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Real Ride Skatepark

"Indoor park with mini ramp, street course and pro shop." 1410 South 395 West, Salt Lake City, Utah *, 84115. (801) 463-4639 Search *
    (Categorized under Skateparks > In USA > Utah)

Skatepark in design for Dade City, Florida

This article, reprinted from Florida *'s Saint Petersburg Times, gives a little insight into the planning and implementation of a local skatepark in Dade City, in part using fingerboards and miniature versions of the ramps. (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under Skatepark News)

Skatepark.org Founder Interview

A career- and education-oriented interview with the founder of Skatepark.org. "According to America Sports Data, there are currently 9.3 million skateboarders under the age of 18." (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under Skatepark News)

Shanghai Skatepark Cost $12M, Visited by Santos, Hosting Tournament Oct 6-7 2005

Willy Santos * was in Shanghai, China * briefly to shoot a skating video at the newly built Jiangwan Skatepark, a 12,000-square-meter (129,000 square foot) complex of concrete bowls, banks, hips and rails. (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2005 Archive, Willy Santos)

Skateboard Women Increasingly Appear At Skateparks

"People always think of skateboarding as this tough scene, but I'm always out there with kids and their parents, just one big happy skate family," says Lyn-Z Adams *, 14, a phenom from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif., who skates for the all-girl Roxy squad. "Growing up, I wanted to be like my brother," she says. "But today, maybe other young girls will want to be like me." (extract: ...consider signing up for "Girls Learn to Ride," coast-to-coast clinics sponsored by beachwear...about 1,000 today, according to the Skatepark Association of the USA *. Though true die...that was skateboarding." Here at this pristine skatepark, an oasis of unblemished concrete just south...entitled "Women get on board at the skatepark" and was found at) (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2004 Archive, Female Oriented, Lyn-Z Adams/Hawkins)

Huge Skateboard Park Coming to Philadelphia

A 2.5 acre (109,000 square foot) skatepark is planned for the Schuylkill Park near the Museum of Art in Philadelphia *. Planners include Franklin's Paine Skatepark Fund, SkateNerd Inc., Synterra Ltd., Purkiss Rose RSI, Damiano & Long Consulting Engineers, Orth Rogers & Associates, Inc., Qualified Women in Construction, and AB Architects (AB ARCH). (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2004 Archive, Love Park)

A Performative Critique of the American City: the Urban Practice of Skateboarding, 1958-1998

About skateboarding, cities, and urban culture. An amazing essay by Iain Borden * on the interrelationship between cities and skateboarding, in which the author seeks to "focus on the compositional and representational mode of skateboarding, to consider how it represents the city without maps, and how it speaks something of the city, without recourse to theory or texts." Quote this in your term paper and make your teacher happy. (extract: ...some of the most famous include the skatepark at Marina del Rey (Los Angeles) and...activity. Here, in the modernist city, skaters ride on to the walls, benches, ledges, railings...is then to fail to see its real character. And this is exactly the failure...that a change is made. When skateboarders ride along a wall, over a fire hydrant...magazine calls the "skater’s eye:" People who ride skateboards look at the world in...) (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2001 Archive, Museums/History)

Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta Interviewed on SkateboardDirectory.com

Our mondo Dogtown * interview with Stacy Peralta *, Tony Alva *, and a few other East Coasters, touching on subjects including Tommy Guerrero *, Sean Penn *, Gator *, staying pure, Mark Gonzales *, Christian Hosoi *, and pool skating. (extract: ...supposed to do this shoot for this skatepark, for the newspaper. Anyways, first thing I...been really nice, it’s been a good ride for us. ?1: Without the X-Games *...California, the kids are sneaking into to ride the railings and the whole thing like...different distributors. Like Reggie Barnes, who’s a real good friend of mine. And I don’t...little farther underground. Just to keep things real, you know. ? How about Dogtown itself?...) (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under Dogtown and Z-Boys, Lords of Dogtown, 2002 Archive, Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva)

Skateboard News Grab Bag: Gravity Games, Slam City Jam, Rye Airfield's Ramp Camp, and Atomic Warthog Russian Magazine

Updates about the Gravity Games *, the Slam City Jam *, Rye Airfield *'s Ramp Camp, and an upcoming russian magazine, Atomic Warthog. (extract: ...a bigger street course, a "huge" public skatepark, close proximity to clubs and hotels, easier...European magazines. Now we got only one skatepark in Moscow(capital of Russia *) and the...snowy, so it's impossible to skate/ride BMX on the street for almost a...And those aggressive dumbf@#ks are the real threat for little kids who skate or ride BMX. But despite all those problems...) (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2004 Archive)

Mark 'Gator' Rogowski - Free Fallin'

A reprint of the article from the Village Voice in April of 1992 *. About the history of "Gator *". Originally appeared at http://home.netcom.com/%7Ecoryjohn/gator.html (extract: ...skateboard park where Gator had his last ride, MacGill's Skatepark. There, a handful of teenagers skated the...got his chops down at a local skatepark's half-pipes, moguls, and pool in...said Gator, was that "it's a real productive way of venting some way harsh...he doesn't think he'll ever ride a skateboard again, but hopes that...) (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2004 Archive, Mark 'Gator' Rogowski)

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