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Day-By-Day At Woodward Skate Camp Part One

Put your heart and soul in everything that you do.

The Skatepark of Tampa out-of-town trips usually consist of some type of work. When we go to San Diego, it’s for the ASR Trade Show. This time it was different...we didn’t have any work to do! That’s right. With the exception of having to wake up at 4:15 in the morning to make my flight to Vancouver at 6:30am, it was basically a vacation.

When pro BMXer, Sean Albright, first started working at Skatepark of Tampa, the existing staff had questions about some riders that came to the Park and would ask, "Hey Sean, you know that one kid that rides a bike that..." Sean would reply, "You know, I don’t personally know every kid that comes here that rides a bike." And the conversation would continue, "Oh, he’s not one of your buddies?" "No, he’s not my buddy," Sean would say. But whether he liked it or not, we still insisted that every BMXer was Sean’s "buddy." It got so bad that we even fabricated a non-existent group that we aptly titled the ‘BMX Buddy Network.’ Check this out, because I really did write about Roots Jam…

Sole Tech Pulled From CCS

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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Sean Albright and myself are on the same schedule. We go to bed early and wake up early for skate missions. There’s only one thing unique about the arrangement: Sean rides a bike. Regardless, it still works out very well. A few weeks back, we had an early morning session at the newly constructed Wachula Skate Park. That’s right. Wachula.

After his performance at the Skatepark of Tampa 10-Year Anniversary Party, any witness would agree that Andrew W.K. puts on one entertaining show. Rob Meronek and Andrew W.K.-mark, Afro-Jim, didn’t see enough of Andrew at the Party. They got their fix by heading over to Orlando a couple of weeks ago to check him out at The Social. Check out Afro-Jim’s account of the evening.