Come join us for some good wholesome fun, and some $$$$$. Hope to see you on the 4th for the festivities and The 5th for the contest and after party. Only $10.00 to enter and a chance to win entry fees and prizes. Email magiccityshowdown@yahoo.com for directions and hotel accommodations. Skatepile.com will be there to support the event. Please go to www.skatelife.tv for more details.
That’s right folks…Super Hick is almost here. Mark it on your calendars and start making your travel plans. We definitely want this year’s event to be our biggest Super Hick ever!
Date: June 6th and 7th
Location: The Factory Skate Park in Newnan, Georgia
Hosted By: The one and only… Skatepile.com
Be sure to also check out our Super Hick Blog Page for additional information and updates.
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On March 26th the skating community suffered a major loss. Josh Waggoner passed away after sustaining a head injury while street skating. Josh was loved by so many. His funeral on Monday the 31st was packed. So many are saddened by his untimely death.
On behalf of Josh Waggoner, Skatepile.com has set up a Paypal account to accept donations for his family. All funds will be given to Josh’s family to cover medical expenses, funeral costs and day to day living expenses. This account is now accepting donations. Please Click Here to donate. Anyone who donates to this cause will get a Josh Waggoner RIP sticker. The stickers are being printed and should start mailing in about 2 weeks. I have already started a mailing list for those who have donated so far.
You can also send funds directly to Life Link of Georgia, 2875 Northwoods Parkway, Norcross, GA 30071. Donations should be made in Josh’s name.
Thank you for all of your support.
Erin Hyser
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Hi everyone.
I just spoke with Vicki, Josh’s mom. Here are the arrangements for Josh.
Today and tomorrow, Saturday March 29th and Sunday the 30th, they are having a viewing. This is basically a time to come by and visit Josh. The viewing will be from 1pm - 8pm both days. It will be at the Tim Stewart Funeral Home. 300 Simonton Road is the address.
The funeral will be on Monday the 31st at 11am. The service will be held at Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula. 202 Hebron Church Road is the address.
Vicki has asked that we all wear our regular day-to-day clothes. Preferably jeans and a skate related t-shirt. She also mentioned the outfit they have chosen for Josh: Vibralux Jeans, Never Not Skating T-shirt and Jacket, Nike’s and ball cap. Definitely Josh.
I know we are all grieving this loss. Every day is a challenge right now. Be with friends and support each other. Remember we are all going to grieve differently. Be kind to everyone, and don’t judge those not grieving the way you are. I love you all!!!
Heavy hearted,
Erin Hyser
Dearest Friends,
Today is one of our most challenging yet. We said our final goodbye’s to THE nicest young man in the world. Josh is preparing for surgery to donate his organs to others in need. Just the way we would expect Josh to go. Still giving life. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. I will post them on Skatepile.com when they are available. His mom, Vicki, mentioned Monday or Tuesday of next week.Josh leaves behind 100’s of friends, his mom Vicki, dad Jay, stepfather Eric, brother Brent, sisters Ashely and Allison, and a huge extended family of aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, and cousins.
Please keep Josh, his friends and family in your prayers.
Grieving,
Erin Hyser
On Behalf of the Skatepile.com Family and Friends
I am terribly and undescribeably sad. Most of you have seen, met or know very well our dear friend Josh Waggoner. Yesterday afternoon at about 2:30pm Josh fell while street skating. His best friend, Wayne Engeron, was with him. The fall was to his ribs first and then Josh hit his head. He was immediately knocked unconcious. We got the phone call from Richard Williams at about 3:30pm and gathered our kids to head to the hospital for what we thought was a concussion. Upon arriving to the hospital we found out from Josh’s mom, Vicki, the severity of the situation was far worse. I stayed at the hospital with about 100 of Josh’s closest friends and family. We were allowed to visit him 3 at a time. The night dragged on. Spirits began to rise as we all told each other this could not be Josh’s time.
At about 1:00am Josh’s family, Wayne and Josh’s girlfriend were called back to meet with his doctor. There was a devastating silence in the waiting room. Finally, about 10 minutes later a hospital patient representative came into the room and told us the most unfortunate news we never wanted to hear. Josh is not going to make it. His brain was damaged beyond repair. He continues to be on life support while the family makes preparations for organ donation.
Never in a million years did I want to have to write something like this. My heart aches. My eyes sting. My mind cannot seem to wrap around the magnitude of losing such a sweet and loving young person.
