Shot and edited by: Jeff Zimmerman
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Shot and edited by: Jeff Zimmerman
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Tune in to the Daily Habit on December 2nd and watch Andrew Cannon get weird.
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Our friends over at Focus Skate Mag just started Face Off Fridays. They put up two clips and people comment to see which clip is better. This week is ERGO’s John Clayton vs. Vu Skateshop’s Spencer Brown. Vote or Die!
Click image to watch clips and vote!
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ERGO pro Gary Smith and ERGO account manager Chris Donmoyer opened a shop in Balitmore. Check out their Upstart on Transworld Biz.
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ERGO pro Gary Smith and ERGO account manager Chris Donmoyer opened a shop in Balitmore. Check out their Upstart on Transworld Biz.
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ERGO will now be running a full page in every issue of BLISSS. CLICK HERE to check out the new issue and see the new Shea Lopez ad.
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ERGO will now be running a full page in every issue of BLISSS. CLICK HERE to check out the new issue and see the new Shea Lopez ad.
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Here is a peak at our new skate ad for TW Skate and Focus. Enjoy!
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Here is a peak at our new skate ad for TW Skate and Focus. Enjoy!
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ERGO received a little coverage in the TW SKATEboarding Apparel Buyers Guide.
Ax Man Jacket
WorldTown tee
Gridlock Cord
Pick up a copy today and check it out! Also, stop by your shop and tell them to order some product!
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ERGO received a little coverage in the TW SKATEboarding Apparel Buyers Guide.
Ax Man Jacket
WorldTown tee
Gridlock Cord
Pick up a copy today and check it out! Also, stop by your shop and tell them to order some product!
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TW SKATEboarding Apparel Buyers Guide. Ax Man JacketWorldTown teeGridlock CordPick up a copy today and check it out! Also, stop by your shop and tell them to order some product!
ERGO received a little coverage in the TW SKATEboarding Apparel Buyers Guide. Ax Man JacketWorldTown teeGridlock CordPick up a copy today and check it out! Also, stop by your shop and tell them to order some product!
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Shawn Hale Qualifed 4th and finished 7th overall in this years Damn Am. Congrats Shawn… keep pushing! Also, Andrew Cannon made the Semi’s in a sperm costume. Photos snagged from TW Skateboarding.
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Check out this clip from Mesh Skatepark in Longwood, FL. You will find clips of Shawn Hale (white tee white backwards hat), Tom Geilfuss (orange shirt). They both forgot their boards at the house and had to borrow setups to get a few tricks. How is Freddie Tan’s style???? (white tee long hair backwards hat)… that kid is legit. Thanks to MESH for throwing another great event.
Pyramid Scheme Best Trick from Mesh Skatepark on Vimeo.
From 9/12/08: Mesh Skatepark & Covert Skateshop in association with DC Shoes, Kayo Corp, ERGO Clothing, & Substance Skateboards present The Pyramid Scheme Best Trick. Winners Luis Perez $200, Paul Torrento $200 & Fred Tan $100. Huge props: MC: Matt Cantor from MIA Skatepark
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Thanks for sending these over Chris… Keep it up homie! Cant wait to see your new footy. Photos by Stephen Knight
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Thanks for sending these over Chris… Keep it up homie! Cant wait to see your new footy. Photos by Stephen Knight
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On Saturday I was lucky enough to see a large amount of the skate industry come together in support of a fallen shredder. Levi Huffman suffered a severe head injury on International Go Skate Day, he was in the ICU for weeks. The reason that so many people came together for Levi is his amazing character. I have a huge amount of respect or Levi, he is the kind of person who will go out of his way to help anyone he can.Like how he takes a group of little skate groms to a different skatepark that they wouldn’t normally have access to each week. Every time I skate with Levi he goes out and teaches someone something new or give them the confidence in themselves to do more than they thought the could. Levi and his fiancée are expecting their first child later this year, he will be an amazing father.On the 12th Board Cartel put together a skate contest along with Woodward to raise money for Levi and his family. The people at Cartel got everyone they could involved and before we knew it there were over 20 sponsors sending product to help Levi. Product from Circa, Fallen, Mystery, Zero, Black Box, Anon, Nixon, Oakley, Element, RVCA, Bern helmets, Neff, Etnies, and boardpusher.com.
The local shops, Thirfty Stick, 303 Boards, and Board Room also pitched in and each gave out package of gear for the event.
More photos after the jump…
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Ronnie, Andrew and Thad are in Prague for 2 weeks filming for a few projects. They arrived yesterday.
Here is an update from Ronnie
We finally made it to Prague. Thad & Andrew were champs on the plane and managed
to get cut of from the alcohol bar and then get invited back for more. Amazing!
I woke up at 5:45am and woke up the others. Andrew and I found a store that had
some cheap food compared to the dinner in Old Town we had last night in front of
the clock. It’s 8:20 am and we’ve eaten and ready to go skate. Were really close to one of the
best places to skate in Prague. I’ll check back in tonight or first thing in the morning!
Peace out!
