Hop on the Magic Tour Bus...

Summer is the perfect time to throw your boards and back sacks into the trunk of your friend's beat up Civic and hit the road. SO to get you in the spirit, it only seems appropriate that we fill you in on the recent expeditions of Keegan Guizard and the Collegiate Skate Tour.

Keegan, a co-founder and former officer of NC Skate, graduated NCSU in 2012 as a business entrepreneur and since been traveling all over the states with his skateboard start-up company, Collegiate Skate Tour. Keegan's endeavor has opened the doors for events like the one's here in Raleigh to be held all over the country. Members of NC Skate have been hoping on this tour bus every chance they can get for the past year, and I must say it has had a gigantic impact on keeping the hype alive. Here is a video from our trip to NYC for reference.

For more info on Collegiate Skate Tour visit http://collegiateskatetour.com/
Or contact keegan.guizard@gmail.com to see how you can bring the fun to a city near you.

Ramp Jam 1: Backyardigans...

Yes, it's been too long stranger.

Some significant time has passed since the last post on the NC Skate page, but that's not because or a lack of activity in the NC Skate and Raleigh, NC community. Too much has taken place to recap all in one post... and that's probably the cause for the inactivity on this page.

In the past year NC Skate traveled to NYC and Cocoa Beach, FL; we constructed our own "Beastly" mini-ramp... then deconstructed that mini-ramp (currently in the process of moving it); we got legal street plaza skate spots approved for construction in downtown Raleigh in the coming years; and the list goes on.

Instead of dropping a bomb of skate-chronology here, we will be gradually getting up to speed with posts every week or so this summer. So follow along these coming months to see what's been happening in the thriving skate land of Raleigh and to see how you can be involved. By the fall watch out for a whole new band of bros in the NC State Skateboarding Club and a consistent output of gnar.

For starters, here is a look at the ramp jam that went down literally the day after the Beast was skateable, on Nov. 16th 2013.