Boost Mobile Presents Eric Koston's eS Game of SKATE.IRVINE, Calif. -- Eric Koston's "eS Game of SKATE skate, fish: see ray. skate Any of nine genera (suborder Rajoidea) of rounded to diamond-shaped rays. These bottom-dwellers are found from tropical to near-Arctic waters and from the shallows to depths of more than 9,000 ft (2,700 m). " - one of Boost Mobile(TM)'s premier sponsorships - kicks off in Orange, Calif., this Saturday, marking the first of a 13-city U.S. tour. The winner of each contest will fly to San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. for a chance to compete in the eS Game of SKATE Amateur World Championships during the Action Sports Retailer (ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ) Tradeshow on Sept. 10, 2005. Now the top contest format played by professional skaters such as Mark Appleyard Mark Appleyard (born on November 11, 1982, in Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian professional skateboarder. He currently resides in Huntington Beach, California. [1] He is 6'1", 160 pounds, has a size 11 foot, and his skateboarding stance is goofy. , Andrew Reynolds Andrew Reynolds(born June 6, 1978 in Lakeland, Florida, U.S.), is a professional skateboarder who has been riding since the age of nine. He emerged onto the skateboarding scene in the early 1990s and won Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year award in 1998. , Geoff Rowley Geoffrey Joseph Rowley (born June 6, 1976 in Liverpool, England) is a professional skateboarder who currently resides in Huntington Beach, California. He began skateboarding at the age of 13, and he has been skating for over 18 years. and many more, the Game of SKATE was invented in the '70s by skateboarding skateboarding Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean legends Lance Mountain Robert Lance Mountain (born June 13, 1964) was one of the more popular skateboarders throughout much of the 1980s, and one of the five most legendary members of the Bones Brigade, as featured in the 1987 classic The Search For Animal Chin (Bones Brigade Video Three). , Neil Blender and John Lucero and championed into the mainstream by today's leading street skater, Eric Koston Eric Koston (born April 29, 1975 in Bangkok, Thailand) is an American professional skateboarder. His family moved from Bangkok to California when he was 8 months old and he settled in San Bernardino when his parents divorced. . Game of SKATE is based on the basketball game "HORSE." The first skater performs a trick, and if completed, the skater he is playing has to do that trick. If he does not complete the established trick, he receives a letter. The first letter is "S," the second letter is "K," and so on, until "S-K-A-T-E" is spelled out and that person is out of the game. When it's the first skater's turn again, he tries another trick. If he makes it, the whole process repeats. If the first person misses the trick he tries, the second player tries his own trick. If he makes it, everyone else has to make that trick in order. If anyone misses, they get a letter and so on. The winner of the eS Game of SKATE Amateur World Championships will go on to compete against pros from all over the world. Boost Mobile's sponsorships and events team will be on site at all of the tour's stops giving away merchandise, demonstrating products and providing attendees with a memorable experience. Following is the U.S. summer tour schedule:
Date Location Details
June 18, 2005 Orange, CA - 714-221-1094; 1 p.m.
Active Ride Shop
June 26, 2005 San Jose, CA - 408-629-9800; 1 p.m.
Skate Works
June 28, 2005 Sandy, UT - 801-487-8600; 1 p.m.
Lone Peak Skatepark
June 30, 2005 Oklahoma City, OK - 405-810-8721; 1 p.m.
Fast Forward
July 2, 2005 Tinley Park, IL - 708-633-7777; 1 p.m.
Krush Skatepark
July 5, 2005 Manhattan, NY - 212-677-6220; 1 p.m.
Tompkins Square Park
July 7, 2005 Boston, MA - 617-451-8999; 1 p.m.
Chinatown
July 9, 2005 Philadelphia, PA - 215-922-3177; Noon
Center City
July 10, 2005 Frederick, MD - 301-698-1813; 11 a.m.
Hillstreet Skatepark
July 12, 2005 Tampa, FL - 813-621-6793; 5:30 p.m.
Skatepark of Tampa
July 14, 2005 Budford, GA - 770-945-2421; 1 p.m.
Atlanta Skatepark
July 19, 2005 Phoenix, AZ - 602-212-9687; 6 p.m.
Desert West Skatepark
Sept 10, 2005 San Diego, CA - 619-525-5000; Noon
ASR Tradeshow
For complete details on Eric Koston's eS Game of SKATE presented by Boost Mobile, including scheduling, rules, history, photos and links, visit www.gameofskate.com. |
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