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Finish the Bethel Skatepark Through Kickstarter!

Words can not really get close to what it’s like to skate an unfinished skate spot day after day, year after year.  Now, we have a chance to make things right.  Please help us finish the Bethel, Maine Skatepark. We only have 29…More »

Maine SK8 Series 2013, Race for the Overall Winner

In this year’s Maine SK8 Series three skaters have been battling it out for first place and a certificate to attend Camp Woodward for a week this summer.  It all comes down to how they do at the final jam in Bethel on…More »

The Maine SK8 Series at the Augusta Skatepark

The Augusta skate scene is nothing short of amazing.  Skaters kept showing up, long after we started.  They’d ask, “Can I skate.”  Of course, they could and they did.  The whole scene revolves around Toebee Parkhurst.  He designed the park and threw down…More »

The Maine SK8 Series 2013 at Oxford Hills Skatepark

Oxford Hills Skatepark is the first concrete skate park in Maine.  Designed by Wally Holladay and completed in 2006, the place is tight.  The coolest line is an ollie over the bank to curve with a three and half foot drop and a…More »

The Maine SK8 Series at the Portland Skatepark, May 8, 2013

The Portland, Maine skatepark is a great scene.  If you follow someone through then you hardly ever crash.  It got pretty crowded in the jams, but for the most part everyone got in their tricks.  Best trick was Eli Davis’ crooked grind down…More »

New Skate Team Video Update

Nick Beauregard never really stops.  Sometimes I think he edits in his sleep.  Here’s the newest footage from the team.  Enjoy.  

The Maine SK8 Series at the Anti-Gravity Center

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Carrabassett Valley, Maine It is always excellent to get back to Sugarloaf.  We’ve been doing jams at the Anti-Gravity Center for ten years now.  We’ve had bigger crowds, but we’ve never had skaters go any bigger than they did…More »

Old Town YMCA Maine SK8 Series Jam April 27, 2013

We drove up to Old Town on one of the totally amazing days where the sun and the light conspire to make the world an absolute dream.  We figured almost no one would be there because it was a day to skate outside. …More »

Skate Team, It Just Is.

People say, you have a skateboard team, so you must be the coach.  I tell them, no.  I skate.  And that’s that.  We focus on something different each day of the week and we might all session one feature as a team, but…More »

Maine SK8 Series 2013 Bath Skatepark, April 24, Stop One

Yes, the Maine SK8 Series is happening again for the tenth year in a row.  The jams just get better.  Seamus Malia got best trick with a full cab kick flip across the pyramid.  Everyone skated super hard right through the entire twenty…More »