Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Skate 4 Homies Lands in Dresden, Germany!

Skate 4 Homies landed in Dresden, Germany last month - or at least one of our shirts did!  


We had some family members traveling to Germany to see the Women's World Cup games and they happened to take along some S4H T-shirts to give to any skateboarders they saw.  


Unfortunately- the streets in Dresden were mostly cobblestone so there weren't any skaters out in the streets. 


Finally they found the local skatepark where they met Sasha.  He is was a sport and put the shirt on right then and there for a photo opp! 


Thanks Sasha! Now we have at least one homey in Germany! 



"Here is the photo of Sasha, a young skateboarder in Dresden, who was skating in a local park when we spotted him and gave him a Skate 4 Homies T-shirt."

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Pioneer Day - Jordan River Clean Up Project


Skate 4 Homies wants everyone to give back to their community this Pioneer Day (Sunday, July 24th...for those of you not from Utah). 


Why?... Because S4H is teaming up with The Maloof Money Cup Road Tour to help clean up the Jordan River Parkway!

We are encouraging everyone/anyone to meet at the Skate Park on 900 South 900 West at noon on Sunday.
Here it is, just in case you forgot what the 9th & 9th park looked like.
We will be walking over to the Jordan River Parkway and picking up the trash and pulling weeds. The more people that come the faster it will go. Please help us reach our goal of 400 people!

Here's our very own Jordan River...pretty bad huh?
Photo Courtesy of Amy O'Connor-Deseret News
Don't forget Vitamin Water will be there to keep everyone hydrated! 
 Oh yeah it's B.Y.O.G (Bring Your Own Gloves)


Help keep our city clean! Hope to see you all out there!

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Todd Builds Skullcandy's 4th of July Parade Float!

Our very own Todd Ingersoll was invited to build Skullcandy's 4th of July float! The party wagon was designed to be a halfpipe that could hold 50 kids and a DJ set. We all know Todd's built hundreds of halfpipes but this was definitely his first one on wheels.

Besides some last minute panicking the parade was a success and the people of Park City we're red, white, and blue in the liver. If you've never spent the 4th of July in Park City than you should be reevaluating yourself as an American.

Take a look on what you missed out on...

Todd wears many hats. This hat happens to build floats.
Skullcandy's party wheels

Todd being 'merican

Skullcandy posterchildren 
Big trucks and flatbeds...pretty American. Next year we're trying to get Gravedigger to pull the float.

You're supposed to wave 

The Skullcandy DJ pipe was boomin for miles
The halfpipeless flatbed


Skate 4 Homies would like to than everyone at Skullcandy for giving us this opportunity and being so rad.

Here's to bein Merican 

Thursday, July 7, 2011

National Go Skate Day @ The Skate 4 Homies Warehouse

If you're ever looking for a reason to party, remember.... June 21st gives you three of them. It marks National Go Skateboarding Day, the first day of summer, and the longest day of the year. 

But Skate4Homies wasn't looking for a reason to party. They were counting down the days to party. 

The Skate4Homies warehouse was the place to be on this year's Go Skate Day. It was a flash mobbin, bbqing, cool tunin, skateboardingin, transworld premieringin kinda day. 

And Jim Rad took some pictures to prove it...

The masterminds. Todd and Kyle waiting for the party to arrive
Max Pain and the Groovies showing the people how to rock 



Local rippers meeting in the secret location, pre-skate mob.
No room for cars. SLC skaters ruled the street as they skate towards the Skate4Homies Warehouse.

SLC Trib even caught wind of the skate mob...check it out!

No need for a permit. The skate force is strong with you Salt Lake City.

Trick of the day: Quarter pipe kickflip to wall.
(Official props pending til I figure out the rider's name)

CoCo sending the YüR tunnel.  Be sure to check out YüR Designs on Facebook.
The YüR Designs crew was there killin it all day. And don't sleep on their art.
Tell 
YüR mother you know what you want for YüR birthday!

Todd giving a skateboarding history lesson on the new five stair. 

Oh the Skate 4 Homies wedge?... child's play to Eric Plummer.
Skate4Homies would like to thank all the bands that played! Dar K SeasMaxPain AndThe Groovies, Lily E. Gray, The Spins, and Shame & Scandal. 
An enormous thank you goes to Kyle Wilcox, Kristen E. Rupert, Eric Poulson, and Jim Rad for making Go Skate Day 2011 one to remember.
Thank you to Kenny Payne at Technique Skateshop and Paul Bundy at Popwar. We'd also like to thank Lars Reber from Dizm, and the guys at Yur Designs for donating gear for our raffle. 

Keep skating SLC, it looks good on you.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Maloof Money Cup NY - Mission Complete!

Stick a fork in it, the 2011 NY Maloof Money Cup is a wrap! The S4H Skate Valet was a success and the contest was unreal. If you haven't seen it yet be sure to catch a rerun on FUELTV or visit the website for highlights 

A few highlights...
  • The S4H "Free Skate Valet" parked 174 skateboards!
  • 24 people thought we were giving out "Free Skate Wallets"
  • Greg Lutzka is $160,000 richer
  • Todd, Byron, and Kilay spent a total of 83 hours in a rental car (but only 1 speeding ticket).
  • Todd was interviewed on MTV News
  • Joe C of California Skateparks wants to build a new feature for the S4H Warehouse!!!

Shout out to all the security guards keepin the derelicts in check
Routine cavity search


Better believe that Mike Rogers and Grind For Life was there spinnin the swag wheel.
Skullcandy booth killin it as always.

The Interactive Skatepark brought to you by Maloof, Vans, and Skate 4 Homies.





Kids who came to the event were able to skate features built by CA skateparks for free!
There's some pretty serious talent in NY

Everyone's favorite MC, Eric Isenberg.
Looking forward to having Dakota (left), Eric (right), and the rest of the crew in SLC this July.


 






The little bit of the contest we actually had time to watch. Geoff Rowley and California Skateparks killed it this year with their park design.
 



Shout out to Active team manager Corey Cady. Well equipped with mustache and megaphone.

Chris, Todd, and Anthony Johnson graphic. Thanks for all the help Chris!

Todd fanboying on Caswell Berry.



The Money Cup was a great opportunity for us to help out the kids while spreading word of our cause. 

S4H wants to thank Ryan Morrow, Kilay, Chris, Brook, Eric, Ted, Dakota and the entire Money Cup staff.  If I'm forgetting anyone...blame it on the good time. 

See you guys in DC!!!


Saturday, June 4, 2011

Our Booth @ Maloof

We've been running around trying to help get the interactive park set up and now it's time... Day 1 of the Maloof Money Cup!!  We've got our booth set up and we're ready to valet park some skateboards!  We're also ready to tell everyone about Skate 4 Homies Foundation and our mission.  Come see us!!

Thank you to our homies for helping out!!
From left: Brook, Byron, Todd (our Founder), Kilay, Ted

Gates opened at 10:00 a.m. and by 11:00 we already had about 30 skateboards valet parked at our booth! Stoked that people are coming over to check out what we're doing!











There's still a lot more to come.  This is only Day 1 and it goes ALL day! If you want to watch the action you can- tune in to Fuel TV or watch the webcast online.