Great Article, hardwork,,,,, dreams can come true!!!

It seems as if the skateboard industry wants to discount the mainstream events, circle the wagon with guns protecting this thing called "core". Who cares what the Mags think is cool. Skateboarding is cool no matter what you roll!!!! Well, wake up, our core industry is being bought up by the publically traded mainstream. Contests push progression, the haters out there have fallen for this anti-mainstream while they cash their checks and get free product. The idea of a Pro is one who can win a contest, shoot a photo and make a movie. The true professional loves the challenge of a competing, pushing progression under pressure, challenging the industry and celebrating everyone’s line. Big Ramps, Rails and Pools, Show the world our passion; provide an economy that supports our families and passion. Cashing a check from skateboarding, play for pay, that is what dreams are made of, no matter what you skate. You can take that Core to the Bank! When you hate the success of another skateboarder your hate makes them stronger, makes you weak, selfish and self -centered stunting your growth as a human and a skateboarder.

http://www.ast.com/modules.php?name=Articles&mv=ShowArticle&ArticleID=612

Taylor’s Dew Tour Debut; Finished 12th for the year....

In a sport previously dominated by the 30 and up crowd, 18-year-old Adam Taylor and other young riders like Shawn White and Alex Perelson represent a new generation – and a changing of the guard – in Skate Vert. Taylor is a Florida local from Cocoa Beach, and has been steadily improving at each stop on the 2007 AST Dew Tour. Taylor made his first Finals cut on Thursday here on his home turf at the Amway Center PlayStation®Pro , beating out veteran pros like Niel Hendrix, Rune Glifberg and Lincoln Ueda and even his own lifelong skate mentor and Team Mate Buster Halterman. “It’s awesome to see the younger guys getting into Vert and changing it up a bit, and to be a part of that,” says Taylor. “The older guys are still there and still skating so well and keeping the bar really high, but they’re also helping us out as the new generation coming up. Buster Halterman and a lot of the other pros have definitely helped me out a lot, helping me go in the right direction in skating and in other ways. Still, there’s definitely some satisfaction in finally beating some of them. This is a huge weekend for me.”To celebrate his first entry into the Dew Tour’s big show, the high school Senior stopped by the CreateAskate.org tent in the Dew Tour Festival Village to make himself a new deck to ride in Finals on Sunday. “I wanted to do something special for my first Dew Tour Finals,” says Taylor. “I had no idea how much work goes into making a skateboard, but it will be so satisfying to be in the Finals on a board I shaped, cut, and sanded myself.”The personal touch is appropriate for Taylor, who says skateboarding is much more than just a hobby, sport, or lifestyle for him. It’s his life, and it’s his family – literally. His younger sister Leah Taylor is a rising star in the ranks of female vert skaters and bowlriders, his little brother Dylan is catching up quick on the vert ramp, and the three young skaters helped their dad start Timeline Skateboards, the family business. “My whole family skateboards, and my whole family supports me and helps me get where I need to be,” says Taylor. “I’m also learning about the business side of everything as I’m skating, getting involved in every aspect of running a skate company, so making it to the Finals represents so much to me right now. I already have my run planned out and know what I want to do. I would love to make top five on Sunday, but I’m stoked just to be in the Finals. Everything that’s happening right now… it’s all a dream come true.”