This is the 2nd year we have made the trip up to Longmont to participate in the Rumble at the Ranch skateboard competition. The event started in the afternoon on of 6/21. It’s part of the 2008 Mountain Madness Series which is suppose to bring you the best in Colorado grassroots skateboard competitions. We always have fun meeting all our skateboard friends at these sort of things, but we should probably just do that once a year rather than meet for a “so-called” competition.

Here’s the problem, and it’s an issue with most of the mountain madness series competitions. Rarely, are the judges unbaised on their scoring. Most of the time, they are from the community where the competition is being held and are friends with the local skaters. You can see them high-fiving each other when the locals hit their sketchie tricks and ignoring the unknown kid’s skate routines.

I don’t want to come off as a “sore loser” because I actually won 3rd place in intermediate bowl. I just think this shows how far we need to go here in Colorado. It’s too bad there isn’t an organization that can qualify judges and make sure that they are being objective for all the participants. To me, it seems like this would be a good role for skatecolorado.org to take on since they appear to be sponsoring the competitions. Does anyone know of a national association that is talking about this topic? I’d enjoy hearing from you. Until next time: SK8NE1?

Sk8ne1 is making a skate park. It won’t be really big. Just a couple quarter pipes, a spine, half pipe, maybe a pool, and a hip. If you are interested, just contact us. Right now, all we have finished is a half pipe.

Sk8ne1 is making a skate team. So far, we have me, Ryan, and maybe Jake and Zach. Jake is a good skater, but Zach, i’m not sure about. If you want to be on the skate team just contact us at our e-mail address: sk8ne1@gmail.com or make a reply. The payment can be about 20-40$ a week. It depends. the amount of skateboards the team sells, we split the money. You in?

Hey people of earth. Its me again, Alejandro. Street skating isn’t really my thing, but vert is. I’m pretty good at it, but I have a friend named Ryan. He’s the opposite of me. His really good at street skating but adequate at vert . He can do kickflip, pop shovet, enward heel, tradeflip, etc. If you want to hook up with him just contact me. Also, he’s flow for BC surf a sport shop and gets discounts.

Hey everybody, its me, Alejandro skater for sk8ne1. Do you go to Greenwood Village skatepark ? If you do, that is the skatepark that you’ll see me at. If you ever want a skateboard from us, just contact us by leaving a reply or talk to us at any skate park (I’m the kid that wears a white hat with words on it .) We can get you a blue, red, black, or just a blank deck with a sk8ne1 design on it for 15-25 dollars. See you next time!

The bad news: My dad hurt his leg playing tennis.
The good news: We are SKATING a lot!

Check this hand plant out:

We’ve been working on the fakie air 180. Last year Nate was getting some great air on his, but we have not seen him around Greenwood much this year. So what’s the scoop?

Finally, the boneless, check out my thumbs up!