At first sight, Jake Ryan Munoz looks like the average 1-year-old.
He just picked up the act of walking a week before his first birthday on Jan. 16., but at 9 months the tot was skateboarding.
Now, at the age of 1, he is somewhat of a professional.
“We bought him a small skateboard because he liked to play with his cousins,” his mother Kasie Gano said. “The rest is history.”…. More info
Chris Fischer, 26, has been in a funk since construction crews turned Vista’s skatepark into dust last summer to make way for a multimillion-dollar civic center.
“Some of the best days of my life were up at that skatepark,” Fischer said in a letter to the City Council last month in which he pleaded for a replacement.
He may soon have reason for optimism.
City officials confirmed last week they’re in negotiations to buy land for a skatepark…Â More info
Matthew McConaughey, 39, was photographed using his skateboard in an innovative way yesterday.
The actor/surfer dude went for a ride using a wheeled stick to balance himself and go even faster as zipped along the sidewalk, accompanied by his dog BJ…Â More info
Skateboarders with boards — but no appropriate place to ride — have a few weeks left to apply for a Tony Hawk Foundation skateboard park grant. The deadline for the annual grant-making process is March 2 for the awards to be announced in April.
Skateboard star Hawk’s foundation has awarded more than $2.3 million to partially fund nearly 400 skatepark projects nationwide in the past six years…Â More info