PUSH RACE!

Come join us for a PUSH RACE, and then a SKATE COMP with BBQ and LIVE MUSIC at the skate park afterward. The coarse is about 8 miles long and most of it is downhill or flat, but there are some uphill areas. The push race will start around 2 so meet up at THE UPRISE by 1:30 at the latest. All the entry fees will be donated to the Benton County Skateboard Alliance to help their effort to construct a new skate park bowl.

Directions to The Uprise can be found at this link: http://starttheuprise.com/contact_us.html

Here is a map of the push race.



Under the Overpass; Communication Skatedown!

Celebrate Jackson Street Youth Shelter’s 10th Year Anniversary! 3:30 pm Communication Skatedown Competition – Tommy McGuigan 2nd Annual Memorial Competition – Cash Prizes! $3 Entry fee.  All skaters under 16 must wear a helmet.  All skaters must sign a waiver and parental authorization if under 18.  Brought to you by the Benton County Skateboarding Alliance! 4:30 pm ...
Donations to Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc., Corvallis Graffiti Collective and the Benton County Skateboarding Alliance Inc. are welcome.



3:30 pm Communication Skatedown Competition – Tommy McGuigan 2nd Annual Memorial Competition – Cash Prizes! $3 Entry fee.  All skaters under 16 must wear a helmet.  All skaters must sign a waiver and parental authorization if under 18.  Brought to you by the Benton County Skateboarding Alliance!
4:30 pm Graffiti Art Competition – Cash Prizes!  $3 Entry Fee.  Live Art -  there will be a temporary  wall and paint (free of charge) for all to participate. Brought to you by the Corvallis Graffiti Collective!
5:30 pm Community Awards and Appreciation: Announcement of winners for skateboard and graffiti competitions. Thanks to founders who started the grassroots efforts 10-years ago to create a local youth shelter for teens in crisis. Thanks to long-time supporters. And thanks to the youth who have achieved so much for themselves. Brought to you by the Jackson Street Youth Shelter!
6:30 pm Rock Music – Stairway Denied Corvallis’ own Led Zeppelin Tribute Band reunites for a good cause!
Cupcakes – Juice Bar and more.  This is a FREE ALL AGES  EVENT!

Sweet new moves by KEITH!

Our buddy Keith had a great afternoon making some good moves, right on Keith!

Switchbacks No.2

Time to get ready for another season of ridiculously good times out at Switchbacks! The second race of the season will be a single push format.  There will be countdown at the top and only one push will be allowed.  If you bail in a corner you will not be allowed any additional kicks, pushes, or steps once you reenter the road.  Unless there are over 40 riders, we will run double elimination.  Entry is $5. Please register at 10.  The race will begin at 11.  Wear a helmet, and plan to have fun.  This Event is brought to you in collaboration with Rip City Skate.

10 am
April 17, 2011SW Madison Ct,
Portland, OR, 97205

Attack of Lightning Bay Slopestyle

Griffin McDowell is putting on a Slopestyle event down in Salem, OR.  Should make for a fun afternoon. Looks like a lot of sponsors have schwag to give away at this event!

April 16, 2011 1:00 pm

Augusta Street Southeast, 

Salem, OR, 97306 

BOOMTOWN Freeride Series Part 1: Blacktail

April 9, 2011

Come to part 1 of the 3 event freeride series in Eugene OR. SLOPESTYLE, GIANT SLALOM, RAFFLE, and BBQ/MINI RAMP session. Everyone, riders and spectators welcome and eligible for raffle! INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
RAIN OR SHINE. $5 entry.

18th and Hawkins,
Eugene, OR,  97405 

Vancouver Vixen 3

Come take part in the 3rd Vancouver Vixen pusher race along the Discovery Trail in Vancouver WA. Starting point will the parking lot for the trail at the end of NE 65th where it crosses NE 18th st right in front of the Arc of Clark County.

We’ll gather at 10am go through the race info and get started after that. Helmets are mandatory and it’s rain or shine so dress according to the weather. It’s 13.5 miles round trip and is a mixed bag of uphill/downhill flat smooth/bumpy, just be ready for a little of everything.

This year there is a suggested donation of $5 to help start the Urban Growers Market. A backyard growers market and community food resource taking place in downtown Vancouver on every second friday this summer. As usual with the Portland area pusher races podium is for bragging rights, all prizes are raffled at the end of the race so everyone from 1st to dead last has a chance to win something. Bring cash for extra raffle tickets, all proceeds go the Market.
Robin from Eastside Longboards has won this race for the past two years, I would love to see someone from the ‘Couve take the trophy home this year. The race is open to all ability levels and anyone 10 and up. Be advised, this is a long race and has proven challenging to beginners and younger kids, use your own discretion and skate within your limits. Above all, HAVE FUN!

