Louisiana BMX: Skatespot BMX Demo & Concrete Park Poured Concrete Today!

They started shooting the shotcrete for the bowl today in Lafayette and by looking at how much they got done today, they'll be done shooting the transitions in probably 4 days assuming the weather does holds up. Hopefully the grand opening will happen in about 2 weeks. People have been working on the jumps too in fact I saw some d00ds out there digging today.

Okay, so there seems to be some confusion about the two Demo's coming up so let me try to clear things up.

First of all, there is going to be a Monster Energy Drink Demo/Jam at Skatespot on January 30th. Rick Thorne and his band, Good Guys In Black, are going to play. Afterwards, if you pre-registered for the jam/demo, YOU WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO BMX IN SKATESPOT. Let me repeat that. YOU CAN RIDE YOUR BIKE IN SKATESPOT IF YOU PRE-REGISTER. You will pay $12.50 (normal session fee) and you will be able to ride your bike in Skatespot for an hour and a half, I'm assuming with the Monster Team. Once the jam is over with, Rick Thorne is going to pick a rider to get flow from Monster. I shit you not. REGISTRATION HAS NOT OPENED YET so don't call until I post the rest of the details on here and inform everyone that registration has opened up. When it does open, THERE WILL BE A LIMITED NUMBER OF PEOPLE ALLOWED TO REGISTER (probably around 30) since the alloted time to ride is so short. It's only that short because there will be a Skate demo for an hour and a half right after, too. Pegs will be allowed and there will not be any limitations as to what you can ride or do.

Now, this demo/jam is extremely important because Skatespot has been considering offering a bike night (probably once a month) at the park. The owner is using the demo/jam kind of as a trial run to see if bikes will damage the park (which they won't because the park is solid as shit, I know because I helped build some of it). This is a really big deal for Lafayette (and Louisiana too I guess) because 1.) as far as I know, Buck Nutty's still has no power 2.) Skatespot is the biggest park in Louisiana and 3.) because everyone has been wanting to ride this park since they built it 6 years ago. So even if you don't register to ride, PLEASE come watch and hang out and make friends with the owner and tell him that your 180's and tireslides AREN'T going to break his ramps.

Ok, now we have the grand opening of the concrete park in Lafayette which is an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT DEMO THAN WHAT I JUST MENTIONED ABOVE. I just got off the phone with Brock Gomez and he informed me that some of the Icon riders and TBC Party! riders will be doing a BMX demo in addition to the skate demo by Skatespot. I do not have a date on this yet and I have no idea if it will happen before or after the Skatespot demo. These two things just so happen to fall around the same time but they are different events and they will be on different days.

I hope everyone is clear now. I know I have fallen off lately and I'm sorry peeps. I took 19 hours last semester, I took a winter class over the break, and I am taking 21 hours this semester. If you haven't been to college yet then just trust me when I say that 21 hours makes it hard for you to find time to poop. This is all on top of me working at Skatespot, doing an internship at The Independent newspaper, having a girlfriend, and trying to setup my photography business (by the way, my site is ALMOST done :). I know these are all kind of copouts but I figured I would kind of fill everyone in on why I haven't been riding too much. Hope all is well!

posted by Ooti # 5:12 PM

Comments:

Hey Andrew, this is the Lafayette Park and you owe me $100. I accept cash or PayPal. :)

# posted by

Ooti : 6:20 PM

welcome to the world of big boys ootster. haha. miss ya kid. ima try and be at that demo if i can make it. ill be rippin the sickest wheelies around on that new bowl every mornin im home. buulleeeeee dat

# posted by

Stephen O. : 6:58 PM

holy moly 12.50 for and hour and half!!!

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:05 PM

Think of it more as $12.50 for an hour and a half contest run in a jam session format and not to much a session. Or you can think of it as $12.50 to ride a park that doesn't allow BMX... yet.

# posted by

Ooti : 8:42 PM

I think of it as $12.50 that I could use at the bar!

# posted by

Andrew : 9:20 PM

what date is it on im leavin feb 12th

and i wanna ride skate spot well bad

# posted by

gdcpete : 11:46 PM

I didn't know that little hip sort of perfect thing in the center of the bowl was going to be that low, and awesome. I can't wait to ride that all day. I am more stoked on the bowl than the demo, but shit yeah lafayette!

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:15 AM

Just wondering if you know the full layout or not Ooti, but I noticed that it's about three ft. abover the ground, and what's it going to be like fully complete? A bank to deck, or stairs to deck?

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:21 AM

Andrew, nobody cares what an alcoholic thinks about $12.50. :p

Pete, the Skatespot Jam is January 30th and we don't have a date for the grand opening of the concrete park yet but it should be right around the same time.

Anonymous, the full layout is going to be just like that C.A.D. file I've been posting every once in a while over the past year. Go through the news for a little while and you will find it. It's about 3 feet above the ground and for now, it will probably just be dirt to a deck although we are already talking about a phase two of the concrete park in which there will be some things leading in and out of the bowl.

# posted by

Ooti : 9:58 AM

curse you, naked baby, curse you!

# posted by

Andrew : 12:04 PM

Hey Andrew, aren't you due to do a tailwhip and break something soon? It's been a few months. :p

# posted by

Ooti : 7:05 PM

nah, every since Brit has been rockin my world, ive been riding wayyy better. tell her i said thanks you and ill see her on the 25th:)

# posted by

Andrew : 10:25 AM

sweet im gonna do that registerin thing tomorow

drop some hammers
clock some bangers

# posted by

gdcpete : 9:06 PM

You know Andrew, what you and Brit have is special... with Maria and I, whenever I want my "world rocked", I have to drop some GHB in her cosmopolitan first. :)

# posted by

Ooti : 4:08 PM

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