Greg will be at the ASR show in San Diego for the next couple of days. He will be skating the always fun Jim Bell ramp. It will be a good time to hang with some old friends and a chance to meet some new ones.
We are on our way to San Diego. This trip we are taking our time enjoying some killer skate spots.
First stop Amarillo TX ,Grindline park. Day 2 we are meeting up with our friend Thad in Albuquerque NM. He is taking us to the ditches and the new cement park.
Day 3 Phoenix. Check back for up dates and photos.
UPDATEAlbuquerque was rained out for skating but we did get to see Thad. He showed us his town. Looks like they have a great skate scene. We hope to make it back this way sometime.
We made it to Phoenix late last night after driving through a nasty blizzard. We had to drive all the way to AZ to get in a snow storm, we could have stayed home for that.
Raining in Phoenix this AM should clear off later. Check back for some photos late tonight.
UPDATEThe rain continued so the only skating was a game of SKATE with some locals. We did find a grass roots skateboard shop. Underground (
UBF) in Apache Junction. Nice folks and some very cool artwork hanging around.
Today NO RAIN!!!! we will keep you posted on how that goes.
UPDATEToday started off a little rough. The first two parks we stopped at were closed due to water in the park. The 3rd park was in Tempe. It was open and it was great! Greg said it was a very creative set up and had good flow.
We then went to the Phoenix park. We ended the night with a session under the lights in Apache Junction.
On to Cali. Check the photos and keep checking back for updates.
UPDATEWe are in Palm Springs today. $12.00 for a cheese burger? Oh well, nice skate park.
UPDATEWe made it!On the way in from PS we stopped at the Vans park in Orange. After about 4 hours of skating we headed south down the 5 to San Diego. I must say the Escort did a great job getting us here, at a couple of stops 40 MPG.
Today we are getting dialed in on the new surroundings and then a late session at the Y Encinitas.
UPDATECoronado today, Etnies tomorrow. The weather is warm and sunny. The skateparks are hot.
UPDATE Met up with JT and his crew today. We had a great time catching up. Headed up the 5 to Lake Forest. Etnies was packed. Greg said it was like a game of Frogger skating around the groms.
Fun session in the skull bowl. No clue what is on for tomorrow.
UPDATEClairemont was the stop today.
The bowl is being reworked so we were not able to skate it. Greg got in a few runs on the vert ramp and then we headed back back to JT's for a BBQ. The temp is 72.
The road trip comes to an end. We had a great time. I am back in the sub zero weather and Greg is in SoCal skating.
12/24/2007
Greg's New Deck
Pool King now has a new division,
Deep End. The first deck was designed by Greg. He picked out the size and drew the tattoo artwork. You can find the deck at some select Skate Shops and Tattoo Parlours or go to
Pool King at our link page.
To find out more about
Deep End and the deck click on the
Deep End logo while you are visiting the PK website.
Vinny's 1st Contest
Nice turn out Friday for Vinny's first contest. PK Army and Team did well. Lloyd and Pat finished in the top 5 for advanced and Jordan took home the Trophy with a 3rd place finish.
Holly finished in the top 5 in beginners and Steven locked down 1st with 2 back to back flawless runs. No more beginners for you. Ryan took 2nd in intermediate. Greg was the MC and was one of the judges. The other judges: Dave from BBB, Nick from BC, and Pat from Next Gen.
All in all everyone seemed to enjoy the night.
12/01/2007
Come one come all!!!!
Vinny's is hosting a going away party for Greg on January 4. The skating starts when you get here. 6PM or so. Live music by the infamous Mercury's around 7PM. They are sure to ROCK the house!
This is one you won't want to miss. Greg will be graduating midterm from Millard West High School. He will be moving to San Diego to skate. He will be skating all over SoCal but I am sure you'll able to find him at Encinitas YMCA or the Y at Clairmonte.
Please join in on the fun and give him a great send off. Vinny's is in Omaha just north of 72nd street and HY 370.
11/17/2007
Full Page Tracker Ad
Check the latest issue of Concrete Wave. On the inside back cover you will find a full page Tracker Trucks ad with a photo of Greg doing a FS Invert. Photo by MRZ.
