Monday, September 10, 2007
GoodWheel Skate Park featured in the Log Cabin Democrat
Skate park rolling along
By WAYLON HARRIS
LOG CABIN STAFF WRITER
Less than a month into his new venture, Joey Hambuchen of Conway is excited, or stoked, about how the turnout has been at the Good Wheel Skate Park.
Opened on Aug. 13, Hambuchen said people have traveled to Central Arkansas' premiere indoor skating facility from all over the state.
"We've had people come from Fayetteville, Russellville, Jacksonville it's traveling by word of mouth pretty quickly," Hambuchen said. "It's been great. Everybody has been so positive about how they like the park. And the parents really seem to like it because they can drop their kids off at a supervised environment."
Admission to the park, which is open seven days a week from 2-10 p.m., is $10 plus tax for the full day. Monthly passes (31 days) can be purchased for $65 plus tax.
Parents of skaters under the age of 18 are required to sign a liability waiver before the kids can skate, Hambuchen said.
The waivers can be either filled out and signed at the park or underage skaters can bring in a notarized waiver obtained from a previous visit.
Skaters under the age of 18 will also be required to wear a helmet.
Hambuchen said the park will also be available for private parties and other activities, such as skate competitions. He also hopes to attract skating demos from professional skaters as they tour through the South and Midwest.
The park is located on Harkrider, just south of Dave Ward Drive.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Harrison...and SkateParks...from the Harrison Daily Times
Give young people some place to call home
By JAMES L. WHITE, Times Staff jamesw@commpub.com
08/26/2007
"May the good lord be with you"
"Down every road you roam."
To the best of my knowledge, Rod Stewart first sang those words in the late 1980s, sometime around 1988. All my research shows he wrote the song with Jim Cregan and Kevin Savigar.
I never really liked Rod Stewart that much, although I can point you to no less than three women my basic age who would be all aflutter should he come through town and need a lift to Wal-Mart for some hair products.
But today we will talk about being young. There are purists out there who would say that rather than using Stewart's "Forever Young" song lyrics, I should have used words from Bob Dylan's song of the same name.
Maybe, friends, but more people will recall the Stewart song, so sue me.
I was thinking about what it's like to be young this last week. I am now beyond that time frame in my own personal existence, but I do remember my youth.
I grew up in this town, which is almost completely true. I actually was more a product of a mixture of Valley Springs Schools and my suburban Bellefonte home, but Harrison was the town we all called home after our own fashion.
As a boy, I did what many rural boys do. I hunted and fished with family members and learned to drive at a fairly early age.
Driving, to us, was the chance for freedom. We could go anywhere and do anything we wanted once behind the wheel. But, for a few of my friends and me, there were other wheels that came into play before we could drive. They were smaller wheels, but they held forth the promise of other freedoms we couldn't get anywhere else.
Those were the wheels on a skateboard.
Yes, I was a skateboarder as a boy. I could even do a handstand on a skateboard, or at least I could long enough to get my confidence up and acquire the following scars and cuts after I went down.
There were no places for us to go to ride skateboards, though. So, we made up our own little skate parks of sorts.
Once, just after the mall here in Harrison opened, I took my skateboard with me when my Mom was shopping. She had several stores to visit and I'd decided I would ride on the ultra-smooth surfaces of the concourse while she shopped.
I was careful and didn't scare anyone as I casually skated around the floor. But suddenly, as I pushed my way along the walkways, I heard an ominous voice on the mall's intercom, which said:
"Get out of here with that skateboard!"
I did as I was told and suffered at least a little parental wrath afterward, although not enough to keep me from trying to ride other places as well.
When I was finally old enough to drive, I would go down to Valley Springs and meet friends where we would ride on the sidewalks surrounding the school.
I still have one scar from one of those trips that reminds me of the hubris I felt on a skateboard, which is one lesson I learned the hard way indeed.
I have since left those days behind me. I have tried to ride a skateboard in my waning years, but I find my balance has gone the way of all flesh in much the same way as my eyesight.
And I don't heal as quickly as I once did, which is a major part of my decision to remain on fairly stable ground without wheels of any kind beneath me.
