yeah, I don't have much to say about this…. but the ankle monitor is awesome.

Pivotal seatpost technology has been making a big impact in BMX, and Animal’s new Cush Seat has all the features you may be looking for. Tighten your seat to your seatpost, and yourt seatpost in the frame all with one bolt. Watch the video to see exactly how this Animal works.

We've got em in stock with tons of seat post colors. Get to one of the stores today!

The LRG Team is coming to hang out at Nine Star Los Angeles on July 27th. Chico Brenes, Karl Watson, Adelmo Jr. & Kelly Hart will be there signing autographs and probably skating the 5 stair or maybe the mini. So you'll have to wait til 8pm on the 27th to meet the whole LRG team, but you can catch up with LRG wonderboy Kelly Hart right now, cause we hit him with the 9…

Where have you been? Rumor has it you were hurt?
lately ive just been back home in Laguna, skating a lot.  but yes a little over 2 years ago i snapped my left foot pretty much in half.  i had to get 2 surgerys… it really sucked.   it took me about a year and a half to get back on my board.  but im so psyched to be skatin now

As steezy as your part in was the Kayo video, we want to see more. You’ve been working on a new part?
yea. right now ive been skatin, and trying to film for the new kayo video almost everyday. Ive been going out with my friend Dana Shaw, the kayo filmer.  i really like skatin around OC a lot for some reason.  a lot of cool random spots.

What’s the vibe like on a LRG trip?
I just went on a trip to vancouver about a month ago with LRG.  it was so sick! everyone on the team is so hilarious.  its non-stop fun the whole time.  I'm really psyched on being apart of the LRG crew.

Have you ever had to skate a demo in a mall parking lot? If so, did it make you feel like a dancing monkey forced to do tricks for little children?
Yea ive definitly skated a bunch of demos in a mall parking lot before. i guess i do feel like a dancing monkey a little bit haha.  but no skating demos is pretty mellow.  its not my favorite thing to do but whatever.  id rather just play skate in the parking lot with some kids.

Rancho Santa Margarita vs. Drinking Margaritas
white fitted hats, and lifted trucks vs. hangovers

Everyone knows about your buttery tray and hard flips, are there any other tricks you’ve secretly mastered but have yet to unveil?
umm i dont even know!  i guess its just what im feeling at the moment. I do like doing nollie varial flips tho.

You’re consistency begs the question, who would you fear in a game of s.k.a.t.e.?
well thats a tough one… nate sherwood maybe just because ive never done a pressure flip in my life.  Truthfully tho im not a big fan of playing people in skate because some kids definitly have the wrong way of thinking when they play… they'll worry about beating u so much they dont even have fun playing the game!  i really like playing my friends tho. jack Curtain is probably one of my favorites to play against.  we definitly battle eachother pretty hard.

According to everyone in Los Angeles, Orange County is nothing but tons of hot girls. Has being an AM helped boost your status with the ladies?
dude there is definitly alot of beautiful girls out here.  i dont think really that being AM or anything has to do with being noticed by girls… i think its just the fact that im a skater and look different from all the bro's out here.  its almost like all the dudes out here look exactly the same.  but anyways i have a girlfriend so it doesnt really matter anyway!

Urban vs. Suburban: where do you like skating more?
seriously i like skating both just as equal.  I really like just being able to cruise around at a spot without bumping into other people and just being free to do whatever.  sometimes you can do that in the citys and sometimes you cant.  same within the suburbs. 

Check out his house, his music, and his origins in this rad interview. It's a two part series, so just wait a sec after the first part and the second one should play automatically.

I picked up a fat wad of long boards the other day at Sector 9 and tried to cram them in my car. The ride back to Nine Star was not all that fun listing to the rattle of 20 boards gettin busy with each other in my back seat, but my loss is your gain cause we now have a butt-load of freshy new long boards for you to pick up, perfect for summer cruising. Oh, and I did get a glimpse of Sector 9's new bowl they built at their facility in San Diego, pretty sweet.

Looks like Kelly Slater is leaving the world tour and retiring from professional surfing forever cause he was knocked out of the Rip Curl Pro Search event in Chili over the weekend. The Australian Associated Press is reporting that Slater was “extremely disappointed” and booked himself onto the next flight back to the US right after his heat. [full story click here]

If this story turns out to be true, it wouldn’t really surprise me. Anyone that talented, who’s been on top for so long, always ends up being pretty weird. I think it may be because they live in a kind of alternate reality than the rest of us. I mean, Kelly Slater is basically the Tom Cruise of surfing, and I think Slates’ could very possibly be hitting his “oprah-couch-jumping” breakdown right about now…

chew on this.  took the old floor gfx down.

see the hole?

here’s the new russ pope one. 

he’s opening on the 8th.  not his mouth hole though - a whole art show.  with beer. and music. 

Check out this little animation creator. Flipbook! [CLICK HERE] It’s pretty awesome. I have a free skate deck for whoever comes up with the sickest animation about Nine Star. Leave the URL to your animation in the comments section…

Here’s my entry to start you off. (click below)

Our very own skate dept. extraordinaire, Dominic, had a little skate session recently check out his sweet shots….

