ABOUT INSPIRE NATION SKATE CO.


What is Inspire Nation?

Inspire Nation Skate Co. is a youth development organization using skate culture, mentorship, and practical tools to help teens build resilience and make better decisions.

How Inspire Nation Helps Students

Inspire Nation partners with schools, churches, and communities to help teens develop resilience and make better decisions through a simple framework called:

Pause • Check • Choose

This decision-making tool helps students:

• slow down emotional reactions

• recognize what’s happening internally and externally

• choose a response they won’t regret later


The Pause • Check • Choose framework is introduced through a high-impact school assembly and reinforced with simple tools students can use daily.


Inspire Nation Skate Co. partners with public schools to provide age-appropriate, inclusive social-emotional learning programming. While faith-motivated, all school-based content remains fully secular.

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What We Skate For

At Inspire Nation Skate Co., our mission is fueled by more than just the board beneath our feet. We skate with purpose, guided by five core values that shape the culture of Inspire Nation.

S – Stand in Truth: Ground everything in the Gospel and live with integrity and boldness.

K – Know Your Worth: Understand your identity in Christ and that your story matters.

A – Act in Love: Build others up, choose empathy, and lead with grace on and off the board.

T – Transform Adversity: Use your pain, trials, and setbacks as fuel for growth and testimony.

E – Elevate Others: Encourage, disciple, and lift others up in faith and life.


About the Founder

Spade - Inspire Nation Founder

Spade Schumacher — Founder & Vision

Since 2007, Spade Schumacher has seen skateboarding as more than a sport—it’s been a tool for creativity, perseverance, and belonging. What started as a personal passion grew into a calling to create safe, purpose-driven spaces where young people can learn life skills through movement, challenge, and community.

Through years immersed in skate culture, Spade has seen how skateboarding naturally teaches resilience: falling, getting back up, trying again, and encouraging others along the way. These lessons now shape the heart of Inspire Nation Skate Co., a youth development organization built around skateboarding as a vehicle for character development, emotional growth, mentorship.

Spade’s Story

Skateboarding became a steady presence in Spade’s life during seasons of change, helping him develop identity, discipline, and confidence when other areas felt uncertain. Over time, his faith deepened, and he began to see skateboarding as a way to reflect Christ-like values: patience, humility, perseverance, and community.

Today, Spade combines nearly two decades of skateboarding experience with youth mentorship to help teens grow both on and off the board. His approach emphasizes effort over perfection, progress over performance, and purpose over comparison; all core principles woven into every Inspire Nation program, product, and event.

Why Skateboarding?

Skateboarding meets students where they are.
It’s accessible. It’s honest. And it teaches lessons you can’t learn from a textbook:

  • Falling isn’t failure… it’s feedback.

  • Growth takes time and repetition.

  • Confidence is built through consistency.

  • Community matters more than competition.

At Inspire Nation Skate Co., skateboarding may be the starting point… but growth, identity, and hope are the destination.