Everybody who is into skateboarding knows Bob. He is one of the top skaters of all time. Not just for his skills but rather what he skates. Megaramps, fullpipes, helicopters (yes, you are reading correct), just search the internet. Bob has won everything a skater can in his long career including several gold medals from numerous X-Game Big Air and Vert contests.
As part of a campaign to help promote tourism in California, Visit California, a travel agency from Sacramento decided to reflect the state's geographic and cultural diversity by commissioning and curating an impressive collection of short films, teaming up with Google and Youtube to show off the beautiful places to visit within the state and encourage more people to get outside. VC CEO Caroline Beteta adds: "Consumers are no longer only looking at official sources of travel information but they also want to be inspired and interested in what other people are saying. "We felt to demonstrate the breadth and depth of California, in terms of endless experiences, how many destinations could pull off this much content? The beauty of it is, (with YouTube) it will have an extremely long shelf life, not just 30-seconds during a broadcast show."
Initially, Visit California asked Bob to skate on a floating ramp for one of their advertisements after having seen a similar ramp in a picture what later turned out to be a fake. Nevertheless, Bob agreed and what is more, he put together his own team to build and design the ramp.
Led by professional ramp builders and designers Jeff King, Jerry Blohm and his team, they build the ramp on-site, near the shores of Northern California’s Lake Tahoe. It was not an easy job, especially in terms of engineering to make it stable and ensure it won't sink; the team spent 300 man hours and used 1,250 screws to create the 7,300-pound ramp. After the team was done, the ramp was towed out to a creek in Bliss State Park and anchored into place. Bob Burnquist came out to shred it and shot a commercial for the Dream 365 Project.
