Canadian maple. Sizes are 33" pool deck, 29" pocket rocket street cruzer and 8.25 popsickle deck.
Monday, September 21, 2009
VSA Sk8board Decks now available
VSA is proud to offer the finest quality sk8board decks available only with membership purchase. Purchase includes deck t-shirt and sticker. The decks are made by Santa Monica Airlines and are hardrock
Canadian maple. Sizes are 33" pool deck, 29" pocket rocket street cruzer and 8.25 popsickle deck.
Canadian maple. Sizes are 33" pool deck, 29" pocket rocket street cruzer and 8.25 popsickle deck.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Dedication Day.
Ok everyone the day you have been waiting for is Oct 3rd 2009. The "Dennis Polar Bear" Agnew Memorial Sk8 park will open to you! Enjoy! Many thanks to all that have made this dream a reality.There is still much work to do and in fact the hard part of the project has just begun. The VSA was not only established to build a skatepark but to represent and protect the rights of the surf and sk8 community. The VSA has been in operation for almost 15 years officially however not many jumped at the chance to help us and to those companies and individuals who have been down with our cause I thank you, 16 years Sector 9,
SMA, Lost, Venice Breakwater,Dogtown,BMFS,1978,Abbots Habit and Fresh Jive 10 years BDS,Juice Magazine, Skatermade and Windward Farms.Furthermore truly amazing is all the kooks that have contacted VSA in recent weeks, making claims,demands and soliciting VSA. Look, you all know me and my dedication to core surfing sk8n, and the uplifting of our community as well as the VSA Board members. I'm sorry if you feel I have been rude or abrasive and blunt with you, if this has been the case. That being said where were you 10 years ago when we were in San Diego fighting for a sk8prk instead of an ice skating rink the city had been planning? Where were you when Jesse M. made an unscheduled, unannounced L.A City meeting that was planned to thwart VSA efforts in bringing the plan before the California Coastal Commission? We are proud and committed to the Venice Sk8/Surf heritage and our roots.Legitimacy is something that is earned and not bought. In service, Ger-I VSA
Monday, August 31, 2009
Hacked!
VSA email has been hacked. If you have not received VSA membership,please send payment info to venicesrfsk8@yahoo.com. Apologies to all.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
L.A time article
City agrees to give activists 'first dibs' on new Venice skate park
A skateboarding group was outraged when ASA Entertainment advertised Supergirl Jam as the park's debut event. City parks officials say that was never the plan: 'They are not using the new skate park.'
Skaters are eager to use new Venice facility
Skateboarder John Smith, 20, practices his jumps at Venice Beach, where the L.A. parks departmentÂ’s $2.5-million skate park is slated to open in the fall.
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After spending more than 15 years fighting for a place to show off their kickflips and ollies, a group of Venice activists weren't about to sit back and let commercial promoters skate off with their work.
So Warner Bros. Consumer Products and ASA Entertainment won't be inaugurating the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks' new $2.5-million public skateboard park at Venice Beach after all.
The two companies last month announced that their Labor Day Supergirl Jam would be the premiere event at the new three-basin skateboard complex next to the Venice boardwalk near Windward Avenue.
The event would be "in conjunction with the opening of Venice's amazing new beachside skate park," the companies bragged in a July 24 announcement. The female skateboarders "will be the first to compete in Venice's brand new skate park, christening the unique course with their skill and finesse."
Members of the Venice Surf and Skateboard Assn. reacted as if they'd been smacked with a concrete face-plant.
"Did these people think we just fell off our skateboards yesterday?" fumed Ger-I Lewis, an association leader who helped the city plan and oversee construction of the new park.
Another longtime Venice skater, Anthony Converse, said the Supergirl Jam announcement "has the local community and greater skateboard community in a near-insurrection level of outrage and feeling of betrayal."
Outside the construction fence, skateboarder John Smith gazed longingly at the unfinished basins. "We have to have first crack at it. It's wrong for an outside group to get first dibs," the 20-year-old said.
Last week, various skateboarders and skating groups complained to parks department officials, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Venice-area Councilman Bill Rosendahl that the opening of the skateboard park should be staged by and for locals.
"Without this group of concerned citizens, there would be no public skate park in Venice," they wrote in a letter bearing the names of a dozen people.
This week, parks officials agreed. They pledged that "the people who have been waiting forever for that skate park will be the ones" who inaugurate it and skate there first.
