Skateboarders are pioneers of social media. They are masters of content marketing. Skate companies were doing "content marketing" before it was called that. Instagram blew up because of skateboarders. People bought iPhones just to have Instagram to connect with their skate homies. We need to do this with Steemit. Think of Steemit as a planet that a bunch of humans landed on and are starting a society from scratch. We need to pioneer Skateboarding here on Steemit. ![giphy2.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbCTwYjbkyn3gsX5CmJQJZcoE5xFMLjw62FqYspsgJMHt/giphy2.gif) Steemit can Revolutionize Skateboarding if we all band together and work towards building a super strong skate community. Skate communities are the most tightly knit communities of any kind, so there is no reason it would not work that way here. What I am proposing is to have a weekly or bi-weekly Steemit skatevideo events. Look at how @luzcypher does his Open Mic. Do you think we could do that with Skateboarding here on Steemit? ![steemskate33.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcoBd5NcGbxJK8K6Qe18LdVCdRCBE7bEPLswcGFN3okdn/steemskate33.gif) We could have the contests be called the name of a trick that everyone has to go out and do, and the winner gets the prize. We could start the prize out at 1 SBD and then increase it by +1 SBD every week. So like the first week will be "KICKFLIP" where everyone has to go out and film a kickflip and the best kickflip wins. Maybe the next week is "<1:00 min edit" where you just make a cool edit. or "FRONTSIDE GRIND" or something like that.

But the idea here is to get EVERYONE some money, like it does with Open mic. There is so much money coming in that everyone who submits something gets at least a few bucks. Thats what I want to happen.

I think we just need to start WEEK 1 and see where it goes.

OK! WEEK 1

The Contest THEME for Week 1 will be... DO A TRICK. Any trick. Just film a trick. One trick

CONTEST RULES

1. Say the words "Steem Skate Week 1" at the beginning of the video. 2. Upvote this post (this is how we will generate the STEEM DOLLAR prize) 3. MAKE A NEW POST with your entry where the beginning of your post MUST read: "STEEMSKATE Week 1" 4. the FIRST hashtag of your post must be #steemskate and the second one should be #skateboarding 5. Link your post in the comments section of THIS POST so that I can find it!

(the rules will become more important as time goes on, the more people we get) ![giphy66.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcYeHCEMyKDZmdutrKgogshwnHqbbiV2JJRx4bntxv8Cj/giphy66.gif)

THIS IS NOT ABOUT COMPETITION ITS ABOUT GROWING THE SKATE COMMUNITY ON STEEMIT. ALL ENTRIES WILL RECEIVE A 100% UPVOTE FROM @web-gnar

IF YOU ARE A SKATEBOARDER AND YOU ARE READING THIS POST, COMMENT BELOW SO THAT I CAN REACH OUT TO YOU! MAYBE RESTEEM THIS POST SO THAT MORE PEOPLE SEE IT! Since it's winter, I think we should give ourselves 10 days from when this post is created. 10 days from now, The Winner will receive the amount that this post generates, rounded down to the nearest dollar. So if it makes $5.61 the winner would get 5 SBD, which (at this point in time) would equal about $30 USD! SO the more we can get people to upvote the weekly STEEMSKATE POSTS the bigger the pot will be! MAKE SURE TO POST YOUR ENTRY IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW!

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