Hey guys,
just wanted to spread the word about our friends up in Clemson, Clemson Stoke,
that are holding their skate event for the fall:

They’ve got a great day set up for everyone and some nice prizes to give up.
It’d be great to see you there!

If you need information on directions, follow the Clemson Stoke link above
or in the left hand side and message the group on Facebook!

Sacrifice trendy for safety, wear a helmet.
-Anna

We love Robby Lee from Clemson and the longboarding club up there Clemson Stoke!

The crowd!

Craig Crossley in the shortboard ground tricks competition.

After party at Salty’s!

Ted Aslund won a Sector 9 deck for first place in the ground tricks competition!

Many thanks to Paul (directly above..mustache and all) who owns Salty’s in Five Points for playing a huge role in getting the Pumpkin Carve together, helping provide some prizes and throwing us an after party! A very successful event and you can definitely expect another one in the spring.

Here’s a montage video from the beginners and advanced slide competitions:

Wear a helmet,
-Anna

Garden Ride 09 is the first official event hosted by Clemson Stoke.  The event will include various forms of competition and provide a great environment for skaters of all ages and skill levels to come skate.  The main competitions will be a Push/bomb and slide competition.  Other various mini-events have been planned as well.

Click here for more information!

-Anna

Also, we’ve had a couple more additions for sponsors on the flier – check it out, you’ll be seeing their product at the event and you’ll have a chance on winning it!!

We also hosted an actual pumpkin carve this week, check out some of the photos from then:

Lastly, great turn out Tuesday night for the skate.
We had something like 40 people there bombing garages and skating around the city.
We hope to see more of that!

-Anna

There will now be an after party at Salty’s Skate/surf shop in Five Points!!

Here’s the new poster with the updated information:

And we’ve got up two promo videos for the event, help us plaster them all over the internet!

Then get outside and skate, the weather is finally beautiful.
-Anna

Wanted to share the poster and tell you guys to keep your
eyes out for it on campus!

Make sure you guys clear your schedules and come out!
We’ve got the entire parking lot of the Blatt and Wheat Street completely
to ourselves for the day so be sure to come check it out!

Also, come and drop by the Sustainability Fair outside of the Russell House (patio)
on Wednesday 21st of October from 10am – 2pm.
We’ll have a table and be hanging out!

-Anna

Here’s the club out on a day skate – we’re thinking about renaming Carolina Skate
to the USC Dervish Club… let’s get some new boards!

We had a little skating day camp for about 45 minutes to an hour just teaching
people who were interested and giving them a shot without having to purchase
a board. We got a lot of positive feedback and hopefully some future skaters!

We’ve also got another version of the promo video to be thrown up on the Vimeo
and Youtube accounts – I’ll be updating once that is on it’s way.

Also keep your eyes out for our posters for the
“Pumpkin Carve” – our Halloween Skate.
Those will be approved and up shortly around campus and via the web.

Skate on (once this nasty weather clears!)

-Anna

We’re happy to announce that we’ve got some media attention on campus!
The Daily Gamecock published a feature on us today, front page – if you’d like
to read the article click on the picture and it’ll take you straight to the link.

Cheers!

-Anna

Good news is that we’re back and we’re ready to hit this year hard -
we also have some pretty exciting new things going on.
One of those things is that we are now Carolina Skate.
We’ve got a lot of people on campus interested in shortboarding and
to meet that demand we’re going to add a wing to our club.
Our hopes are that we’ll be getting an actual website (we’ll
keep this for fun updates and things like that) up  and going
and kick it up on the video promotion for both sections of the club.

There’s a lot of things cooking and we’re doing our best to get
it underway fairly quickly so keep your eyes out.

Also today, USC had their club fair and we had a table.
Pretty good turn out and we’re pumped for all of the kids that
came out and signed up for long and short boarding.
Here’s some snapshots from the club fair:

Keep kickin’

-Anna