by ccady
October 27th, 2009
LA Park Shark was a huge success. Each stop was blasted with huge crowds, from moms and pops, bikers to scooter-ers, and just plain and simple the fans of skateboarding. Amazing Skateboarders with amazing skateboarding skills, throwing down tricks after tricks. At each park through-out Los Angeles, Jarritos’ thundersticks smacking, ice cold Jarritos fruit drinks [...]
Tags: active, Active Ride Shop, Add new tag, Cerritos, contest, East LA, Garvanza, Highland Park, Houghton, Jarritos, LA Park Shark 2009, Long Beach, Pomona, skateboarding, West Covina
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by ccady
October 6th, 2009
After two weeks of LA Park shark qualifiers, here are the top rippers from each park:
Garvanza- Ivan, Alex, and Damian.
Glendale- Canceled due to unforseen circumstances! Bummer!
Cerritos- Johnathan, Chris, and Justin.
West Covina- Victor Castillo(AKA, V for Victory!), Kevin, and Tanner. Peep the clip below provided by Doughnut. Thanks man, this stuf is hilarious!!
These cats will be [...]
by ccady
September 4th, 2009
Red Bull threw down $25,000 for an invite only Am manual contest. Blancos was stoked to be hosting along with Casey from Fuel’s Capt N and Casey Show. The top TM’s in the industry drew the names, so we’re looking at the best up and coming skaters in the world and the competition was vicious.
Bryant [...]
by ccady
August 20th, 2009
The One For One business leader, Toms Shoes threw down a spiffy party @ the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica for the founder Blake Mycoskie’s Birthday. Husband’s and Boyfriend’s needed to lock up their better halves for this shindig, cuz once they lay eyes on Blake it’s over with. I’m serious, this dude is way [...]
by ccady
August 13th, 2009
Let the games begin! Frijoles Blancos is doing his darndest to keep you peoples off the couch. This time we’re cookin’ up a double dose. We have your game of skate inside the nice AC Thousand Oaks Active and a quick best trick battle on this crappy, but rad quarter pipe! See you there winner takes all [...]
by ccady
August 7th, 2009
This event is for those who are brand new to skateboarding or those who have never skated before. It gives them a chance to receive one on one clinics with Active Ride Shop team riders and the Skatedogs crew. Often newbies can feel itimidated and without the proper motivation, try skateboarding and leave it.
The Youth [...]
by ccady
August 7th, 2009
An art benefit including some amazing people/ artists. We went last year and it was the place to be! Our good friend Deph will be throwing up some art for sale, along with heavies like Shepard Fairey, Michael Sieben (of Bueno fame), Craola, and Logan Hicks who just finished doing a bunch of rad stuff [...]
by ccady
August 5th, 2009
The Wild Stallions hit me up about a battle of the bands, but I told them to kick rocks cuz I was jammin to the SD park for the battle of the boards. Ofcourse I ran a double pits to chesty, it’s the best move a guy can make, before I ran up on these [...]
by ccady
August 3rd, 2009
Moving Pictures- “…encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form… Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras…” Check the collection of moving pictures, that have been place in an order to tell the story of Active Ride Shop’s ”Give” Event at the Irvine Spectrum. “Give” featured a fundraiser [...]
We had a good ol’ time under the large Ferris Wheel at the Irvine Spectrum. This was the site of the Give event featuring Toms shoes and Krochet kids gear getting customized by radical artists and listen to some sweet sounds. Active played host, but it was a team effort from all of the involved [...]
Kicking off this years Summer Skate Park tour with stops at the Jurupa and San Dimas skateparks. The Mexican Blanket helped fire up the session, with it’s magical powers and the Luchadors made sure all of the Blankets wishes were carried out. Gomez grabbed the box at Jurupa on Saturday with a Pop Shuv Fingerflip over [...]
Active posted up a booth at the kickoff Pomona stop of Warped Tour 2009. Hooking up discounts for our stores, slapping on orginal artist designed tattoos, push up contest for prody, and the like is what we do best. Especially when you have double megaphone and ol’ Chunky Buns to hype the homies.
Chillin by the [...]
Magical Mexican Blanket Tour. Best trick contest series with prizes provided by Comune, Royal, Chocolate, and Sabre Vision. Red Bull girls providing the vitalization for mind and body. Anyone can enter, only one can win! No sign ups necessary! Enough said.
The Belvedere skate park has a rad vibe and the coolest locals. I was happy to take the Futures AM series there and stoke the locals to have their own area High School teams. The action was Fierce Melon Gatorade, with teams like Santa Monica, South Bay, Venice, and Palisades putting on a clinics through [...]
Future Am Series is in effect once again at the East LA’s Belvedere Skate Park. Great park and an even better set of High School rippers ready land alot of craze in your face. Come check out the action and enjoy free Lost Energy drinks and free snowcones from Sneaux shoes.