We love you Josh!
Erin Hyser
On Behalf of the Skatepile Family
Please keep our good friend and loyal Pilehead Josh Waggoner in your positive thoughts and prayers. Josh was skating today and hit his head. Please take a moment out of your day and wish Josh well, so he can pull through this tough time.
Thank you,
The Skatepile Family
Pilehead Josh Waggoner has started up a blog site to document the ever growing amount of rollerblading activities in the Atlanta area. Direct from the site: “Welcome to the Atlanta Rollerblading blog. I have created this site to give updates on videos, magazines, events, and other topics involved within the Atlanta Rollerblading community. About once a week I will update the site with exclusive photos along with other news. Eventually I will update more and more depending on the amount of traffic the site gets. I appreciate everyone’s interest in the site, and hopefully it keeps growing.”
http://atlantarollerblading.blogspot.com/
Rat-Tail & L.A. All Day are hosting a BBQ Day at the Santa Monica Boys & Girls Club Skatepark.
When: March 8th
Location: 1238 Lincoln Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401
Time: 11am - 3pm
Click the link to see flyer.
Thanks,
Carlos & Tracy
The Bitter Cold Show Down took place February 22 and 23 at the Flow Skatepark in Columbus, Ohio. The footage has been amazing. Thanks to all the competitors, industry heads and spectators who made it to this event. Thanks to Daniel Kinney and The Flow Skatepark for putting the event on. Many props to Alex Broskow for taking 1st place . The top 5 finishers were Alex Broskow, Jeff Stockwell, Chris Haffey, Brian Shima, and David Sizemore. For more footage, images and reviews on the event visit: Be-Mag.com, BitterColdShowDown.com , or One Magazine.
ATLiens love to roll. Any day of the week you can find a crew rolling the Woodward Skate Park at Discover Mills mall. Tuesday nights have become the main skate of the week, but from the looks of this edit by Richard Williams Fridays are hot too. Not only does Atlanta have a huge indoor park, Gwinnett County has built over 5 outdoor cement skate parks in the past few years. Pickneyville Park, Mountain Park Park, Ronald Reagan Park, Dashong Park and others. Gwinnett has plans for an additional five parks to be built over the next two years. Hamilton Mill Park should be completed by spring. This park has a vast array of bowls for your skating pleasure. We’ve heard that Rhodes Jordan Park is next on the list to have a skate park added to their venue. Don’t forget the Factory Skate Park down in Newnan, GA and Progressive Skate Park in Canton too. Clearly Atlanta has a healthy rollerblading scene. Here is the link for Gwinnett County Parks.
Here is the edit by Richard Williams for 12.7.2007. http://www.vimeo.com/422509
Does your city have a great scene? Let us know where you live and what parks you skate. We’ll post it up for everyone to see. Lot’s of rollerbladers travel and are always looking for a new place to skate.
If you missed the HoHoHoes event this weekend, poor you. You missed some off the wall skating, great vibes and oh, yeah, chicks.
Sizemore won the event nailing trick after trick. Brad Magnuson from Duluth, MN won 2nd place. Julian Bah won a cool 3rd place. Michael “Gumby” Braud took home best trick award. Their were other awards handing out by the ladies: Most Girly Jeans went to Kelso, Best Butt went to Crazy J, Favorite Trick went to David Sizemore for his laid out back flip down the stairs. Other skaters to metion that completely went all out: Jeff Dalnas, Steven Tat, Ben?, Chris Smith, Gabe Holm, Robert Guerrero, Brian Starnes, Carson Starnes, Sam, Mike Harper, and many many more.
Check out the Youtube edit by our man Richard Williams. Thanks Richard for putting this together.
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It is difficult to say that the 2007 Showdown at the Hoedown at Eisenbergs Skatepark was the best contest to date in Hoedown history, but it was. The park setup altered a little bit from last year. The huge pink kink that went over the bank channel was removed, and the low kink along the escalator side of the W ramp was replaced with a tall handicap rail. The new death obstacles added especially for the contest were short slant rails on either side of the huge sub box.
The contest began with three heats of about 20 skaters per heat, and no one wasted any time with warm up tricks. The crowd responded loudly as crazy switch ups and transfers happened on the rails and boxes. Seven skaters from each heat advanced to the next round, and since there was one tie, this brought the number to 22.