"It was never intended" that a commercial event would be the first to use the 16,000-square-foot park's three swimming-pool-size basins, its rails and half-pipes, said Lydia Ritzman, principal recreation supervisor for the Venice area. "They are not using the new skate park."
She said the park may not even be completed by then. No opening date has been set, but Ritzman pointed to late September or early October.
Supergirl Jam's use of Venice Beach is still tentative. "We're trying to find a place for them," Ritzman said.
Warner Bros. officials referred inquiries about the Labor Day event to ASA Entertainment.
ASA Chief Executive Rick Bratman said the televised Venice Beach event will go on and will even include a snow-packed ramp for snowboarding. He said the skate park announcement was "a horrible miscommunication" by "publicists who put out the wrong information."
But parks department spokeswoman Jane Kolb said it may have been a case of wishful thinking.
"I think that by announcing it, they assumed it would be true," she said.
bob.pool@latimes.com
A skateboarding group was outraged when ASA Entertainment advertised Supergirl Jam as the park's debut event. City parks officials say that was never the plan: 'They are not using the new skate park.'
Skaters are eager to use new Venice facility
Skateboarder John Smith, 20, practices his jumps at Venice Beach, where the L.A. parks departmentÂ’s $2.5-million skate park is slated to open in the fall.
*
After spending more than 15 years fighting for a place to show off their kickflips and ollies, a group of Venice activists weren't about to sit back and let commercial promoters skate off with their work.
So Warner Bros. Consumer Products and ASA Entertainment won't be inaugurating the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks' new $2.5-million public skateboard park at Venice Beach after all.
The two companies last month announced that their Labor Day Supergirl Jam would be the premiere event at the new three-basin skateboard complex next to the Venice boardwalk near Windward Avenue.
The event would be "in conjunction with the opening of Venice's amazing new beachside skate park," the companies bragged in a July 24 announcement. The female skateboarders "will be the first to compete in Venice's brand new skate park, christening the unique course with their skill and finesse."
Members of the Venice Surf and Skateboard Assn. reacted as if they'd been smacked with a concrete face-plant.
"Did these people think we just fell off our skateboards yesterday?" fumed Ger-I Lewis, an association leader who helped the city plan and oversee construction of the new park.
Another longtime Venice skater, Anthony Converse, said the Supergirl Jam announcement "has the local community and greater skateboard community in a near-insurrection level of outrage and feeling of betrayal."
Outside the construction fence, skateboarder John Smith gazed longingly at the unfinished basins. "We have to have first crack at it. It's wrong for an outside group to get first dibs," the 20-year-old said.
Last week, various skateboarders and skating groups complained to parks department officials, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Venice-area Councilman Bill Rosendahl that the opening of the skateboard park should be staged by and for locals.
"Without this group of concerned citizens, there would be no public skate park in Venice," they wrote in a letter bearing the names of a dozen people.
This week, parks officials agreed. They pledged that "the people who have been waiting forever for that skate park will be the ones" who inaugurate it and skate there first.
"It was never intended" that a commercial event would be the first to use the 16,000-square-foot park's three swimming-pool-size basins, its rails and half-pipes, said Lydia Ritzman, principal recreation supervisor for the Venice area. "They are not using the new skate park."
She said the park may not even be completed by then. No opening date has been set, but Ritzman pointed to late September or early October.
Supergirl Jam's use of Venice Beach is still tentative. "We're trying to find a place for them," Ritzman said.
Warner Bros. officials referred inquiries about the Labor Day event to ASA Entertainment.
ASA Chief Executive Rick Bratman said the televised Venice Beach event will go on and will even include a snow-packed ramp for snowboarding. He said the skate park announcement was "a horrible miscommunication" by "publicists who put out the wrong information."
But parks department spokeswoman Jane Kolb said it may have been a case of wishful thinking.
"I think that by announcing it, they assumed it would be true," she said.
bob.pool@latimes.com
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
You must think we are all fools.
