Words by Colin Bane 
Last year I did a great interview with Mike Rogers after seeing him and his Grind for Life organization in action down in Orlando. Since he contacted me the other day to say he was digging Banquet and reading my new Skate blog, now seems like a perfectly opportune moment for a Grind for Life update. First off, check out the flyer for Rogers' skate camps in Cocoa Beach: $100 for 5 days of Rogers' tutelage is the fastest, cheapest, and most effective route you could possibly take to schooling some young grom in pool skating, skate fundamentals, and skate history -- just ask Alex Sorgente, GFL's youngest team rider, who recently traveled to Sweden to win the kids' division at the Quiksilver Bowlriders contest. Then there's the Grind for Life Skatepark Series, which wraps up on September 22 with a pool contest at Kona Skatepark in Jacksonville, FL. If you don't live in Florida, look out for the etnies/Grind for Life/Lost Box Lunch Carnival, with upcoming events in Pennsylvania, Massachussets, Kentucky, Missouri, Utah, California, Oregon, and Washington. Everything Rogers does through Grind for Life helps people with cancer in important ways -- that cool pirate eyepatch he skates in is a token of his own brutal battle with sarcoma cancer -- and he usually rallies up an impressive group of his pro skater friends to help him out in his efforts. Finally, and I'm speaking strictly from personal experience here, but if you would like to be able to go to any skatepark, skateshop, or skate event in the world and have pro skaters, beautiful women, cancer survivors, and random cool people come up and introduce themselves to you, then you need to buy one of the cool Grind for Life ballcaps or anything with a GFL logo on it, and wear it everywhere. This actually works. It's for a good cause, but I won't tell if you do it strictly for the selfish reasons. Then again, if all you need is a little bit of good karma, just cut a big fat tax-deductible check to Grind for Life at 2023 N. Atlantic Ave #236, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931.