One of my local skateparks was closed down for 5 months this year which really sucked because there aren't any parks close by to skate at. They opened it back up temporarily but are having problems with vandalism. If it doesn't stop the park may be shut down for good and covered in dirt which would be such a waste because they spent $500K to build the park. The director for another parks department / skate park in the city of Marina (where we compete some of our CASL contests) had mentioned that if any of us skaters needed help from him on trying to get a skate park built in our city or helping our skate parks, to call him. My mom talked to him at the CASL 2009 State games competition and he offered to come down to our city with his skate team to check out the park and meet with our city's parks department. Hopefully it will make a difference and help keep the park open so we have a place to skate.
Here's a picture of me, Evelyn Abad and the SK8OTB skate team from the City of Marina.
We spent the entire day from 11am to 5pm skating and only stopped cause it started raining. It was fun filming and skating. Evelyn hadn't skated a skate park since 3 months ago cause she got a concussion after the Tim Brauch 2009 competition. Her mom let her skate since we were meeting with the parks departments. Hopefully she can skate more parks soon. We got a lot of video footage over the past few days. Check out Evelyn's Winter 2009 skate Video....for not skating the parks for several months, it hasn't affected her skating skills at all...she still rips it up! all footage in the video was filmed by me and edited by Evelyn Abad...check it out!
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