VSA Board members meet with L.A City Rec and Parks Representatives( RAP) on 8/3/2009. RAP reps(Victor, Lydia and Al) were in full government damage control as the three attempted to deny any knowledge of the ASA skateboard event "Super Girl".However the three jesters did admit to to permitting the other two Super Girl events. You are kidding me, right? Did these three think we just fell off our skateboards yesterday? RAP Lydia said, "I have no knowledge of a permit being issued for the Grand Opening of the Venice Skatepark" Come on! So Warner Brothers and ASA are going to issue a press release on the A.P wire to promote the Super Girl event with the "exclusive" use and "grand opening" of the Venice Skatepark without a permit for skateboarding?!!Ludicrous! The VSA board members pressed the RAP about film permits, grand opening and youth programing. As the meeting adjourned, it became apparent that these three kooks had know idea who or what the VSA is or what we have accomplished as an association. Just as clear is what type of shenanigans took place and this is what I suspect went down concerning the "Super Girl event". Victor is the Venice Beach Recreation Manager, he issued the permit without consulting VSA making to look like a star, VSA found about about it and blew it up. Now RAP has egg in their face so they send in damage control with some lame spin on a misunderstanding.The bottom line is the VSA stopped the ASA event from being held at the skateparK and ASA will have to bring in their own ramps.Graciously the ASA have offered the VSA a booth at the "Super Girl event to which we will most humbly accept and appreciate the offer. You can be sure the VSA will continue to be vigilant as to the community's investment at the Dennis Agnew Memorial Skatepark.We will continue to protect and voice surfers and skateboarders interests!
Monday, July 27, 2009
VSA News/ 7/26
Hello, I cut and pasted this from a web page- The Supergirl Jam kicks off {Labor Day weekend when, on September 6, the Snowboard Rail Jam and Skateboard Street elements of the Supergirl Jam will hit Venice Beach in conjunction with the opening of Venice's new beachside skatepark. The skateboarders will be the first to compete in Venice's brand new skatepark, christening the unique course with their skill and finesse. Some of the top skaters expected to compete include Vanessa Torres (Anaheim, CA), Elissa Steamer (Fort Myers, FL) and Amy Caron (Huntington Beach, CA). The Supergirl Jam will also feature a demo by some of the world's best inline skaters competing for a $2,000 prize for best trick.Just steps away from "muscle beach," the snowboarders will take on the challenge of conquering a massive snow mountain with more than 80,000 pounds of snow on the beach in the coolest rail-jam competition of the year. Top female snowboarders are set to compete including Supergirl Ambassador Chanelle Sladics (Newport Beach, CA) and Raewyn Reid (Calgary, Alberta"}.
Let it be known that the members of the VSA will not tolerate this event or any others that have not been approved by VSA. The VSA is the sole community organization DIRECTLY responsible for the creation of the skatepark. We will not allow L.A City Recreation and Parks to upsurp the VSA's efforts and or steal the VSA's RIGHT to celebrate organize and produce the Grand Opening of the Dennis Agnew Memorial Skatepark, Futhermore the VSA has reached out many times to L.A City Recreation and Parks to establish some type of repor however the VSA has only been given the cold shoulder. It is aparent that Recreation and Parks is coniving and scheming as all the depart sees is $ signs. L.A City Dept of Recreation should be ashamed of themselves. It is truly unfortunate that the Department of Recreation and Parks has choosen to snub the VSA and angry at being ignored by Dept of Rec and Parks who did absolutly nothing to get the park built and have absolutly no experience in running a skatepark and or program.
We as citizens are fed up with being stolen from by government
beurucracy.For over 20 years the VSA has lobbied and clammored for the skatepark.Futhermore The VSA has created a
way to employ youth and provde youth programing for the greater L.A community as the City of L.A is laying off
and furlowing workers and we WILL NOT be recognition denied our hard work. .
Sincerely, Ger-I Venice Surf And Skateboard Asssociation
Let it be known that the members of the VSA will not tolerate this event or any others that have not been approved by VSA. The VSA is the sole community organization DIRECTLY responsible for the creation of the skatepark. We will not allow L.A City Recreation and Parks to upsurp the VSA's efforts and or steal the VSA's RIGHT to celebrate organize and produce the Grand Opening of the Dennis Agnew Memorial Skatepark, Futhermore the VSA has reached out many times to L.A City Recreation and Parks to establish some type of repor however the VSA has only been given the cold shoulder. It is aparent that Recreation and Parks is coniving and scheming as all the depart sees is $ signs. L.A City Dept of Recreation should be ashamed of themselves. It is truly unfortunate that the Department of Recreation and Parks has choosen to snub the VSA and angry at being ignored by Dept of Rec and Parks who did absolutly nothing to get the park built and have absolutly no experience in running a skatepark and or program.
We as citizens are fed up with being stolen from by government
beurucracy.For over 20 years the VSA has lobbied and clammored for the skatepark.Futhermore The VSA has created a
way to employ youth and provde youth programing for the greater L.A community as the City of L.A is laying off
and furlowing workers and we WILL NOT be recognition denied our hard work. .
Sincerely, Ger-I Venice Surf And Skateboard Asssociation
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