This clip has been going around the web quite a bit, but it needed to be shared (just in case you haven’t seen it).
I hope this hypes you up as much as it does me! I hope we’re all on the road to becoming the next Victors!
Here at Dreamland, Saturday the 1st… bring your friends and meet new ones you don’t have yet. No set times… just get out there and stay there until you can’t skate anymore. This one’s for Mike.
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!
I recently completed another one of those websites where I basically talk smack about things I don’t like. But hey, opinions are like fingerprints, right?
Skateboard Olympics!
Scuba Steve posted this in the forums, but I thought it was too good to keep there… thanks for letting me share it with everybody else!
RIP Mike, roll forever!
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:
We back any grassroots effort to get a skatepark built. As busy as Gonzales getting, and as large as the skate community is there, they should have had a park ages ago (rather than tighten their crackdown on skateboarders there). Anyway, the title says what this is about. Live music, five bills (cheap!), and a good cause. I think it’s worth the trip… the Gonzales crews I know are good people.
Click the pic below for a larger version, and below that, click the link to check out the fund raiser MySpace page.
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.
