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GOALS: • Provide communities with safe, and legal skate plazas to skate • Increase and encourage the active engagement of people in the sport of skateboarding • Promote healthy and sustainable communities through exercise via skateboarding • Design, develop and construct Skate Plazas in municipalities throughout the world

he Rob Dyrdek Foundation’s Sk8 4 Life Program seeks to promote and encourage the sport of skateboarding by providing free skateboards to organizations

has a need for and the ability to distribute free skateboards that are provided by our Foundation

The Sk8 4 Life Program seeks to create and maintain healthy and sustainable communities by providing youth with free skateboards to both exercise and stay physically and mentally fit.

Skateboard Giveaway- The Rob Dyrdek Foundation has partnered with Skate Pass to provide schools and 501(c) 3 organizations whose targeted demographic has a need for and the ability to distribute free skateboards. (i.e. Boys and Girls Club, Elementary and Middle Schools)

HOW TO GET INVOLVED These are many of the same tactics that have worked to get skate parks built across the US. The important thing to remember: you don’t want a skate park, you want a Skate Plaza. Stick to your guns, and remember to educate as many people as possible about the Skate Plaza concept. 1. Organize a group of skaters—the larger the better. 2. Talk to your local skate shop and see if they’ll help you organize and have meetings in their shop. If you’re under 18, you’ll probably need an adult to help. Good sources are a local skate shop owner or a parent. 3. Start a petition. It’s always good to hit your city with big numbers to let them know there’s a huge demand that’s not being met. Take petition forms to your local skate shops and ask the managers if you can leave them for people to sign. Pick them up in about two or three weeks

Take petitions to your schools. Take them to local skate parks and skate spots. There’s a good chance that most skaters already see the need for a Skate Plaza. If they don’t, you can explain it this way: “Want a Love Park here?” That should get their attention and explain the idea. Have your friends and family help you by taking the petitions to work.

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Our hope is to encourage construction of legal street skating areas, be that through large urban skate plazas or single skate spots.

A skate plaza in every community is not only my dream, but also the dream of everyone who skates street, from the most advanced pro to the youngest novice. The skate plaza is essential to the future of skateboarding.

ery good skate spot get skate-proofed or destroyed.

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The future of skateboarding relies on having places to do it.

Skateboarders are sick of getting tickets and watching ev

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Our goal is to reach: Local Communities, including governments, park and recreations departments and local urban renewal and community improvement committees.

t. Each day there are fewer and fewer places to street skate, period

Skateboarding is being choked by people that simply don’t understand i

A skate plaza in every community is not only my dream, but also the dream of everyone who skates street, from the most advanced pro to the youngest novice. The skate plaza is essential to the future of skateboarding.