                                               [click the pic] 

Anyone remember the Rip Curl "F Bomb" Giveaway we did here on the site? Well we finally got around to picking a winner and Dawn in Thousand Oaks was the lucky winner. Congrats Dawn, have fun! Here’s what Dawn had to say about it:

I finally got the wetsuit in the mail and the very next day I had to test it out.  Me and a couple friends went out to Rincon on the 30th and scored some 4-5 ft waves and without a really heavy crowd.  I took a couple shots after we got out of the water in the parking lot.  all I have to say is this is the best suit I’ve ever owned.  So warm, comfortable, and it looks freaking cool!  I think I like the lil zip stash pouch around the calf the most though haha.  Thanks so much again, I really needed a new wetsuit, this couldn’t have happened at a more opportune time!

 
  -Dawn

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Ninestar is committed to supporting the surf community!!  We offer the best surfboards, the best shapers, the latest board technology, along with the best staff and service.  We have the latest P/U shapes from JC Hawaii - 3DX, S&M, NX-1, SD-3, and EQ.  We carry unique specialty Retro hand-shapes from Mino Suzuki.  We have the best Rusty, Surf RX, Town & Country, and Robert August blades and sleds.  Ninestar stocks the latest epoxies from Surftech and S-Core.  Take your surfing to the next level!!  Check out the latest Rusty Tuflite Piranha and Pro-Ject.  Go BIG on a Santa Cruz epoxy board!!  Ride the state of the art HIC S-Core.  More buoyant, lighter, and stronger.  Epoxy Rocks!!!  Clark Foam is dead, but Ninestar supports the advancement of surfing technology!!  Change is good, greed is bad!!!!   Stay stoked and keep surfing……….

-Big Al 

These things have been sellin like hot-cakes, get em while they’re hot! Skateparks in a box!

Ding-dong the witch is dead…. The closing of Clark Foam is a wake up call for our industry and surfers in general.  Clark’s letter/fax was an example of a deposed arrogant ruler.  Can you say Saddam Hussein?  Yes, there is fallout.  Good people will be closing up shop and losing their jobs.  Prices will definitely go up on hardgoods.  And they should!!! What other industry does one get a handcrafted custom, labor intensive, high performance, made to spec piece of functional art for next to nothing?  How much did you pay for that custom paint and wheels on your car?  $1000?  $2000? 5000?  10,000?  Oh, the paradox!!! However, what will rise out of the ashes will benefit every surfer and the industry. We will be getting a better product!  Just imagine — a surfboard that doesn’t go soft on you in 3-4 months.  A surfboard that is durable and lightweight.  A surfboard that is still handshaped to the surfer’s specs.  A surfboard that actually improves your surfing.   A surfboard
that is not toxic and harms the environment. Just imagine…. 

Wait, they actually exist, TODAY!!!!

Open your eyes my brothers and sisters. 
This is an opportunity for all of us to actually improve the technology of our sport.  To progress our culture and lifestyle. The very craft that we covet is changing for the better.  If you’re still driving a Microbus and rolling "fat ones" in the back ala Spicoli then I will mourn with you over the end of Clark foam.  I will support you and hold your hand knowing you just spent $700 for a foam board.  Remember, if we don’t study the mistakes that were made in history, we are bound to repeat them.  Someone much smarter than me said something like that.  "I am just a surfer. Neither good nor bad.  Not a hero, not a coward. I figured that was good enough for me!"  Dorian Paskowitz.  Peace and keep the stoke!!

Big Al
Ninestar

If you don’t know what Al is talking about you might want to check out [this article on Surfline.com]. Al is keeping Nine Star stocked throughout these crazy times with a large assortment of Tuflite boards like this Rusty Piranha as well as cutting edge new shapes like the JC Hawaii 3DX. Allan has also committed to not raise the prices on any of our existing sufboard inventory, so chilax (chill + relax) and cruse into Nine Star to figure out your plan for your surfing future…

The Giftamajig is the latest in omniscient nano-science, it can feel what gifts you would really like just by analyzing the salinity of your skin. Its magical eye peers deep into the barcodes of your sole and finds what you really want, and then stores the information on the largest giftabyte database in the nation. The Giftamajig is truly the next generation in high-tech giftology research tools…

Attention: Please use caution when using the Giftamajig
In some cases uncomfortable, embarrassing and sometimes inappropriate situations have come about due to use of the Giftamajig. We urge you to search deep inside yourself and find what you true desires are for a gift, thus insuring that the Giftamajig will not stoically point out something you would rather others didn’t know you wanted.

Come to Nine Star today and use this awesome device in or "Win Your Wishlist" promotion.

Krew has come out with two new colors of denim. the AR Vintage Blue

And the Jim Greco Black Sand

Get em now cause these are goingto be real hard to keep instock. And don’t worry, we have everyboadys size all the way down to a w26, so get to Nine Star to get the hot sh&! first… 

Nine Star just got in the fattest RVCA shipment ever. We are busting at the seams here with a ton of cool threads. We have something like 30 new t-shirt designs alone, so it is definitely worth a stop by the store if your in to lookin sexy…