Active Ride Shop News

Signal’s new Park Series wins prestigious top board model of the summer award at HCSC!“Signal won the prestigious top board model of the summer award, with the Park Series. The Demo Center could not keep these boards in stock with many campers requesting them as soon as they showed up at camp. This evaluation shows that Signal has the highest brand utility by a large percentage.  It was often that Signal boards were completely out of stock. The recurring demo of these soft, easy to ride, boards, kept campers coming back, telling their friends to get on some Signal too.”  - HCSC 2008 Demo Report High Cascade Snowboard Camp is one of the best places to enjoy (more…)

See below for information on where you can get your FREE Etnies GVR Bad Religion Concert Tickets at in the upcoming days!

Oct 1 - 4pm  Active Irvine - 3851 C&D Alton Pkwy, Irvine, CA 92606
Oct 2 - 3PM – 4PM Active Costa Mesa - 2937 Bristol St. Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Oct 3 - 3PM–4PM Active Chino - 5501-A Philadelphia St. Chino, CA 91710

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The Lakai team came out in full effect on Saturday to Active Temecula! Despite the 100 degree heat, hundreds off kids lined up for hours to meet the crew. The Lakai line up consisted of Marc Johnson, Guy Mariano, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Vincent Alvarez, Eric Koston and Mike Mo Capaldi, pretty impressive I must say! Thanks again to the entire Lakai crew for coming out and supporting us with this event!

Active Pro Team Rider Paul Rodriguez Signing - Friday, October 24th at 5pm - Active Brea - 1160 Imperial Ave. - Brea, CA 92821 - 714.256.8516

Etnies GVR is this coming weekend, so make sure you head over to Sole Tech if you’re in the So Cal area! For more information check out the Official GVR site! Goofy or Regular? Find out for yourself this weekend!

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Theotis Beasley and Justin Figueroa are going to be on FUEL TV’s The Daily Habit this coming Friday October 3rd. Theotis and Figgy will be talking about their sponsors, their upcoming trips and all things skateboarding. Don’t miss it!

The Fourstar Team is hitting the road for their next skate trip ‘A Tribe Called Mapquest’ if you’re in any of the areas tell the Fourstar Team your friends at Active sent you!

TEMPE, AZ - OCTOBER - 15th 5pm / Cowtown, 215 W. University & 8pm / Tempe Skatepark, 8403 S. Hardy Dr
SOUTH HOUSTON, TX - OCTOBER 19th 4pm / Southside Skate Park, 510 Iowa
CUMMING, GA - OCTOBER - 23rd 6pm / TNT Skatepark, 1375 Weber Industrial Drive
WILMINGTON, NC - OCTOBER 25th 5pm / Eastern Skate Supply, 307 Old Dairy Road

Signal Snowboards has just released their Funderful teaser. The full length video to be released in the coming weeks, staring Active team riders, Matt Hammer, Peter Benchetler, and Spencer Link.

Be the first to see the get new Nike Snowboard Boots and Outerwear! Available now at the following active locations-Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, Petco Park. Get down there before there gone!

Zoom Force 1-Anthracite color way

Zoom Force 1-Cactus color way

Wms Zoom Force 1-White color way

Check out Active family member Josh Sherman’s video part in the Snowboard Pirate Productions of “OVERSEAS”. I’ll just let his video part do the talking!

Video from The Berrics of Billy Marks teaching the art of “Beamin”. Is Billy Marks the coolest guy on our team? Check out these other videos of Billy and you decide: Turbo Tax Billys Day in the Life. One things for sure, he’s definietly having the most fun.

Sad news from our friends at DLXSF.com Johnny Ramano lost his battle with cancer today. He will missed. More Info at these sites:
http://j-grom.blogspot.com/
http://www.johnnykickscancer.com

If you’re a Mike Carroll fan and haven’t seen Transworld’s ‘Modus Operandi’, do so by playing the video we have so graciously provided you with. Also, if you’re in the So Cal, Temecula area, you can meet Mr. Mike Carroll and the entire Lakai Team at Active Temecula this coming Saturday Sept 27th. Enjoy!

CHECK OUT THE LIVE WEBCAST OF HOT DAWGZ AND HANDRAILS 2008!
This Saturday REELcomp.com will be broadcasting Bear Mountain’s Hot Dawgz & Handrails LIVE!
The festivities will begin @ 4:30pm EST / 1:30pm PST. Be sure to check out all the action from the first rail jam of the year.

Log onto Reelcomp.com to see it LIVE!

Paul Rodriguez and Daewon Song will be coming out to LA’s first street skate plaza as part of the Ambassador Series. The opening date is September 27th and make sure you check out their website for more info on the Ambassador Series and the huge Grand Opening Celebration!

Click more to read the official press release!

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