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.
Skateboarding Woodward West 2017
Bali Mosberg, Lazer Crawford, Dylan Jaeb and Miles Trampello skate Woodward West.
VIPs Tom Asta, Wade Desarmo, and Shane Colville – Woodward
Es Footwear sent their team of shredders to Woodward Pennsylvania for a week. Campers were super stoked to hang out with Tom Asta, Wade Desarmo, and Shane Colville. These dudes are always ready to put in some work and make it an awesome week for every skate camper.
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.
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.
Off The Clock: Peter Bezek and Will Sickels
Sometimes after a long week of ensuring campers are having an awesome time you just need to sit down, relax, and watch Peter Bezek and Will Sickels do what every camper loves to see them do… SHRED. Peter and Will both take a break from being awesome directors to put in some r&r on their boards, RESTING and RIPPING.
Smooth Cruising with Brad McClain – Woodward Tahoe
Bones Wheels recently released Brad McClain’s new signature wheel. What better place to put them to the test than at Woodward Tahoe? Watch and listen as Brad makes those wheels sing as he cruises through the Eastern Front, Sierra Skatepark and the Evergreen bowl.
DAMN AM WOODWARD WEST – MANNYS WORLD
Manny Santiago headed to Woodward West for the DAMN AM contest!
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.
Rapid Fire: Brad McClain
Brad McClain is no stranger to the Mano-A-Mano Mini-Ramp, he’s a 2 time veteran with a trip to the Finals in 2016 under his belt. So it wasn’t a surprise that he was able to throw down some heavy raw lines during his visit this summer.
Shut It Down – EP31 – Camp Woodward Season 8
With the last two days of camp comes the last chance to get last minute tricks in before heading home. CJ heads over to the Snake Run with Tazzy Danny to skate the famous vert wall and Damonte gets up early for his final battle with the backside heelflip in The Plaza.
Camp Woodward 2017
Matt Pepe’s lates edit at Woodward featuring Andrew Grabowski, Nolan Warner-Sullivan, Matt Goodwine, Jack Bradford, John Shanahan, Will Sickels, Matt Horne, Alex Sorgente, Kader Sylla, Matt McCauley, Craig Wilson, Toby Bennett, Chris Gaiser, Jack Zeuner, Isaac Crawford, Tyler, Ryan Lay, Jeff Rasp, Casey Schaum, Jodri Zapata, Tommy Ries, Justin Desjardins, Jaiylen Marrow, Tim Miller, Andrew Daigle, Mike Janson, William Webb, Berto Olivie, Sean Powderly, Matt Pepe and Kolby Haynes.