New skate shop in downtown Idaho Falls offers patrons a cultural experience

A coating by renowned creator and photographer Mark Oblow connected show astatine Cannon’s Skate Park astatine 357 A Street successful Idaho Falls. See immoderate of nan unsocial elements of nan shop successful nan video above. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

IDAHO FALLS – Tyler Cannon is simply a longtime skateboarder and skate shop associate, but nan thought of opening his ain skate shop was ne'er his plan.

“Only idiots unfastened skate shops,” Cannon tells EastIdahoNews.com. “The only logic you do it is because it’s a passion task and you want to springiness backmost to nan skating community.”

The revitalization of downtown Idaho Falls is thing he’s kept a adjacent oculus connected complete nan years, and being a portion of it has been a dream for a while. When a abstraction became disposable astatine 357 A Street, he couldn’t resist.

To get in, he turned to what he knew best.

“We walked by this shop and it conscionable yelled astatine us, ‘This would beryllium nan cleanable spot for a skate shop,'” Cannon says.

Cannon Skate Shop opened connected August 24. It sells skateboards and Stance apparel, a celebrated marque of clothing for athletes, models, designers and celebrities.

The shop’s sanction has a double meaning. Not only is it nan owner’s past name, it’s besides a reference to a subject cannon because of his family’s support of and work successful nan military. There are respective subject items utilized successful nan shop’s decor and nan checkout antagonistic is made from an aged skateboarding ramp.

The shop besides has artwork connected show from well-known creator and photographer Mark Oblow. There’s a German-imported digit committee ramp designed for digit skateboarding and a storytelling characteristic called “Brian’s Bedroom.” Take a look successful nan video above.

After respective weeks of business, Cannon is amazed pinch nan response.

“I’m very amazed pinch really galore skaters location are successful Idaho Falls. We did not expect that,” says Cannon. “We’re trading a batch of skateboards and it’s been nosy to spot nan organization stitchery astir and get excited astir it.”

Tyler Cannon poses for a photograph wrong his skate shop | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

Cannon sewage his commencement astatine property 15 moving astatine Val Surf, now nan oldest family-owned skate shop successful nan world.

The institution sponsored him erstwhile he became a competitory skater and participated successful nan X Games successful China years ago.

His business is now sponsoring respective Olympic skateboarders, which he’ll talk much astir successful an announcement adjacent week.

When it comes to nan early of nan business, he conscionable wants to beryllium a “hub for nan community.”

“There’s immoderate nosy places to skate down here. We person a skate parkland astatine Tautphaus Park and there’s a batch of places group tin spell to skateboard, but if they tin travel present first, they’ll cognize it’s a friends spot wherever they tin get nan components they request aliases upgrade their board,” he says.

And successful lawsuit you’re wondering whether Cannon plans to transportation roller skates, blades aliases akin products, nan reply is no.

“We are conscionable a skate shop,” says Cannon. “Just skateboards and skate culture. We’re going to support it ace simple.”

Cannon Skate Shop is unfastened Monday done Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.