Active Ride Shop News

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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!

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Have your design made into an Exclusive Matix Asher Sweatshirt and sold Exclusively at Active Ride Shop! Send all art submissions to ashercontest@activerideshop.com. Winner will receive up to 6 Ashers for yourself, friends and family members. Winner will also receive 3 complete outfits from Matix Girls Collection and a $100 Active Gift Card. Make sure to check it out!

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.

Ashbury Eyewear has just announced the latest addition to their rapidly growing team.  Louie Fountain.  Louie has been a long time Active Family member, and we are excited to see him working with the amazing crew at Ashbury.   We are looking forward to watching Louie’s part this fall in Down With People.

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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To Die For Clothing did back to back in store happenings at the Irvine and Riverside locations. To Die For family members/bands Never Enough http://www.myspace.com/never3nough and Mikoto http://www.myspace.com/mikoto entertained and graffiti artist Deph did a live art show at each and raffled them off to lucky To Die For fans! I can’t say enough good things about the To Die For crew and both groups who performed! Big thanks to all the awesome fans and TDF crew for loving life! If you missed out on the free tattoos, prizes, music, and art show. Redeem yourself by checking out the “Sea No Evil” art show on July 12th. check below for more details or go to http://www.todieforclothing.comhttp://www.myspace.com/todieforclothing Some of Active’s good friends like Deph, Ed Templeton, Deanna Templeton, Shepard Fairy, and Matt Costa will be their to knock your socks off with fearless creativity!! Starts @ 6pm! See you there. The Greatful Tiger loves you!! (more…)

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!

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Back in 2001 we with the help of a lot of others, made a snowboard movie.  We did not set out to change the way snowboard movies were made, but rather showcase an entire team as ONE.  We contacted our good friend Neil Goss to see if he still had a copy of the One video.  We will be releasing clips from this movie over the coming weeks, so be sure to check back for the video parts of your favorite Active riders from the past and the present.

Here some Jib terminology brought to you by Rome’s Yan Dofin, who is no stranger to the “Jib”! Read below to see if you are current with all the jibber jabber on the street!

Smith [smihth] adj: A skateboarding trick that snowboarders once thought they could do. It involves trucks— (which we don’t have—), so leave it alone, ladies and gents.

Firecracker [fi-urr-crahk-urr] verb: Tailpressing down a flight of stairs so your tail slaps each and every step on the way down, making it sound very similar to firecrackers exploding.

Hot Garbage [haht gahr-bij] noun: A frontside boardslide where your board is turned well past the perpendicular 90? mark. The more your tail turns down the hill, the hotter the garbage is.
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