Woodward Riviera Maya Grand Opening Weekend

The brand new Woodward Riviera Maya down in Mexico at the Hard Rock Riviera Maya resort. To kick things off, Woodward flew in top pros from around the world to break in the new facility and celebrate with us. Including Aaron Homoki, Alex Sorgente, Andy MacDonald, Anthony Napolitan, Austin Raye, Brighton Zeuner, Chase Hawk, Chris Cole, Clay Kreiner, Daniel Dhers, David Loy, Elliot Sloan, Felipe Gustavo, Garrett Reynolds, Jake Johnson, Julian Diagre, Karen Jonz, Kevin Peraza, Kriss Kyle, Leticia Bufoni, Neal Hendrix, Sandro Dias, Tom Wallisch, Tony Hawk, Van Homan, Vincent Alvarez and Zach Wallin. Props to our homies at GoPro, The Boardr and CA Rampworks for all the help with the event and a big thank you to everybody that came out to the celebration.

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The Cage Demolition – EP4 – Build Woodward Presented By Dickies

In this episode of Build Woodward, we’re diving deep into the history of The Cage, a massive wooden skate park built in 1998 at Woodward PA. The Cage was originally designed for a street contest as part of an XGames qualifying event called B3 which was short for “bikes, boards, and blades” and featured BMX, skateboarding, and inline skating. The massive Wooden park was built on top of an old tennis court at camp and its name “The Cage” was inspired by the 12-foot fence that surrounded the area. After almost 20 years, the park has started to deteriorate and keeping it safe to ride each year has become a challenge. Under the guidance of Woodward Brand Manager and skate legend Neal Hendrix and our ramp builder Nate Wessel, the decision was made to tear down The Cage and build a brand-new concrete skate park in its place. In this episode, we pay tribute to the historic Wooden park, take a sneak peek at the design of the new concrete park and then absolutely demolish The Cage.

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Animal Chin Street – EP3 – Build Woodward Presented By Dickies

In the first episode of the season, Nate Wessel and the Build Woodward crew recreated the most iconic ramp in the history of skateboarding, the Animal Chin Ramp. The legendary ramp was constructed in the back corner of what was once just an ordinary tennis court. To complete the transformation from tennis court to skatepark, Nate went to work on designing a concrete street park to surround the Chin Ramp and brought in the boys from California Skateparks to pour some concrete and complete the project. Foreman Santiago Lopez takes us through the creation of two specific features in the new park: a steep corner-quarterpipe and a cantilevered bump-to-bump with some cool concrete finishing touches. Once the concrete is dry and the park is complete, Jake Hayes, Ronnie Sandoval, Peter Hewitt, Vincent Alvarez, Tom Knox and Adrian Adrid from the Dickies Skate Team stop by to check it out and shred.

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Introducing Woodward Riviera Maya – EP2 – Build Woodward Presented By Dickies

Woodward’s world renowned ramp builder Nate Wessel has always had an idea for an “urban center” facility, a concept that placed all that is Woodward inside of a single building, optimizing the use of every square inch of space. Today, thanks to an exciting new partnership with Hard Rock Hotels, Nate’s vision will soon become a reality. The second episode of Build Woodward takes us south of the border to the beautiful Hard Rock Riviera Maya in Mexico, where we join Nate in the early stages of construction of the world’s first Woodward urban center. Nate takes us on a tour and gives us a first look at the design of Woodward Riviera Maya.

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Chin Ramp Sessions: Young Guns

The original Animal Chin Ramp was built, shredded and torn down long before this group of young guns were even born. In this episode of Chin Ramp Sessions, watch as CJ Collins, Gavin Bottger, Keegan Palmer, Tate Carew and Evan Doherty tackle the legendary vert ramp at Woodward West. Never before has a crew this young and talented been able to skate the Animal Chin Ramp and they certainly don’t disappoint.

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Chin Ramp Sessions: Vert Legends

In this edition of Chin Ramp Sessions, vert legends Rune Glifberg, Rob “Sluggo” Boyce, Jake Brown, Chany Jeanguenin, Omar Hassan, Andy MacDonald and Lincoln Ueda converge on the freshly rebuilt Animal Chin Ramp at Woodward West and absolutely shut it down. It’s not often you see a gang of vert legends in the same place at the same time, nevermind on a ramp with as much historical significance.

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