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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!

Photos: Jeremy Adams

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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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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.

All Photos: Erica Yary

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Here are some flicks from the Kr3W Team Signings that were held this past weekend at Active Long Beach and Active Valencia. Hundreds of KR3W fand came out to each stop to meet the entire KR3W team including; Jim Greco, Terry Kennedy, Erik Ellington, Evan Hernandez, Antwuan Dixon, the newest KR3W rider, Lizard King, and more!

KR3W posted up a bunch of photos from the day as well so check them out!

All photos: Erica Yary

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The RVCA Team came out in all their glory to Active Escondido, this past Sunday April 27th, for a hundred-degree demo. Aside from the heat, the guys skated it up (uphill) and did their best without getting heatstroke midway through the demo. Leo Romero killed it as usual. If you have the chance to check out any demos that Leo is skating in you should make sure to attend, he is great. Josh Harmony, Ethan Fowler, Raymond Molinar, and Kevin Long were also in attendance skating for the crowd. This was Kevin’s first demo in over a year and Active was happy we got to have his comeback performance, he too killed it. Austin Stephens also showed up to the demo but he couldn’t skate due to a hurt foot, but he did sign it up for everyone. For now check out the photos. We will have a video from the demo posted later this week.

Check out RVCA’s photos from the event. Look out for coverage of the demo on FUEL tv soon as well! Thanks to Jimmy for being the best dude ever.

Photos: Jeremy Adams and Erica Yary

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The Altamont Team came out to the Grand Opening of our newest Active location at the Irvine Spectrum. They signed and took photos with over a hundred Altamont fans and broke ground on the new location. Andrew Reynolds, Bryan Herman, Theotis Beasley and Justin Figueroa were all in the house representing Altamont and Active, in all cases except our friend Bryan Herman.

Thanks to all the guys who came out to sign, all the Sole Tech and Altamont friends who made this possible and to the Active Irvine Spectrum Staff for holding it down for the day.

All photos: Erica Yary

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Elwood and Active teamed up to bring our one of the best skateboarding teams in the world and some great promotions to Southern California for Earth Day, April 22nd. The entire Elwood Team including Dan Drehobl, Kenny Anderson, Anthony Pappalardo, Vincent Alvarez, Marquis Henry, and Silas Baxter Neal were all in the house.

The day was long and successful. It started out with meeting up at Kenny Anderson’s house where the team skated Kenny’s pool. From Kenny’s the posse took the WVO powered Mercedes and two Toyota Prius’ to Channel Street Skatepark in San Pedro. From the skatepark the Elwood team and crew headed over to Long Beach Active for a signing and a check in to see how the promotions were going. If you brought in an old pair of jeans, you’d get a discount on a new pair of Elwoods. If you brought in an old pair of Elwood jeans, you’d get a NEW pair of Elwood jeans, free of cost. Elwood also brought out a ton of stuff for give-a-ways and hooked up a ton of people who came out for Earth Day celebrations.

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War of the Stores Official Wrap Up:

Top 4 Teams:

1. Valencia Active featuring Torey Pudwill
2. Long Beach Active featuring Greg Myers
3. Orange Active featuring David Loy
4. Temecula Active featuring Chase Webb

MVP - Chase Webb ? Temecula Active

After 19 years and 25 stores after Active’s conception in Chino, CA, it was time for a face off between each location?s shop skate team. It’s all love really, but sometimes you?ve got to go to war!

In order to spice things up, we threw in some of our top Amature skateboarders onto the teams. Torey Pudwill, Terell Robinson, Greg Myers, David Loy, Lamare Hemmings, Jordan Hoffart, Daryl Angel, Theotis Beasley, and Tyler Hendley we just a few of the heavy hitters that were representing some of the shop?s teams. The top three teams came up on prize packages from the war’s sponsors; Boosted (sick new head phones from our friends at Boost Mobile), Matix, DVS, and Girl Skateboards. But, the top two teams walked away with cash!

