by Erica Yary
November 18th, 2008
Active Am 2008 - Saturday November 22nd - 11am-5pm
Taking place at Active Headquarters - 12087 Landon Drive - Mira Loma, CA 91752
Over 35 of the World’s Top Amateur skateboarders competing for cash, prizes, and top honors at the third Annual Active Am. This year’s prize purse is $12,000 and that includes the $1,000 Skateboard.com Best [...]
by Erica Yary
June 16th, 2008
The Winners of the night include:
BEST ROOKIE
Silas Baxter-Neal
BEST STREET
Guy Mariano
BEST TEAM
Habitat
BEST VIDEO
Lakai, Fully Flared
BEST TWO VIDEO PARTS
Stefan Janoski, Inhabitants & Nothing But The Truth
BEST TRANSITION
Dan Drehobl
BEST VIDEO PART
Guy Mariano, Lakai, Fully Flared
TWS READERS’ CHOICE
Guy Mariano
TWS LEGEND
Tony Hawk
by Erica Yary
June 13th, 2008
This past Wednesday June 11th, we headed out to the Pala Skatepark and the Black Box guys met up with us there. Mystery, Zero, Fallen, and Slave team riders came out to skate with the locals and the hessians for the afternoon as well as give out a bunch of free product. A few guys [...]
by Erica Yary
November 21st, 2007
The best Ams in the business skated Active Am 2007. The contest consisted of 30 top Ams including: Nick Trapasso, Keegan Sauder, Chris Troy, Jordan Hoffart, Jon Goemann, Terrel Robinson, Angel Ramirez, Justin Brock, Daryl Angel, Theotis Beasley, James Hardy, and many more.
After the jam session heats on different obstacles, the top 10 looked like [...]
by Erica Yary
November 12th, 2007
Vans presents, the Second Annual Active Am! It's all going down again and this year the contest will be held on November 18th, 2007 at the Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter.
Be there for FREE and check out the action as 25 of the World's Top Amateur skateboarders battle it out for $5,000 winner takes all cold hard [...]
by Erica Yary
October 26th, 2007
Check out some highlights and photos from Automatic Magazine’s 2007 Battle of the Shops. We didn’t win and that’s all that matters.
Active’s Team was Terell Robinson, Mike “Owen” Franklin, Segan Lockheart, Jon Goemann, and Donnie Mitchell… Thanks to those guys for coming out and ripping in the name of Active.
All Videos: Daniel Haney
Tech Obstacle
Double Set
by Erica Yary
July 30th, 2007
Temecula drew a massive crowd out to the storefront to come skate the launch ramp, play some games of METAL, (the hessian version of Game of Skate) and walk away with a ton of product. Ambiguous clothing brought out Braydon Szafranski as a special guest signing autographs for the day, Active team riders Jon Goemann [...]
by Erica Yary
June 26th, 2007
Chino Active & Vans are ready to bring you a Summer BBQ and Skate Day at Ayala Skate Park in Chino (14225 Central Avenue)
This Saturday June 30th @ 5pm
Featuring: Johnny Layton, Billy Marks, Jon Goemann and Sumio Date
Food, drinks and tons of give-a-ways provided by Vans and Active for everyone! Don't miss out!
by El Jefe
April 6th, 2007
When I thought of someone to interview this week, I thought to myself, “Why not TheSkateboardMag's 'Years Best Am' award winner?” So, here is an interview with the man himself, Dylan Rieder. These are 10 question every skate rat would want to know, I hope you enjoy them.
by Mark Spider
November 7th, 2006
THE FIRST ANNUAL ACTIVE AM!!
Sunday, November 19th 2006
Where: The Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter
8408 Rochester Ave.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
1-5PM
FREE ADMISSION!!
26 Invited AMs competing to win over $7,000 cash and prizes!
Invited Skaters: Nick Dompierre, Keegan Sauder, Colin Provost, Brandon Westgate, Marquise Preston, Jon Goemann, Torey Pudwill, Angel Ramirez, Tony Cervantes, Terrell Robinson, Matt Bennett, Mike Barker, Tommy Gurrola, [...]
by Erica Yary
July 26th, 2006
VANS NABS ANTHONY VAN ENGELEN AND JOHNNY LAYTON FOR APPAREL
Santa Fe Springs, CA (July 25, 2006) – Vans announced today that Anthony Van Engelen and Johnny Layton, each already riding for Vans shoes, are the first two skaters to sign Vans apparel deals.AVE, whose first Vans shoe, the AV Era, hits stores July 1, has [...]
by Erica Yary
January 17th, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 17th, 2006
The Birdhouse team is currently hard at work on the upcoming “The Birdhouse Video” while no release date has been set, all signs are pointing to a premiere in late '06.
