After the Daytona Winter Jam, John Clayton and I took the ramp over to StoneEdge skatepark to set the ramp up for the 14th time. We left the ramp there for bike week and will have a good session for the last day of the festivities. Thanks Marty again for getting your Goat on!
Our first set up in a convention center! Goat set up for the Winter Jam/Volkswagon festival in Daytona for a $3500 amateur street and mini ramp contest. Florida's finest rippers showed up and showed off as they competed for the cash purse. Over 50 kids were entered in the mini ramp event and the top ten finalists were definitley the best transition skaters in Florida. In the finals were Timmy Knuth, Alex Sorgente, Steve Piniero, Dalton Dern, Jordan Price, Matt Call, Jeremy Knibbs, Chris Blake, Seth Dupree, and my favorite Goat shredder yet Marshal LaFrance. Thanks to everyone who came and skated. It was amazing to watch these kids that have all been skating competitivley for over ten years now. It doesn't get any better.
We took the ramp over to Tampa to set up for the second "Moat Show', a skate only trade show held twice a year at the Skatepark of Tampa. The skating was unreal as always, and the ramp was a blast. This time we put the steep 7 foot tranny on the left side of the ramp so I had to learn a few new moves to even be able to ride. This proved to be the best reason to have a modular ramp. If you get sick of it one way, switch it up and learn some new stuff. Check our front page for a video of the Vans best trick contest. $1500 was given away and the dudes went all out to get it. Skaters that ruled were Shawn Hale, Timmy Knuth, Mike Peterson, Willy Ackers, Dalton Dern and many others. Thanks for keeping up with us. See you in Daytona.
Goat set up our new ramp in Jacksonville for our first NFL football game! Colts vs. Jaguars was a sold out game and we had the ramp right on the practice field outside of the stadium. Marty from Kona Skatepark made it all possible and it was a real eye opener to see how good the kids skated the ramp. Skaters that ripped were Tim Johnson, Mike Peterson, George Evans, Dalton Dern, Marshal Lafrance, Seth Dupuis and many others. Check the you tube video on our front page to see my edit of the session. Thanks to everyone who came and killed it.
For some reason we set up our ramp @ the Electric Pickle in Miami for a few days. Not sure why yet, but hopefully something will come of it. It was cool to get there at dark and have the ramp set up in no time. We definitly brought the party and the ramp looked sweet at night. Most of the ripping was by Jason Ranft and Sevon. Thanks to everyone for helping out.
Goat 2.0 was set up right on the beach for the Kelly and Sean Slater surf invitational. A few thousand people were watching as Tim Johnson, George Evans, Mike Barnes, Adam Taylor, Mike Rogers, and others killed the ramp. This was the first time we set up our new ramp so it was awesome to see it sitting there so perfect on the sand. Thanks to Sambazon and Matador Beef Jerky for sponsoring the event and the Grind for Life Organization for announcing. G-love played friday night and Rob Machado's documentary "The Drifter" premiered on Saturday. Only the bravest of the brave disregarded all the giant crabs and slept under the ramp. See you all next year.
The best skating to go down on the Goat Ramp ever was at the Moat Show @ the Skatepark of Tampa. If you haven't seen the video on our site go watch it. George Evans, Shawn Hale, Chris Coogan, Josiah Gatlyn and many others threw it down for the best trick contest. Next level skating without a doubt. Next Moat Show is January 12.
Goat set up our first 24' foot wide mini for Surfrider's 3 day music festival in Port St Lucie. The new ramp was alot of fun. More lines and more speed. Thanks to everyone that showed up. Alot of people showed up to skate all weekend. We had alot of rain but still made the best of the situation. Jason Ranft came up with some buddies from Miami, Levi Combs drove over from Tampa to lay it down. Dirty South crew in the house. Thanks to Wyatt and his family for helping out. Special thanks to Jim Johnson for his "special" help. Couldn't have done it without Manny, Conners, Corey, Barret, Kruz, and probably others. See you in Tampa!
Summer Slam jam in Stuart was awesome. Finally a gig in our town. Tons of kids showed up and the sesh was on. Mikey, Taylor, Jib, The Buncy's, Cody, and Jim Johnson all shralped the gnar gnar. Kids I've never seen before progressing as the day went on. I liked Mikey's tre flip to fakie the best.
Mesh skatepark jam was super fun. Good turnout, kind of rainy, but kids ripped. Mesh video was crazy good. Thanks Brett for making it happen, thanks to dj CornBalls and all the kids who shredded.
Goat set up 20' wide mini for Grind For Life event at American Rock in Pompano. Rained of course but we always make the best. Some kid Jason Ranft brought was doing the illest backside nosegrinds across the whole ramp. Alex Sorgente was ripping, Taylor Beatty, and others. Pretty good turnout, skated till late and tore ramp down in the dark. Thanks to Shamus and Shannon for helping out.
John Clayton skating a Goat ramp on www.dlxsf.com check it out!
Goat set up its 20' wide mini ramp @ Catalyst Surf shop in Melbourne Beach, Fl for a Grind For Life event. There was a ton of kids there that ripped and even more people checking it out. Thanks to Mike Rogers and Eric for hooking it all up. Next time we'll get there earlier!
Goat set up a 20' wide mini for the Surfrider Foundation 3rd annual beach cleanup. Ramp was shredded for hours by Johnny Dasht, John Clayton, Jib, Tim Kulas, Robin New, Mike Kruz and others.
Goat set up its first 20' wide demo half pipe for the Hooked on Music festival in Fort Pierce on April 11th. Everyone had fun except for the dude I told to quit skating because he had never even dropped in before. Dave Bachinsky and Zach Rowe were destroying the 4 ft wide. Ben Prestage sounded good too.