I have been pretty negative over the last few posts... So, in honor of the Thanksgiving holliday I am going to give thanks.
I had an epiphany last night. You just asked yourself, "what is that" didn't you?
Here you go:
a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
Now you know what it is. I realized that I have a ton to be thankful for in the skateboarding world.
I am thankful for:
the sound "ga-gunk, ga-gunk, ga-gunk".
the smell of concrete.
the feel of grip tape on my thumb.
the ability to see art in motion.
urathane.
7 or 8 plys of wood.
the old school.
the new school.
8 Track Ride
the amazing brands.
the videos that show us what mind blowing trick the next big thing does.
My Team.... they rule!
My wife... she rules more!!
My kids... they rule, too.
And importantly, not forgotten, all those that skateboard because it's IN them.
Hope you all have a fantastic Thanksgiving Day!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
MONDAYS SUCK
Here is this weeks Mondays Sucks:
This weeks Monday Sucks is quite simple. Today, Monday, sucks because I drove by the skatepark this morning and saw the Town of Parker Public Works people crawling all over the park. I decided to stop and see what was going on. I thought maybe something happened that they were there to see the aftermath of.... Well, something did happen, or didn't happen... i guess it's how you look at it.
It seems that they are getting very tired of paying there employees overtime for all the extra trash that they have to clean up every week. C'mon, is it really that much of a bother to go throw your trash in a can? Are you serioulsly that lazy? You'll bust your ass to learn or land a trick, but you won't give one push and roll over to the trash can?
The head of the Public Works, showed me all the bags of trash, all the trash that was still lying around the park and he used some rather interesting words to describe the masses that have been skating and enjoying the park. Normally, I would take offense to someone calling the skaters a bunch of no good s.o.b's. Today, I didn't take offense. I saw it. It was offensive.
Next week, I am meeting with the town and the PD to "discuss" the issues that have been a pain in the ass of the town. You can only imagine how excited I am to and defend you lazy bitches, so they won't turn the lights off... or worse.
One thing that really pissed me off, was to see all the Go Fast energy drink cans and all the flyers that were strewn all over the park. It pissed me off because they thought that they came from my shop... I had to tell the good folks cleaning up the park that it was not from my shop. And that I am in no way shape or form attached to the shop that this crap was from. They were a little shocked to hear me say what I said. I will not bore you with all the details. However....
I am tired of sticking up for the chad community. I will usually take the high road and be politcally correct, and not say something very negative. Well, that is over. Anyone who has ever been to an 8 Tack Ride event knows that we leave the park, parking lot, surrounding areas cleaner than when we got there. We recognize that we could lose what we have and we take care of our business. What the hell are you doing? Anything except merely taking money and stoking out the next bro?
Back in the day, when some shop owners were like 4 years old, we didn't have sick ass parks to skate at. We built our own stuff in our back yards or we took it to the streets to find a curb or a little ledge. If we were lucky, we could skate for 30 minutes before somebody called the cops. We'd keep moving to find the next spot that we could skate and not get busted. Now, we have an amazing park.... but we don't seem to want to take care of it.
Pick up your f-ing trash and put it in the cans or you may find a weeks worth of trash dumped into the bowls to show you what pigs you are! I'm not asking to pick up someone else's trash... pick up yours. Put your trash in the can. If we all take care of our own trash.... no trash in the park. Very simple concept.
Until next Monday Sucks.... Have a very Happy Thanksgiving! Keep checking back for more info and updated blogs. Oh, feel free to comment. We would love to hear what you have to say... good, bad or indifferent.
This weeks Monday Sucks is quite simple. Today, Monday, sucks because I drove by the skatepark this morning and saw the Town of Parker Public Works people crawling all over the park. I decided to stop and see what was going on. I thought maybe something happened that they were there to see the aftermath of.... Well, something did happen, or didn't happen... i guess it's how you look at it.
