The Girl Skatepark Bus Trip went down this past Friday, and if you missed out you missed one hec of a good time. We crammed on couple of old school busses and headed to Torrance CA, to the Girl & Chocolate Skateboards warehouse for a day of seshing their private park. We rolled in around noon and rocked the warehouse into the afternoon. There were plenty of cookies, raisins, waters and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches flowing. It was pretty tight in there but everyone was having a good time. Justin Eldridge, Rick Howard, Mike Carroll, Guy Mariano and a couple other dudes from the office where hanging out, and getting in on some of the pb&j action. Then the pro skaters hosted a couple best trick comps, one for the little kids and one for the older guys. Nine Star team riders took the top spots with Vitor Borger taking first place, Jeremiah Bohnet taking second, Nate Principato taking third and Ziggy rounding out fourth place. They all got gear from girl and chocolate. All in all it was an awesome time had by everyone, that is everybody but the Mission Viejo bus driver, you can scroll to the bottom to read that story. Check a video from the day below, and the grip of photos thanks to Reza Patrick Borghei.

The bus headed back to Mission Viejo had the craziest bus driver in the world. When we were almost back to Nine Star she pulled over the bus in a Huntington Beach parking lot, open the doors and ran out of the bus crying. No one knew what was up. Was there a problem with the bus, had she just found out her cat died? It was nuts! It turned out she couldn't handle 50 sweaty 9 to 13 year old skate rats yelling and peeing in gatorade bottles, who knew? The bus ride was everything you would expect from a bunch of rowdy skaters, but apparently this lady was under the impression she was going to be driving the Hearts and Hugs Foundation Children's Choir. I'm not sure what she was thinking, but locking up 50 tied and hungry skaters on a stinking hot bus for an hour while you re-compose yourself is the worst idea ever. Everybody on the bus was going nuts, while we tried to reason with the bus company to find another driver. To make a long story short, the Huntington Beach police came and said "get these kids the &^%$ home", so she reluctantly got on the bus and drove us back. But not before she pulled over a second time, so we had to promise to sit in the seats silently the last 15 miles to the store. Needless to say we're skipping that bus company next time. Big thanks to everyone at Girl Skateboards for making this possible, and thanks to all the parents that came along on the trip. We'll see you all on the next bus trip!

Pick up a copy of the new Automatic Mag and check out our own Andrew Gallagher on the cover getting nasty on an 18 stair! If you catch him working in Nine Star Los Angeles, be sure to get an autograph…

Check it out, video footy of our X Games victory! Thanks to Vimby.com for the vids

Also, check out Nine Star team rider Jeremiah Bohnet stomp out 1st place in the NHSSA comp earlier that day.
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Nine Star skate team came thru huge today by putting together solid lines all day to take X-Games 14 Shop Gold medal. The team took silver last year and upped the ante this year by bringing home the gold medal this time around. The day started on a good note when Nine Star's own Jeremiah Bohnet beat 15 other skaters from the top high school in the NHSSA division to become the X-Games' best high school skater in the nation. He threw down hard and big and claimed top high school skater midway thru his jam session and took first place unanimously. After the High School X-Games The Shop Challenge began. United eliminated ZJ Boarding house and moved onto the final while Nine Star battled Active ride shop and eliminated last year's champs. The battle between United board shop and Nine Star was a very tight one. Both teams were skating very hard and fast. The United skaters were throwing down consistent big tricks over the grass gap and then moved onto the roof gap. This pumped up the Nine Star Skate Team even more and they decided to spice things up. Andrew Gallagher was throwing huge Benihana's off the grass gap while Aryeh Kraus was ollying over the hubba ledge of 5 flat 5 to the side of the obstacle. Andrew Pott was also busy stomping hard flips and front side flips off the roof gap. Wen it all came down to it, team Nine Star just had too much momentum and ammo and brought home the gold medal! Congrats to Team Nine Star and everyone who came down to cheer on the team. All you skate rats who woke up early and took the bus just to come down to staples, we appreciate the support.

Here are some photos from the X-Games, Enjoy.