SkateMaster Tate – Skate and Annoy

R.I.P. Gerry Hurtado AKA “SkateMaster Tate”

R.I.P. Gerry Hurtado AKA “SkateMaster Tate” UPDATE: Benefit board for his family.

Skatemaster Tate Fund

UPDATE: Sad news, in the few short days since this was posted, Gerry has passed away. Gerry Hurtado AKA “SkateMaster Tate” was Diagnosed with Inoperable Liver Cancer, and is being cared for at home by his elderly mother in her 80’s. Gerry’s friends are trying to raise money for hospice care, something his mother in […]

SK8 TV, while supplies last

UPDATE: This post dates back 2013 and a lot of the content and comments have to to with Skatemaster Tate (Gerry Hurtado) who didn’t really have an internet presence at the time. Gerry did eventually surface in the online skating world through social media (actually commenting on this site too) as well as having a […]

Rap and Skateboarding. Skatemaster Tate gets no respect.

There’s an article being recycled by different newspapers about how a rap act know as The Pack is helping the worlds of skateboarding and hip hop come together, as if that is something new. The research department only went back a couple of years because completely absent from the article are such bands as the […]