It seems that they are getting very tired of paying there employees overtime for all the extra trash that they have to clean up every week. C'mon, is it really that much of a bother to go throw your trash in a can? Are you serioulsly that lazy? You'll bust your ass to learn or land a trick, but you won't give one push and roll over to the trash can?
The head of the Public Works, showed me all the bags of trash, all the trash that was still lying around the park and he used some rather interesting words to describe the masses that have been skating and enjoying the park. Normally, I would take offense to someone calling the skaters a bunch of no good s.o.b's. Today, I didn't take offense. I saw it. It was offensive.
Next week, I am meeting with the town and the PD to "discuss" the issues that have been a pain in the ass of the town. You can only imagine how excited I am to and defend you lazy bitches, so they won't turn the lights off... or worse.
One thing that really pissed me off, was to see all the Go Fast energy drink cans and all the flyers that were strewn all over the park. It pissed me off because they thought that they came from my shop... I had to tell the good folks cleaning up the park that it was not from my shop. And that I am in no way shape or form attached to the shop that this crap was from. They were a little shocked to hear me say what I said. I will not bore you with all the details. However....
I am tired of sticking up for the chad community. I will usually take the high road and be politcally correct, and not say something very negative. Well, that is over. Anyone who has ever been to an 8 Tack Ride event knows that we leave the park, parking lot, surrounding areas cleaner than when we got there. We recognize that we could lose what we have and we take care of our business. What the hell are you doing? Anything except merely taking money and stoking out the next bro?
Back in the day, when some shop owners were like 4 years old, we didn't have sick ass parks to skate at. We built our own stuff in our back yards or we took it to the streets to find a curb or a little ledge. If we were lucky, we could skate for 30 minutes before somebody called the cops. We'd keep moving to find the next spot that we could skate and not get busted. Now, we have an amazing park.... but we don't seem to want to take care of it.
Pick up your f-ing trash and put it in the cans or you may find a weeks worth of trash dumped into the bowls to show you what pigs you are! I'm not asking to pick up someone else's trash... pick up yours. Put your trash in the can. If we all take care of our own trash.... no trash in the park. Very simple concept.
Until next Monday Sucks.... Have a very Happy Thanksgiving! Keep checking back for more info and updated blogs. Oh, feel free to comment. We would love to hear what you have to say... good, bad or indifferent.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Issues
I was just informed by the Town of Parker and by a Crime Prevention Officer in the Parker Police Department that there have been some issues at the skatepark.
Seems that many of the people that have been enjoying the park are not taking care of it. They are not putting trash in the trash cans and that they are using at a place to indulge in some underage activities...
The town will take action if it continues. What does that mean for you? Well, it could be a lot of things. Some that were discussed in town and police meetings were: turning off the lights-so they don't come at all (not just go off earlier), putting a gate around the entire skatepark and requiring pads/helmets, or the one that would hit most of us in the nuts... shutting the park down completely. How many of you want that? I know that I sure as hell don't!!
What's the solution? How do we keep these from happening? It's quite simple really... TAKE CARE OF YOUR BUSINESS! Trash goes in the trash can. It does not go on the grass, the corners of the ledges, under the benches or down in the bowls! The town is going to add six more trash cans around the park... which should make it easier for us lazy losers to throw stuff away rather than just drop it on the ground.
If you have a better solution than not being lazy, hit me up with it and I can forward it on to who ever should hear about it. Meanwhile, the town does not want to take action, but you have pretty much put them in a bad position. So, take care of your crap and the park will remain open. Those of us that are locals should take some pride and ownership in the park. Take care of it or we lose it...
Seems that many of the people that have been enjoying the park are not taking care of it. They are not putting trash in the trash cans and that they are using at a place to indulge in some underage activities...
The town will take action if it continues. What does that mean for you? Well, it could be a lot of things. Some that were discussed in town and police meetings were: turning off the lights-so they don't come at all (not just go off earlier), putting a gate around the entire skatepark and requiring pads/helmets, or the one that would hit most of us in the nuts... shutting the park down completely. How many of you want that? I know that I sure as hell don't!!
