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Upcoming Events:

Borchard Skate Contest

 

 

 

 

 

Ojai Day 10/17/09

Ojai Day Backstage Teen Area

The Woodz skate team and the Ojai Skate Demo have a demo from 2-3 on Ojai Day in the Teen Area.

 

Past Events:

X-Games

Sunday, August 2
X-Games
Carson Home Depot Center - We will be carpooling and hope for a big Ojai support crowd!

For info call Judy at (805) 798-4111 or Sunday Rylander at (805) 766-1366

Ojai has THREE skaters that have qualified to skate in the high school division of the X-Games! JT Erickson, Zander Gabriel and Kevan Harris. Come support our boys!

 

Skate Park Trips this Summer!

Hit the road with the Ojai Recreation Department and visit some of the local skate parks in Ventura, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara Counties! Trips scheduled for June 23, June 25, August 4, and August 6.
Find out More »

Ojai Skaters are on it - check out coming events:

Check out www.sk8nhssa.com for current rankings too.

Sunday, August 2
X-Games
Ojai has THREE skaters that have qualified to skate in the high school division of the X-Games! JT Erickson, Zander Gabriel and Kevan Harris. Come support our boys!

Saturday, June 20th
NHSSA Finals
Hurley Headquarters
Costa Mesa 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.
See www.sk8nhssa.com for directions and map.

Check out the Region #1 stats and the "Standings" for more details on our TOP ranking!

Sunday, June 21st
Zero Skate Team Demo
One Way board Shop
4:00 - 7:00

Thursday, June 25
X-Games Ticket Launch and Demo
Across from Staples Center, LA
From 2 on - Demo at 3:00 p.m.

JT and Zander have been invited to skate in the demo with...Paul Rodriguez, Terry Kennedy and Jeremy Rogers. Lots of FMX and other pros too.

 

Important Meeting:

We would greatly appreciate it if you and your children, grandchildren, neighbors and community members that support the Ojai Skate Park could join us next week at the OUSD School Board meeting. It's really important that we go to this meeting and show how supported and important the Ojai skate park is to our community and see the latest plans of the Ojai skate park that our community donated $ 261,000 in 6 months time (totaling $361,00 with the city of Ojai's donation of $100,000) for the children to have a concrete skate park.

Dale Summersille the City of Ojai Recreation Director, Kanten Russell of Site Design and a member of Skate Ojai will be making the presentation of the Ojai Skate Park Project to the school board.

• Tuesday, April 14th.
• 7:00 pm. (meeting begins right at 7:00pm. and there will be one presentation before the Skate Park item on the agenda)
• 414 E. Ojai Ave. in Board Room #1 (OUSD offices/Chaparral location)

At this presentation Dale will review the latest conceptual design, review the proposed rules for the day to day operations, overview of the budget, and review the budget highlights.

Things have been happening behind the scenes and Dale wrote down a couple of them so you can see that the ball is rolling.

Read more from Sunday on the Ojai Post»

 

Skate Park Road Trip!! (Postponed - till Thursday)

During the upcoming school break Moe and I wanted to organize another road trip to Fillmore since all the boys had such a great time. Honestly we did too. Watching them skateboard skate was really fun.

The Ventura Unified school district only gets Friday, Feb. 13th and Monday, Feb 16th. off and Ojai is out for the full week of the 16th.-the 20th. That hopefully means that there won't be to crowded at the Fillmore skate park.

So, I'm taking the day off on Tuesday, February 17th, - Postponed till Tursday, 19th!! We will once again meet at 9:00am at the Ojai skate park and head out to Fillmore for the day. Probably leaving there around 1 or 2 and dropping the kids off back at the skate park.

Volunteer Drivers
Tobi Green Room for 4
Sunday Rylander Room for 3
Moe Room for 4
Judy Gabriel Room for 7
Zander Gabriel Car full of skate team guys (but we still need more cars for the skate team-11 kids now on the team) Shepherd might be able to drive.

The last time we went we almost didn't have enough cars. If you can drive let me know and how many seats you have available.

This time I want the parents to confirm with me so we have room for everyone, so give me a call if your child wants to come. 805-216-6996.

Bring your board, helmet, pack a lunch or bring $5.00 and we will run over to one of the local restaurants and get some take out.

Take care,
Sunday

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Game of Skate

Saturday, December 27th.
2:00 pm.
Ojai Skate Park
Two age groups
Prizes for first place

See you then. Call Sunday if you have any questions or want to help. 805-216-6996

Skate Park Clean-Up - Great Success! Read more about it Below and click here to read about it in the paper:

Saturday, December 13th.
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Snacks & Drinks provided!

