North Dakota Skateboarding Association

North Dakota Skateboarding Association The NDSA promotes skateboarding for all ages and abilities while creating safe spaces for youth to learn and grow.

🛹 MONDAY☀️
05/07/2026

🛹 MONDAY☀️

☀️ Spring is here and with warmer weather around the corner we’re excited to start making event plans for the summer inc...
04/30/2026

☀️ Spring is here and with warmer weather around the corner we’re excited to start making event plans for the summer including: 
* Go Skateboarding Day
* The Night Bazaar
* The Blank Skate Project
* Youth Camp Activities
We will have more information on these events and other activities soon so stay tuned!
These programs succeed only through the dedication of our volunteers and donors. If you would like to get involved and join us in supporting our skateboarding community or if you have ideas for events that you’d like to see, please reach out to us via email at: NDSkatedboarding.com

02/24/2026

🤜🏻🤛🏻Community is an essential part of the North Dakota Skateboarding Association and our mission heading into 2026 remains unchanged. We will continue to raise funds for a public indoor park, recognizing that a new space will require significant investment. We are also focused on increasing skateboarding’s visibility in the FM area and getting more kids on skateboards this year by developing stronger partnerships with local businesses and organizations. These efforts will include:
• Hosting activities for Go Skateboarding Day on June 21st
• Partnering with Folkways to bring a new ramp setup to the Night Bazaars,
• Relaunching the Blank Skate Project, merging skateboarding, art, and music.
• Expanding youth camps to provide more active, screen-free opportunities for kids.

Thank you for your continued support. If you have questions, ideas, or would like to get involved, please reach out via social media or email us at: 🔗 NDskateboarding.com

Keep pushing! 🛹

💝 We want to thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts for your donations yesterday and for showing up in a big way! ...
02/14/2026

💝 We want to thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts for your donations yesterday and for showing up in a big way! Thank you to our friend’s at for hosting the donation party. It was wonderful to see so many new and familiar faces. With your help we were able to raise over $10k!!! These funds will go towards:
• Hosting activities for Go Skateboarding Day on June 21st
• Partnering with Folkways to bring a new ramp setup to the Night Bazaars,
• Relaunching the Blank Skate Project, merging skateboarding, art, and music.
• Expanding youth camps to provide more active, screen-free opportunities for kids.

Our mission remains unchanged. We will continue to raise funds for a public indoor park, recognizing that a new space will require significant investment. We are also focused on increasing skateboarding’s visibility in the FM area and getting more kids on skateboards this year by developing stronger partnerships with local businesses and organizations.

Your continued support this Giving Hearts Day has definitely helped us to keep the wheels rolling and working towards the goals of the NDSA.

Thank you for your continued support. If you have questions, ideas, or would like to get involved, please reach out via social media or email us at: NDskateboarding.com

Keep pushing! 🛹

‼️ Giving Hearts Day is almost here! ‼️ Join us ALL DAY on Thursday, February 12th for Giving Hearts Day with the NDSA! ...
02/11/2026

‼️ Giving Hearts Day is almost here! ‼️
Join us ALL DAY on Thursday, February 12th for Giving Hearts Day with the NDSA! You can make your donation anytime throughout the day with this link 🔗 : bit.ly/ndsaghd
💕 Then join us in the evening at Harold's On Main from 6pm - 10pm to celebrate your donation with us!

🛹 The North Dakota Skateboarding Association promotes skateboarding for all ages, abilities, and demographics. With a goal of providing a safe space for youth to learn the foundations of skating. We founded the Hawks Nest, a private indoor skate park, in 2011 to fulfill this mission. Due to cost the HN remained private, but we opened to public as often as possible for youth night, open skates, and women's night. Our goal in 2025 was to triple the size of the HN, and open the only PUBLIC indoor skatepark in North Dakota. That sadly didn't happen. The HN was shut down the day after GHD 2025 due to a zoning issue. Currently there is no place in the FM area for people to skateboard in the winter months. Your donation will help us continue to pursue our goal of building a public indoor skate park for our community. Thank you!

🎁 Make a gift now at: bit.ly/ndsaghd

❤️ Join us on Thursday, February 12th from 6pm - 10pm for Giving Hearts at Harold’s on Main with the North Dakota Skateb...
02/09/2026

❤️ Join us on Thursday, February 12th from 6pm - 10pm for Giving Hearts at Harold’s on Main with the North Dakota Skateboarding Association!
Our friends at Harold's will donate $1 from any tap beer or well drink you purchase to our Giving Hearts Fundraiser which will help provide an indoor skate park community for all!
You can make your donation anytime until 11:59pm on Thursday, February 12th through the link provided below or by visiting the Giving Hearts Donation website.

🛹 The NDSA promotes skateboarding for all ages, abilities, and demographics. With a goal of providing a safe space for youth to learn the foundations of skating. We founded the Hawks Nest, a private indoor skate park, in 2011 to fulfill this mission. Due to cost the HN remained private, but we opened to public as often as possible for youth night, open skates, and women’s night. Our goal in 2025 was to triple the size of the HN, and open the only PUBLIC indoor skatepark in North Dakota. That sadly didn’t happen. The HN was shut down the day after GHD 2025 due to a zoning issue. Currently there is no public place in the FM area for people to skateboard in the winter months. Your donation will help us continue to pursue our goal of building a public indoor skate park for our community. Thank you!