What's the solution? How do we keep these from happening? It's quite simple really... TAKE CARE OF YOUR BUSINESS! Trash goes in the trash can. It does not go on the grass, the corners of the ledges, under the benches or down in the bowls! The town is going to add six more trash cans around the park... which should make it easier for us lazy losers to throw stuff away rather than just drop it on the ground.
If you have a better solution than not being lazy, hit me up with it and I can forward it on to who ever should hear about it. Meanwhile, the town does not want to take action, but you have pretty much put them in a bad position. So, take care of your crap and the park will remain open. Those of us that are locals should take some pride and ownership in the park. Take care of it or we lose it...
Monday, November 17, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
MONDAYS SUCK
I am generally a happy person; however, there are plenty of things that get under my skin. So I am taking Mondays as a pissed off day. Today's suck is this...BLANKS.
Buying blank skateboards is lame. If you consider yourself a skater in any sense of the word, yup, even you longboard gnarlies, you support skateboarding. You love skating and let it drive your life and what you do and what you are. So, why do you ride a deck that does not support anything except deforestation? You like getting those killer free stickers and posters for your locker? Free videos and product tosses from your favorite shops? How many of the companies that sell blanks give you free videos or stickers? If you buy blanks, you are not a skater. You don't love skating enough to support the industry, you want cheap crap and then you are still gonna whine about getting free stuff and besides, blanks don't even look good... they look so plain. That's what is great about graphics on decks, they have some style, some individuality. They are the avenue to express the artistic side of the industry. Real skaters spend lots of time designing and choosing a deck graphic that best fits them, whether it is bloody skulls, artistic spew or even a cool shop graphic. So next time you see someone skating a blank, help them out by telling them they are a tool.
In a nut shell, support the industry you love. Don't whine and cry about it. Just do it (see, even Nike is telling you to support it). What do you think about shops that sell blank decks?
Buying blank skateboards is lame. If you consider yourself a skater in any sense of the word, yup, even you longboard gnarlies, you support skateboarding. You love skating and let it drive your life and what you do and what you are. So, why do you ride a deck that does not support anything except deforestation? You like getting those killer free stickers and posters for your locker? Free videos and product tosses from your favorite shops? How many of the companies that sell blanks give you free videos or stickers? If you buy blanks, you are not a skater. You don't love skating enough to support the industry, you want cheap crap and then you are still gonna whine about getting free stuff and besides, blanks don't even look good... they look so plain. That's what is great about graphics on decks, they have some style, some individuality. They are the avenue to express the artistic side of the industry. Real skaters spend lots of time designing and choosing a deck graphic that best fits them, whether it is bloody skulls, artistic spew or even a cool shop graphic. So next time you see someone skating a blank, help them out by telling them they are a tool.
In a nut shell, support the industry you love. Don't whine and cry about it. Just do it (see, even Nike is telling you to support it). What do you think about shops that sell blank decks?
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Pictures of the new Parker Railbender Skatepark
Here are some pics of our new park. It really does have it all, don't you think? Great Hubbas, rails, stairs, big 4-block and a serious little peanut bowl. I'll put up some pics of the big bowl soon, it is the most amazing one I've personally ever seen! People have asked how it compares to the other parks around. It's not quite as big as Denver but people love that it's not got the slick coating. We've been loving the 7-stair and the hubbas and seen things going down there that we've never seen at Castle Rock or Trails. The variety of terrain is really unmatched and we know you agree...we have seen some unnamed kids there that we're pretty sure have not been home since last Saturday so the only thing that needs to be added is a water fountain and some vending machines cuz' they gotta be getting hungry.
Monday, November 3, 2008
New Park, New Blog
Welcome to Parker Skateboarding! This blog is created and maintained by the good folk at 8 Track Ride Skateboard Shop in Parker, Colorado to connect and unite skateboarders from all over and to support skateboarding in Colorado and beyond. Your comments are welcome and, while we cannot always respond to everyone, we will try our best to address comments and questions. Thanks for visiting!
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