- Tickets are $3 and available at Skatepark of Tampa
9am – 10pm – Open Practice
4:30pm – Riders’ Meeting
8pm – “ALL IN THE FAMILY” – Welcome to Tampa Art Show Party in the Bowl Warehouse [Details...]
- SPoT’s collectives, photos, & memorabilia circa ’93-’98 contributed by: Alanna Gabin, Pete Thompson, Joe Brook, Jai Tanju, Mike O’ Meally, Leonard Trubia, Kirk Hallinan, Nick Halkias, Bob Croslin, and others
- All Ages/Free
- Beverages provided for those of age and a ripping Bowl session!
Friday, January 18, 2008
9am – Doors Open
- Tickets are $5 and available at Skatepark of Tampa – they will sell out
9am – 11am – Street Practice
11am – Street Qualifiers Begin
- Two, 50-second runs, best counts
- Top 16 make the cut to Sunday
- First Place gets Golden Ticket to Finals
8pm – “Out of Print” – Jeremy Fish Art Show at RedLetter1 [Details...]
- 1510 East 8th Avenue/Ybor City
- All Ages/Free
Saturday, January 19, 2008
9am – Doors Open
- Tickets are $5 and available at Skatepark of Tampa – they will sell out
9am – 11am – Street Practice
11am – Street Qualifiers Begin
- Two, 50-second runs, best counts
- Top 16 make the cut to Sunday
- First Place gets Golden Ticket to Finals
8pm – Skatepark of Tampa 15-Year Anniversary Party at Czar [Details...]
- The Hold Steady, Fake Problems, and Young Livers
- 1420 East 7th Avenue/Ybor City
- All Ages/$10
- Tickets available at TicketMaster and Skatepark of Tampa
Sunday, January 20, 2008 – LIVE WEBCAST at skateparkoftampa.com and 411vm.com
9am – Doors Open
- Tickets are $5 and available at Skatepark of Tampa – they will sell out
10am – Old Man Bowl Jam VI
11am – Street Semi-Finals
- 30 skaters from Qualifiers joined by top two skaters from Damn Am 2007 events
- Two, one-minute runs, best counts
- Top 10 advance to Finals
Street Finals
- Three, one-minute runs, best counts
REAL Best Trick
6pm (approx.) – Awards
8pm – Contest After-Party at Rock N Sports Bar
- Upstairs Centro Ybor/Ybor City
- 2 for 1 drafts
- 10% off food ALL WEEK with plastic Skatepark wristband
It's not all beer and smokes at the bars at Tampa Am. There are plenty of teen ween's that can't get into the bars and clubs. What do they do at night? Diane Gregson sent in some photos...
Not only are these kids getting soaked in the most dirt rocking nasty suspect sewage river running past the front of the Park, they're also enduring freezing temperatures just for some free skate stuff...
I skipped out on entering another Old Man Bowl Jam again this year due to the same reason as last year. It's at 10am the morning following our 12-Year Anniversary Party...
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.
