Production — Go Skateboarding Day 2022

Go Skateboarding Day or GSD happens every year, the international day of skateboarding. Our celebrations in 2022 were actually all planned for 2020 but… you know… global pandemic and all that. We partnered with EA Games, Vans, Sydney City Council, Central Park Mall and Red Bull for the event. I had gathered all the $$$$ from sponsors and paid for just about everything and then Sydney went into lock-down for about 2 years. It was very disappointing at the time but when GSD 2022 rolled around, I had everything prepped and ready to go.

I used some of the money to buy a 90’s Toyota Corolla and modified to be skateable for the main obstacle AND to give away as the grand prize. Our mates at Kingswood Creative did all the car mods and built us some ramps to skate it. Being the skate industry guy that I am, I have a bunch of friends with brands and distributions so I was able to put together some serious prize packs to give away. Big thanks to the brands that supported: Vans, Pass~Port, X-Large, Sunday Hardware and Ace Trucks. It was such a fun day, skating a car is not something you get to do everyday so all the kids were absolutely frothing to get into it.

***of course, when a bunch of skaters get together and have permission to skate a car, there’s going to be car-nage ;) Luckily, it wasn’t until the end of the day when the rear window of the car got smashed in by a kickflip wallride.

Pics below by Ubee, KC and Lochie.

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