Ronnie Creager
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So we haven’t blown it up yet, but I guess this is a good time to start. Robert has had some trouble in the past with the industry, but you cant take away the fact that he rips. He has come to realization that the skate board industry is tougher than he thought. If you step back and think about it for a minute… take a young kid from Puerto Rico who doesn’t know any better… pay him thousands of dollars… and send him around the world a few times… shits gonna happen. He was running around like the drunk Ricky Martin of Skateboarding and pissed a few people off… Anyway, being the kind hearted folks we are here at ergo, we have giving Robert a chance to start off on a new foot. Check out Robert’s Mag Minute here and keep your eyes peeled for the more death defying footage of him soon. Here is a photo of Robert cruising with Creager on his first trip with his new family.
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We are living in the age of negotiation… destruction with the goal of creation, participation without purpose and machines crazier than the people who use them. Humans act as electrical sockets in post-cultural societies to slow cook a global crock-pot of bullshit. Fax machines are played out and cubicles burn with black smoke.
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There comes a time, when the tide is just not right, and there is an incredible itch for radicalness that just MUST be scratched, that you simply need to kick the fins off your favorite Murder Machine and head for the hills for a little bit of ShrubShreddin’!! Luckily, we happened to run into one of the planets premier Freestyle Foliage experts Brendan “BushBaron” Buckley, and witness what we can only describe as an indescribable session of his shrub shredding prowess. Believe me ladies and gentlemen, this kid knows a lot about bush….
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He took us on a 16 mile hike, barefoot mind you, to one of his top secret spots….
To illustrate the level of gnar possessed by the BushBaron, this is how he warms up, by charging down this monstrous and potentially deadly BEAST of a dirt wave. This is like the Waimea of this discipline folks…
Being the absolute, hands down BEST at what you do does not come free; the current consensus is that there are already a total of 665 gallons of the BushBaron’s blood in these hills. Here, he is adding the last drips to gallon 666….
The BB don’t mess around with weak ass chop hops in the water. He sure as hell won’t be bustin’ no jive ass crop hops in the bush….
Being a world class Hedge Hunter, an accomplished Slave Raver, an orthopedic surgeon, and regular volunteer at the O’Reily Institute for Diarrhea Research doesn’t take away from what the Bush Baron is at the core,……a Patriot.
The man has one simple dream, to jump off the edge of the world, into the universe’s biggest and baddest bush, wherever that may be. Maybe it is where the horizon lies, maybe it can only be found within. Whichever path he decides to take, the Baron of Bush will remain a legend, and myth amongst men….Viva el Pinche Baron
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Element skateboards presents their latest video entitled “Elemental Awareness Future Nature”. Element TV Episode #85 brings to us some great footage from one of the busiest skate teams in skateboarding.
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I know this is a little late but finally found the time to post these photos.
Boardpusher held a comp at Denver park for Go Skate Day, it was a blast. The sun was blasting and so were the shredders.
First up is the Pro/Am comp in the peanut bowl (9ft)
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If you’re not familiar with The Berrics, you should definitely check in sometimes. They have a full site of media, videos, and photos from Steve Berra’s and Eric Koston’s skate park called “The Berrics”. You may have previously seen the park in episodes of Rob & Big, and they produce a ton of videos with teams from across the nation coming in and throwing down some tricks. Well, right now they have a full page of “BANGIN” which you can check out by visiting the official Berrics, Banging Webpage.
The one thing that I don’t like about The Berric’s, and it is minor, its that you can’t directly download any of their media. But some people are able to decompile the flash player, and bring you gems like: Jason Lee Skateboarding at the Berrics, and I don’t mean classic Jason Lee footage, I mean recent footage, like this below, just wait for it…it’s the whole Stereo Team, but you can clearly see Jason Lee midway through skateboarding and featured:
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Mark Gonzales has teamed up with Elwood clothing for a 100% cotton t-shirt that you might be interested in. Now, I know what you’re thinking, who cares about 1 solitary t-shirt? Well, this shirt is not only 100% cotton, it’s 100% organic cotton! So all you guys trying to go “green”, this is a good place to start, and Mark Gonzales has some squiggly lines for a design in collaboration with Dan Drehobl. Why not?
info,image src [Elwood Clothing]
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Blue Tile Lounge, Chocolate Skateboards, Momentum Wheels and a few other companies are collaborating over what maybe the feel good skateboarding release this year. The preview trailer is not half bad, the editing looks decent, and things could be looking really good for this one. Here is the trailer for Four Letter Word:
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Joining the elite crew of stopping the information bandwagon, and hackers alike, Chocolate Skateboards has unleashed Chocolate Television. That’s right, Chocolate T.v. is full of videos and footage from the Chocolate Skateboards crew and more. To take advantage of this, you need a fast internet connection, and Flash Media Player isntalled and ready to go.
The only disadvantage to their television of skateboarding glory, is that you can not fast forward, rewind, or use any other major controls. That, and you can’t download the videos, but you could always subscribe to the Chocolate Skateboards podcast…now there’s an idea.
