A dynamic, wide-angle photo of a skateboarder mid-air, performing a trick with the board angled toward the camera. They are dressed in dark, loose clothing. The action is taking place in a large concrete bowl crowded with spectators on the coping and surrounding ledges.
Credit: Skatepark of Tampa / https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4IBvZdrcrD0/maxresdefault.jpg

You can’t call yourself a Tampeño if you haven’t feared for you life (or a skater’s) at the Tampa Am concrete jam.

The city’s world famous skate tournament kicked off last Wednesday, wraps with the finals on Sunday, and stages this cash-grab contest and concert, too.

Brutal Tampa hardcore band Exit Strategy headlines with support from Drawn Out, another homegrown thrash outfit fresh off the release of an April single “Shoulders of Atlas.”

The Saturday, Oct. 18 Tampa Am Concrete Jam concert is included with tournament admission at the Skatepark of Tampa.

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This article appears in Oct. 16 – 22, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...