* Come Out and Play with the World's Best

You've got choices this weekend. You can go to Joe Moore's lame movie event and watch a bunch of out of control kids getting all hyped up by munching down free candy, or you can come out to Wilson Avenue Skate Park and get some healthy exercise at the first ever Midwest Snowskate competition. Just walking through the snow should get your blood racing. My inaugural event made the Metromix 'Hot Pick' of the Weekend. Joe's free movie didn't. So, you can stay inside with a poverty pandering public official or you can come out and play with the World's Best!

Blognotes: When I say the "World's Best," it's just not some meaningless words, I mean it. Besides Phillip, another X-Games gold medalist will be attending this one of a kind event. Isaac Hebert from Fairbanks Alaska has arrived and is primed and ready to take on Phillip and the rest of the competition. If anyone knows how to deal with this deep snow we're having, it's the Alaskan snowskate wonder-kid, Isaac.

* As a special bonus, American Motorcycle Association Champion and newly crowned AMA Athlete of the Year, Patrick Smage has confirmed to come down and let his big brother beat him at something. This you gotta see. The kid hates to lose. Patrick tells me he's been working on some sick tricks and will surprise a few people that think he can only perform on a motorcycle. Personally knowing how intensely focused this young man can get during a competition, (gee, I wonder where he picked that trait up?) I wouldn't count Patrick out.

* Sorry kiddies, Joe won't be showing 'Happy Feet' this time around. If you want to see some real 'Happy Feet' in action, come to the Midwest Snowskate competition.

* No Magic Pens will be used by the judges.

* By design, you won't find this world class event advertised on any official 'good news' neighborhood propaganda website. This was truly a grass roots, or in this case, snow roots effort to put this event together without any city officials funding or neighborhood SSA funded Chamber of Commerce help. I did this on my own, my way. And, to top it off, it's not going to cost the tax payers a pretty penny. That's what made it so much fun to pull off.

Photo: Phillip successfully attempting (with ease) the world record 'High Ollie' at the 2007 X-Games. Talk about defying gravity. This kid can float on air.