Skateboard Events

Hiring or booking a skateboarding demo team can be strangely tough! Pro skateboarding teams do a lot of demos, but booking one for a special event, birthday party or commercial event takes a little bit of direction. Below are some tips and tricks for hiring and booking a pro skateboarder, or a professional skateboarding team.

9th International Go Skateboarding Day, 2011 - Get ready because there are eight days and counting until skateboarders from around the world hop on board for the 9th Annual International Go Skateboarding Day (GSD) on June 21st, 2011. Since this year's GSD is on a Tuesday, events are starting... read more about 9th International Go Skateboarding...

The Vans Warped Tour is something like a traveling action or extreme sports festival. It started in 1995, with Vans shoe company being the main sponsor of the tour. The Vans Warped Tour sets up in music venues, fields, parking lots, anywhere they can. Traditionally the music for the concerts is punk and rock music. The Warped Tour has had as many as 100 bands per show! Each band gets around 40 minutes, and they can have up to 10 stages going. Mainline bands get the main stage.

How to Plan a Skateboarding Competition - From time to time I get questions about planning skateboarding competitions, and so I've put together this helpful guide to give you the tools to do it. Planning your own local skate contest is a tough job, with a lot to consider, but hopefully this guide to planning skateboarding competitions will help!

June 21st is Go Skateboarding Day. Began in 2004 by the International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC), Go Skateboarding Day is a day for anyone and everyone to take a break from everything, get together with family and friends and go skateboarding. Go Skateboarding Day is June 21st which happens to be the first day of summer in North...

An interactive calendar of skateboarding contests, events, trade shows, and anything else skateboarding, all over the world. If you have an event that you think should be listed here, let me know!

Skateboarding as an Olympic sport has been a controversial topic for a while now - at Fall ASR 2004, IASC (the International Association of Skateboard Companies) met and part of the discussion covered the question of skateboarding in the Olympics. Should skateboarding be an Olympic sport? How wouldskateboarding as an Olympic sport change skateboarding? And should skating be called a sport at all? Read this article to hear about what was discussed, and the future of olympic skateboarding.

Free Flow tour is an amateur skateboarding and BMX competition that tours around the United States, with stops all over the country. The competitions are open to any amateur skater or rider aged 18 or under. Win a spot at the Free Flow Tour finals, and then win a Wild Card spot in the finals of the Dew Action Sports Tour, skateboarding or...

Danny Way Jumps Great Wall of China, breaking world records! Read about the jump, the records broken, and more! Find out more about Danny Way jumping the great wall, about Danny Way, and find links to web cams, Danny Way's site, and more.

Rubicon Traveling Skateboarding School - Rubicon Skateboards is a company in the United Kingdom (UK) that provides a traveling skatepark / skateboarding school to anyone throughout england, Ireland, Scotland, and hopefully soon Europe, the United States (USA), Asia and beyond!

Die-hard riders flocked to see the Emerica team come thundering into skateboard parks across the Midwest on their Harley-Davidsons, as part of the Wild Ride tour. The energy of the crowds was raw and powerful, with anywhere from 700 spectators in Denver at the kick-off on Sunday June 11, to an average of 300 - 400 at smaller stops throughout the week. Emerica opened the Wild Ride to anyone who wanted to join their rolling adventure - read more.

Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huck Jam tour is going to be exclusively at Six Flags amusement parks this year, called the Project 8 Boom Boom Huck Jam Ramp Ragers. The tour still promises to be the huge crazy skateboarding / BMX / Motocross sports extravaganza it has been for the last few years - this time though, you get to ride roller coasters before and after the show! Read more about what to expect at the Boom Boom Huck Jam tour, and see a schedule of events for the Boom Boom Huck Jam tour!

E3 Photo Journal - Games From E3 2006 - see pictures, images and photos from E3, 2006! Check out the new video games and accessories, all from a skateboarder's perspective! See Tony Hawk, plus hear about the new Downhill Jam and Project 8 skateboarding video games, plus the new Nintendo Wii (ex Revolution) and the Play Station 3!

Go Skateboarding Day is an event for everyone to take part in - here is a list of just some things to take part in and do for 2008 Go Skateboarding Day, along with pro skater events, contests, everything!

X Games 16 takes place July 29 - Aug. 1, 2010, exclusively within downtown Los Angeles between four world-class venues - STAPLES Center, Nokia Theatre, L.A. LIVE and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Tickets are available now. X Games tickets range in price starting at $9 based on location and venue. The public will be given the option of purchasing various X Games 16 tickets as detailed belo…

X Games 16 skateboarding photos, pictures from X Games 16's skateboarding contests and competitions, and pro skaters from X Games 16.

Central Valley AM Jam - The Central Valley AM Jam is a truly amateur skateboarding contest series throughout California. It's a great contest series for young or unsponsored skaters to cut their teeth on.