There is a new skatepark in Drummondville.
City vs Skateboard
The majority of large cities around Canada have laws making skateboarding illegal. It’s been like that since the 60’s. The NFB documents this fact for Montreal in the mid 60’s. With skateboarders fighting the laws, media showing off skateboarding, and the Olympics accepting skateboarding, all this has started to change the thinking of the illegallity of skateboarding. Vancouver is moving forward!
Annie Guglia Olympian
The first Olympics with skateboarding has come an gone. Covid-19 affected skateboarding’s entry into the Olympics with some athletes testing positive and thus some other athletes got to get into the games that hadn’t qualified. Injuries also changed which athletes participated. CBC made two episodes on Annie Guglia’s journey to the Tokyo Olympics. Thanks for representing skating Annie.
Lac-Mégantic Skatepark
The ASM is proud to have helped Lac-Mégantic move forward after the great tragedy they lived through. ASM designed and Papillon Skateparks built made for a great collaborative skatepark project. If you are not far away, go by the skatepark, have fun, and then spent a little bit of money in Lac-Mégantic to help their economy.
Jeff Grosso, The Regular Man’s Skateboarding Legend
For decades, Jeff Grosso lived and breathed skateboarding, spreading his passion for the sport in person and in his digital series with Grosso’s YouTube series is “Loveletters to Skateboarding” His friends and family recall his passion, his character and what made him a skateboarding legend.
Skateparks…Art?
“Devoid of their usual inhabitants, the skate parks dotting the stretches of California are alone works of art in the eyes of photographer Amir Zaki.
His new photo-book, California Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks, features Zaki’s photos of 12 major skate parks throughout the Golden State. The brutalist structures that emerge at these sites, from San Jose’s Cunningham Lake to Linda Vista in San Diego, fill a void in landscape photography and capture a pivotal cultural moment.” Click here to read the rest of the article.
Colorado Skatepark Tour with Annie Guglia
“We joined Annie for a few days to show her running around and shredding some of Colorado’s best skateparks. Between the sessions and hanging with old friends, Annie and Alexis head off the grid to cook, camp, and breathe some of that quality Rocky Mountain fresh air. As we followed her journey and listened to her perspective, we slowly understood that this sixth sense is very much realistic if you remain passionate and inspired.” Click here to read the rest of the article.
Skaters Drop In to DIY Roots During Quarantine
But when places like the Venice Beach skatepark were filled with sand and others like the El Dorado and Caruthers skateparks had mulch deposited throughout, it’s time to go old school and get creative. Click here to read the rest of the article.
Go Skateboarding Day-Montreal 2020
Covid-19 or no Covid-19, Go Skate Day still goes down.
Coronavirus disruption of normal life hard for children
“But the closure of playgrounds in Montreal parks is still a heartbreaking sight for a small child in a hollowed-out city of empty restaurants and ghost buses. It’s the one sign of the world falling to pieces someone so young can comprehend.” Click here to read the rest of the article.