We would like to thank Buddy Carr of Tracker for using Greg's photo and we would like to thank MRZ for taking such a killer shot. You can fine CW at your local Barnes and Noble or you can subscribe by visiting CW at our link page.
10/27/2007
Big Contest Weekend
We traveled to 3rd Lair for our 4th annual Midwest Bowlriders Contest. This has been one of our favorite comps. MWBR are a good group and the 3rd Lair is one of our favorite places to visit.
G and J both enter the advanced division. Jordan took 9th and Greg finished 2nd.
While we were there, the Edge held it's annual street contest, along with Phil and his gang from Precision Skateboard Shop.
We are please to announce The Edge Team did great! In advanced: Pat place 1st and Lloyd 2nd.
10/09/2007
NINJA BEARINGS
Greg met with the owner of Ninja Bearings at ASR in Sept, he asked Greg if he would try a set of Ninja bearings. Greg said, "sure". He handed G a set of Apex 3. Greg looked at them thinking this is going to be a step down from my ceramics. He changed out one wheel and gave both the 3's and the ceramics a good hard spin. The Ninjas kept spinning long after the ceramics stopped.
But the real test was skating Clairmont. A couple runs on the vert ramp, a session with some friends in the bowl and closing down the park on the street course proved Ninja to be a very high quality product.
No they are not cheap, not made cheap or sold cheap.Yes! you do get what you pay for.
You can find Ninja Bearings at these fine skate shops: Edge in Lincoln and at BC in Omaha.
We would like to thank Ninja for the flow.
9/10/2007
ASR 2007
We just returned from San Diego where we attended the ASR show.
Greg skated all but the last demo. Jim Bell did the ramp again this year with some cool additions. 10 foot vert section was one of the nice changes.
We had the chance to meet some new folks and get together with some old friends.
One of the highlights was meeting Christian Hosoi. Christian had some very important words for Greg. Words of encouragement and advice on staying strong in his faith.
Our good friend Ray Zimmerman managed to get around on his injured ankle taking some killer shots of Greg at Clairmont.
Some more exciting news on our trip to follow.
8/15/2007
Vans Warped Tour
We just returned from The Warped Tour. Our first stop was
St Louis. The skating was hot! It could have been the 100 temp. We met up with Motto team rider Dakota White. Dakota took fifth place. at age 9 that is GREAT! Greg took second place and a nice cash prize.
We then headed to Kansas City for the next Warped stop. Greg placed first and won a bundle of cash.
The music for the jam contests was none other than Mike V's new band
Revolution Mother.Mike got a session in on the ramp after his last
set.
Rick Thorn brought his bike and showed his no holds bar style of BMX.
All in all a couple of killer days. Thanks to Vans and everyone involved.
8/08/2007
Fuel TV
Check out First Hand on Fuel TV.
They were shooting the Bucky Lasek F.H. when we were in Orlando for Bucky's clinic. They interviewed Greg and got some footage of him. It airs this week. Check it out.
7/15/2007
Heartland Festival
What an incredible turn out!
Lives were changed in Omaha this weekend.
The livin It folks are
great!
Chaos on Wheels BMX,
Riders For Christ FMX, and the Untitled Skateboard Team. Dave, Jud, Tom, Evan, Shawn, and Ben were kind enough to let Greg and Jordan skate the demo with them. G and J were representing Edge 64 skatepark.
This is a time we will never forget.
7/04/2007
Pool King Skateboard Company
Pool King is featured in this months Concrete Wave. It tells the story of Michael Early, founder, owner, and team rider. It is a great read! He even gives a shout out to the fountain bros. It has some killer photos as well.
We have been in San Diego for the week skating with JT and Michael. We are working on a new Pool King ad. Check out a few of the photos.
We head north to Hollywood for the rest of the week. keep checking back for photo and video updates.
6/23/2007
CONTESTO MAGNIFICO
Council Bluffs IA hosted the first annual Contesto Magnifico at their downtown skatepark.
It was a great turn out! The contest started at 10:30AM and did not end till 4:00 PM.
