Active Ride Shop News

Girl and Chocolate’s “Menage A Active”
Come meet the Girl skateboards and Chocolate skateboards Teams at your local Active!
Sunday - July 6th, 2008

Active Brea 12pm - Active San Dimas 2pm - Active Rancho Cucamonga 5pm

Text Active to 81595 to win a Girl/Chocolate package!
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DC Shoes and Active bring you the A Team Van Tour stopping by your local store and theirs no telling what kind of fun will be pouring out the Van. Bring your board and join the antics!!

Join Active and eS Footwear as the world famous eS Game of Skate rolls onto Venice Beach July 3rd at 3pm. The beach will be packed for, so if your not down to compete, there will be plenty to do and see. Heck, go skate the little park or just hang with the Active crew. Interested in joining the action? Sign up at http://www.gameofskate.com. Remember, the winner will advance for a chance to skate with the pros and receive a tons of free stuff!!! See you there!!

Why skateboarders and fireworks don’t mix. Be safe this 4th of July.

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Active Ams Justin Figueroa aka Figgy, Theotis Beasley, Greg Myers and Brian Hansen aka Slash competed for Active in the Red Bull Shop Challenge Qualifier Round this past Saturday night. The guys did really well and won two rounds of skate jams which gives them a place to skate in the X Games Shop Challenge. They will be competing against three other teams that qualified this year. Last year, Torey Pudwill and Justin Figueroa took home the Gold for the Active team and we’re all hoping to see a repeat! They will be skating pre-X Games Street Finals on August 2nd 2008 so if you’re going to the X Games make sure you cheer on the Active Team!

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The Grand Finale was almost cut short when we showed up to Fontana Skatepark and realized that taking the proper precautions, by getting a permit to hold an event, means that cops decide to poach on the event. The skatepark had at least 2 or more cops present at all times which means that there was no skateboarding without helmets. Luckily an Active employee brought 15 helments from our headquarters and saved the day. We let the guys who wanted to throw down have a helmet so that the show could go on! Neurotoxin was once again rocking out and the crowd was not let down by the hot dogs, rock and roll, and free stuff! Thanks to Alphanumeric for showing up, all of this years sponsors and everyone who stuck around at Fontana for the event. See you next year!

Go Skateboarding Day in Ohio looked like a lot of fun. Riding in the back of pickup trucks and blowing up fireworks may be illegal here in California, but in good old Ohio they wouldn’t have it any other way. As you watch this video, you may be wondering what Norwegian Black Metal has to do with Go Skateboarding Day in Ohio. That’s good, cause so am I. Video courtesy of Erik Bragg.

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Tons of East Los Angeles locals came out to Belevdere Skatepark to skate and show us how they so in East Los! These kids were rippers and we held a few best trick contests and let the locals decide who the winners were going to be. Check out the photos for now. We are going to be posting a video highlighting all of the Hot Dogs and Hessians stops soon!

Photos: Erica Yary

Active Am Theotis Beasley is getting serious coverage lately and to add to his coverage, The Berrics just recruited him and put up footage of him skating The Berrics. Make sure you check it out!

Our buddies over at Skateboard.com have been hooking up all kinds of rad video lately, and here is another one. This one is a quick Q&A with Active’s own, Paul Rodriguez. Enjoy.

Check out all of the hot action going down @ Red Bull Headquarters this weekend.

NHSSA Finals from 5-8pm. So Cal kids represent their High School by throwing down some mad skate in teams of three. Jam style format. Team Palisades is looking to win four in a row!!

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Go over to skateboard.com and check out the Bobby Worrest Nollie Kickflip Trick Tip Contest. Upload a video of your best nollie flip and you might win some Bobby Worrest Spitfire wheels.

Active is running a promotion with Armor For Sleep for some awesome prizes and the band was nice enough to answer some questions for us. Don’t forget to enter the contest!

Top 5 Favorite Bands:

Nirvana, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Saves The Day, At The Drive In

Top 5 Favorite Places to Play:

Starland Ballroom in NJ, The Metro in Chicago, Chain Reaction in Orange County, Irving Plaza in NYC, Emo’s in Austin

5 Things You Can’t Live on Tour Without:

My Macbook, my PSP, my ugly dolls, my Batman blanket, EZ Mac

Best Ways to Pass Time on Tour:
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Danger Radio acoustic performance LIVE @ Active Brea - Monday, July 21st - 5pm
1160-B Imperial Ave.
Brea, CA 92821
714.256.8516
Text Active to 81595 to win a Danger Radio package!

*Standard text messaging rates apply

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For the third consecutive year, Active, DC and Alien Workshop have joined forces to bring the biggest go Skateboarding Day event we could get together to the DC Skate Plaza in Kettering, Ohio. Alien Workshop and DC Shoes Riders; Josh Kalis, Rob Dyrdek, Dylan Rieder, Ryan Smith, Lindsey Robertson and Evan Smith were all on the front lines. The guys skated with the couple thousand locals that came out and signed autographs as well as snapped a bunch of photos all day long. The line to get an autograph from Rob Dyrdek, Dylan Rider and Josh Kalis was about a mile long and after 3 hours of signing the guys had to cut it off. We held four best trick contests and a huge product toss once the contests were over. One local in particular came to the event and dominated just about every best trick contest we held, Nick the Brick. Thanks to everyone who came out to the event and everyone at DC, AWS and everyone celebrated skateboarding and Go Skateboarding Day with us!

All Photos: Erica Yary