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Yahoo News - Aug. 20 - Haven Daley of the Associated Press visits with members of California's Half Pint Skateboarding Team, believed to be the youngest sponsored skateboarding team in the country.
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Video Clip Featuring Drake Riddiough "Youth Gone Sponsored"

Jay here from Half Pint Skateboards!
We met up with the crew from the New York Times at last months Nor-Cal CASL Contest in Ben Lomond. They were onsite filming a piece on kids in skateboarding and how the sponsored riders are getting younger and younger in today's skate industry. Matt let us know over at Half Pint Skateboards that he had already met with the Nic and Tristan Puehse from Sacramento and was interested in covering Drake Riddiough for the article. They were also interested in having a skate companies perspective on the little kid sponsorship program to find out what types of issues we faced by focusing only on the kid space. The only problem was that we were at a competition with music, kids and skating, which meant there was little room for an interview as the park was packed!

We headed over the Scotts Valley Skate Park so they could get a few shots of Drake Riddiough in the bowls and follow up with a few video interviews. The time flew bye quick and it was now time for us to race back to the competition. Drake Riddiough needed to get back into comp-mode but the added the pressure of a film crew following us around for the day was a bit tough on our young 8-year old rider. He pulled through like a champ and ended the competition in 3rd place but as Drake Riddiough felt the pressure of not taking first place he quickly showed us how an 8-year old boy deals with the loss. Ice Cream Anyone? Right then Drake Riddiough spots the ice cream truck and hands his trophy off to his Dad and I and skates over to have a sit down with his favorite ice cream on a stick.
Troubles were over and Ice Cream prevails once again!
Special thanks to NYTIMES for contacting us and to Drake Riddiough and his family being part of the Half Pint Skateboard dream!
Video Clip Featuring Drake Riddiough "Youth Gone Sponsored"

Our own little ripper Josh Douglas (age 8) has taken first place in both the Black Fly's Skate Contest in Truckee and the "Next Big Kid" contest series that stopped off in San Francisco earlier last week. According to Josh he liked the Black Fly's contest at Truckee Skate Park the best because of the big street course at the park. Unfortunately the "Next Big Kid" contest only had a single fun box set up in a parking lot with nothing else to skate, good thing Josh made the best of it. Anyway CONGRATS goes out to Josh Douglas for keeping the first place awards coming in for the Half Pint Team!  

What up groms... We have just uploaded photos from the Tazanite stop of the Concrete Rodeo event in Sacramento. We will be uploading tons of shots from the Folsom event later on this week along with a full write up of the event. Most of our riders have been enjoying the summer at Camp Woodward West so expect to see some sick footage of the park coming soon.

Winner of the Half Pint SKateboards July "Deck & T-Shirt" Contest to be drawn tonight and will be posted tomorrow.. Good luck to everyone that entered!

CONCRETE RODEO & HALFPINT SHOWDOWN I

We hooked up with the Concrete Rodeo crew for the July 21st Tanzanite Sacramento Skate Contest and here is how it went down. Josh Douglas and Drake Riddiough rode in the 8 & under heat and both had great runs combining the tight street course with the never ending bowls. Drake Riddiough ended the day with a First Place with Josh Douglas taking Second in their heats. Jagger Eaton and his brother Jett were right on their heels throughout the days event.

Anthony Anaya took the place by storm by easily destroying the competition in the 9-10 age groups. Be on the watch for this high flying spiked helmet little grom cause I could swear he had wings coming out of his back! Cody Chapman ended up in Fourth Place out of seven riders in the 11-12 heat. TJ Lewis came out and showed everyone how he likes to go big and took no prisoners with his first place win in the 11-12 year old group.

The 13 – 14 year olds were also throwing down and Nate Linford ended up taking third place out of 7 riders. Chris Henderson rode in the 15 – 16 division and was knocked out of his first place ranking by 7/10ths of a point by our good pal Jerry Gurney. The girls showed up to skate and Lexi Barclay skated all of her heats with her arm in a cast and sling showing all of the guys just how tough the girls really are. (She fractured it the day before the comp) In the end it was Rose McCoy taking first place in her division and then went on to win the head to head joust part of the comp.

The final results of the joust looked like this:

1st Place – TJ Lewis 11- 12

2nd Place – Jerry Gurney 15 - 16

3rd Place – Anthony Anaya 9 – 10

4th Place – Nate Linford 13 – 14

5th place – Chris Henderson 15 - 16