Willy Santos #2.

Hot Dog.

I guess when you mention that a hot dog company sponsored a few skateboarders ten years ago, you have to scan an ad in since nobody else remembered it. Ball Park was doing some youth oriented product placement in the action sports market and paid for a year's worth of ads in Transworld. The advertisements featured short interviews with a number of skaters, including Tyler Hendley, Richie Belton, Brandon Turner, Andrew Cannon, Stu Graham, Peter Smolik, and Jason Adams. Sadly, there were a lack of questions about grilling and cooking habits in many of the ads. I suppose this is a silly type of sponsorship, but it feels a little cooler than being sponsored by an energy drink, department store or fast food chain.

Maybe I should put together a week of content focusing on corporate sponsorships in the future.

The photo is by Blair Alley.

Transworld - November 2009 Volume 27 Number 11

Kyle Leeper #2.

Happy 30th anniversary to the Black Label.

The photo is by Matt Mecaro photo.

Slap - May 2008 Volume 17 Number 5

Daniel Kim.

Switch kickflip tail grab.

Daniel has been around for a while, but I hadn't really heard of him until his part in Colin Read's Spirit Quest video from 2016. I was a little surprised to see this ad. He does some different types of tricks, as is illustrated by this unique take on the nollie noseblunt slide.

Venture is making trucks that don't have graphics printed on them once again. I dig colored trucks, especially colored baseplates, but I don't care for screen printing on the hangers. I'll get around to setting these up eventually.

Slap - November 2008 Volume 17 Number 11

Peter Ramondetta #2.

Big ollie.

This is a huge chunk of real estate. I assume Peter has to be ollieing off of something to the left because the wall appears too tall to get over from the flat. The gap and tiles at the bottom look completely fun to land on. Was there ever video of this? I remember looking around about the time the ad ran and I don't think I ever saw anything.

David Broach took the photo.

Transworld - December 2008 Volume 26 Number 12

Jason Adams #14.

In the ballpark.

One funny thing that happened in 2008 is that Ball Park Brand Hot Dogs sponsored a few skateboarders. They even took out ads in Transworld featuring brief interviews with the riders. I thought that this was such a random situation that it was cool. I was going to scan one of the hot dogs ads, but this was a much better picture.

The photo is by Kyle Camarillo.

Transworld - August 2008 Volume 26 Number 8

Steven Reeves.

Sometimes I pick these because I like the photo.

Steven rode for Almost and Creature.

The photo is by Bunker.

Slap - May 2008 Volume 17 Number 5

Andrew Currie & Omar Hassan.

Omar flies over Andrew at the spot Dan Drehobl got a few tricks at in the Krooked video.

Slap - July 2008 Volume 17 Number 7