But one of the things I always noticed during my youth was that unless you were involved in a team sport of some kind, your activities were considered less than optimal.
Sure, there were other options than team sports, but they were ones upon which the powers that be frowned, such as driving fast, doing drugs or just getting into generally felonious mischief.
And, oddly enough, the grown-ups in town regularly bemoaned the fact that young people wanted to move away as soon as possible and not return, meaning there would be few young people to carry on the traditions of small town Arkansas.
Just this past week, city officials began talking about the future of a skate park on the municipal parking lot at the corner of Walnut Street and Central Avenue.
The general consensus was that a few older youth were down there harassing younger skateboarders and causing problems.
That's the way of the world - from Rainbow Tribe members to Hells Angels riders - some goobers can ruin the whole thing for everyone when they start trouble.
Not all children are cut out for organized sports. Some need independence in order to develop their own lives, and skateboarding is one of those individual sports where the rider competes against his/her own best/last performance as well as other riders.
What I am saying is, let's give them a chance. Let's see if a truly worthy skate park could bring as many visitors to town as a soccer or baseball tournament.
And that just might make the young people of the community want to stay around and raise their own children here.
Who knows? It just might make us all feel a little younger in the process; maybe we'll be forever young.
By JAMES L. WHITE, Times Staff jamesw@commpub.com
08/26/2007
"May the good lord be with you"
"Down every road you roam."
To the best of my knowledge, Rod Stewart first sang those words in the late 1980s, sometime around 1988. All my research shows he wrote the song with Jim Cregan and Kevin Savigar.
I never really liked Rod Stewart that much, although I can point you to no less than three women my basic age who would be all aflutter should he come through town and need a lift to Wal-Mart for some hair products.
But today we will talk about being young. There are purists out there who would say that rather than using Stewart's "Forever Young" song lyrics, I should have used words from Bob Dylan's song of the same name.
Maybe, friends, but more people will recall the Stewart song, so sue me.
I was thinking about what it's like to be young this last week. I am now beyond that time frame in my own personal existence, but I do remember my youth.
I grew up in this town, which is almost completely true. I actually was more a product of a mixture of Valley Springs Schools and my suburban Bellefonte home, but Harrison was the town we all called home after our own fashion.
As a boy, I did what many rural boys do. I hunted and fished with family members and learned to drive at a fairly early age.
Driving, to us, was the chance for freedom. We could go anywhere and do anything we wanted once behind the wheel. But, for a few of my friends and me, there were other wheels that came into play before we could drive. They were smaller wheels, but they held forth the promise of other freedoms we couldn't get anywhere else.
Those were the wheels on a skateboard.
Yes, I was a skateboarder as a boy. I could even do a handstand on a skateboard, or at least I could long enough to get my confidence up and acquire the following scars and cuts after I went down.
There were no places for us to go to ride skateboards, though. So, we made up our own little skate parks of sorts.
Once, just after the mall here in Harrison opened, I took my skateboard with me when my Mom was shopping. She had several stores to visit and I'd decided I would ride on the ultra-smooth surfaces of the concourse while she shopped.
I was careful and didn't scare anyone as I casually skated around the floor. But suddenly, as I pushed my way along the walkways, I heard an ominous voice on the mall's intercom, which said:
"Get out of here with that skateboard!"
I did as I was told and suffered at least a little parental wrath afterward, although not enough to keep me from trying to ride other places as well.
When I was finally old enough to drive, I would go down to Valley Springs and meet friends where we would ride on the sidewalks surrounding the school.
I still have one scar from one of those trips that reminds me of the hubris I felt on a skateboard, which is one lesson I learned the hard way indeed.
I have since left those days behind me. I have tried to ride a skateboard in my waning years, but I find my balance has gone the way of all flesh in much the same way as my eyesight.
And I don't heal as quickly as I once did, which is a major part of my decision to remain on fairly stable ground without wheels of any kind beneath me.
But one of the things I always noticed during my youth was that unless you were involved in a team sport of some kind, your activities were considered less than optimal.
Sure, there were other options than team sports, but they were ones upon which the powers that be frowned, such as driving fast, doing drugs or just getting into generally felonious mischief.