Top skaters from Iowa and Nebraska showed up to win the CASH and some very sick trophies.
4 divisions. Groms, Intermediate, and Advanced. The contest ended with the Old School dudes throwing down to win the one of a kind Hosoi Deck trophy. 2, two minute runs added together to total the best score. Two minute runs are LONG, they had to give some oxygen to a couple skaters.
In the advanced class only 1 point separated first and second place.
Jordan took home cash and a second place trophy. Greg snagged the first place trophy and a nice chunk of change (the green kind).
Thanks to all the sponsors for a full day of skating.
6/19/2007
Biggest Event to Hit Omaha
This could be the biggest event to ever hit Omaha. Over 140000 attended Tampa over 90000 in Nashville. The Heartland Festival will arrive at the Quest Center on July 14 and run through the 15. This is a must see! Top Musical Groups like Toby Mac and Jeremy Camp along with many others. BMX and Freestyle Motocross Pros will be bringing their world class show to Omaha. And
yes SKATEBOARDING!!!!
Performances from pro skateboarders and Livin It DVD stars Jud Heald and Jared Lee, plus amazing amateurs Shawn Hale and Alex Vestal.
Representing The EDGE Skatepark Greg and Jordan Fountain. G and J are stoked to get the invite and look forward to skating in the event and sharing their faith.
We hope to see you there.
AND IT IS FREE!!!!!!!!!!!
6/13/2007
New Sponsor Motto Griptape
We would like to thank our new sponsor Motto Griptape. Motto has asked Greg to join their team.They supply him with some of the sickest GT known to man.Every deck needs Griptape, why not use the best? Motto has contracted with some top artists to design art that Motto laser cuts, making your deck your own. You may have already used Motto without knowing it. Some of the top shops across the county use their tape!
6/09/2007
DAMN AM 2007
Third Lair hosted for the 5th year the
DAMN AM, a national level AM contest with skaters from Canada to Florida from East Coast to West Coast. Last night was the infamous Bowl Jam. Ryan from Skatepark of Tampa said "this was the sickest by far". Here is how it went down, 2 heats, each skater two 45 sec runs deciding the top ten qualifiers to throw down in the jam.
Greg made the cut qualifying 5th. The next 15 minutes equaled a F5 tornado with the same devastating aftermath. After some blood, sweat, and yes tears, it was over.
Greg took 5th overall.
Jordan finished a strong 13.
Conan nailed down 15th. Check out our 3rd Lair link for all the standings.
6/02/2007
Bucky Vert Clinic
We just got back form Orlando.
Bucky held a 2 day vert clinic that Greg was able to attend.
Not only did he get some new tricks, he was fortunate to meet some of the nicest folks in skateboarding.
Vans skatepark did a nice job taking very good care of all the skaters. Jose and his group got it going on.Thank you
Vans. Thank you
Bucky!
4/23/2007
Jordan in this months Concrete Wave
Get your copy of Concrete Wave at Barnes and Noble.
Jordan is featured in the section Next Wave. Jeff Tatum did a great job on the write up. The photo was shot at the Pala Pipes in SoCal.
4/17/2007
Jam at the 712
Sunday we found our way to Sioux City. A bowl jam
was going down. Just back from his tour with "Boy Butter Your Bacon" Skateboards, Roadkill was there along with Dave, Mark, and others. Props have to go out to Mark he was doing some wild riding! He was just a blur flying around the bowl. Dave with a fakie ollie over the channel,
WHAT! It is always a good time with that crew.
3/08/2007
New Article Featuring Greg
Take a few minutes and go to the
Concrete Disciples web site. You can find them on our link page.
They have a featured article on Greg. You can see some great photos by Ray Zimmerman and a nice write up.
Thanks
CD!!
2/28/2007
Texas Demo
The demo went off without a hitch. It was one long drive. 40 hours in the van, but worth it.
Skate a demo with sunshine and temps hitting 90 or shoveling the drive with Jordan.
Thanks Dave for thinking of me.
2/20/2007
Road Warrior
We got a call late last night from our good friend, Dave Nelson.
Dave asked Greg if he was available to do a demo this weekend.
