Nahant Harbor Review - Nahant, Massachusetts USA

NAHANT HARBOR REVIEW • MAY 2005 • Page 8
Brickhouse Sponsors Board Week and Skate Park World Tour
by Jamie Hosker
For three years,
Brickhouse, the North
Shore’s only full service
surf, skate and snow board
shop, located in Marblehead,
has been running a
very successful surf camp
for the youth of the North
Shore. Last year, over 100
students spent the summer
learning how to surf. The
Brickhouse Board Week
includes five days of
supervised surf and board
sport training, transportation
to and from some of
New England’s best surfing
beaches and a wetsuit for
each camper to keep.
Beaches that are surfed by
the campers include:
Jenness and Hampton
Beach in New Hampshire,
Phillips Beach in Swampscott
and Short Beach in
Nahant.
This year, in addition
to Board Week, Brickhouse
is rolling out The Skate
Park World Tour. The Skate
Park World Tour will take
North Shore skaters to
some of New England’s
premier indoor and outdoor
skate parks. Skaters will be
joined by Brickhouse team
riders and will receive
personalized instruction, to
improve their skating skills.
In addition, each skater will
receive a Brickhouse skate
deck and a Skate Park
World Tour T-shirt. Every
skate session will be
videotaped and the day’s
footage will be analyzed, to
help improve both technique
and style. At the end
of the week, a video montage
will be created from
all the highlights of that
week.
Each session of The
Skate Park World Tour lasts
five days, begins at 10:00
a.m. and lasts until 3:00
p.m. The World Tour
begins July 5th and runs
until September 1st. The
camp is designed for all
levels of skaters, from
beginners to advanced.
Jamie Hosker, owner
of Brickhouse, said “The
World Tour, much like
Board Week, allows our
students to enjoy the
summer, doing the thing
they most enjoy, being kids.
They have fun hanging
with friends, skating,
learning new skills and
most importantly, they get
to visit skate parks they
might not otherwise ever
have the opportunity to
skate.” Skate parks that are
on the tour include:
Peabody, Danvers, Newburyport,
Rye Airfield,
Nashua, Andover, Fitchburg
and Skaters Edge, in
Taunton. Space is limited to
twelve campers per session.
Last year, five weeks of
surf camp were sold out
and space for The World
Tour is bound to fill up fast.
For more information
you can call Brickhouse, at
781-639-4531 or check
them out online at
www.brickhouseboards.com
Photos submitted by
Jamie Hosker, Brickhouse.
It Is The Soldier
by Fa. Denis Edward O’Brien, USMC
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
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