Active Ride Shop News

Enjoi Team Signing
Saturday - February 16th
1pm at Active El Segundo

Featuring: Caswell Berry, Cairo Foster, Louie Barletta and Jerry Hsu.

Active El Segundo
720 A Alli ed Way
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: 310.606.8621

After the signing head over to the El Segundo Skatepark from 4-5pm for a Best Trick Contest to win an Enjoi package!
405 E Grand Ave, El Segundo - 90245 - 310.524.2718

Where do I start? This was a super long day. Or at least it felt like that. Billy called me and told me to be at his house at 9am the next day, I asked him why so early, and he said, “you’ll see.” I had to leave my house at 7:45am to make sure I got there on time, with no idea of what to expect. I thought we’d go to a spot and film Billy doing cabflips down 10, or nollie laserflips up euro gaps, or something similar to that. I had no idea Billy loved beer so much. Anyway, I get there, and this dude answers the door in a wrestling mask, and takes me to a fridge full of beer. Amazing! I remember him saying it was 150 beers. And I found out, his goal was to drink all of them by the end of the day. I did learn one thing from this experience though, it is hard to film after drinking all morning, and being hungover by 3pm. Hope everyone enjoys the vid.Video by Daniel Haney

Check out the photos from the weekend at ASR Tradeshow and see some of your favorite skaters hanging out in all their glory including, Erik Ellington, Daewon Song and Billy Marks. Billy was a close contender to being in the top 3 of the Lord of the Lines Contest and the announcers gave him $300 just for killin' it. The winners of Matix's Lord of the Lines Contest are as follows:

1st Place- Active Rider Torey Pudwill - $10,000
2nd Place- Bobby Worrest - $3,000
3rd Plase- Joey Brezinski - $2,000

Congratulations to the top three! See you in September for the next ASR…

Check out Transworld's Coverage of Lord of the Lines.

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Check out this video that shows you some highlights from Tampa Am 2008.

Enjoy…

Tampa Am has once again come and gone. Every year the talent steps up their game and every year there the competition goes off like a KISS concert, minus the pyrotechnics and the band itself. The judges had the difficult job of scoring some amazing skateboarding and only being able to bring 12 guys to the top. Active had a bunch of guys in the semi finals including John Dickson (who recently won Damn Am Amsterdam) and David Loy but the guys who made it to the finals and placed top 12 were Theotis Beasley and Chris Gregson. Congratulations guys!

Not only were there over 200 guys skating in the 3 days of Tampa madness, there were Thunder storms, power outages, bbq’s, an annual moat race and of course all the craziness that goes along with bringing together hundreds of skaters at hotels and downtown parties.

Thanks to the guys at the Skatepark of Tampa for showing being great hosts and for putting on a great contest.

We will be posting footage from the weekend up soon as well. For now, check out the photos and the contest winning run by Ryan Decenzo.

Second place Ben Hatchell’s run:

Third Place Davis Torgerson’s run:

1. Ryan Decenzo
2. Ben Hatchell
3. Davis Torgerson
4. Felipe Gustavo
5. Vincent Alvarez
6. Chazz Ortiz
7. Chris Gregson
8. Shane O’Neill
9. Taylor Smith
10. Filipe Ortiz
11. Theotis Beasley
12. Chris Troy

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 Matt Costa Performing Live at Active Westwood!

Thursday, January 24th, 2007 @ 7pm

Active Westwood
1083 &amp 1087 Broxton Street
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.943.4575

ENTER TO WIN FRONT ROW SEATS TO MATT'S PERFORMANCE AT Active Westwood BY TEXTING 'Active' TO 81595!
*Standard text messaging rates apply*

Following his performance Matt will be signing copies of his new album 'Unfamiliar Faces' in stores January 22nd!