Sign up at http://www.ncdsa.com/contest_registration.asp?ContestID=489

Look what are good friends have produced in Portland!!

PDXdh and Rip City Skate’s part for No Future Vol. 1

Some of you might have gotten to see this, or even have copies of the few DVDs that were distributed. It’s about time this edit got seen by everybody, before all the skating is outdated. Mostly filmed summer through winter of 2009/2010 in the last hour of daylight, we had to bust ass to get a lot of this filmed and edited in time for the DVD deadline. I have never spent so much time on an edit, and it’s one of the only ones I can still watch and be stoked every time. There’s a story behind almost every clip in this fucker, and more people to thank than I can think of, so check it out.

Filmed in and around Portland, Oregon.

Edited by Casey Morrow

Skaters
Billy Meiners
Chip Wood
JP Rowan
Casey Morrow
Adam Stolte
David Mitchell
David Rudgers
Kirk Anderson
Riley Sadil
Mark Frydrychowski
Jon Huey
Dennis Manougian
Abel Cardenas
Eric Hovey
Shane Donogh
Theo Deley
Ryan Sorensen
ANONYMOUS
Joey Swake
James Kelly
Patrick Switzer
Nikolai Nyschens
Alex Schuurmas
Ben Miller
Boomer Cisler 
Patrick Haluska

Filmed by
Jon Huey
Billy Meiners
Casey Morrow
Chip Wood
Riley Sadil
Adam Stolte
Theo Deley
Mark Frydrychowski
Peter Downs
Miles Luedtke
JP Rowan
Eric Hovey
Sam Wegman
Reece Speekman
David Rudgers

Music
(from Portland)

Talkdemonic
“Cascade Locks”
Beat Romantic
Arena Rock Records
(from Portland)

The Shins
“So Says I”
Chutes Too Narrow
Sub Pop Records

Hangedup
“Junk the Clatter”
Clatter for Control
Constellation Records

Absu
“Between the Absu of Eridu and Erech”
Absu
Candlelight Records

SWITCHBACKS 3/6/11

Time to get ready for another season of ridiculously good times out at Switchbacks! The first race of the season will be a pretty standard format. We will allow unlimited kicking at the top. If you bail in a corner you will be allowed two kicks/steps once you reenter the road. Unless there are over 40 riders, we will run double elimination. Entry is $5. Please register at 10. The race will begin at 11. Wear a helmet, and plan to have fun. This Event is brought to you in collaboration with Rip City Skate.

address: SW Madison Ct, Portland, OR, United States, 97205

Come join The Uprise team at the switchbacks this sunday!

ZooBomb Race Results

The ZooBomb race last Sunday, 20th, was off the hook!

Thanks to the mini bike winter and skate gods for the dry weather!

People from all over attended the race, probably a total of over 40 riders. Sponsored riders from Landyachtz came down from Vancouver BC, as well as Zak Maytem from Colorado! Congratulations to Portland skaters for taking the top 5 showing those out of towners that ZooBomb aint no easy shit!  Props to Eric Hovey, the newest member of The Uprise team, taking 4th!


Results:
1. Billy Bones
2. Nick
3. Aidian
4. Eric Hovey

5. Robin

6. Hugh Johnston

7. Kyle Martin

8. Zak Maytum

Mini Bike Winter 2011 this weekend FEB 17th -21st

Mini Bike Winter 2011 starts this Thursday!

A yearly 2 day bicycling event full of F.U.N., activities, partying, and biking brought to you by Zoobomb in Portland. Mini Bike Winter is the staple of crazy bicycling entertainment which keeps everyone warm with laughter and...well, beer. It's an open invite event and free to all.

The weekend finishes with the Tour de ZooBomb a bike and Skateboard race down ZooBomb on Sunday night!

Check out the schedule and more info at http://www.zoobomb.net/minibikewinter

Check out last years festivities in this sweet video!

Mini Bike Winter | 2010 from Richie Thomassen on Vimeo.

New Shop Pictures

Just some new current shop pictures...

New Website Coming Soon!

Just to let everyone know here at The Uprise we're working on a brand new shiny site for your enjoyment. The new site will have all of our store info along with pictures and profiles of our sponsored teams. This blog will serve as a place to let you in on the latest deals and events happening in the Corvallis skateboard scene. Check back soon for a new site and updated events.

www.starttheuprise.com