🎁 Make a gift now at: bit.ly/ndsaghd

02/09/2026

📣 Update from the NDSA 📣
PAST:
The NDSA was formed in late 2002. We are fiscally sponsored by the FMAF, which manages our funds and ensures all donations directly support our mission: to increase youth skateboarding participation in the FM area and promote its physical, mental, and social benefits.

One of our primary goals has been to establish a public indoor skate park. While we planned to expand the Hawks Nest last year, the facility was unfortunately closed due to zoning issues. After exploring rezoning and conditional use permits, we determined that the costs and lack of guarantees made staying at that site unfeasible. Consequently, we have decided to find a new space.

PRESENT:
We spent much of the past year searching for a new location. During this time, I stepped away for several months to focus on personal and professional obligations, which contributed to a quieter year for the NDSA.

Managing the organization as both Board President and Executive Director, I have overseen events such as the Hawks Nest BBQs, Go Skateboarding Day, Night Bazaars, The Blank Skate Project, and various youth camps. These programs succeed only through the dedication of our volunteers and donors. I want to sincerely thank everyone who has contributed time or resources; your support makes this work possible.

FUTURE:
Our mission remains unchanged. We continue to raise funds for a public indoor park, recognizing that a new space will require significant investment. We are also focused on increasing skateboarding’s visibility and getting more kids on boards this year by developing stronger partnerships with local businesses and organizations.

This year, the NDSA will:

- Host activities for Go Skateboarding Day.
- Partner with Folkways to bring a new ramp setup to the Night Bazaars.
- Relaunch the Blank Skate Project, merging skateboarding, art, and music.
- Expand youth camps to provide more active, screen-free opportunities for kids.

Thank you for your continued support. If you have questions, ideas, or would like to get involved, please reach out via social media or email us through our website at NDskateboarding.com.

KEEP PUSHIN’
Tom Kemmer & The NDSA

02/07/2026

👀 Check out this great video of Gene talking about why skateboarding is important to him.

❤️Join us on Thursday, February 12th for Giving Hearts Day with the NDSA! You can make your donation anytime throughout the day with the link provided in our page description or by visiting the Giving Hearts Donation website! Then join us in the evening at Harold’s on Main to celebrate your donation with us!
🛹 The North Dakota Skateboarding Association promotes skateboarding for all ages, abilities, and demographics. With a goal of providing a safe space for youth to learn the foundations of skating. We founded the Hawks Nest, a private indoor skate park, in 2011 to fulfill this mission. Due to cost the HN remained private, but we opened to public as often as possible for youth night, open skates, and women’s night. Our goal in 2025 was to triple the size of the HN, and open the only PUBLIC indoor skatepark in North Dakota. That sadly didn’t happen. The HN was shut down the day after GHD 2025 due to a zoning issue. Currently there is no place in the FM area for people to skateboard in the winter months. Your donation will help us continue to pursue our goal of building a public indoor skate park for our community. Thank you!

🎁 Make a gift now at: bit.ly/ndsaghd

🙏🏻 Huge thanks to our friends at for putting this together for us!

♻️ In today’s Throwback Thursday, we would like to spotlight NDSA founder Thomas Rex Kemmer—thrashing since 1988 and sti...
02/05/2026

♻️ In today’s Throwback Thursday, we would like to spotlight NDSA founder Thomas Rex Kemmer—thrashing since 1988 and still pushing, as captured in these photos.

1-3: Downtown, Fargo, ND, 1997
4: NDSU, Fargo, ND, 1997
5-6: Island Park, Fargo, ND, 1998
7-9: Discontent Skatepark, Moorhead, MN, 2000
📷 All photos by Cody Jacobson

❤️ Join us all day Thursday, February 12, for Giving Hearts Day with the North Dakota Skateboarding Association. Donate anytime, then celebrate with us that evening at Harold’s on Main

🔗 Donation link: http://bit.ly/ndsaghd

🛹 NDSA promotes skateboarding for all ages and abilities, creating safe spaces for youth to learn and grow. Since founding the Hawks Nest indoor skatepark in 2011, we’ve worked to expand access through youth nights, open skates, and women’s nights. After a zoning issue forced the Hawks Nest to close in 2025, the FM area lost its only public winter skate space. Your donation helps us keep pushing toward our goal of a public indoor skatepark for our community. Thank you!

🗓️ ❤️ SAVE THE DATE and join us ALL DAY on Thursday, February 12th for Giving Hearts Day with the NDSA! You can make you...
01/26/2026

🗓️ ❤️ SAVE THE DATE and join us ALL DAY on Thursday, February 12th for Giving Hearts Day with the NDSA! You can make your donation anytime throughout the day with the link provided in the event details or by visiting the Giving Hearts Donation website! Then join us in the evening at Harold's on Main to celebrate your donation with us!

🛹 The North Dakota Skateboarding Association promotes skateboarding for all ages, abilities, and demographics. With a goal of providing a safe space for youth to learn the foundations of skating. We founded the Hawks Nest, a private indoor skate park, in 2011 to fulfill this mission. Due to cost the HN remained private, but we opened to public as often as possible for youth night, open skates, and women's night. Our goal in 2025 was to triple the size of the HN, and open the only PUBLIC indoor skatepark in North Dakota. That sadly didn't happen. The HN was shut down the day after GHD 2025 due to a zoning issue. Currently there is no place in the FM area for people to skateboard in the winter months. Your donation will help us continue to pursue our goal of building a public indoor skate park for our community. Thank you!

🎁 Make a gift now at: bit.ly/ndsaghd

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