The super session was overwhelming to watch. Stockwell and Bailey were ripping long trick filled lines throughout the whole park, while the rest of the competitors chose an obstacle and assaulted it. The down ledges and rail were punished by Haffey, Aragon, Chaz Sands, and Skatepile’s own Andrew Jacuzzi. Haffey took his newly acquired skiing skills and put them to use with the biggest gaps and transfers of the day, included a gap over the sub box to the small middle transition on the W ramp.
The finalists were decided and it was time for the winner to step up and earn the crown. Haffey qualified first going in to the finals, but that didn’t stop him from attacking the course from all angles. His alley oop fish to drop on the shotgun wall was incredible. Other notables include Bailey’s true oop top acid to 270 out on the sub box, Stockwell’s alley oop wallride rewind out, and Fish taking best trick with an alley oop topsoul on the sub box to forward soul on the slant rail. Hawke Trackler was in the house, so be on the look out for his edit coming to a youtube near you.
The weekend of Oct. 26-28th the SP crew drove up to Boone, NC to skate a comp at the local park. Andy Kruse put the contest together! The vibe was so good and the live music bumping while everyone skated was right on brother. Sizemore killed it all day. True Mizue on the guard rail to 10 foot drop had to be the trick of the day. The day’s stunts summed up to 1st David Sizemore, 2nd Casey Durbin, and 3rd Sam Moore. Sizemore took hom $100. Casey and Sam both won Rollerblade Dowtown 4 skates! Be sure to make it up for the next contest in Boone. The locals are super cool, and the park is a fun place to roll. If you want to head up to this park the address is: 231 Complex Drive / Boone, NC 28607
Rollerblade has two amazing new skates! Check the edits for the DT4 and Point 8. DT4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKqGMh_sxBE
Point 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpxI-sgZH-E
The Skatepile crew headed in from ATL to check out the annual Magic City Showdown. We got there at about noon and it was raining… So me and Josh Waggoner hung out at Sean and Charles house and watched the new Radius media DVD. Let me just say that Chris Farmer is a wizard for sure. The Farmer section in this video is worth buying the DVD, plus all the other clips are bad-ass. The music was really good too.
After hanging out at Sean and Charles house, we headed to the meet up house. It was still raining, but everyone decided they were down to skate in the rain. A train of about 10 cars rolled out to this amazing loading dock with a square rail on the side. This spot was seriously rad! Skaters rolled down the hill at this beast and laced some amazing grinds, even though the rain made it super sketch. Stand outs included Little Josh (who is not little anymore) with a royal to big 540 over the end of the loading dock, Mark Wodja with true Soul grinds all the way off the end, David Sizemore with savannahs, and alley-oop rough grinds. Unfortunately with the late start of the event, I had to get back to ATL and leave just after the first spot. Be sure to look online for more information about this cool grass-roots event. Thanks to all the skaters that made this event possible. I’ll be back for more next year. The vibe in Bama is rad and all the skaters are super good. Be sure to buy the new issue of Radius, it’s amazing!
Whats Up, Its time for the next LA All Day contest. This time were
taking it to the streets of Venice, we will have 3 divisions,
Beginner, Intermediate and Elite. The contest entry fee is $20, also
there will be a cash prize. The Elite Division will have 4 locations,
each location is just a skate away. Hope to see ya there.
Check out our blog for more info http://laallday.blogspot.com/
Come skate with a really good scene. The Charlotte crew is super good, there should be lots of amazing skating at this contest. The comp is at: West Mecklenburg High School 7400 Tuckaseege Rd. Charlotte, Nc. 28214
Fee $7.00 HOSETED BY- STABILITY SKATE PARK. SPONSERED BY –ATOMIC SKATE AND SURF SHOP, RAZORS, AND CASH PRIZES. PRO –ADVANCED-INTERMEDITE COMP. CONTACTS CALL JJ-843-601-0818, MICHAEL-843-629-8465 Stability Skate Park-Phone: (843) 280-5071 Fax: stabilitynmb@gmail.com, Atomic Skate and Surf Shop-843-317-688http://www.atomicskatesurf.com/ Directions-1100 Hwy. 17 South North Myrtle Beach SOUTH CAROLINA
Our good friend Gabe Holm is hosting a Roll Series contest in Charlisle Ma. June 16th. There will be an Old man division for skaters 25 and up, Groms 16 and under, and Open for everyone inbetween. The comp is at the Charlisle School 83 School Street Charlisle, Ma. 01741. For more information check out rollseries.com
