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Standup for Skateparks 2011 Tony Hawk charity event

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

BambooSk8 was proud to help out for the 4th straight year by donating goods and $ donation to the Standup for Skateparks charity event in Beverly Hills at billionaire Ron Burkle’s green acres estate. I know, you are all asking – who the hell is Ron Burkle? If you ever shopped at Ralph’s food stores, then there’s one connection. How about owning a piece of the Pittsburgh Penguins or owning 20% of Barnes and Noble; there’s more! Anyhow, lucky for Tony Hawk that Ron provides his humble abode to let Tony invite 850 guests at a price of $400 donation each to mingle with celebrities (if you are lucky or brave) like actor Mark Wahlberg or mega producer Jon Favreau or UFC champion Chuck Lidell or rockstar Perry Farrel of Janes Addiction, watch some live music by the Black Keys (yet, literally 20 feet in front of you on a tiny little stage), watch some amazing skating on the vert ramp (amazing that they are allowed to bring the massive ramp and tear up Ron’s yard) with Shaun White, Tony Hawk, Mitchie Brusco, Bucky Lasek, as well as bmx freestyle by Matt Hoffman, get a ton of free shit from a variety of vendors (t-mobile, art of board, dub, nixon, birdhouse, pinks, wahoo’s, best buy, etc.), chat with pro skaters like Mike Vallely, Jamie Thomas, Kevin Stab, etc., and a ton more…. The live auctions this year were off the hook with autographed guitars by Pearl Jam, Taylor Swift, Rancid, Janes Addiction and the coolest one that Geoff bid on and won = the 1950′s Fender Telecaster toured with and autographed by all members of Green Day. Other auction items included a tricked out Ford Explorer that went for over $40k, a customized triumph motorcycle by Roland Sands that went for $30k, a ton of autographed pro skateboards (paul rodriguez, nyjay houston, ryan scheckler and shaun white) completely framed by sk8ology, as well as the opportunity to get your own pro skateboard made by Tony Hawk’s team for $250. Our BambooSK8 skate board autographed by the band CHERRI BOMB on Hollywood Records went for $70 the last bid we saw, but hopefully more. Needless to say, despite the down economy, things were looking up for charity this year as people reached deep into their pockets. We can all feel good about helping to get skateparks built in low income, at-risk neighborhoods throughout this great country of ours. The foundation has helped 405 parks get build already in 49 states; Connecticut is the only one remaining.

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X-games 15, Staples Center Mega Ramp and X-games 3D movie

Friday, July 31st, 2009

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After all the insane crashes by Danny Way at X-games 14, I was hoping things would run smoother for everyone at #15 and they did… a lot more polished routines with cleaner falls. Nonetheless, these folks still take a beating on every bad landing, which amazes me how they can stay so competitive. Mark, Marina, Kennen and Shawn our bamboosk8 interns drove up and joined me at the Staples Center for the festitivities. This years event was nearly sold out for all the good seats, but I was able to wheel-n-deal one for $50 for the preferred seating area, although it still wasn’t that great of a seat like years past right down by the bottom of the ramp. It was great to see Jake Brown get Gold with his backside 360 over the gap into a 20 foot high mctwist over the half pipe. Silver went to 2 time back-to-back winner Bob Burnquist and bronze to Rob Lorifice.

After the event, we watched the motorcycles go for highest air, which is pretty amazing for them to high jump 34 feet in the air. I ended up leaving early so I could get to the premiere across the street of the X-games in 3D at the Nokia Theatre. The red carpet was laid out for this event with celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Slash, Hayden Penitier, and more, as well as many action sports athletes and industry folks. How all those celebrities can handle all those bright lights and photos is beyond me, so I decided to do my own filming and photography of them… video to come soon. Funny thing is – all we had was regular passes to enter the theatre, not do the whole red carpet crap, but I was able to make a girl laugh as I told her I was a X-games champion. She said, “where’s your athelete badge”? I said, “I can’t compete my knee is blown out in 12 different places”. She looked at me and saw i had no cast or anything and she just laughed and said, “Have a good time and don’t do anything stupid.” So, I decided to strip down to my underwear and run across the red carpet… no, just kidding.

Coming out soon also is a really rad video of the Next X, which is 5 young kids (Mitchie Brusco is one of them) who get to meet their heroes for a week at Camp Woodward – check it out on Disney.

rock and roll,

Geoff Koboldt

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