Jay Adams Mural Skate Session

Saturday, August 30, several hundred showed up at the Venice Beach pier for the Jay Adams Memorial Paddle Out. Surfers, skaters, friends, family, fans, from around the world, all came out to celebrate Jay's life.

A few hours later, everyone gather together at the Venice Skatepark for the unveiling of a Jay Adams mural that was painted in the skatepark's pool. Similar to the Shogo Kubo mural that was also just recently painted in the pool. After a mini skate session, Christian Hosoi, led the proceedings, where just as at the paddle out earlier in the day, many of Jay's friends spoke about him, his influences, and his legacy. Nathan Pratt, Tim Jackson, Jeff Ho, Tony Alva were among the many that stood in the deep end and spoke to the huge crowd that sat around the pool. Then the blue tarps was pulled off the pool wall to reveal the mural. After everyone got their group photos in front of the mural, the pool was cleared out again to be skated.

First Photo: Hosoi & Jeff Ho - Second Photo: Jesse Martinez & Allen Sarlo

Tony Alva

First Photo: Justin Burbage - Second Photo: Eddie Reategui

Shane Borland


Hadden McKenna

Julian Torres

Justin Burbage

Tony Alva

Shane Borland


For a ton more photos, check out the complete gallery:



More from Venice Skatepark:

Video: Tim Jackson Remembers Jay Adams

For photos from Jay's Memorial Paddle Out:

B4BC's Skate The Coast

Now in it's 8th year, Skate The Coast is 18-mile skateboarding marathon held by Boarding For Breast Cancer to raise money for breast cancer awareness, prevention, and support programs. Participants skate, bike, or rollerskate along the 18-mile course starting at the Santa Monica Pier, and taking the bike path along the beach, passing through such areas as Venice Beach, Marina Del Rey, Manhattan Beach, till they reach the Redondo Beach Pier, where there was an after party at Wahoo's Fish Tacos. Each participant needed to raise at least a minimum of $50 in order to take part, and with so many of these awesome guys and girls each raising way beyond that, the total amount raised ended up to be well over their goal of $25,000.

Welcome and safety meeting before the skate.

Pre-skate yoga.

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One of the hydration stations along the course.

rolling through Venice Beach.









Check out Boarding For Breast Cancer for more info on them and their events or if you'd like to donate or volunteer.

There are a ton more photos(almost 300 photos), in the complete gallery. If you participated, or know someone who did, there's a good chance there are a couple photos of them in there, along with the large versions of all the photos on this blog:





Check out photos from last year's event too:

Skateboarding Sequence Photography

Sean Johnson smith grind

Sequence Photography is a series of shots of a subject in motion combined into one photo.

More photos from the Venice Skatepark::