The Jam Series 08: Charm City MD

Just got back from the Charm City Skate Park, after a great day of skating and creating with some old friends and some new ones! This was my first time back to Charm City Skate Park since the Beast of the East tours (4 yrs. ago) and although some of the faces and obstacles have changed it still has the same old "Charm"! Although I have not been to the park in sometime I am always running into the people from Charm on my travels and seeing how they develop over the years has been a cool thing to see.
Thanks to Jason, Aubry and the rest of the Charm crew for having us, Dakota Welty for helping judge and to all the families who came out to support their kids skateboarding! Jason taped the whole thing so I am sure you will see the footage soon enough, again some great skating went down and everyone was psyched! Our next stop is June 7th Academy Skate Park CT see you there!

Flatland: Games of SKATE
GROM: Austin Lawson
Open: Dan Corrigan

Street:
GROM
1) Myles Willard
2) Cody Seffert
3) Austin Kottencamp

OPEN
1) Dan Corrigan
2) Giorgio Villone
3) Rob Goode

Best Trick
Dan Corrigan

Freestyle Demo: June 21st NY H.I.N.

JJ and AJ just got booked for Night Shift June 21st in NY.

This is apart of Hot Import nights and for those not familiar think of the movie "The Fast and the Furious"
Tricked out cars, DJ's, Music acts, Freestyle MX, Break Dancing, Car Drifting demos, hot girls and now Freestyle Skateboarding!
This is a trial run to see how the people re-act to skateboarding at this event, if it goes well this could end up becoming a full blown tour for next season, which would include and Action Sports area.

If anyone can do demos that get a crowd hyped(10K-15K will be attending), wanting more and on a limited budget its these two. They will however be joined by a few of their friends TBA later and will have a 60x60 foot area to do their thing in!

Big ups to Rick for calling us and getting it dialed in, as well as to AJ and JJ for holding it down for Freestyle and showing everyone that its not dead and better then ever!

The Jam Series Breakdown / Schedule 08

The Jam Skate and Create Series Breakdown: 2008


Skate 57: May 17 NJ: Done
Charm City Skate Park MD: May 25th: Coming up!
Academy Skate Park CT: June 7th: Coming up!
Whitehall Skate Park PA (Philadelphia): June 14th: Coming up!


2 Divisions: GROM (Beg/Intermediate) and Open (Advanced/Sponsored)


3 Competitions


Street: 2 runs, best run counts, JAM Style finals (3-5 runs skate until you miss)
Flatland: Game of O-N-E qualifiers: JAM Style finals (3-5 runs skate until you miss)
Best Trick: Jam style format (time limit event)


Entry Fee: $15 gets you a session and into 1 event of choice
$5 for each additional event

The Jam Series:Skate 57 NJ, Stop #1

What a great day of fun! The Jam Skate and Create Series 08 has officially started and we are already looking forward to our next event at Charm City Skate Park Sunday May 25th! It was a gorgeous day outside but the skaters still found there way to the park and skate in the competition. We started with the Flatland Jam which saw all forms, styles and skill levels all skating together and getting in a great session, when the dust settled Jesse Whalen and his modern Freestyle approach took top honors with a smooth and creative style! After a short break we started the Street competition. The finals Jam was again a good mix of styles and abilities all skating and supporting one another. Matt Henry and Greg Pachell from One entered just to have fun and keep the session fun / creative and had some great lines! Top Honors in the went to John Gardner who floated over big kicker boxes, kick-fliped into the Euro- gap and overall through down some of the most consistent and entertaining lines of the day. Top Honors in the GROM went to Kevin Jordan to which I know you will see more of in the future! Special shout out to the 3 ladies who entered the competitions Katie (Open) and Mariah/Alex (GROM) who showed that girls can hold it down as well! Last but not least the Best Trick, we decided to let the 10 skaters use the entire course and call out the tricks and allow the crowd to decide. It would have been tough to judge so we let the crowd /peer response tell us who would get top honors. In the end it was Nick Rosalis who threw down a picture perfect 360 flip down the big steep set as well as a boat load of tricks up the Euro Gap as well! Flatland Jam Open: Top 3 1) Jesse Whalen 2) Will Gillucci 3)Tyler Robowitz Open Street Results:Top 3 1) John Gardner 2) Guy Wolkowitz 3) Kevin Bird GROM Street Results:Top 3 1)Kevin Jordan 2)Alex Arch 3)Mariah Rogers Best Trick: Nick Rosalis -360 Flip down the big stair set

Joey Fitzpatrick on TWS site

He is in there with Baltimore's Best check it out at www.skateboarding.com

Can you guess which one he is? Hint he has 2 tricks that are unique to Joey!

Happy hunting!

World Championships of Freestyle '08:

This event will be held in Sao Paulo Brazil this October with some of the best modern and classic Professional and Amateur Freestylers in the World! Will JJ and AJ head down this time around to show the world the new Freestyle is from Philly?! Stay tuned............

TWS:

Always posting up where we are going to be next! Thanks Blair!

Thrasher Magazine:

Our good friend and photographer Andrew Garret got a Behind the Lens which featured a picture of our very own Matt Henry!

Concrete Wave:

Greg Pachell finally made it into the Buyers guide addition as well as JJ's new P-Tip model!

New Website:

It's finally here, thanks to the great work of Anthony and Rob at INSOMNIAC MULTIMEDIA! We wanted something different, professional but creative, they worked with us each step of the way and the result is our new site!: http://www.oneskateboardco.com

Gear for GROMS:

Is still going strong and recently picked up Triple 8 protective gear as a Sponsor as well as Golden Dragon Trucks / Wheels! Many thanks to these companies contributions to this After School Program. This season G4G will be adding a couple more locations to help make this a city wide program for Philadelphia. In addition we will be receiving much needed funding soon!

Top Shop '08 @ 3rd Lair Minneapolis

Went out to this annual event, got in some great skating at 3 parks, made some new friends and contacts, saw some insane skating during the weekend and earned my stripes along with every other rep and company owner during the Trade Show as temperatures dipped below freezing! Special big ups to Mark and Steve at 3rd Lair for putting on a great event and making us feel welcome and my friend / mid West rep James for helping out during the weekend and foe the gloves!

AST Dew Tour / MASS Tour:

Matt Henry and Joey Fitzpatrick are waiting to hear if they got into the AST, these two have been crushing it lately! While Greg Pachell is looking to head to a couple MASS competitions this season to skate some new terrain and see what all that FDR skating translates into out on the road!

The Jam Skate and Create Series '08:

This year is out 4th year of doing this tour, and we have traveled up and down the East Coast from Montreal Canada to Atlanta Georgia and everywhere in between. We have made a lot of friends out on the road as well as learned some valuable lessons along the way.

This season we are hitting up 4 stops (NJ,MD,CT,PA) from May-June and changing up the format slightly due to some great feedback and from what we noticed during events.

Street: 2 Runs, Best Run Counts, JAM style Finals

Flatland: Game of SKATE qualifier, JAM style Finals

Best Trick: JAM style format

Entry Fee: $15 (includes street event) $5 additional for Flatland and or Best Trick

Confirmed Sponsors: One Skateboards, Powell / Bones, SHUT, DNA Energy

Check out the event flier!