{"id":65864,"date":"2025-10-14T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=65864"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:21:46","slug":"the-montana-skatepark-story-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=65864","title":{"rendered":"The Montana Skatepark Story Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Grit to Grind<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, a new book from Chronicle Prism<\/strong> charts the history of the Montana Skatepark Association<\/strong><\/a> and their work building skateboard parks across Montana.<\/p>\n

Long before skateboard culture entered mainstream consciousness, for a group of teens growing up in Montana, skateboarding represented the ultimate expression of freedom and creativity. With no dedicated skatepark nearby, skaters sought opportunities several hours or hundreds of miles away\u2014until a core group of childhood friends decided to band together and change the status quo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book even includes a foreword by Pearl Jam\u2019s Jeff Ament.<\/strong> For the rest of the story, follow the jump. Or just click here to buy a copy for yerself<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Grit to Grind
\nShaping Montana Communities One Skatepark at a Time<\/strong><\/p>\n

The inspirational story of the inception, growth, and continued work of the Montana Skatepark Association and their ongoing efforts to build skateparks for communities across Montana. Packed with 100+ vibrant color photographs.<\/p>\n

Long before skateboard culture entered mainstream consciousness, for a group of teens growing up in Montana, skateboarding represented the ultimate expression of freedom and creativity. With no dedicated skatepark nearby, skaters sought opportunities several hours or hundreds of miles away\u2014until a core group of childhood friends decided to band together and change the status quo.<\/p>\n

This is the remarkable true story of how long-time Missoula residents Chris Bacon<\/strong>, Andy Kemmis<\/strong>, Ross Peterson<\/strong>, and a small army of other volunteers overcame, with perseverance and determination, obstacles like lack of funding, bureaucratic red tape, geographic limitations, and more to create a non-profit organization that has assisted in the funding and creation of nearly fifty skateparks in the state to date.<\/p>\n

The book features:<\/strong>
\nInterviews and testimonials from the people who built the MSA from the ground up
\nProfiles of real skaters who have been have been impacted by the skateparks
\nA foreword by Pearl Jam\u2019s Jeff Ament
\nOver 100 full-color insider photographs<\/p>\n

A BLUEPRINT FOR OTHER COMMUNITIES:<\/strong>
\nThe Montana Skatepark Association, a non-profit that started in 2000, has helped fund multiple skateparks throughout the state, including many in remote and\/or Native American communities. These parks provide local youth with healthy environments for after-school and weekend activities.<\/p>\n

THE IMPORTANCE OF SKATEPARKS IN AMERICA: <\/strong>
\nSkateparks are not only a place where kids (and adults) can practice their latest board tricks, they\u2019ve become thriving community centers where kids of all ages and backgrounds can feel safe and supported, a non-threatening space where they can connect with others and be themselves.<\/p>\n

Buy one here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grit to Grind, a new book from Chronicle Prism charts the history of the Montana Skatepark Association and their work building skateboard parks across Montana. Long before skateboard culture entered mainstream consciousness, for a group of teens growing up in Montana, skateboarding represented the ultimate expression of freedom and creativity. With no dedicated skatepark nearby, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65864"}],"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=65864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65869,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65864\/revisions\/65869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}