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By Steve Cave, About.com Guide to Skateboarding since 2003

Grind For Life Contest

Wednesday February 14, 2007
Grind For Life is an organization that helps people with cancer, especially those who travel long distances to treatments. Grind For Life holds a series of 4 contests - the first one is February 17th in Jupiter, Florida. This will be a street contest - check out the Grind for Life's website for more info.

From GFL: "Grind For Life was founded in 2003 by life-long skateboarder Mike Rogers, after his second battle with sarcoma cancer. The mission of the Grind For Life organization is to provide financial assistance to cancer patients and their families when traveling long distances to doctors and hospitals. In addition, we educate and inspire these patients and families concerning cancer survival and recovery. Funds for this organization will be raised by hosting skateboarding events and festivals, ebay sales of donated goods, fundraisers, Grind For life sponsors a skateboard team to perform at these events to keep the spirit of skateboarding alive."

Comments

February 16, 2007 at 3:56 pm
(1) person says:

that is so awesome! if only it was closer to where i live.

September 8, 2008 at 12:17 pm
(2) Deezel says:

Grind for Life is a great organization and Mike Rogers is a super cool cat. Check out a video shot at the Ollie Contest at ASR this past Friday.

Grind for Life Ollie Contest Video at ASR

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