Dave Adams sent in this picture of the newest Team Pain skatepark in Dunedin, Florida, which is celebrating its grand opening Saturday September 15th. I personally have been working on getting this park built for nine years, so it’s a very big deal for me and the skate commuity here in Pinellas County. The Team Pain concrete crew did some amazing work to fit what they built in a relatively small area of 10K sq ft., and they had to build it all above ground by building retaining walls and placing a lot of fill to get it done. There are a lot more pictures on the Team Pain news site. If I’m not mistaken, I think the Englewood park the Team Pain recently finished is in or near Pinellas County as well. (Update: No, it’s not. Englewood is about 100 miles south of Dunedin.) Dunedin looks like it’s a fun spot. Congrats to Dave and the Dunedin locals, as well as Team Pain. Now send us some action photos! Update: The Groms are barging!

Holly Farm Park Grand Opening. Saturday, September 15, 3:00pm. In case you are a community-oriented type. Portland Parks Foundation funded the park privately and included the skatepark as part of the park concept. Thank you Portland Parks Foundation.

Couldn’t resist stopping by Tigard to check out the progress yesterday.

From Skull Skates comes word of the 22nd Annual Jaks contest at China Creek on Saturday, September 8, 2007 from 12:00pm – 6:00pm. China Creek skatepark is located at Broadway and Clark in Vancouver BC. Skull Skates has video of some past China Creek events on their JAKS page, as well as a few recently added new decks.

The San Francisco Skateboarding Association is holding a Golden Gate Park Horseshoe Pits clean up and Junk Jam on September 15th 2007. It looks like they have a bunch of projects either in the pre-fetal stages or already on the books. Much to the horror and disappointment of every skatepark advocate and teenager in a 50 mile radius, Potrero del Sol/La Raza Park skatepark was designed by Grindline and will be finished by Dreamland some time in 2008. Those poor, unlucky bastards. No word yet on if there are any mafia ties being investigated. Perhaps the large street presence threw invertigators, I mean investigators, off the track.

Troy Sliter sends these photos of the Portland Mobile Precinct handing out sugary snacks to the sweaty hordes at Glenhaven skatepark last week. Now when his son Quinn sees policemen he wants ice-cream.

Insert joke about shitty bowls here. Oops! Shoulda made this photo of the Kent Washington skatepark a Shot of the Week. [Photo: Tony Davies via Sleestak]

Some cool shots in Dave Hupp’s latest photo samples, like this one of Sage in the Pier Park pipe.

Went by Tigard today. I noticed the sign had been changed to read Fall 2007 for completion. So they may be a little behind schedule. I couldn’t see it, looks like they’re pretty far along to me.

Dan Hughes has a bunch of shots of the new Dreamland addition to the Bellingham skatepark. It’s an addition to the old park, so I suggested that Dan do a color overlay to show the old part vs the new. He sent the above image of the old section. The new stuff is the bowl on the right (top photo) and the ditch on the left (hence all the construction shots of same). The old stuff isn’t that old, it’s just CRAP! Kinked like you wouldn’t believe, dead ends and rough. However, kids in Bellingham Rip like noone’s business. The new stuff is Dreamland smooth and lots of nice flowing lines. I like that bowl better than Glenhaven, but not better than Pier. Reminds me of this but worse if possible, look at that kinked transition!