Go Skateboarding Day - June 21st
http://www.goskateboardingday.org/
About Go Skateboarding Day
Date: June 21, every single year.
What It’s All About: On June 21 skateboarders around the globe will celebrate the pure exhilaration, creativity, and spirit of one of the most infuential activities in the world by blowing off all other obligations to go skateboarding. OK, most skateboarders do this every day of their lives, but this is just one more reason to blow off your television/computer/video games and go skateboarding!
Skateboarders everywhere will show their love and support for skateboarding by holding fundraisers, contests, protests and demos. They’ll skate across cities, gather in skateparks, stream into their local skate shop and some will even revel in the solitary act of skateboarding alone at their favorite spot, all bringing together the skateboarding community in the grind heard around the world.
The History: Go Skateboarding Day, held on June 21 every year, is the official holiday of skateboarding. The holiday began June 21, 2003 as an excuse for skateboarders to make skateboarding their top priority. Go Skateboarding Day began with a few simple skate sessions and bar-b-ques held in skateboarding’s unofficial capital, southern California.
Founded by the International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC), Go Skateboarding Day gives passionate skateboarders as well as those who are simply inspired by skateboarding, the opportunity to drop everything and get on a skateboard. Go Skateboarding Day is a cooperative of decentralized events that take place around the globe. Skateboard retailers, manufacturers, skateparks, distributors, organizations and individuals of all colors, creeds, and attitudes hold skateboarding events to celebrate the holiday. Skateboarders around the world create their own events and traditions to celebrate skateboarding.
Go Skateboarding Day originated as the day for skateboarders to have fun, to raise awareness about the issues we face; to show the world what skateboarding is really all about; to reclaim our culture; and to define skateboarding as the rebellious, creative celebration of independence it continues to be. In the years since that first celebration, the holiday continues to grow, but the mission remains the same: Have fun, go skateboarding!
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Here are a few quotes from across the U.S. just to get you hyped to do your thing.
“Go Skateboarding Day was the best Saturday in June, by far, and is still the largest single day increase year to date.”
—Dave Nash
Sun Diego, San Diego, CA
“Any excuse to have a rad event is what we are all about at 3rd Lair. Turning kids into lifelong skateboarders is our mission and anything that can help us accomplish this goal - we welcome it with open arms and feet. We use Go Skateboarding Day as opportunity to open the house and let everyone skate for free as well as give free skateboard lessons to anyone who wants to learn. This is the one day each year we do this and it seems to be working, since a lot of people are willing to try something when its free. Once they try it and enjoy themselves, it’s the first step into turning somebody into a lifelong skateboarder.”
—Mark Muller
3rd Lair, Burnsville, MN
“Go Skateboarding Day proved to be much more than just an excuse to spend the day riding our skateboards. The mayor of our town came to us that day for suggestions on how we could improve upon our existing public skatepark following the event! This was an outreach that is much appreciated by the local skaters, and on August 24th, our first scheduled meeting with the mayor should prove to be very exciting and inspiring. This is one of many positive steps forward for skateboarders in our community, and Go Skateboarding Day was an integral part in making this all happen.”
—Patrick Guidotti
Xtreme Funktion Skateshop, Hamilton, NJ
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