Update on the Day from Sunday:

I wanted to send an email to everyone and let you know about the great turn-out of people we had this Saturday and how much fun we had and accomplished together.

Even though I originally thought 9:00 am. to 1:00 would be enough time, it wasn't and everyone was on a roll working so hard to complete several projects that we didn't finish until at least 5:00 pm. The entire time we had several projects going on with over 40 kids through out the day participating with several adults leading the projects.

This is a list of what we did on Saturday.

* Filled over 13 bags of leaves.
* Painted the front, back and sides of the half pipe. Getting rid of the existing graffiti and giving it a new fresh look.
* Fixing any screws sticking out on the half pipe and other ramps.
* Fixed the fence so it's safe.
* Pulled off the skate lite and rotten wood from a large piece of one of the transitions. We laid down new plywood and painted it, then used the skate lite for a new feature in the skate park.
* Cleaned out all the trash behind the wall. We found two bike racks and pulled them into the skate park and the kids immediately started using them to put there bikes in.
* Created a new ramp in the right corner of the park so the kids have a new feature as well as something to replace the pyramid that was taken away a while back.
* Weeding the planter on the back wall.
* Picked up trash from in and around the skate park.
* Replaced railing around the skate park that was missing.
* Cleaned up old wood and materials at the skate park.

It was such a great experience and the kids were stoked to get the park back in shape since we will be using it for the next 7 months until demo starts on the new concrete skate park.

Once again we were able to pull it off with no budget, donations from the many skate park supporters and some hard work. A special Thank you to the parents who hung out all day and shared their time and skills with everyone. Wendy Hilgers, Dave England, Mark Highlove, Carl Rylander, Moe, Michael Meagher, Judy Gabriel, Bobbi Woodz and Joanna England.

Donations and help came in many forms on Saturday. Some people couldn't make it that day and pulled up and dropped off donations to purchase wood (Thanks Tonya!). Ojai Coffee Roasting donated coffee to keep us going, someone donated two dozen donuts, Frontier paint donated paint and supplies, Moe made yummy cookies, Dave brought his boom box so the day was filled with tunes, Judy donated a huge ice chest of juice, water and sodas, several people chipped in to pay for the wood and random supplies needed, those who could put some cash together to order 8 pizzas from Dominos for everyone to have lunch (Domino's gave us a discount too), Rod made some new Ojai Skate Park banners that we passed out at the end of the day, we had two Brooks students take photos and also offered to help us with some needed photos for our website and to help us with the skate team, we even had a kid skate board in with his amp and guitar and start jamming, Sondra posted our clean up in the Ojai Valley News and Rob Clement stopped by to take photos too. I hope I didn't forget anyone or anything.

Thanks so much to all of you. Stop by and check out the park it looks great.

I'm going to organize a game of SKATE at the park with prizes if anyone wants to help on December 27th. I need to work out the details still.

Take care,
Sunday

We are on our way to a new beautiful in-ground concrete park. Skate Ojai, the Ojai Recreation Department, the Ojai City Council, Ojai City Manager and Site Design are working hard and meeting weekly to organize the next phase so we can complete the skate park.

We have a couple months of skateboarding at the current Ojai Skate Park before we start building the new park and it's in need of some minor repairs. The park is in use daily and we have a couple of school breaks coming up so I would love to see the skate park in good shape for the skaters and teens that frequent the space.

A clean-up at the skate park to fix a couple spots on the ramps and railing is being organized - plus some general clean-up of the skate park. If your interested in volunteering contact us so we can add you to the list. Each volunteer will need to sign a waiver before they start. We will post them here as soon as we get them and we will bring some that morning too.

The skate park will be closed during our clean-up that day and will re-open as soon as we are finished.

Mark Highlove has volunteered to organize the construction portion of the day. If you would like to help Mark out let us know.

If you are on our list we will email a reminder in a couple weeks. We will be looking for donations of plywood, 2' x 4''s, screws and a couple of other items. Once Mark has a completed list of materials needed I will let everyone know the specific items.

 

State Team Tryouts - More »

 

YouthFest 2008 presented by The Rotary Club of Ojai - Check Out the Pics!!

It was great to see most of you at the YouthFest. Thanks for the support!

The day was a huge success, we saw a lot of familiar faces and met some new skate park supporters too! We raised over $220.00 selling t-shirts and stickers for the skate team. A very kind women walked over to the booth and wrote a check for $100.00 to Skate Ojai for the skate park. She said that she had been meaning to donate for a long time.

Sunday, November 2nd.
11:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Libby Park

Tons of fun stuff for the kids. Games, entertainment, & good food all geared for kids.

Personal Favorites!
Check out HinduKush at 1:45 - good music, a great bunch of local Ojai boys.

