Sk8Grl Welcomes Allysha Bergado to the team!

Sk8Grl wants to welcome Allysha Bergado to the Team!  At 11 years old this girl is competing at the World Cup level, getting interviews in magazines, and filming for a sk8 video this summer.

  

WOODWARD NEWS. 2008 PlayStation Am Jam Tour Dates

Team rider Gaby Ponce is set to compete on May 10th in Rye and on May 17th in Philly. 

If you are an AM rider looking for places to go, and places to compete at then check out Woodward East

 Find out more about the Playstation Am Jam on the Woodward East site.  They have great skateboard and BMX parks!

ESPN Decides to Continue Vert Competitions at This Year's X Games

Holly Lyons Invert X Games 2007

Skateboarding has spoken, and vert stays!

ESPN has decided to continue its 13-year tradition of vert competitions at this year's X Games. Over the past month ESPN has engaged in many conversations with the X Games BMX and Skateboard vert athletes in an attempt to transition the Vert discipline into one featuring a skatepark course design. While many athletes were initially receptive to the idea, the majority of them have indicated to ESPN that they would prefer to compete on a halfpipe.

ESPN will also continue its plans to hold SuperPark as a new discipline for skateboarding and BMX at the X Games while working with the athletes to better define exactly how the SuperPark course will be designed.

Read more: http://expn.go.com/expn/story?id=3338823

Gaby Ponce YouTube video at Woodward East

Check out team rider Gaby Ponce skating vert at Woodard East

ESPN decided to drop Vert at X Games 2008

Tony Hawk invented more than 80 tricks. I'm not sure I can even count that high.

On April 3, ESPN announced the biggest event shakeup since the inception of the X Games. As of this summer, vert, the oldest discipline in the Games, is out, and a new "SuperPark"-type discipline is in for the 14th year of competition.

"It's time. It's been time. ESPN's always a little slow on the uptake. It's no secret that the vert field has stayed the same for the last decade. It's no secret that there aren't any vert ramps for kids to ride outside Southern California. If you want a vert career, you have to move there," says X Games General Manager Chris Stiepock.

Vert's dead. Again. It's just that this time, it's the X Games that say so.

Read more: http://expn.go.com/expn/story?id=3327593