And, oddly enough, the grown-ups in town regularly bemoaned the fact that young people wanted to move away as soon as possible and not return, meaning there would be few young people to carry on the traditions of small town Arkansas.
Just this past week, city officials began talking about the future of a skate park on the municipal parking lot at the corner of Walnut Street and Central Avenue.
The general consensus was that a few older youth were down there harassing younger skateboarders and causing problems.
That's the way of the world - from Rainbow Tribe members to Hells Angels riders - some goobers can ruin the whole thing for everyone when they start trouble.
Not all children are cut out for organized sports. Some need independence in order to develop their own lives, and skateboarding is one of those individual sports where the rider competes against his/her own best/last performance as well as other riders.
What I am saying is, let's give them a chance. Let's see if a truly worthy skate park could bring as many visitors to town as a soccer or baseball tournament.
And that just might make the young people of the community want to stay around and raise their own children here.
Who knows? It just might make us all feel a little younger in the process; maybe we'll be forever young.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Log Cabin Forum on Conway Skate Park
Just stumbled upon a forum provided by the Log Cabin. Somebody apparently made a comment about the upcoming skate park...which I'm guessing is the GoodWheel skatepark.
What's up with all the jabber. I mean please....'a place where vandals can aggregate'...
Funny word choice...but where is it written that skateboarders are vandals or that vandals are skateboarders. That's just dumb.
Personally, I'd rather be run into by a skateboarder in the parking lot than one of the myriad of cellphone attached drivers of vehicles that can squash me like a bug.
What's up with all the jabber. I mean please....'a place where vandals can aggregate'...
Funny word choice...but where is it written that skateboarders are vandals or that vandals are skateboarders. That's just dumb.
Personally, I'd rather be run into by a skateboarder in the parking lot than one of the myriad of cellphone attached drivers of vehicles that can squash me like a bug.
YouTube Video featuring GoodWheel Skate Shop
Just did a cursory search over on youtube...
Click here for quick video on YouTube featuring work being done on a skateboard over at GoodWheel.
:)
Click here for quick video on YouTube featuring work being done on a skateboard over at GoodWheel.
:)
Googling GoodWheel Skateboard
UCA Student-Owned Skate Shop Adds "Spin" to Conway - Arts ...Goodwheel Skateboards is a skate shop located on Oak Street in downtown Conway. University of Central Arkansas (UCA) junior Joey Hambuchen owns the small ...
www.theprofileonline.com/.../ArtsEntertainment/Uca-StudentOwned.Skate.Shop.Adds.spin.To.Conway-1030038.shtml
Goodwheel Skatepark! Goodwheel Skatepark is the only indoor skatepark located in Central Arkansas. It is skateboarder owned and operated by the same people from Goodwheel ...
www.goodwheelskatepark.com/info.html
Arkansas Skateboarder Has anyone checked out the new skatepark opened up by the folks at GoodWheel? ... Do you think the Hot Springs police officer in the skateboarder video ...
arkansasskateboarder.blogspot.com/
MySpaceTV: Search Results for Tag "sk8"me ollieing off a box at the goodwheel skatepark. 0:11. yup!! Categories: Sports Tags: kickflip, nice, sk8, skate, skateboard, skatepark Added: 4 hours ago ...
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Concrete Disciples Skateboarding - Arkansas Skatepark Directory ...Concrete Disciples brings skateboarding to you. Enjoy videos, pro interview, stories, news, ... Goodwheel Skatepark · Conway · Dardanelle Park · Dardanelle ...
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MySpace.com - The Prophecy Skateboard Company - 30 - Male - US ...MySpace profile for The Prophecy Skateboard Company with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=101993544
www.myspace.com/goodwheelskateshop Goodwheel is a locally owned skateshop in Ironton Ohio near the fountain, we sell anything you need to skate including decks, wheels, bearings, hardware, ...
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=132448139
links - indexGOODWHEEL THE FRINGE COWTOWN PULSE BOARD SHOP SALVATION SIDEWALK SKATER STARR SKATE SHOP WOOD ON WHEELS 4DS BOARD SHOP ADVANTIS AMPT SKATESHOP (CA) ...
