Vancouver Skateboard Coalition

The World Round-Up Online Showdown taking place this week July 12 to the 18 on the Braille Skateboard Youtube Channel. 110 freestyle skaters age 6 to 60 from 22 countries have submitted videos of their freestyle routine. They have been broken down into 6 division.... Rookies - age 15 and under Women’s - Open Age Category Amateurs - Open Age Category Masters Am - age 40 and over Masters Pro - age 40 and over Pro - Open Age Category The videos have been judged by a panel of 6 pro freestyle skaters and have been put in order of ranking, starting with the lowest score and ending with the 1st place skater with the highest score. The LIVE Broadcast has been broken down into 5 days and is being hosted by Pro Freestyle Skater Mike Osterman and other guest pros through out the 5 days of broadcasts. July 12th - Rookies and Women’s July 13th - Masters Am and Masters Pro July 15th - Amateurs - There were 46 amateurs who sent in videos so this division is spread over several days, we see 25 videos on this day. July 17th - Amateur and Pros - 11 Am’ and 11 Pro’s videos this day July 18th - Amateur and Pros - The TOP 10 in each Division - Vancouver's own Andy Anderson is in the Pro Division You can find the link for the LIVE Broadcast on their website, Facebook and Instagram pages: https://www.instagram.com/theworldroundup/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/201578079919484/

VANCOUVER SKATEBOARD PARKS BEGIN REOPENING TOMORROW ! May 28 2020 The Vancouver Park Board will begin reopening more than 320 outdoor recreation amenities across the city on Friday, May 29 including skate parks, synthetic sports fields, basketball and volleyball courts, disc golf, roller hockey, multisport courts, and 166 playgrounds. For more information go to : https://vancouver.ca//more-outdoor-recreation-facilities-t

Vancouver skateboard community and beyond Sunday at NOON at Jon Rodgers park join the skate community in a solidarity skate. It is not, has never been, enough to be not-racist. We must ALL fight & work together to dismantle white supremacy and global anti-blackness. This Sunday, Roll with us and show up for BIPOC lives in Vancouver. Any and all Black and Indigenous folks are welcome to come speak and have your voice heard, ESPECIALLY trans, queer, and femme voices. BLACK LIVES MATTER. INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY MATTERS . Please share .

Join this coming Wednesday, June 3rd. from 7 pm to 9 pm, ONLINE for our monthly meeting of The Vancouver Skateboard Coalition. For all the information on how to join the meeting, please email [email protected] in advance of the meeting time.

VANCOUVER SKATEBOARD PARKS BEGIN REOPENING TOMORROW ! May 28 2020 The Vancouver Park Board will begin reopening more than 320 outdoor recreation amenities across the city on Friday, May 29 including skate parks, synthetic sports fields, basketball and volleyball courts, disc golf, roller hockey, multisport courts, and 166 playgrounds. For more information go to : https://vancouver.ca//more-outdoor-recreation-facilities-t

The Vancouver park board reopened two city-owned golf courses on May 1 and 53 tennis and pickleball courts on May 9. West Vancouver reopened skate parks at Gleneagles and Ambleside on May 8, while Burnaby reopened skate parks at Metrotown and Confederation Park on May 13. Donna Powers, director of community relations and communications for West Vancouver, said the province of B.C. never ordered playgrounds, skate parks and tennis courts closed because of COVID-19. She said ...in the early days of the pandemic, outdoor sports fields and playgrounds were closed by West Vancouver and other cities and municipalities out of an abundance of caution. The Vancouver Skateboard Coalition encourages you to email our Vancouver Parks Board Commissioners at : [email protected] Our elected officials could stand to hear from people wanting the skate board parks of Vancouver reopened. https://www.google.ca//abdcbec3-9535-458f-8536-1965c1/amp/

Message from Vancouver Parks Board. 05/21/2020 Hello Skateboards,... We are aware the skate community is frustrated that our skate parks remain closed as part of the Park Board’s overall response to the risk of COVID-19. Timing of the re-opening of skate parks is based on the cautious and thoughtful consideration that the Vancouver Park Board along with the City of Vancouver is taking when it comes to opening all our facilities. We are taking a phased approach with opening our sports facilities and the next phase is expected to include soccer fields, baseball diamonds, outdoor courts and skate parks. The purpose of the video we are shooting is to feature safe physical distancing behaviors across a number of sports, including basketball, baseball, field sports and skate boarding. The video will complement the other PB videos we have done with regards to safe behavior during Covid-19. As we all know, we are not out of the woods yet and a spike in cases could set us much further behind than we are right now. Please be patient, skate the spots around the city you have discovered, keep your distance from one another and soon enough skateboard parks will be available to all. Thank you. Park Board

The City of Vancouver has closed Plaza . They do want to send the message that they feel that for the most part skateboarders have been staying out of the more public spaces and finding spots around where they live and it’s appreciated . So skateboarders keep up the social distancing , wash your hands .... you can skate at home just keep it slow and low

On Sunday, March 8th in Vancouver, a host of community skate groups got together at Strathcona Park to celebrate International Women’s Day with the We’re Here! skate jam. Read on: http://kingskatemag.com/were-here/

Join us tomorrow March 4th from 7:30 to 9 pm, at the GRANVILLE ISLAND MINI RAMP ( 1531 Johnson Street, Vancouver BC ) for the March Monthly Meeting of the VANCOUVER SKATEBOARD COALITION. Everyone is welcome to attend. VSBC skate session on the ramp following the meeting.

Happy family day weekend

One of our favorite Canadian shredders sits down with Frank to discuss getting on Girl, going on Am Scramble and puking black soy milk. She brings a killer playlist too!

The next @vsbcoalition meeting is tomorrow @antisocialshop at 7pm Its our annual AGM . Please come all that are interested in becoming a part of our volunteer board we have quiet a few positions opening up . If you don’t feel you have time to come to our meetings please follow along on here or sign up for our newsletter on our website so we can keep you up to date on all things #vancouverskateboarding related look forward in seeing you tomorrow!!!

A lil blue sky and a lil sunshine and a lotta fun #vsbcallaboard @granville_island

Dry inside here @granville_island Open even on snow days . Our volunteers are the best If you want to volunteer with us in 2020 or be involved in our AGM next month or get on board on the directors board get in touch with us