What is Green Skate? Well GreenSkate is a grassroots event that started from a simple idea:
Celebrate and encourage the low impact of longboard skateboards on our environment as a form of effective transportation.
On Earth Day 2007 Calgary Alberta Canada was the host to the first GreenSkate Event. It may come as a surprise that a community of longboarders surrounded by the Calgarian oil and gas industry would feel sympathetic to any green cause; however the Speedboard and Longboard Association of Calgary couldn't be any more ambitious.
GreenSkate was expanded in 2008 to include the global skateboard community. Rocio Caceres Borlando from Chile in 2008 and 2009 continues to organize the largest GreenSkate with over 100 + riders that cruised 7.5 km to “La Moneda”. Everyone who skateboards in every city around the world is invited to participate in GreenSkate 2010.
Energy and environmental issues are on the global stage more than ever. Earth Day is a great time for longboarders to take to the streets to promote longboarding as a fast, environmentally friendly and sustainable form of urban transportation
Hi i will be organizing Green Skate for participants in the Orange County area or any one who wants to come! This event is skate boarders of all ages. This will be a around a 9 mile longboard cruise from Northwood High school or Hertage park to UCI parking structure for some fun and to advocate the use of greener transportation methods. You can either meet us at Northwood High or Hertage Park during the times indicated below. After the main green skate event we will be holding a free skate in the UCI parking structure at the cross streets of Campus and Stanford, it is a 7 story parking structure which is closed during the weekends. (bring gloves if you want to slide)
Please bring the following:
-helmet
-water
-food for lunch*
-a GREEN shirt
-optional slide gloves for parking garage
Schedule:
10:00am- Meet at Northwood High for orientation and photos
10:45am- Leave for Hertage Park
around 11:30am- Meet next to lake at Hertage Park for Lunch*
12:30pm- Leave for UCI
2:00pm- Most people will arrive at UCI parking structure
2:00pm-5:00pm- Parking Structure Session
Start: 4515 Portola Parkway Irvine CA 92620 (Northwood High School) @ 10:00am or 14361 Yale Ave Irvine, CA 92604 (Hertage Park) @ 11:30am for Lunch*
Route:
-go down Yale through and cut through Medowood Park and continue down yale
-stop at 14361 Yale Ave Irvine, CA 92604 (hertage park) go toward the Lake and look for people in green shirts, we will be taking a Lunch Break*
-continue down Yale
-make a left on Irvine Center Drive
-make a right on Jeffery
-continue till you hit Culver (Jeffery will turn into University)
-make a left on Culver
-make a right on Campus Dr.
-make a left into the parking structure on Stanford
After the main green skate event we will be holding a free skate in the UCI parking structure at the cross streets of Campus and Stanford, it is a 7 story parking structure which is closed during the weekends. (bring gloves if you want to slide)
Go to Greenskate.org for photos and videos of past events
Contact Information:
John Chen @ (949)701- 8526 texts and calls are accepted
R.I.P Mahesh, you will be missed, this truly is a tragic loss, i wish i could have skated with you more,you were a great guy. For this loss before the run we will have a moment of silence in memory o Mahesh
no, but if they come, then the whole event is practically screwed haha
but since ill prob be one of the youngest there, you guys and take responsibility haha :]
no, but if they come, then the whole event is practically screwed haha
but since ill prob be one of the youngest there, you guys and take responsibility haha :]
it woudent be, we have alot of places to go after, the slide school spot, ridge line, theirs alot fo hills around UCI
Need Volunteers for carpooling back from UCI
Hey guys transportation back from UCI to northwood might be a problem, so i was thinking of taking a group of volunteers that can drive up to uci dropping off their cars and carpooling back in the minimum amount of cars possible, for any one who thinks they can help out with this please call me @ (949) 701-8526 from 3:15pm to midnight, you can also text but the volunteers will need to meet at UCI at about 9 thanks and i hope every one will get a ride back if not the bus's are going up culver
Need Volunteers for carpooling back from UCI
Hey guys transportation back from UCI to northwood might be a problem, so i was thinking of taking a group of volunteers that can drive up to uci dropping off their cars and carpooling back in the minimum amount of cars possible, for any one who thinks they can help out with this please call me @ (949) 701-8526 from 3:15pm to midnight, you can also text but the volunteers will need to meet at UCI at about 9 thanks and i hope every one will get a ride back if not the bus's are going up culver
I'll definitely be able to have room for 2, 3 will be a tight fit. But i'll be at UCI at 9am. I can't wait!
funnest long distance ride ever!!!! we blocked traffic, rode through red lights, rode in the street, and toked it up out front of Micky D's.... And amazingly enough, the cops never showed up.
Then we went to the UCI garage across from Taco Bell. So FUN!!! We got a good 10 runs in each person. And my wheels are a bit more slidey hehe
Mahesh was watching us, and kept us out of trouble. This event was dedicated to his memory and saving the planet.
__________________ The Quiver OMNI Drop 43 - Grom Biz Trucks - Centrax 77/77 BMW ///M StreetCarver Landyachtz 9two5 - Bear 852's - Amber Oops! Freerides Landyachtz Mummy Wedge - GOG DH Trucks - Amber BigZigs Landyachtz Urban Assault - Indy Hybrid 169's Mahesh's Sector 9 Trylam - R-150's - Otang In Heats
R.I.P. Mahesh Mahadevan, friend and fellow longboarder
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Originally Posted by MalakaiKingston
Yea but that is just the wheels going out to SpezAdams
funnest long distance ride ever!!!! we blocked traffic, rode through red lights, rode in the street, and toked it up out front of Micky D's.... And amazingly enough, the cops never showed up.
Then we went to the UCI garage across from Taco Bell. So FUN!!! We got a good 10 runs in each person. And my wheels are a bit more slidey hehe
Mahesh was watching us, and kept us out of trouble. This event was dedicated to his memory and saving the planet.
Green Skate 2010 Irvine, CA 4/24/10
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