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The Toy Machine Team came out to the Rancho Cucamonga store and the Toy Machine fans came from far and wide to meet Ed Templeton and the crew. Everyone who attended got their stuff signed and got to check out the new tour video ‘Lurk Fest’ with the Toy Team. Ed Templeton, Josh Harmony, Billy Marks, Austin Stephens, Nick Trapasso, Johnny Layton, Matt Bennett, Rob and Grant all signed for hours and every last person in the long line got an autograph from every last one of the guys.

Ed also did some artwork on our launch ramp inspired by Raging Waters (local water park). Check out the Toy Machine Website for a bunch of photos from the event!

Thanks to Kevin Barnett and the Toy Machine Team for coming out and doing the signing for us!

Photos: Erica Yary

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Cairo Foster couldn’t end up making it out, but Louie Barletta, Jerry Hsu, and Caswell Berry all flew in from their home front, San Jose, to be at the El Segundo Active Signing.

The guys signed a ton of autographs on all sorts of different objects people brought in. We held an Enjoi art contest for a hooked up Enjoi package, which included some special treats that only Enjoi would include. We also had a Game of Skate for an Active Package outside of the store.

There were winners, losers, and there were phallic drawings courteousy of Mr. Barletta, an artist amongst commoners. The South Central skate crew was in full effect and the Enjoi guys conquered and returned home to San Jose within hours, well played.

Thanks to Paul Sharpe, the Enjoi Team, DWINDLE, Corey, Maggi, and the Active El Segundo crew for helping make this happen.

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Check out the photos from the weekend at ASR Tradeshow and see some of your favorite skaters hanging out in all their glory including, Erik Ellington, Daewon Song and Billy Marks. Billy was a close contender to being in the top 3 of the Lord of the Lines Contest and the announcers gave him $300 just for killin' it. The winners of Matix's Lord of the Lines Contest are as follows:

1st Place- Active Rider Torey Pudwill - $10,000
2nd Place- Bobby Worrest - $3,000
3rd Plase- Joey Brezinski - $2,000

Congratulations to the top three! See you in September for the next ASR…

Check out Transworld's Coverage of Lord of the Lines.

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The Fourstar Team came out to Active Santa Monica to work the floor, fold clothes, sell shoes and do all sorts of retail work. Guy Mariano, Eric Koston, Mike Carroll, Max Schaff, Sean Malto, Brian Anderson, and Rick Howard were all in attendance for the evening.Check out the photos and the video.In the video, the 4 Star Team was asked who they thought had the best part in the Lakai Video.

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Jim Greco is headed home to visit family and friends and to celebrate his Birthday on December 25th. Jim has been collecting hammer after hammer over the past few months, as well as putting together, with Mr. Erik Ellington, the most amazing sunglasses company to ever come out of the skateboard world. The name of the company is Brigada and the product is second to none. We checked it out last week and it's amazing. So keep a watchful eye out for it. (more…)

Last Saturday, December 1st, Paul Rodriguez drove down south to our Chula Vista Active to do a solo signing. Little did we know that a huge mob of people would be waiting in lone for hours to snap a photo, chat with Paul and get an autograph or two. The signing went from 1-6ish and Paul didn't leave until every last person got an autograph and/or photo with him. Paul's the man!

Thanks to Paul, Rainbow, and Daniel for making the long drive out to Chula Vista last Saturday and thanks to everyone at Nike and Plan B who helped out. A huge thank you to Circe and Cris and the Chula Vista and SD Active's for blowing this thing up! Great job!

All Photos: Edwin Whelpy

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Active Rancho played host to the premiere of the new Habitat Skateboards video 'Inhabitants' a couple weeks ago and here are some photos of the Habitat homies that came out to sign so graciously!

Thanks to Danny Garcia, Stefan Janoski, Austin Gillette, and Silas Baxter-Neal for coming out and showing Active Rancho some Habitat love!

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