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When I first moved to Tampa, I was at the height of my skateboarding life as far as ability goes. Jumping down stairs and gaps, going on the endless treasure hunt for spots like ledges, manny pads, and even transition like backyard mini-ramps and vert ramps. Of course I found Tampa's oldest "skatepark", the Bro Bowl. As every other skater I rolled with, we avoided the Bro Bowl because it sucked for anyone who wasn't stuck in the last generation of skateboarding...

When we went up to Damn Am Atlanta last month, we did so many other things on the road trip that we made a separate SPoT Life episode from it. The highlight was being able to skate and film at Da Playground. I've got a bunch of sequences and photos from there along with the episode.

Andrew Reynolds is in town for today's grand opening at Lakeland Skatepark. Last night he stopped by Skatepark of Tampa with his daughter Stella.

The list of skaters in the Sponsored Division in the Spring Roll Presented by Lakai.

The list of skaters in the 16 and Up Division in the Spring Roll Presented by Lakai.

The list of skaters in the 13 to 15 Division in the Spring Roll Presented by Lakai.

The list of skaters in the 9 to 12 and 8 and Under divisions in the Spring Roll Presented by Lakai.

I was recently searching out some info on my favorite skateboarder and noticed some amazing results in Google's autocomplete, so I started trying random other people and came up with some pretty silly results. Check out what the internet generally thinks of some of your favorite pros.

Everyone gets a random number assigned, sorted, and someone whose email starts with Rkeefe89 came out on top. Check your email, Mr. Rkeefe89. Thanks for diving in on this DPT. Check out all the comments submitted here. They're in the random order that was done for the drawing.

Everyone gets a random number assigned, sorted, and someone whose email starts with Frankiebucholc came out on top. Check your email, Mr. Frankiebucholc. Thanks for diving in on this DPT. Check out all the comments submitted here. They're in the random order that was done for the drawing.

Have you ever wondered, "How does X board company even survive?" when no one you know backs it. One thing you might not realize is different parts of the country are pretty different when it comes to the skateboard companies they back. This week on Nerdsday Thursday, I'm looking at the top 15 board company sales in our online shop broken down between West Coast states and East Coast states.

Everyone gets a random number assigned, sorted, and someone whose email starts with "sbowes" came out on top. Check your email, Mr. Sbowes. Thanks for diving in on this DPT.