Where might this demo be? McAllen TX. 21 hours straight south. After checking the weather map and seeing a temp of 87 for Saturdays demo, Greg quickly said "
"I'm In!!.
Please pray for safe travel. We will be posting updates on the trip.
2/05/2007
A Day with Ray
Day 3 of our SoCal trip had us meet up with Ray Zimmerman of Concrete Disciples fame. In the recent Skateboard Mag Ray was recognized as one of the top skate photographers. We met up with Ray at Chino, with one wild session going down. Not even 30 minutes in, Greg had a full speed collision with one of the locals making the whole crowd groan in sympathetic pain. Shortly after that G managed to nail a nice stalefish over the hip which brought a little smile to Ray's face. From there we moved on to Montclair, with the smoothest cement terrain known to man. It was a great session with big airs and smith grinds. We even avoided a $300.00 ticket from 5-0 by Greg sliding on his elbow pads. We finished the day with a gorgeous California sunset for the back drop of the last session in Corona. Ray is going to allow us to post a few of the pictures on our site soon;but for the full blown photo session and article, check out www.concretedisciples.com. We'd like to thank Ray for the time he spent with us. Here is a man with a tremendous amount of integrity and sincerity, sometimes hard to find in the industry and in life.
KREW
Day two we found ourselves in L.A. at the KREW Warehouse. Jesse from KREW gave us the okay to swing by and check out their indoor skatepark. Greg and Jordan were surprised at the size. It is a nice set up!
For the first hour the Pool King team had the park to themselves. J.T., Michael, G,and J.
Lunch hour hit and the park quickly filled up with the folks from Krew.
Here is the reason why this company is so in touch with this market. THEY ARE ALL SKATERS! Jesse gave Greg some major league flo, setting him up with a Krew wardrobe. We definitely want to visit Jesse and Krew when we come back to CA and we want them to know they can come check out the Omaha skate scene anytime.
1/16/2007
2006 In Review
We would like to take this time to thank the folks that help make 2006 such a great year.
Pool King, Tracker Trucks, Pro-Tec, Vans, Pleasure Tool Bearings, Concrete Wave, Concrete Disciples, Not Of This World Clothing, Edge 64 Skatepark, BC Skate Shop. JT, Marv, Michael, Buddy, Luke, Jesse, Conan, Ed, Mr.Z and many more.
This passed year we were able to skate in contests, do some demos, sessions and even hold some skate clinics in spots like: Tampa, Orlando, Minneapolis, San Diego, LA, Kansas City.
We look forward to 2007. Thank you for your continued support.
11/28/2006
My short trip
Video now up
11/26/2006
Concrete Wave
Make sure you pick up the new Concrete Wave Mag.(Vol 5 #3). Pool King Has a very cool ad with Michael Early, Pool King Team Rider and Owner.
Jeff Tatum Pool King Rider/ Team Manager has a sick ad for Pleasure Tool Bearings.
Greg, Pool King Team Rider has an ad in as well. Page 57 features a spread on Pool King Team Rider, Bill Billing.
Keep checking P.K. web site. New boards are being developed and the company has some very exciting things on the horizon.
We are glad to be a small part of a grass roots skate company like POOL KING.
November update
November has been a very busy month.
Yesterday, Edge hosted a clinic and contest for the groms. We have seen the future of skating in the Midwest. It looks bright. Note to the groms:
It is all about time on the board. Keep it up and we will see some bigger air on the next one.
Greg traveled to San Diego last week to get some skating in. J.T. (Pool King Team Manager) met G at the airport and the skating started right away, 5 days of sunshine and new terrain to try out.
J.T. was a great host as always. He even arranged a photo shoot by none other than MRZ, Ray Zimmerman. Ray has a portfolio of skaters so large that it would take the Govinator himself to carry it. We are still awaiting the shots from that day and hope to share a few of them with you.
Thank you Ray!
Nolan Johnson of Team Goon showed up to skate. Nolan had just skated the GVR Pro pool comp. One of the parks on the list to hit was the Vans at Orange County. J.T. had managed to steath in a video camera to get some of the skating down. Vans has banned cameras in the park. We are glad he did, he managed to get a shot of Greg's biggest air to date. J.T. thinks it was over 12' check out the video.
