A Colwood jam on Saturday puts a pile of prototype obstacles on the table

• When: Saturday, October 24, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
• Where: the picnic shelter behind the Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre in Colwood, about twenty minutes' drive from downtown Victoria. It's a roofed, open-sided shelter tucked behind the playground.
• Getting there: from the Island Highway, take Ocean Boulevard, turn left onto Recreation Way, then right onto Park Lane, and follow it back past the baseball diamonds. The organizer notes it's right by the bus exchange.
• What's there: prototype obstacles from Olive.fbs, some concrete ones, and freebies, prizes and giveaways.
• Cost: neither the post nor the flyer mentions a fee or a signup.
• Questions: message @olive.fbs on Instagram, or reply under the Reddit post.

Vancouver Island riders don't get the walk-in traffic a mainland city scene does. A jam where one person supplies the obstacles is often the only way a dozen fingerboarders end up around the same table in a year — and prototype obstacles make it a test session as much as a meetup. Whoever shows up gets to tell the builder which edge works and which transition spits a board out sideways, which is feedback no amount of filming alone produces.

It also travels well as a format. A few boxes of obstacles, a table, and a room: that's the whole infrastructure. The hard part is always the person willing to load the car.

The organizer says they hope to make it semi-regular. If Saturday goes well, there may be more.