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We have a new contest on loopd.com (who is soon changing there name, again). Now skaters have the chance to create their own graphic. The winner gets a free deck. The ad was just finished, and it will be posted soon

I want to talk about Loopd. We spend a lot of time on loopd and it is a great concept. A social network site that is just for action sport athletes. A great way for skaters to meet skaters. Not only that but the people on it get inside hook ups and companies get to make more sales and get to know their fans better. Amazing! With that said I always thought Loopd.com would be full of kids. I was wrong there are plenty of older athletes on the website. I just want to say, “Right on!” Being an older skater I am glad to see all the older guys holding it down. I also want to encourage all of the grommets to keep skating as long as they can so they too can represent for us older skaters in due time.

I went back home for good old turkey day and of course I had to go skate all the local spots. I went to Hawthorne skatepark, Daweong Song’s home park. It was closed because of some graffitti. I have skated that park forever and the people ruining it are the same people skating it. All I want to know is why do you have to ruin your local spot. If you are skating it every day wouldn’t you want the skatepark to be in the best condition. Here are some basic rules to follow no matter what skatepark you are at:

1. Show respect to everyone because you never really know who they are
2. If you spill your drink in the park take off your shirt and clean it up or else someone will slip and break their arm
3. If you are going to someone elses park bring a gift. If you are of age, beer, if you aren’t then water or energy drinks
4. Don’t drop in on any one EVER
5. If someone does something sick hoot and holler. Trust me they’ll do it for you in return and it will push your skating that much further.

6. Most importantly respect the park. Skaters barley have anywhere to skate anymore so why trash the one spot we are allowed to skate

We are getting new decks in a couple of weeks. They are the hybrids. 70% bamboo. We are also getting new longoards by the end of Novmber. I love coming to work and being surrounded by skateboards. Breathe easy, sk8 bamboo.

Monday always seems to be a good day for healing. I skated all day on saturday on my new bamboo deck. After I skated I went to see Guttermouth. It was so much fun. I’m so sore today though. I don’t even want to move. A good sign from another great weekend.

My weekend started with ASR. It was my first time there and I was stoked. It was the most I have ever felt that I was actually part of the action sports industry, and man did it feel at home. I was runnig arond like a chicken with my head cut off checking out all the cool booths that were around. There ws so uch to see I was never in one place too long, and oh man the mini ramp they had, SICK! Volcom built it, there were like three diffrent sections on it, all a diffrent size with volcom stones connecting them.
I was tagged from head to toe in the Bamboo Sk8 logo. I was talking up bamboo with everyone I met. I eventually made it around to brands. I gave them my pitch, we talked for a bit. No matter what they said I stayed around and picked their brain as much as I could, to get insider information on the industry. The former owner of Vision (the second oldest skateboard company) gave me a full on lecture of the industry and answered all of the questions I had.
We ended up selling plenty of decks, both long and short. It was definitley worth our time there.
On Sunday I attended the paddle for clean water in Ocean Beach, put on by the Surfrider Foundation. The surf was lke 8 foot so the paddle got cancelled (I’m not going to lie, I was hoping it would so I didn’t feel guilty about surfing instead of doing the paddle). Sarting at 11 a there was a free concert with Iration headlining, and tribal Seeds playing too. Also Stone was there giving out free beer (hell yeah!) That whole event got attacked with Bamboo Sk8 stickers. Everyone there got a sticker, and if they didn’t they heard about bamboo, that’s or sure.

Breathe easy, Skate Bamboo