Check out Chocolate Skateboards Television via the Official Chocolate Skateboards Website.
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Activision, producer of the Tony Hawk skateboarding series, is toying with the idea of using a motion skateboard-like motion-sensitive controller for the next 360/PS3/PC game.
That’s right, Tony Hawk is really pushing the envelope, trying to gain momentum against a major competitor in the skateboarding video game market. Remember EA’s Skate? Tons of people jumped shipped for the more simulation style skateboarding game, that was backed by a lot of skateboarders that were no longer relevant in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater universe. With Proving Ground not exactly selling as many titles as the previous games in the series, The Birdman went back to Activision with a new plan.
We are now seeing that the new plan apparently might include a real motion sensitive device that will let you skateboard in real time. This seems like a perfect fit for the Wii, but I’m not sure if they can get this motion thing down and still be good.
If you’re a skateboarder, you know that there is some skill involved with skateboarding’s even most simple of movies. If this new game is really going to break ground, they are going to have to make an ollie easier than the real thing, which will then make a lot of fat kids king of video game skateboarding, rather than skateboarding for reals.
Which makes me a little skeptical about this new height of skateboarding popularity. Sure, we have a lot of couch skateboarders, but this is going to bring in a new era of skateboarding, which we are experiencing mildly right now, where people that do not skateboard at all, are still buying skateboarding products, boards, and trying to “fit in”.
I remember the first time that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was released. The same thing was said about the game. I remember thinking the same thing I am thinking now about this latest news, but then again, I still got off the couch and I still skated. So maybe this isn’t going to do a whole lot more than what happened with me.
Who knows?
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Been skating everyday after work, best thing to get you through the day. I have a few photos to share.
On Memorial day we were setting up at the Golden Mill which is a feed store in downtown. It’s not a huge spot but a good place to warm up. After about three attempts the cops roll in. Happy Memorial day. Two filmers, Ian and I were ticketed for trespassing. Which brought Ian to an all time high of four tickets in one week.
The sunsets have been pretty good for the last few days so we decided to do some shooting around that time. We were a bit late but had a blast on this little known mini. It’s amazing to skate this ramp, especially once it starts to cool down.
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Windsor James recently took the Black Box skateboard park by storm. Here are ten tricks from Windsor James. It’s a quick video, so if you have to, rewind it and play it again. The guy is solid, and lands some great tricks at the Black Box park.
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Zoo York skateboards keeps on keeping on and in their latest podcast they take a trip to Atlanta for some skateboarding in the dirty south.
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Its rolling into summer really fast here in Colorado. I had the chance to go shoot some skateboarding, here are a few shots from the last week for you guys. Hope you like them.
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On this Monday, while you’re trying to hide under your desk, check out this footage from Filmedbyphelps.com.
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The latest and greatest montage of skateboarding coming theskatespot.com is here, and ready for your viewing. If it’s warm outside, and you’re off work, this should be a quick motivational video to get you on the road skateboarding.
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The 4th annual Protect Poolparty is going to take place on May 17th at the Vans skateboard park in Orange County, and it’s going to be great. Sure, it’s not cool to wear pads, at least not in the media, but it’s nice to see a partnership between safety and skateboarding. Check out more information via the Vans skate website.
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I’ve always been a big fan of winning stuff, even though I never get anything for my troubles and labor. You could, however, be one of the few people that get to win something for free! Right now you can enter to win a complete set of clothing from Es Footwear, that’s right, you get clothes. Sorry diehard skaters, you don’t win shoes and boards in this contest, but at least you can put on a clean pair of jeans, and a cool hoodie. I for one, could use a new pair of pants, but that’s just me. Click here and you could be the proud owner of the Money Machine, Euro Zip and Eldridge 1.0, that’s right, free stuff from Es Footwear.
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With a booming population of skateboarders in China, and an endless potential to make money overseas, action sports company are touring the red country to promote skateboarding. Some call it a noble cause, I call it an effort to make money off of the booming Chinese economy, but whatever. RVCA is over there right now, and they just completed their sixth blog update with photos from their Chinese adventures. You can check out all the photos (there’s a ton of them) and the latest ramblings from the RVCA skate team, over at their official blog, here. Who’s next to skate China? It seems like that’s the hot spot for touring right now.
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I met up with some skaters in denver a few weeks ago. The spot was a c-ledge, no one was really landing their tricks. After an hour of shooting the same tricks I took Ian (Coder) over to a dark space of sidewalk and tried to get the same result that Cole Barash did here. This is what I came up with.
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First photo in Thrasher of little brother aka BFF aka my street cred aka Lizard King. His interview was amazing, not to mention funny as shit. BFF kills at skating and life.
After we got this, I went and hung out with BFF for a week in LA. Played a lot of pool, chilled at the office, watched a bum get arrested for having a fake gun and went skating one day. Good times, Good looks little brother. Much needed vaca. Kid has a DEATHWISH for life SON.
Frontside 180 Switch Krooks
Kickflip back Suski
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