For the skaters out there check out these drawing prizes; decks (Plan B and Powell) (some of them autographed) and Vans shoes.

Skate Ojai/Ojai Skate Team will have a booth at this event. Stop by and say hi.

We will be selling our selling our new cool Ojai Skate Park t-shirts to raise money for the skate team.

 

Special City Council Meeting - Everyone Welcome
The More Support - The Better

The Ojai City Council will convene a Special Meeting on Tuesday, October 21st at 7:30 p.m. in the Ojai City Council Chambers at 401 South Ventura Street, Ojai California.  An agenda for this Special Meeting will be available before 5:30 p.m. on October 16, 2008; the single item on this Council Agenda will be a report on the Ojai Skate Park.

 

Ojai Day

Skate Ojai and the Skate Team will have a booth set up at Ojai Day! Saturday October 18th - Downtown Ojai.

The SKATE OJAI will have information about the skate park. Come check out the new SITE Design skate park concepts!

The OJAI SKATE TEAM will have new Ojai Skate Team t-shirts (with Eli's artwork) that we are going to sell to raise money for the skate team for gas and equipment, NHSSA and Ojai Skate Team information, Stickers for sale and of course our great Ojai Skate Team members.

 

Parks & Rec and Planning comission Meeting

There will be a special joint meeting of the Parks & Recreation Commission and Planning Commission on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 7:30 pm at City Hall in Council Chambers. At the meeting, Site Design Group will be presenting a conceptual design of the Ojai Skate Park by Site Design Group to both Commissions and asking for feedback to the firm and staff.

2nd Meeting:

Monday, September 22 from 5:00-6:30 pm

Sarzotti Park
Multi-Purpose Room
510 Park Road, Ojai, CA 93023

We are encouraging everyone to attend, including parents these two meetings!

Dream It - Design It!

Saturday September 13, 2008

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Sarzotti Park
Multi-Purpose Room
510 Park Road, Ojai, CA 93023

This workshop gives skaters and interested parties the opportunity to talk to Skatepark Architect, SITE Design Group, Inc. and provide input for the design of the new Ojai Skate Park.

Bring Your Boards and Meet Pro Skateboarder Kanten Russell!

 

 

Design Meeting:

This Tuesday please join us at the Ojai City Council meeting at 7:30 pm. to meet a representative from SITE Design(!). They will be designing our new in-ground concrete skate park here in Ojai.

This is a great opportunity to find out what's next in the time line. How will the kids and supporters be apart of the design process for our new skate park?

Join us and find out. It's really important to still show our support for the skate park and actively be involved in the process.

Here is a link to their website:
http://www.sitedesigngroup.com/index2.html

X-GAMES
Come support Zander and JT!

This Friday (8/1) morning at the X-Games from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Carpools leaving from the skate park at 8:00 a.m.
Staples Center in downtown LA - indoor street course. Same as the pros!

The scoop:

16 of the top skaters from the NHSSA (National High School Skateboard Association) qualified for this event.
They will be divided into two groups of 8 and skate off in a jam session for 15 minutes. The top two in each group will go to the finals.
These four skaters will skate for another 10 minutes to determine the overall winner.

JT Erickson and Zander Gabriel both qualified.
Come support these guys and root Ojai on !
There will be lots of pro scouts and media there so make sure they notice the OJAI BOYS!

The pros skate at 2:00 at this same indoor street course.
You can watch JT and Zander for free. You will need to pay $20 for a ticket to stay for the pros.

Email Judy if you need a ride. (jangelgabriel@gmail.com) or call 798-4111
If you want to caravan, meet at the skate park at 8:00 am Friday morning.

Thanks for your support!

 

June 25th, 2008 - Silent Auction

Antonio's Mexican Restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 15th, 2008 - The Puzzled Tour

The Globe Team is coming to Ventura!

Come for the signing at: OneWay Boardshop

4300 E. Main St.
Ventura, CA 93003

12 PM Signing and Skate Ojai Booth

 

 

 

Wendy Hilgers and Chris Haslam at the OneWay Signing >>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 31st, 2008 - "Skate for the Green"

A Fundraising event celebrating skateboarding, the environment, and our Ojai youth. Help us Raise Money to Build the new 10,000 sq. ft., permanent, concrete skate park.

• Skate Demos
• Skate Expression Session with Killer Prizes
• Goodie Bags for the first 100 skate contest participants!
• Live 105.5 live broadcast!
• Learn to Skate Section with Instructors
• 12-4pm : 414 East Ojai Avenue, Ojai, CA 93023
• All Participants must wear helmets - suggested $2.00 Donation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The After Party:

Autograph Session, Skate Movie and Raffle with Rodney Mullen