Skatepark of Tampa What's Up

A New Course and a New Bar Scene

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:29:00 EST

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.

We Are Now Ready for Tampa Am

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:50:00 EST

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.

When In Tampa, Do As The Tampons

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:18:00 EST

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.

Still Gittering Dunnering

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:16:00 EST

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.

Another Sale: All Shoes and Socks 20% Off Right Now

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:53:00 EST

We're having another huge sale where all shoes are 20% off now through Sunday.

This excludes some of the newer Nike SB's. It also includes all socks at 20% off.

$ales Pitch

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:58:00 EST

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.

Take It For Granite

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:37:00 EST

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.

Sketchy Night

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:31:00 EST

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.

They Don't Come With Flip Flops

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:58:00 EST

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.

Leopard Print Pad Sales Set to Skyrocket

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:12:00 EST

It looks like the Kiddie Course is also wrecked and being rebuilt. Pier 7 is also coming along on the main street course. So, that leaves the vert ramp and the bowl as the only things skateable now.

Gitter Done

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:09:00 EST

Here's another Street Course Construction Update for Nov 18, 2009 along with a couple randoms.

Try Not To Think of Chris Dobstaff

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:41:00 EST

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.

Santa's Sweat Shop

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:53:00 EST

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.

See You There. In Triple Vision

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:48:00 EST

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.

Even More Change

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:21:00 EST

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.

Humans Love Change

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:54:00 EST

I changed how the website looks today. Can't wait to hear all the complaints. I'll be putting out fires for a while...

Note to Self: Teach Stalker Steve How to Crop

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST

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.

Rocket Ollies and Funny Kickflips

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:01:00 EST

You can get little kid overdose in these Camp Kids and the Harvest Jam 2009 Presented by Expedition photos from the Contest this weekend. Maybe I like them because we both have funny looking kickflips.

Harvest Jam Results

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:28:00 EST

Here are full results from the Harvest Jam All Ages Contest Presented by Expedition. Photos and banter coming up later.

Kids Don't Smile

rob@skateparkoftampa.com (Rob) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:48:00 EST

I shot a photo of everyone that showed up for the Contest this morning. Check out the faces of skateboarding at SPoT in the younger divisions.