It is Go Skateboarding Day today but shucks, it rains and I don’t get to go skating! It is even declared a holiday in the United States, cool man!

Support for skateboarders and their holiday has been exceptionally strong in cities such as Lake Forest, California, Hampton, Virginia, and Russellville, Arkansas where the mayor of each town has declared June 21st official ‘Go Skateboarding Day.’ “With the global growth of skateboarding over the last 5 years, it’s in the best interest of their community for government officials to support their skateboarders,” said John Bernards, Executive Director of IASC. “Skateboarders are creative, athletic, and passionate people and those who are not already old enough, will become active, voting members of their community in the future.”

They even have a website for Go Skateboarding Day here:

On June 21 skateboarders around the globe will celebrate the pure exhilaration, creativity, and spirit of one of the most influential activities in the world by blowing off all other obligations to go skateboarding!

Skateboarders everywhere will hold fundraisers, contests, protests, demo’s, they’ll skate across cities, gather in skateparks, stream into their local skate shop and some will even revel in the solitary act of skateboarding alone, all bringing together the skateboarding community in the grind heard around the world.

Nice poster taken from IASC

But why no event for me here!!!!!! Only rains!!!!!!!

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