Film producer Jimmy Hawkins, 51, and musician Gregg Cassity, 56, (both of Southern California) have a new event that is going to blow everyone away, according to a story in the Daily News. The men are owners of the National Association of Powered Skateboard Racing and they’re saying it’s the next big thing.
“Powered Skateboard Racing will be sweeping the globe,” Hawkins said in one of a series of bombastic e-mails promoting the sport. The two men and their roster of about 20 racers hope to turn this weekend lark for daredevil skateboarders into a professional sport by finding bigger venues and acquiring sponsors, equipment manufacturers and media attention. . . The result is the scene that unfolded Sunday at the Encino Velodrome when a bunch of dudes jumped on motorized skateboards and raced around the high-banked concrete oval in what is either the next hot sport or the latest example of California nuttiness.
We can already hear the organizer potential sponsor pitch: it’s Gen-Y’s own version of NASCAR. Loud billboards going round and round. Sounds like a great addition to ESPN’s X Games.
[Link: Daily News]
”…sweeping the globe”-my ass.
Yep only in So Cal.
if its got a motor … fuck it
wonder if the racers get a pit crew to tune up the deck.
it’s like watching ricky bobby on 7 ply.
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