Syndrome Distribution's (Plan B, Silver, and FKD) newly design team park has just been completed!! Active was invited out to get first crack at it before a big Grand Opening for the ASR trade show went down. A lot of new San Diego heads rolled out to join Active riders and employees. These were fresh faced rippers from the recently opened Las Americas, Chula Vista, and Mission Valley Active stores. Everyone came correct w/ big smiles, a healthy appetite for pizzas/ sodas:damn boys slow down, that's heart attack food! Big proper's go to Oscar Agra for coming out of a coma (knocked on the 7, after landing a ton good guys!!) to be awarded the “Ultimate Warrior” for the night. Honorable mentions go out to Daniel Rodriguez, Saul, Mike Runyan, Austin Lycans, Anthony, Dakota, Costa Crew, Tustin homies, and all of the new guys whose names I already forgot, but look forward to getting to know in '08!! And a very special thanks to Dave Andrecht for the invite and for putting the sick “Ultimate Warrior” prize package together, complete with the former WWF character's image all over the box! Rock on brother!! Syndrome park, super fun:

Here’s a link to the video footage from that session: Please give Jesus Grajeda [grajeda_films@yahoo.com] credit for the video

http://www.sugarskateboards.com/grajeda_films/Active_Jam_Edited.mov

It wouldn't do any justice to Mike Vallely or his millions of fans if we stuck him behind a table w/ a marker to sign for hours! Although Mike is without a doubt the most accessible skateboarder in the world and would sign a million posters, we had to crank it up a bit and have him involved in a demo. Taking it a step further, we threw in the public to skate with him and hopefully draw some blood out of the situation! And draw blood they did!

The stage was set at two lovely parks in Corona. Set around mountains, dairy farms, Huber and Harada skateparks were packed w/ fun loving skateboarders! The young guns got creative, as Mike V. highlighted different obstacles for them to perform maneuvers on. As we moved through each obstacle at the Huber Park it was becoming clear who a major stand out was. Nick Chism! He got a huge box of Active and Element gear. As did Anthony Pshebelski after shredding the Harada park to bits!

Honorable mention goes to the gnarlies Melvin, Dakota, Patrick, Tristan, spiked helmet kid, and Adrian! There were way more, but I didn't get their names! Thanks to Mike Vallely for making it happen, and Element team manager Ryan DeWitt for coming correct w/ a ton of Element gear, and for rockin' Dead shirts once in a while!! See you at the next one!!

Eric Koston and Steve Berra will be appearing on Fuel TV's “The Daily Habit” airing Monday, January 21, at 6:00 Pacific Time. Skateboarding's superstars Berra and Koston will be on to talk skate, films, and their exciting new internet site for skate fans: www.theberrics.com.

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Video by Scuba Steve:

Active Snow commercial starring Active pros Iikka Backstrom and Lauri Heiskari

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You can delve into the mind and life of Steve Berra by checking out a brand new Grill Session with Mr. Berra on VitalSkate.com. People sent in questions to Steve and he answered them. Guy Mariano even has a little cameo in the Grill Session. Steve even called one of the skate fans that wrote in. Check out the interview and enjoy.

Active Rider, Justin Figueroa aka Figgy and Zero skateboards ripper Jamie Tancowny are now officially Emerica Ams! Welcome to the Official Team Roster and congrats!

We spoke to Figgy today and he is bringing in the New Year with a trip out to Tampa Am next week. If you're in the florida area you might see Figgy and the other Emerica Ams skating spots in Tampa and Miami. Justin will also be hitting Australia in February and is busy skating with Jon Dixon, Bryan Herman, Jon Demar, Colin Provost, and Chris Gregson and working on getting his footage for the new Emerica Video 'Stay Gold'.

Look out for more soon…

January 12th 2008, Active and Element present: “Charge the parks with Mike V”!!

Come skate, shed blood, and get gnar with Mike Vallely.

Mike V will present one person with a prize package for ripping the hardest!!

We'll be blasting music from Revolution Mother's latest CD to ignite the session into frenzy.

Free gear from Element skateboards and Active!! 2 Sessions, 2 Winners.

First stop Huber Skatepark 1-2:30 pm (6411 Rolling Meadows Corona, California 92880).
Second stop Harada Skatepark 3-5pm (13100 65th Street Corona, CA 92880).

Both sessions will be documented by Active filmer Daniel Haney and posted on Activemailorder.com for thousands to see!!!

Rain or shine