GoLearn Skateboarding LITE gets update with ecommerce store built in

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:09:51 +0000

GoLe arn Skateboarding LITE, the free version of the iPhone/iPod Touch mobile app, has gotten a face lift. Now with fully integrated social, log into your FaceBook page, Tweet your friends on Twitter and take a look for a new skate deck in our gear shop all while staying in the GoLearn Skateboarding application. Tell a friend and check out the trick tips, skateboard mechanics and all the new features we have added.

GoLearn Skateboarding adds 1000’s more parks!

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:09:59 +0000

Just when you thought you were safe and had all the skate parks you could handle. GoLearn Skateboarding comes along and decides to add 1000’s of skate parks world wide. Make sure to tell a friend and download the full version HERE.

GoLearn Skateboarding Free LITE version released

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 08:18:05 +0000

Now Available: GoLearn Skateboarding Lite

Our award winning app is now available in a Free version!

GoLearn Skateboarding Lite offers high quality video demonstrations of skateboarding tricks like Ollies, Popshuvits, Nollies, Varials and more.

With the lite version you get one video from each of the following categories in street tricks: ollies, curbs, and ledges, and for park tricks: bowls, rails and airs.

You will also have access to “Trucks 101″ which is one of the many valuable Skateboard Mechanic videos.

Of course you’ll want to get the Full version for the full database of trick tips and the killer Skate Park Locator!

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GoLearn Skateboarding: A Pro For Your Pocket

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:43:36 +0000

GoLearn Skateboarding: A Pro For Your Pocket

03.09.09 @ 9:30am Tracy Rodgers Score: 8/10

GoLearn Skateboarding – Let’s get this out of the way: my knowledge of skateboarding is limited to knowing that Tony Hawk is some kind of bigshot (enough to rate his own video game, at any rate) and the occasional viewing of The X Games on TV when there’s nothing else on. I think I stood on a skateboard once about 15 years ago because the boy I liked had one; otherwise, I’m pretty clueless.

However, for those who are into the sport, GoLearn Skateboarding appears to be an excellent resource. The application is the latest in Whagaa’s GoLearn series, which consists of training apps for a number of sports- and fitness-related endeavors, including soccer, cycling, hiking and running.

GoLearn Skateboarding bills itself as the first-ever mobile application to combine instructional videos and a GPS Skate Park Locator. There are over 45 videos featuring an assortment of pro skateboarders demonstrating tricks and giving detailed explanations on how to perform them.

Instructional videos are divided into street tricks and park tricks, which are further categorized by type, so there are menus for ollies, flips, curbs, etc. GoLearn Skateboarding includes a safety video in its introduction, and before watching each instructional video, there’s a safety reminder.

The Skate Park GPS Locator was very effective, and I learned there’s a skate park under three miles from my house. While skaters probably know exactly where their local parks are, it seems like it would be a very handy feature to have while traveling. If I ever need to find somewhere to skate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I’m all set.

GoLearn Skateboarding worked perfectly for me, and it’s well-organized and easy to navigate. The only thing I might suggest is an option to sort the tricks by difficulty level, but otherwise it appears to be a terrific app for skaters.

GoLearn Skateboarding review on ZDNet

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:34:44 +0000

February 20th, 2009

Cool Tools – GoLearn Skateboarding brings GPS-enabled features, instruction to the iPhone

Posted by Jennifer Leggio @ 11:25 am

When I was a kid my mom got me a skateboard. All the neighborhood kids were doing it and I was consistently succumbing to peer pressure, so I wanted to get out there and rock and roll. Sad thing is, I could only rock. Over. Onto my face. As my friends skated past me with all of their fancy moves, I held onto our house-shaped mailbox and cried. My future as a professional skateboarder was bleak.

Perhaps that would’ve changed if the world had iPhones in 1986? More specifically, if I’d had access to the GoLearn Skateboarding app by Whagaa Software and Santa Cruz Skate Shop, with front-end UI design from Rich Harris of 47 Project. The app, which as of last week had earned the No. 1 slot in the top paid sports applications on iTunes, isn’t just for beginners. It has all kinds of neat features for skateboarders of all experience levels.

Since I haven’t been on a skateboard since I was 12 years old (I merely watch and admire), I hit up my photographer friend and long-term skateboarder Bill Pennington for his thoughts and asked him to review the application.

“This is one of my favorite iPhone apps. I love the Skate Park Locator feature, when the mood strikes to hit a park I just load it up and look for the nearest park and get directions. No more calling your friends and getting crappy directions to a park miles away when I can get perfect directions to the one five minutes down the road,” Pennington said. “The trick tip videos are really cool as well. If I am trying to learn something new, I really like that I can carry a video with me where ever I am to get some instant instruction.”

The many features include:

Over 45 high definition videos with slow motion, multiple angles and detailed instruction.
Street section includes ollies, rails, stairs, curbs, flips, and ledges.
Park section includes bowls, rails and airs.
Skateboard Mechanic – video demonstration of proper care and maintenance. Titles include Trucks 101, Wheel Selection, Bearing Maintenance, Skateboard Assembly and more.
GPS Skate Park Locator with thousands of park locations throughout the US. Ability to access maps and driving directions within app.

