Active Ride Shop News

Get ready for the most intense skate park tour ever! Active will host seven exclusive stops featuring best trick contests, free food, Red Bull, the skate thrash metal band Neurotoxin, and tons of free giveaways from all your favorite companies including Boosted headphones!!

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Check out some of the behind the scenes shots from Daewon Song’s newest Active Ad. The Ad is featured in Transworld and TheSkateboardMag. The Ad was shot by Atiba Jefferson at the Channel Street Skatepark in San Pedro, California. Daewon frequents the Channel Street Skatepark often and we are offering a exclusive Daewon Song sticker pack for anyone who wants to donate to the Channel Street Skatepark!

For a Daewon Song sticker pack featuring Almost skateboards, Matix, DVS, Spitfire and Active stickers send in a self-addressed stamped envelope and $2 to:

Active/Channel Street Skatepark Promotion
12087 Landon Drive
Mira Loma, CA 91752

All proceeds will benefit the Channel Street Skatepark! Tell all your friends!

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Last Sunday was an amazing show of team work and love up at the Rancho store. Some of our dear employees have fallen on hard times due to Cancer. The spirited staff tapped into their resources to host a bake sale and a concert to raise funds to help. The staff all pitched in and baked some amazing goodies. Chronic Cantina stepped up in a big way and let the concert go down at their new Upland location. In addition, Active threw in 10% of all sales for the weekend! Active Rancho was able to raise over $5,000 for the cause. Way to go Rancho store!! Big thanks to Curt Phillips, Cromwell, and Dose of Adolescence for bringing down the house with amazing performances. Each band donated their time and we are all so grateful!

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REELcomp.com and the Maloof Money Cup have partnered to offer a chance for four AMs out their to skate in the Maloof Money Cup and try to get their piece of the 450K up for grabs. All you need to do is upload a sponsor me video into the contest by May 31st. REELcomp and the Maloof Money Cup will be sending two AM skaters to compete in the Vert Comp and two AM skaters to compete in the Street Comp. Videos will be preliminarily judged by the users and then the winners will be chosen by a celebrity judging panel. Get over there and get entered.

To Die For Takeover coming to an Active near you with amazing free shows, gnarley artists, discounts on all TDF clothing, and free gifts!! Stop by Temecula on June 1st@ 1pm to find out who’s doing the secret performance. The bands too big to mention and they are doing their first ever acoustic performance. Trust, you will be blown away!! Mission Viejo June 13th w/ the band Never Enough @ 5pm and Mikoto in Riverside on June 14th @ 1pm. Come for the rad offers and stay for the free music!

Lakai and Active are giving away a Lakai Fully Flared deck series and four pairs of Lakai’s to one lucky winner! It could be you who walks away with 8 limited edition decks and four new pairs of kicks. The contest ends June 28th. Don’t waste time, enter now!

SNOWBOARDER MAGAZINE?s Sicktionary: September 2007

This photo was taken in Qu?bec City on my first filming trip of the year. They had plenty of snow, which allowed us to get creative and do some different things. It was a fun setup. Here I am doing a wallride to fakie. Eddie Wall, Nic Sauv?, and I got to hit it for a few hours before it got too dark. We all got something on it, so that was a plus.-Jake Welch

Qu?bec City (Kuh-beck Sit-ee) noun The capital of the Canadian province of Qu?bec, it holds a metric population of 528,595. As Canada?s answer to Salt Lake City, Qu?bec?s rails and ledges are shaping some of today?s most notorious jibbers, including LNP, Nic Sauv?, Ben Bilocq, Max Baillargeon, Marie-France Roy, Frank April, Charles Gagnon, Will Lavigne, etc., etc.

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The Foundation skateboards team came out from far and wide for a two-stop signing extravaganza. The first of the two stops was Temecula Active and Chino Hills Active was the second stop. Both had great turnouts and everyone had their Foundation decks and gear ready to get signed. Thanks to Don Nguyen, Corey Duffel, Gareth Stehr, Abdias Rivera and the rest of the FOSKO crew, including Eric and Barker, for coming out to the signings and making them happen for us.

Photos: Erica Yary

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The Deathwish skateboards team came out to Active Chino Hills on it’s Grand Opening Day to sign autographs for the skateboarders of Chino Hills. The crowd was huge and the line for autographs wrapped around the building. Erik Ellington, Jim Greco, and Brian Hansen, aka Slash, all showed up to greet the masses as well as give out Deathwish boards and swag. After signing for three hours the guys headed back out to LA. Thanks to Deathwish, Sam, and Matt for making the first ever Deathwish team signing a success. Deathwish boards and gear will be available soon so make sure you keep checking back!

Check out skateboard.com’s coverage of the event!

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Every year we celebrate Earth Day as a day to promote awareness and appreciation for the earth’s environment. A once a year awareness day isn’t enough. Kenny Anderson wants to see what you do for the earth everyday. The person who submits the best video will win $2,500 in product from Kenny Anderson’s sponsors. (more…)

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The Ambiguous Clothing Team came out to the OC for a two stop signing. The first stop was at Irvine Active and the second stop was at Mission Viejo. Ambiguous fans were graced by the presence of Ragdoll, Matt Ball, Sammy Baptista, Jeff Lenoce, Active team rider Braydon Szafranski and new Ambiguous Team addition, Peter Watkins.

Thanks to everyone from Ambiguous for making this happen for us! Check outAmbiguous’ coverage of the event.

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Riverside Active was host to a massive Plan B demo Sat May 17th, 2008. Our family member and good friend Paul Rodriguez was in the house laying down the law. His teammates Jereme Rogers, Colin McKay, Ryan Sheckler, and the man the myth, the legend Danny Way all skated and sign tons of autographs. Check out the highlight reel!!

Check out DELUXE’s new products all week long on their website. There are tons of short videos you can also check out that are in the catalog. Don’t miss out on being among the first to preview all new Spitfire, REAL, Anti Hero, Krooked and Thunder goods!

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The Plan B Demo went off like a bomb. The demo was so massive and there were so many people there that it got shut down a couple hours early. People came from far and wide to see Paul Rodriguez, Ryan Sheckler, Jereme Rogers, Danny Way, Colin McKay, and PJ Ladd skate the street course in the 100+ degree weather. The skateboarding was amazing for the time it lasted, we will have a video up later this week. The Plan B team attempted to sign for the crowd, but it was too crazy for everyone to get an autograph and people were swarming P Rod, Sheckler and the rest of the crew. The guys stuck around and signed for a while while they still could, but the demo had to get shut down due to it’s magnitude. Fuel TV was there covering the event for The Weekly Update as well as for The Daily Habit. The shows should be airing soon and we will let you know when you can check them out.

Thanks to the entire Plan B Team, Sean Hayes, everyone from Active who worked and helped out inside and outside of the store and helped to make this demo a huge success.

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Check out the new trailer for The New Autumn Line Snowboard Film, “Technicolour” featuring Active Riders: Gabe Taylor, Matt Hammer, Peter Benchetler, Cody Rosenthal, Spencer Link, not to mention the talent of many up and coming riders