Christian Skaters Conference, Bible Bowl, In N Out, Demo

 This is the “Bible Bowl” Tuesday night 20 of us were blessed and priviledged enough to take 6 hours and SHRED this beauty together. Pastor Jay Haizlip, Jud Heald (Pro and owner of Untitled Skateboards), Tom Geilfuss (Untitled Amateur), Julie ? (16yr old professional female skateboarder who’s Dad owns the Bible bowl), and a few other gutsy skaters really stood out during the session. Bowls like this are much different from skateparks because they have pool coping (instead of steel rails at the top) to grind, which is much rougher and takes more power and precision to successfully traverse.

The Vibe at the  Bible Bowl was just exponentially exciting and everyone supported eachother and cheered eachother on all night. When i asked the local skater, Pastor Jay, if the neighbors minded all the noise we were making, he calmly replied with a grin, “It sounds better than gunshots…”

 All the skaters attending the session were also those who spent Sept 1,2,3 at The Sanctuary Church in Huntington Beach, CA for the second annual Skaters Conference hosted by Christian Skaters International Ministry.

I got to, among other things, attend an art show that featured art by christian skaters such as one of my earthly heros Brian sumner , Christian Hosoi, Tom Geilfuss, Lance Mountain, and many others. At the show, Pro skater Josh Harmony (Toy Machine, Fallen, RVCA) played original folk songs and covers that were all about his faith in Christ. Another band  showed up and it included 3 burly men with full body tattoos including naked women, vulgar words, gang affiliation symbols, etc… Basically they were the last people you’d want to squirt your soda through your nose at if you were laughing at the lunchtable in prison. They’d all been to prison… literally. But they were the nicest people in the gallery and they played really loud punk worship until the police came to quiet them down. I couldn’t help but clap, pump my fist and dance and giggle with these body building burly worshippers who were nothing but smiles and raw punk rock for Jesus.

After the conference, I rode home with Mark, my NFCDFL (Ninjas For Christ, Down For Life) and Derrick (Skateponderosa.blogspot.com) Unrein who runs a ministry in Monument CO. We ate In-N-Out , drove 17 hours straight, worshipped, did bible studies on Isaiah, discussed the conference, laughed about all of Marks crazy stories and slept.

BACK FROM CALI, I’m now in Pueblo, it’s 4:12am-(Switchfoot has a song about this) and at 11am tomorrow we (Uriel, Riley and I) will do an all day skate demo for the Pueblo West Highschool Back to School Event.  God tossed some incredible blessings right into our laps and we now have an updated and upgraded skatepark to use for our shows… 😀

Check out Call To Glory, Alexander, and the Uprising… next blog.