{"id":17057,"date":"2010-07-29T03:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T10:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17057"},"modified":"2010-07-24T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T19:36:05","slug":"the-nascar-of-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17057","title":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Of Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/imageDisplay.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/imageDisplay.jpeg','popup','width=600,height=357,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/imageDisplay-tm.jpg\" height=\"255\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Imagedisplay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Film producer <strong>Jimmy Hawkins<\/strong>, 51, and musician <strong>Gregg Cassity<\/strong>, 56, (both of Southern California) have a new event that is going to blow everyone away, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/news\/ci_15546928\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News<\/a><\/strong>. The men are owners of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.napsr.bz\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Association of Powered Skateboard Racing<\/a><\/strong> and they&#8217;re saying it&#8217;s the next big thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Powered Skateboard Racing will be sweeping the globe,&#8221; 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can already hear the organizer potential sponsor pitch: it&#8217;s Gen-Y&#8217;s own version of NASCAR. Loud billboards going round and round. Sounds like a great addition to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s X Games<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/news\/ci_15546928\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;re saying it&#8217;s the next big thing. &#8220;Powered Skateboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17058,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions\/17058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}