CrossRoads Trade Show at Black Box Distribution
Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 by Ryan
Check footage from Black Box of the ripping skating that went down. |
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The Show started at 8am, but since I had no “official” business to attend to, I rolled in at a casual 3pm. “Wow” was all I could think. The cars were literally parked a ¼ mile away, skateboarders were everywhere, and I could tell that this was going to be a fun time.
The Show was set up set up in the back parking lot of Black Box and there were approximately 30 or so booths of your favorite skateboarding brands. I can only recall one buster-ass company with a mascot dressed as Uncle Sam, but can’t seem to remember the name of the brand.
My estimate is that there were about 2,000 – 4,000 people in attendance. And when I say “people,” I mean skateboarders. Here is a list of the rules:
* There were no rules
Anyone could attend. No badges were necessary. Alcohol was permitted to those of age. Skateboards and dogs were encouraged. Skating the 30,000 sq. ft. TF was also encouraged. Finally, there were free hot dogs, hamburgers, and drinks.
I ran into many old friends and literally hundreds of familiar faces. One old pal was Australian Trevor Ward, who I threw a plastic water bottle at in jest and missed. The bottle blew passed him and landed at the feet of The Chief. I said, “Hey, can you pick that up for me. Thanks.” The Chief threw it back at me.
Another highlight was Antwuan Dixon being in the standard state of complete intoxication. He was focusing boards and then trying to focus boards with plastic, fold-up chairs. Of course I had to yell, “Break it, Pussy!” But Antwuan was too inebriated to realize that the egging on was coming from me. It’s not like he needed me to influence him anyway because he had several hanger-ons trying to befriend and encourage him. I was just stoked that we weren’t at Skatepark of Tampa, so the situation wasn’t my responsibility this time around.
As the sun set a couple of Best Trick Contests went down inside on the Street Course. The first one was over the gap on the quarter-pipe. It was hosted by none other than Thrasher’s Jake Phelps, but my crew wanted to bolt. We took off in the middle of it, but hopefully Rob got some pics of that prior to departure because there was some serious skateboarding going down.
Thanks to everyone in attendance and all of the good folks at Black Box for the fun afternoon.
Ryan
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