5 Tricks with Pat Schaefer

Thanks to Urban Jacksonville for Selecting BusStop as Jacksonville's Best Skate Blog

In light of Folio Weekly's Best of Jax Awards awarding the awesome Urban Jacksonville blog the award for best local blog (which I wholeheartedly endorse), the blog's owner Joey Marchy posted his own best blogs list, and BusStop is on it. Thanks for the support! It really means a lot to me.

I do my best to support all types of skateboarding from the region, and I'm happy to have the contributors that I do. I'm always looking for new people to bring the core idea of skateboarding to our audience. Once again, thanks to all the readers, contributors, and people who take the time to enjoy skateboarding. Look for BusStop's own 'Raddest in Jax' awards, coming soon!

If you are interested in events, news, and acquiring a general sense of what's up outside of skateboarding, put Urban Jacksonville in your reader.

Go Skate Day: Crashin' and Bangin' at Ed Austin

The second stop of the Bangers contest was at Ed Austin Park off Monument Road in Arlington. Two separate obstacles were featured here, the first being the brick quarter pipe modeled after the Maitland banks near Orlando, and the second being the Jersey barrier on top of a bank. By this time, the clouds were coming in overhead, which was a welcome sign, but people were still suffering from the intense heat.

It seemed like all hell had broken loose when the contest started on the brick quarter. There were collisions left and right, a couple of camera lenses got bonked by flailing boards, and a couple of people may have gotten their feelings hurt just a little. Darkness brought his own props, which included a Power Wheels Jeep to be used as an extention. I don't think it worked out too well though.

After this everyone moved to the Jersey barrier. Unfortunately, I got sick from the heat, and had to miss most of this, but I heard that George Evans and Max were holding it down. After all was said and done, everyone headed to the next spot for the last contest on Go Skate Day: Bangers for Bucks at Kona Skatepark. More coverage coming tomorrow, including video!

Here are the photos from Ed Austin:




Bong Gause


Crashin'



Triclops





Mike Barnes weaving through traffic









Bong




Guess what's about to happen here?



I wonder if Craig ever ended up doing that Bangers for Blunts contest he proposed.

Here's to One Year

Thanks to everyone that comes here to read about skateboarding in Jacksonville. I love you guys.

If you missed out on the party, check out Tom's pictures over at Jaxscene. Special thanks to Ryan King, Ian Ranne, and Clyde Singleton.

4 for 40 Round 4 Contest Winner: Trevor Stevens

Trevor Stevens:



Thanks to everyone who submitted entries, and all those who voted.
So far the winners have been:

Round 1: Jack Seely
Round 2: Mike Richey
Round 3: Trevor Stevens

Keep an eye out in the near future for a bonus round.

BusStop Shirts? Stickers? Underpants?

I get people telling me they want stickers all the time. I don't have stickers, but I'm working on it. Any other ideas?

Bigmouth Strikes Again

I have a chat box now, inspired by some of my favorite skate blogs. On the right, just under the dinosaur. If you have something to say that isn't relative to a specific post, just post here. If you don't want to use your real email address, just type in a fake one.

Feel free to use the chatbox to promote your event, talk about the smell of your kneepads, or to complain about your parents not letting you go skate till you finish your homework.