11/07/2006
TRACKER TRUCKS
You can now buy Tracker Trucks at the Edge.Edge 64, Nebraskas only indoor skate park has made available the ledgenary Tracker Trucks. Check out the link page to get some more info.
11/05/2006
Thrasher Full Page Ad on God's Love
Omaha's very own, Dave Nelson, has a full page ad in Dec 2006 issue of Thrasher Magazine,page 218.
The ad is for Untitled Skateboard company. It is a great shot of Dave doing a 50/50 grind down a huge rail. The message is on Romans 8:38 and 1 Corinthians 13:8
Check it out and visit Untitled's website, go to our link page.
10/28/2006
2006 Midwest Bowl Riders Contest
Wow! It just gets better and better each year. The level of skating in each division has jumped noticeably. Canada was even represented by Adam Hopkins one mean ripper.
Dakota White ran away with the intermediate division taking first place, next year you skate with the big dogs!
Expert division shook out like this:
Character team skater Mighty Mike Owens third,
skating for
Pool King Greg Fountain took second,
and
Bacon boards very own Popcorn takes first.
You could'nt have taken him off his board even with a strong shove.
A crowd favorite was Conan skating on a
Pool King Pirate board .
Props go to the Third Lair, what a great vibe the shop and park have. They are all very cool, helping the groms and going out of their way to make everyone feel welcome. This event would not go down with out Glen and his group. MWBR keeping the action moving giving all the skaters a chance to show their stuff.
Note:We vote our man Lucas as most improved skater, keep going we dig watching you skate. Check out the photos.
10/22/2006
Vert ramp 6 hours North
We made the trip this weekend to a new park (
Showcase) in Minnesota.
It has a vert ramp with a open bowl on one end.
Check out some of the pics.
9/20/2006
FLO FROM VANS
We would thank LJ from Vans. He had a chance to see Greg skate at the ASR show and was nice enough to send some very cool shoes and goodies.
It is great to get support from a company that we have always supported.
"Vans since 1966"
9/11/2006
ASR San Diego 2006
Over 20,000 folks showed up for the 3 day event held in beautiful downtown San Diego.
Pool King Skate Board Company was kind enough to invite Greg out to represent them in the skate demo held on the Jim Bell 8 foot mini ramp in the convention center. The guys running the demo were
Ryan and
Brian of Skate park of Tampa fame. Never a dull moment with them on the microphone!
We were privileged to participate in the Jay Adams book kick off party hosted by Concrete Wave "100% Skateboarding magazine" and Pool King.
The book features many never seen photos of Jay taken by his step-father, Kent Sherwood.
Kent was at the party signing books and visiting with all the guests.
You can only imagine who was in attendance! Yes, some of the founding fathers of skating! We managed to get some photos that we will treasure forever.
All the proceeds from book sales will go to Jay's family.
7/26/2006
TRACKER TRUCKS
We would like to thank Buddy Carr of Tracker Trucks for putting Greg on the Team.
Tracker Skateboard Trucks - founded in 1975 - were the first trucks designed specifically for skateboarding. More than thirty years ago the Tracker engineers based their original design on performance, reliability, and durability. Today those three words continue to be the driving force of Tracker Trucks. Over the years, the original Tracker design has been copied by our competitors many times. Renamed and re-packaged, they all fall short in comparison to today's legendary Tracker Skateboard Truck. If dependability, performance and a long standing reputation for quality products is what you want, go with Tracker...trucks you can trust since 1975.
Some of the skater on the team:
Benji Galloway
Tim Byrne
Mike Early
Lyn-z Adams
Shogo Kubo
Neil Blender
Alan "Ollie" Gelfand
Buddy Carr
Kevin Staab
Jeff Tatum
6/20/2006
VANS WARPED TOUR 2006
Greg takes
first place at the 12th annual Warped Tour in KC hosted by Vans.
$400.00 cash prize (and a backpack).What a fun crowd. If the Warped Tour hits your town make sure you go.
Check our Vans link for upcoming shows.