BEYOLYMPICS SK8 GAMES 

 

A Fund Raiser Event for Nyacks YMCA & SkateBoardWizards Inc.

Greetings, my name is Jamaal Bey, founder of “The Skateboard Wizards“ Bey-Tech (a skateboard manufacturing company) and BeyBoards.com, but let me tell you a little about myself.

 

I started skateboarding back in 1969. Growing up skateboarding was my life and I loved everything about it.

That stick with wheels and hills took me to another place, a place where it took dedication, a lot of practice and pain, but in the end, it was the satisfaction and victory of conquering a new trick.

 

I’ve been in many skateboard contests and demos throughout my life. I became a Professional skateboarder at the age of 15 and ran a skateboard park called “SkateAway” in Nanuet in the ’70’s. I competed with the worlds best, enjoyed the camaraderie of fellow skaters, but that was when skateboarding was competitive and fun.

 

Now, skateboarding is still in the hand of the skaters, but it’s going in the wrong direction. I want it to go in a more positive direction.

To me, skateboarding seems to be lost and there is no one governing body for the sport. In fact, the Olympics discussed that they aren’t entirely sure they want to call skateboarding a sport, they said, perhaps instead it should be an “exhibition.” An Exhibition! What?

To be more accurate, I think Tony Hawk said it right: “to tell you the truth, I think the Olympics need skateboarding more than skateboarding needs the Olympics.”

 

In my opinion corporations and exclusion are really to blame. Don’t get me wrong, corporations are good, but when corporations take over, it takes over.

 

What happened to real competitions, between skaters? You know, the old school ways of competition. Right now it looks like a horse race. It seems like half the skaters have blinders on, and the other half knows nothing about the true essence of skateboarding, the heart and soul of it.

Lately the discussion about skateboarding in the Olympics has changed from should skateboarding be in the Olympics, to when will skateboarding enter the Olympics. 2016?

I don’t know about you, but, skateboarding in the Olympics seems a long way off. I don’t have time to wait for someone else, to take their blinders off and take a good look at the Real Art of Skateboarding. So I’m tired,,,,, I’m tired of seeing what I saw.

 

Skateboarding is Bigger than any “ ES Game of SKATE, The X-Games, Mega Ramps and Street skating, What about the 95% of skaters who wants to SK8…. It’s TIME.

Something has to change.

This is why I’m bringing it back to the Old School, the true school of competition. A competition of inclusion, NOT exclusion.

I’ve been to many contests, demos and seen skaters on the side line, watching others skate, while being excluded from the skate games.

So, I’ve came up with a NEW SK8 GAME concept. It’s not really new, but we are bringing you back to the old school of skateboarding, with a new twist, something I call “ BEYOLYMPICS SK8 GAMES “.BEYOLYMPICS SK8 GAMES

[1] Each skater chooses as many sk8 events he or she wants to compete in.

[2] Each event has 3 places, 1st place Gold, 2nd place Silver and 3rd Bronze.

[3] Every skater that enters an event, scores points for that event.

 

[4] At the end of BEYOLYMPICS, Every skater score is added together and the skater with the highest score of the SK8 Games, will be BEYOLYMPICS Champion.So there will be a Champion and two runners up.

 

BEYOLYMPICS MOVEMENT

 1. Beyolympics are SK8 Games designed after the old school way of competing in skateboard competition. It consist of ( 8 ) SK8 contests, with an Olympic theme. Beyolympics Sk8 Games are competitions between skaters in individual or team events and not countries.2. Beyolympics was designed for inclusion, instead of exclusion . The SK8 Games were conceived to include all skaters. Now every skater can be apart of the New SK8 games, be they rich, short or tall, skinny or big, perfectly normal or handicapped and be from any part of the continent on this planet,

As long as the skaters, has the will and desire to skate.3. Beyolympism is a philosophy of SK8 life, exalting and combining talents and skills, unifying the qualities of body, will and mind.

Blending sports with culture and education. Beyolympics seeks to create a way of life, based on their love of skateboarding.4. The Beyolympics Movement is a concerted, organized, universal and permanent action, carried out under the supreme authority of “ The SkateBoard-Wizards Inc.“ of all individuals and entities who are inspired by the values of Beyolympism. It covers the five continents. It reaches its peak with bringing together the world’s athletes at the great festival, The Beyolympics SK8 Games.

5. The practice of sports is a humane right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sports, without discrimination of any kind and in the Beyolympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and far play. The organization, administration and management of sport must be controlled by independent sports organization.

6. Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Beyolympics Movement. Belonging to Beyolympics movement requires compliance with Beyolympics Charter and recognition by The SkateBoard-Wizards Inc.Beyolympics

SK8 Games consists of 2 Games a year:

2009 Summer SK8 Games and

2009 Indoor Winter SK8 Games. 

 

 

 

 

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