Red Bull Keys to the City presented by Southside Skatepark at Tranquility Park Houston Texas 6.15.24

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Southside Skatepark presented Red Bull Keys to the City at Tranquility Park in Houston, Texas on June 15, 2024 where a cash purse of $6000 was awarded on a trick-by-trick basis across the 5 heat, 60 invited skateboarder field, participating in 3 events in one afternoon!
Incredible skateboarding began at 12:30 pm at the Fountain in Tranquility Park. Bigo unlocked the first event with Alder Wilson being awarded the Keys to City trophy for back nose blunt 270 out transfer and switch front blunt transfer. Amazing skateboarding from Nick Holt, Taylor Jett, Chris O'Neill, and more was enjoyed and event one set the afternoon off for everyone with $1000 in cash being awarded!
Red Bull Keys to the City event 2 took us to the original chrome rail and we had our favorite VX1000 filmer on hand to unlock it, Travis Sales. Once the lock had been removed we were right back at it, awarding $2000 in cash for tricks as we ran each of the 5 heats. Some ripping from Wes Wallace, Josh Tollin, Deandre Daniels, Carter Wood, and more were seen and enjoyed by all. It was a wild day and we are pretty sure that literally, everyone in Houston skateboarding was there. When all was said and done, and the 60 skateboarder field had finished killing it, Ryan Thompson was awarded the Keys to the City trophy for nollie front blunt. Congratulations Ryan Thompson!
The third and final event was set to take place on what is known as the Corner Rail at Tranquility Park. Knowing that the rail is way too long and mellow for many of the skateboarders in the field we embellished the spot by capping the entire planter to open up the gap. We also created a massive down bank to provide a lower impact. Guru Khalsa Stepped Up and Unlocked Event 3 to Launch the Sessions on the Big Corner Rail at Tranquility Park, Houston, Texas for $3000 in Cash for Tricks courtesy of Red Bull! This 3rd and final event did not disappoint with some of the best skateboarding we have seen in years. Notable callouts would be David Langston, Ben Havran, and Trap Deon putting down some of the heaviest skateboarding. At the buzzer, heat 5's own, on literally what would be the very last attempt John Bradford laid down an absolutely perfect 360 kickflip from the planter to just beyond the stairs, literally as perfect as could have been done. Congratulations John Bradford on winning Red Bull Keys to the City event 3 Tranquility Park where we also awarded a purse of $3000 to numerous skateboarders and a ridiculous amount of skateboarding tricks!
What can we say about the best event we have ever been to in our lives? This event has been rolling around in the minds of Houston area skateboarding locals for the last 10 years. We had been thinking of how we could host a natural street event with some minor structural embellishments for a long time. Tranquility Park in Houston, Texas had always been top of mind with some other locations also being considered. Over the years and especially in the last five years, we had noticed the vibe at Tranquility Park changing. We had our concerns that the City of Houston might eventually be removing the park completely, as our downtown area has experienced so many changes as downtown living continues to grow in our ever-changing City of Houston.
Coincidentally Southside Skatepark was approached about hosting a natural street skateboarding event by Red Bull. It really hit us pretty hard that an entity like Red Bull considered our skateboarding scene and the City of Houston the site to set off this new intellectual property "Red Bull Keys to the City!" So we all set out on a two-year journey of site visits, photos, communications, and subsequent legalities, to achieve the City of Houston's approval and the Houston Parks Department's support of the event. At that point, it was out of our hands and the negotiations were left to the professionals. Before too long, we heard back that the event was looking like it was going to be approved and we all started making preparations for this once-in-a-lifetime moment for the skateboarding scene of Houston and the surrounding territory.
We were committed to executing this event to highest caliber that we were able and we hope you could see and feel that if you attended. If you were unable to make it we hope you enjoyed these photos and videos filmed by many and edited by John Danielson. We are thankful to Red Bull, Throwing Star Collective, and every skateshop, skateboarder, spectator, and skateboarding enthusiast who helped us all celebrate the history of Houston skateboarding at this iconic skateboarding spot that has truly been the epicenter of Houston skateboarding for the last 30+ years.

[@Sk8nolia713]

Love the Houston jams to all the sick skateboarding!

[@Adrianp78]

They were killing it🔥🔥🔥

[@JodsLife1]

sucha sick contest and such sick skateboarding!!!!!

[@BasedKev]

Southside really put it on for the city! Epic day! Amazing edit definitely playing on repeat🤘🏽

[@bryantsutton2915]

This might be the hardest any skate shop has ever gone.

[@SouthsideSkatepark1994]

thank you - for a contest in Houston - with Red Bull's support - I believe so - but all shops rolled out their teams in support - we all went hard that day - proud of our scene

[@seansoper6757]

Good job!!!!! Specially on the screw yeah!

[@bilbo1337]

david langston goat

[@NastyNickC]

H tine hol it dine

[@JonasPolsky]

25 lighters on the dresser, yessir. I gots to get paid, paid

[@jbbillet2900]

bs flip got robbed

[@imaeric123]

Lit

[@JonasPolsky]

all killer, no filler

[@seansoper6757]

Ain’t nobody got the bails