brian Schaefer, and Jason Rothmeyer
Schaefer and Meronek - I can't believe we've been doing this for six years now
This is Adam Dyet's last am contest - you'll see him at Tampa Pro in 2007
Thanks to Fender for hooking up the guitar David Loy got for first place
After the awards, a giant product toss went down. Girls went for it, too. The bottom photo is a fierce chick fight for a deck
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.
