The skate community in Houma is trying yet again to get their local government to do the right thing and get a park build for it’s ever growing scene… this time it looks like they’re really getting heard thanks to some really good journalism by Houma Today Staff Writer Naomi King.

Read the piece and watch the video by clicking here.

The story is especially good because the reporter listened to the local skaters in her area, and went further by exploring Hammond’s impact socially and financially, going so far as to contacting Mayor Foster, Hammond’s Parks and Rec administrator Joey Keener, and others from Hammond, Houma, and areas nearby.

PLUS KERRY! hehe

The law mentioned in the article is linked to in this old piece (signed into law by Governor Mike Foster in 2001):
clicky: Act 1199, 2001 House Regular Session

Best of luck to our friends in Houma, and cheers for the excellent, articulate reporting. Bonus points because no surf terminology was used!

Hell yeah men! Represent!!!

…I guess we became part of Florida. Unless they’re counting us since we’re in the Florida parishes. Anyway, Chet shows love yet again!

…in case you missed it, Koston was in the Thrasher Photo Issue, killing the ‘Coop:

…more recently (but from the same visit), we have one Mr. Schaaf cranking out some crail madness in this Skateboard Mag ad:

Seriously, who’d have ever thought Hammond would be the backdrop for stuff like this? We’re on the map for sure, and these are the gravy days.

First of all, I want to personally thank Jonathan Burkett (w00t w0000t) for coming through and hooking all of us up with a great scan of the Transworld article featuring the Fourstar crew traveling through the south, New Orleans and our very own Hammond included. One of the best surprise visits ever!
Click the pic below to download a PDF of the article itself (a bit over 6 megs in filesize).

I just got word that the new issue of Transworld has some photos from our surprise visit from the Four Star crew. I’ll hit the book store tomorrow, confirm, and scan.

…unless you have it and don’t mind scanning it. If that’s the case, please send the article to vectornerd (at) gmail (dot) com. w00t!

Props to the fellas doing what they can to gt a proper park built in Gonzalez… this is how you do it. If you don’t fight for skateboarding, nobody will. Click for a larger version:

Pretty psyched on this… thanks to Thomas for alerting Kerry that this was online. Hammond opens up roughly the first 3 minutes and 20 seconds of this montage (Dreamland and The Chicken Coop, respectively):

As many of you are already aware, the park in Petal Mississippi is nearly ready… it looks good, and as reported by Big Tony and company, it looks to be a pretty solid place to ride.

Unfortunately, the park will indeed be pay to skate. We’ll see how long that works out.

Look out for the June 2008 issue of Slap… the cover looks lke this:

…turn to page 22, and notice the “GrimCity” part:

…that’s me, your friendly neighborhood Small Time Skates webgeek. The photo was take by Small Times’ very own Gregory Tracy (you may know of him as Dead Gregory). Anyway, I’m not putting a readable version of the article up yet because the magazine is currently on sale and we want you to go out and support the mag. They should be sold at anywhere where there’s tons of magazines.