Pennington has one more feature on his wish list:

“It would be great if the app could allow me to add my own skate spots and notes. It would be awesome to show all my favorite ledges that are close by when the mood strikes. I also do a lot of skate photography and heading out with some guys to shot and being able to map out a location list would be awesome,” he said.

Overall the application is getting stellar reviews — not just from Pennington, but in the App Store. From my own review of the app as a beginner combined with Pennington’s experience as a savvy skateboarder, I definitely recommend this application for those wanting to get out and learn or just improve their skate style.

I’ll be over here holding onto my mailbox.

Purchase GoLearn Skateboarding in the App Store

GoLearn Skateboarding Released

admin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:25:26 +0000

Whagaa Software Inc. and Santa Cruz Skate Shop Deliver First Instructional and GPS Enabled Mobile Skateboarding App

Scotts Valley, California. – (December 18th, 2008) Whagaa Software Inc., developer of instructional applications for mobile devices and the developer of the iMIP (Interactive Mobile Instructional Platform), today announced the release of the GoLearn Skateboarding app for iPhone and iPod Touch.

With GoLearn Skateboarding, enthusiasts can learn different tricks, discover new skate parks, and rock out to their favorite tunes – all from the same device. This revolutionary app leverages GPS and identifies high-rated locations in close proximity to the skateboarder.

GoLearn Skateboarding is perfect for all skateboard levels, from beginning to expert. Skateboarders can learn tricks from experts, how to select the right board, proper safety, and repair and maintenance. Even the most advanced skateboarder will find the techniques useful and the “Skate Park Locator” invaluable when traveling to find new locations.

GoLearn Skateboarding includes the following features:

•   Introduction
•   Tips and Tricks
•   Skateboard Mechanic
•   Skate Park Locator
•   Over 45 high definition videos with slow motion, multiple angles and detailed instruction.

“Our perception of what the skateboarder needs as functionality comes from a lifetime of involvement. Skaters want to see different tricks performed by different people in different places. By providing an intimate discussion of how to re-thread a truck axle or watching Josh Mattson walk you through doing a Miller Flip, it’s as if we are speaking directly to the skater. Couple that with a GPS-driven Skate Park Locator for the traveling skater and the GoLearn Skateboarding application is unparalled in today’s market. Our partnership with Whagaa is an exciting one allowing us to transform our vision of Action Sport applications into reality,” comments Danny Keith, CEO of Santa Cruz Skate Shop.

This release of GoLearn Skateboarding is just the first of many new and exciting applications that will be brought to market via the partnership of Whagaa and Santa Cruz Skate Shop.

GoLearn Skateboarding leverages Whagaa’s iMIP, which accelerates the delivery of content rich applications to the iPhone platform.

“There is no other platform on the market today that can take rich instructional content from VHS, DVD, or the Internet and accelerate the development of mobile apps, such as Apple iPhone apps. Whagaa believes that GoLearn Skateboarding is unique because it leverages the combination of instructional content, SQL database capabilities, Internet access, and GPS to enhance the user experience beyond simply replaying video content. These technologies come together to provide a slick solution that resides on the same device that skateboarders use to listen to their favorite tunes. We are extremely excited by both the launch of GoLearn Skateboarding as well as the future potential of similar applications from our partnership with Santa Cruz Skate Shop,” comments Erik Florio, CEO/Founder of Whagaa.

About Whagaa Software, Inc.
Founded in 2002, Whagaa empowers traditional content providers by providing an accelerated approach to leverage their instructional content on smart mobile computing platforms. Whagaa delivers a rapid, innovative application development platform that accelerates the combination of traditional content such as database, GPS, video and web-enabled content, and social networking, with a unique, stylized platform to enhance and enrich the user experience in a mobile environment. Traditional content providers are invited to partner with Whagaa to easily and effectively leverage their content for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch and to enrich their content into an interactive application. Consumers can benefit from having at their fingertips rich instructional content for all aspects of life such as fitness, sports, cooking and “do it yourself” instructional content, historical data and tracking and all the other applicable iPhone functionality that is contextually relevant. Whagaa’s iMIP’s platform and methodologies provide a faster, cheaper method to market and an improved user experience for the consumer.

About Santa Cruz Skate Shop
A subsidiary of Santa Cruz Surf Shop Inc., founded in 1993, the company embodies Action Sports from the core. The headquarters in Santa Cruz California (birth place of Skateboarding and Surfing) enables a direct relationship with athletes, consumers, retail, wholesale and technology. Our proximity to Silicon Valley initiated the first break into technology in 1998 through web and ecommerce. By successfully launching Skateboards.com and Surfboards.com and with the eventual merging of social communities, we established ourselves as experts online. We created brands Live Oak Skateboards, Four Play Wheels, FRINGE and SC Brand all with multiple revenue channels. While maintaining a direct link to its customer base, we continue our presence in Action Sports with two retail stores Santa Cruz Surf Shop, Santa Cruz Skate Shop, athlete management, brand development, guerilla marketing and bleeding edge technology. Fifteen years later we have a firm grasp of branding, technology and are at the forefront of Action Sports.

Contact:
Whagaa Software, Inc.
Erik Florio
831-438-3222

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Santa Cruz Skate Shop
Danny Keith
831-621-3016

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