National Go Skateboarding Day takes place on June 21st every year and it’s the day for Skateboarders across the globe to celebrate what they’re passionate about most. It all started in 2004 and has been an ongoing holiday where skaters across the world drop everything and just focus on what they love skateboarding.
Team Pain Skate Parks just recently completed a restoration of the 12 year old Orlando Skate Park. Adding a few new obstacles, fresh paint, and a compete revamp of the big bowl in the back end of the park. Complete with brand new tedder stone pool coping and tile, not to mention the strenuous task of demoing the previous hip and reconstructing a brand new hip that opens up the bowl and allows for more flow and lines. Check out the recap above to see some of Orlando’s best tearing up their newly renovated skate park.
Ryder Bartholomew sent over this killer edit of a Lakeland Skatepark session from a few months back. Featuring: Garrett Miller, Jake “Poptart” Welch, Drew Hoffman, Brian “Yoda” Upapong, Andrew Pfeifer, and Ryder Bartholomew.
Riley Payne has a killer little edit from the new Team Pain Skateparks park in Lakeland, FL. This was shot with some of the “Quality Control” crew back before the park was open.
About this time last year, Keith Baldassare and Jake “Poptart” Welch set out on a cross-country road trip from Florida to California. Appropriately named the “Dumpster Dive Tour”…check out some of what they got themselves into.
Saturday, November 19th, was the Vitamin Water King of Crete at OSP in Orlando, FL. Everybody was killing it…East Coasters & West Coasters…Groms from 11 years old all the way up to Masters in their late 40’s and one that is even 50. It was a perfect day for some concrete shredding and in the end it was Mike Peterson, Sergie Ventura, Alex Sorgente, and Nick Wallace all taking first place in their respective divisions. To end the day off, everybody headed down the road to Skatebar for a couple of cold ones and the premiere of Lifeblood Skateboards’ first full-length video We Must Bleed. Make sure to check out all of the final results and photographs below. Also, be sure to check out all of the video footage here. Looking forward to doing it again next year!
Pro
1. Mike Peterson $3,000
2. Dalton Dern $2,000
3. Josh Rodriguez $1,000
4. Nolan Monroe $600
5. Josh Stafford $400
6. Shawn Ross $250
7. Jimmy Marcus $150
8. Benji Galloway $100
9. Keith Baldassare
10. Joe Storm
11. Nick Murphy
12. Rich Payne
Masters
1. Sergie Ventura $1,000
2. Lenny Byrd $600
3. Aaron Astorga $400
4. Todd Johnson $250
5. Don Hillsman $150
6. Mike Rogers $100
7. Tony Walsh
8. Lonny Reiter
Open Am
1. Alex Sorgente
2. Austin Gordon
3. Clay Kreiner
4. Cason Kirk
5. Jacob Welch
6. Marshall LaFrance
7. Dane Quintal
8. Spencer Lau
9. Isaac Crawford
10. Pedro Delfino
11. Brandon Yarborough
12. Austin Creasman
13. Drew Hoffman
14. Dante Tonella
15. Christopher Kozma
16. Stone Denning
17. Marcos Luke
Boys (14 & Under)
1. Nick Wallace
2. Brennan Campbell
3. Joseph Whitney
4. Marcos Luke
5. Joshua Forsberg
6. Trey Sylvester
7. Austin Wagar
8. Chyanne Reese
Nick Murphy, Jake “Poptart” Welch, Brian “Yoda” Upapong, Benji Galloway, & Shaun “Tha Boss” Ross in a heated backyard sesh somewhere in central Florida.
Demon Seed Skateboards at the Metro Skateboard Academy in Orlando, Florida, featuring: Steve Workman, Isaac Crawford, Jake “Poptart” Welch, Christian Frazier, and Steven & Juan Piñeiro. These dudes session hard!
Vendetta Griptape team riders Nick “Mailbox” Murphy, Jake “Poptart” Welch, Keith Baldassare, Charles Jordan Armenta, and Connor Askew shredding the Vans Warped Tour mini-ramp yesterday in Orlando, FL.
Demon Seed Skateboards team riders Jake “Poptart” Welch and Nick “Mailbox” Murphy putting a hurting on the mini-ramp at the Vans Warped Tour in Orlando yesterday.
Last Saturday was the Vans Warped Tour Qualifiers Mini-Ramp Contest at the one-and-only Orlando Skate Park. I finally did more skating than shooting for once, but I still managed to come away with several good photos and a couple of sequences. As usual, everybody was killing it and the vibe was good! Thanks again to Johnny and staff at OSP for everything that you guys do, to the Demon Seed crew for bringing the gnar, and to everybody that came out. See you guys soon! – Nicks
Jordan Armenta, Big Ollie to Disaster.
Poptart, Frontside 5-0 Grind to Fakie.
John Stowe, Smith Grind.
Tillman Hazelton, Monty Grind (Back Smith).
John Stowe, Fakie Nosegrind.
Mat Call, Frontside Air Transfer from mini-ramp to sketchy piece of plywood.
Here’s a killer little montage of Demon Seed Skateboards rider Jake “Poptart” Welch shredding a private backyard bowl recently. Filmed and Edited by Shea Atkinson.
Video from Keith Baldassare & Nick Murphy’s Birthday BBQ/ Skate Bash this past Sunday at the Baldassare Compound. Featuring (In no particular order): Nick Murphy, Keith Baldassare, Jake “Poptart” Welch, Mat Call, Christian Frazier, Spencer Lau, Marshall LaFrance, & Steven & Juan Piñeiro. Thank you to Cathy Baldassare and Demon Seed Skateboards for having us out!
Congratulations to Jake “Poptart” Welch, Nick Murphy, and Isaac Crawford for finishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively at the April Pools Day Contest at Orlando Skate Park on Saturday. The weather was perfect and everybody was killing it! Check back for the full results later, but for now, check out the shredding that was doing down! All Photos_Nick Nicks.
Nick Murphy, Alley-Oop Boneless Into the Pool. Click on image to view sequence.
Rich Payne, Eggplant.
Rich Payne, Broken Egg.
Keith Baldassare, Over the Hip to Frontside 5-0.
Jordan Armenta, Big Backside Air.
Nick "Mailbox" Murphy, Rock N' Roll Slider.
Brennan Campbell, Lipslide.
Keith Baldassare
Nick Murphy, Feeble to Fakie.
Jake "Poptart" Welch, Lein to Tail.
Isaac Crawford, Frontside Air over the Hip from Deep to Shallow.
On Saturday before the April Pools Day contest at OSP, David Patch, Jake “Poptart” Welch, Nick Murphy, and myself squeezed in a super-fun little session at the Maitland Brick Quarters. All Photos_Nick Nicks.
Jake "Poptart" Welch, Backside Smith Stall 270 Out. Click image to view sequence.
Nick Murphy, Alley-Oop Boneless In. Click image to view sequence.
Jake "Poptart" Welch, Chink-Chink Revert. Click image to view sequence.