It's a San Francisco tradition at this point:  Purple Skunk's all skate jam event in Golden Gate Park.  If you've got a skateboard, and you're in it for the fun, then you've either been to this, or should keep your eyes open for it in '09.  Here's their report from this year's fest...

ALL Skate Jam - San Francisco Golden Gate Park 

It was October 12th in San Francisco's historic Golden Gate Park. The day was made to order for the annual ALL Skate Jam hosted by Purple Skunk Board Shop, Plank Skateboards and Sk8Kings.  10 a.m. kicked off and blue skies, an occasional gust of wind, Metson Lake, a blocked off road, a slalom course, fun box, rail, Continental breakfast followed by handmade club sandwiches, snacks and drinks were provided, a wild and crazy bazooka t-shirt and cap toss and the "killer" raffle at the end of the day back at the Purple Skunk made for a GRRRRRRREAT day in San Francisco. 

There was endless skating from slalom, longboarding, freestyle, new school grinds and flips.  Everybody that skated shared their ride and were exposed to ALL types of skating.  The Sk8King team, headed by Richy Carrasco, exhibited amazing stunts again and blew spectators away with their skate talents.  Maria was busy taking pics to savor the memories.  The U.S. Navy Blue Angels were in the sky doing their stunts, too!

The whole day was free and from the heart.  It's our annual "thank you" event for our customers and the community near and far. There must have been about 150 attendees this year because Lizzie and Sandy's Subway deli made around 120 sandwiches.  Dave got to pullout his bazooka gun to shoot out t-shirts.  I sometimes wonder if we do the jam just for this portion of the day? J

3 p.m. comes around and everybody is at the Skunk clutching their raffle ticket to see what they will win.  MC Gary Holl did another wonderful job of teasing the ticket holders by calling out the winning numbers.  Almost everybody walked away with something (even if it was a big bag of Doritos) and that's when it's time to express a BIG "thank you to all of our vendors for their unconditional generosity".  Without 3dm/Seismic, Arbor, Bern, Black Label, Climax, Concrete Wave, Deluxe, Earthwing, Element, Frito Lays, Gravity, Ladera, Loaded, Never summer, Ozel Skate Packs, Powerbar, SF Park and Rec, Scum Skateboards, SDS, Sector9, Sk8Trip, Skate One, Titan, Vans and Zoo York the day would not have been as perfect as it was.  The energy at the raffle could have lite up the City for a day.

See you next year.  Cheers!