How a Skater is Born

The Boardr Series in Irmo, South Carolina was a blast! I wanted to share a moment from there where we witnessed the birth of a new skateboarder. Bluetile Skateboards was giving out complete skateboards to anyone around without a board. I noticed eight-year-old Yi’mir being one of the most excited, so I documented a bit of his experience.

A few minutes after getting his board, he came over to me and asked to skate the contest. He had just learned to drop in the day before on other kids’ boards. That was so good to see a kid at the earliest stage of falling in love with skateboarding as we’ve all been through.

Yi’mir joins the skateboarding community and starts his climb in The Boardr Global Rankings way down at 7,119th place and it’s all up from here. See you next year, Yi’mir.

Our Presentation on Skateboarding Competition Data

Thanks to everyone who listened in on me and Ryan talking about our view of current contest data and the closely related things like street skating, retail health, and the overall skateboarding world we’re in. You can watch the whole thing below if you missed it.

The most valuable thing we got was your feedback on what we can do to help keep kids like Yi’mir skateboarding for life. To us right now, it seems like there are fewer skateboarders today than five years ago. How about you? Answer below and we’ll share the overall results in the next newsletter.

The Boardr Global Rankings

Contests around the world continue ramping up for this year and we’re here to log it all and report on progress through our industry-wide Global Rankings reports.

Recent ones include Tampa Pro, CASL, STU Brazil, 3rd Lair’s King of the Groms, FISE, and more.

Some notable ups and downs in the younger categories of up and comers include:

• Anneke Alf rising 29 places to 58th in Women’s Street Pre-Teen after a nice showing at King of the Groms.

• Kairi Stanbrook bumped up 8 spots to 34th in the same category after getting 2nd at The Boardr Series at Irmo.

• In the Men’s Street Pre-Teen category, Jude Reavis continues the steady climb, rising 3 spots to 7th after winning The Boardr Series at Irmo.

• Seven-year-old Leo Marks is on the fast rise in that same category after winning King of the Groms which sent him up 20 spots to 38th place.

Dive deep and find out who all the other movers and shakers are in all the categories from pre-teen to teen, and all the way up through 50+ at The Boardr Global Rankings page.

Conclusion

That’s it for this time. I hope you’re making it to Mooresville, North Carolina this weekend where the Race City Open goes down. Check out the details: Visit Mooresville Presents Race City Open in Association with USA Skateboarding on April 11 - 12.

Find out where we’re at next with all these skateboarding events at theboardr.com/events.

Thanks for following along.

Rob