News from the National Sporting Goods Association

National Sporting Goods Association

Among sports and recreation activities that grew more than 15% the past 10 years, skateboarding led the way with a 74.1% growth, according to the National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA).

Data contained in NSGA's annual "Sports Participation – Series I and II" reports, which are now available, shows skateboarding grew from 5.8 million to 10.1 million participants between 1998 and 2007. Target shooting had the second highest 10-year growth, 63.3% to 20.9 million participants.

Other sports and recreation activities showing more than 15% growth over the 10-year period included snowboarding (41.7% to 5.1 million participants); running/jogging (40.1% to 30.4 million participants); archery target shooting (37.5% to 6.6 million participants); workout at club (27.5% to 33.8 million participants); motor/power boating (24.1% to 31.9 million participants); muzzleloading (16.1% to 3.6 million participants); and exercise walking (15.6% to 89.8 million participants).

"Skateboarding saw a remarkable increase in the last 10 years, due in part, to the television exposure provided by ESPN's X-Games," said NSGA Vice President of Information & Research Thomas B. Doyle. "Much of that increase came at the expense of inline skating, which saw a decline of 60.4% (to 10.7 million) during the same period. In the 1990s, during inline skating's peak growth period, skateboarding suffered similarly." In 1998, there were 27.0 million inline skaters.


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Tigard Skatepark, Tigard OR

Tigard is a park I really like. One of the first things that I noticed was that the coping and composition of the concrete are very similar to good ol' Wheel park. There's one thing though...Tigard Skatepark is like Wheel on steroids AND acid.

The big bowl has this ledge thing where you skaters air from bottom to the top. The big bowl also had this pump bump that worked just perfectly. The little bowl was fun as well and the more open area to the south had huge walls, a brick wall with pool coping, and a spinning disc thing.

This is going to be the first park I hit when I go back, because it's on the way to Newberg and Lincoln City. :)



















Sorry no pictures of me skating. At least one of you should come along next time so you can take pictures of me skating. Oh yea, and the dinosaur is skatable.

Oregon was Awesome!

I just got back last night so I'm still recuperating from an exhausting trip. I enjoyed it immensely and met a couple cool dudes from the Old Man Army web site. Here's a brief run down of the parks I hit while I was there and in the order I visited them:

Glenhaven > Day 1
Burnside
Pier
Vancouver
Battleground
Tigard > Day 2 (Five parks in one day)
Tigard
Aumsville
Donald
Newberg > Day 3
Newberg
Lincoln City > Day 4
I didn't skate the fifth day it rained so I drove down the Oregon Coast.
Newberg
Woodland
Battle Ground > Day 5
Hood River
West Linn > Day 6

Some parks I liked a lot, and others not so much. I believe if I didn't come from a place that had so many parks I would have thought they were all awesome.

Anyway, I'll be posting up photos, some parks I don't have photos of, and letting you guys know how the parks were. Hopefully a couple of you guys will come with me next year. OH....I DEFINITELY will going back next year. Same time too, second half of July...so start saving your pennies now!

Camtest ~ August 9, @ Fairplay

Colorado Springs Pool

This just in from Team Pain crew member Tim Mott.

New Skate Park in Brighton....

So Brighton decides to build a skatepark...and they hired this company called "Growling Bear" to do it....here's some pictures of their progress however, somehow I don't think they have the know it all to do it right.

I think this park will go down in the annals of coulda, shoulda, woulda.

What do you guys think? Tim what's your take on this...

Friends Don't Let Friends Ride Chinese Skateboards

I just love Chinese salesmen trying to sell me their products.

It's always amusing to say the least.

Be Amused or Scared

Fourth of July Weekend Sessions

Anybody? Anywhere? Anytime?