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The Prophecy Skateboard Co. The Prophecy Skateboard Co. Check Out Our Demo Video! ... 1202 4th Ave. Huntington, WV · Goodwheel Skateshop (740) 550-1005 112 N. 3rd St. Ironton, OH 45638.
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www.theprofileonline.com/.../ArtsEntertainment/Uca-StudentOwned.Skate.Shop.Adds.spin.To.Conway-1030038.shtml
Goodwheel Skatepark! Goodwheel Skatepark is the only indoor skatepark located in Central Arkansas. It is skateboarder owned and operated by the same people from Goodwheel ...
www.goodwheelskatepark.com/info.html
Arkansas Skateboarder Has anyone checked out the new skatepark opened up by the folks at GoodWheel? ... Do you think the Hot Springs police officer in the skateboarder video ...
arkansasskateboarder.blogspot.com/
MySpaceTV: Search Results for Tag "sk8"me ollieing off a box at the goodwheel skatepark. 0:11. yup!! Categories: Sports Tags: kickflip, nice, sk8, skate, skateboard, skatepark Added: 4 hours ago ...
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.search&t=sk8
Concrete Disciples Skateboarding - Arkansas Skatepark Directory ...Concrete Disciples brings skateboarding to you. Enjoy videos, pro interview, stories, news, ... Goodwheel Skatepark · Conway · Dardanelle Park · Dardanelle ...
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Concrete Disciples Skateboarding - United States Skatepark ...Concrete Disciples brings skateboarding to you. Enjoy videos, pro interview, stories, ... Goodwheel Skatepark · Conway · West Park Skate Park · Coolidge ...
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MySpace.com - The Prophecy Skateboard Company - 30 - Male - US ...MySpace profile for The Prophecy Skateboard Company with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=101993544
www.myspace.com/goodwheelskateshop Goodwheel is a locally owned skateshop in Ironton Ohio near the fountain, we sell anything you need to skate including decks, wheels, bearings, hardware, ...
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=132448139
links - indexGOODWHEEL THE FRINGE COWTOWN PULSE BOARD SHOP SALVATION SIDEWALK SKATER STARR SKATE SHOP WOOD ON WHEELS 4DS BOARD SHOP ADVANTIS AMPT SKATESHOP (CA) ...
www.listenskateboards.com/pages/links.htm
The Prophecy Skateboard Co. The Prophecy Skateboard Co. Check Out Our Demo Video! ... 1202 4th Ave. Huntington, WV · Goodwheel Skateshop (740) 550-1005 112 N. 3rd St. Ironton, OH 45638.
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Speaking of GoodWheel Skateboards in Conway...
It's a pretty good skateboard shop, run by local guy Joey Hambuchen. It's a clean shop with good equipment. He'll set up your board for you and see to it that you have a safe quality skateboard. The best deal they have going on for the GoodWheel decks, but you can also find namebrand skateboards, decks, shoes, shirts, jeans, wheels, bearings...you name it.
If you're looking for cool skateboard stuff, then head downtown in central Conway and check out Joey's stuff at GoodWheel.
If you're looking for cool skateboard stuff, then head downtown in central Conway and check out Joey's stuff at GoodWheel.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Skating....in Conway Arkansas
Has anyone checked out the new skatepark opened up by the folks at GoodWheel?
I saw signs for it posted up at UCA and it looks great!
From their ad..."Goodwheel Skatepark is the only indoor skatepark located in Central Arkansas. It is skateboarder owned and operated by the same people from Goodwheel Skateshop located in downtown Conway. This park is about 10,000 sq. feet and has everything you can imagine to skate. Different sized hubbas, boxes, rails, pyramids, a big four, a 35 foot mini ramp, and much more!"
Looking forward to it!
I saw signs for it posted up at UCA and it looks great!
From their ad..."Goodwheel Skatepark is the only indoor skatepark located in Central Arkansas. It is skateboarder owned and operated by the same people from Goodwheel Skateshop located in downtown Conway. This park is about 10,000 sq. feet and has everything you can imagine to skate. Different sized hubbas, boxes, rails, pyramids, a big four, a 35 foot mini ramp, and much more!"
Looking forward to it!
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