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, but more on that in a second. Check a video from the day below, and the grip of photos thanks to Reza Patrick Borghei.

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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…

The Element Team BBQ was rad on Sunday, i broke my camera which was not rad, so I only have pictures from like, half the event. Thanks to Element we have some sick pics they posted on their site this morning. Check em out below:

So the ESPY awards went down in LA at the Nokia theater last week, and guess who was at the official after party?! The Nine Star skate team was invited to warm up the big stair set in the middle of the party before a demo by Koston, P-rod, TK and Jeremy Rogers. It was a blast, Sean got a bunch of pictures and then lost his camera so you will all have to make do with my digi-shots I took as I ran around eating and drinking all the free sushi, in-and-out, open bars and bacon wrapped hot-dogs.

Plus check out the video shot by the ESPN folks.

The annual “Life Rolls On” charity golf tournament went down this Monday at the Malibu Country Club. Nine Star sponsored the 5th hole, witch was a down hill par 3, so we we’re giving out skate decks to whoever had the most style shredding the grassy slopes. Check out some of the photos below.

Check it out, lots of familiar faces in this vid, and the rap at the end is funny.

Proof that the Corey Smith art show went down in LA, just in case you were one of the people who drank 20 Budweisers that night and forgot. Sorry about the weird order these are in.

Check it out, we just got in our limited edition Corey Smith T-shirts and skate decks. Corey is our featured artist in the stores this season, and we're throwing him a opening party this Friday with free booze, live music and good times! THe party is at Nine Star West LA but you can check out Corey's art or this limited merch in either store until mid August. Learn more about him at his website www.coreysmithart.com

What was up with Gasol last night, I've never seen the guy that strong to the hoop! He was on fire, where was he the last 4 games, did it have something to do with Perkins being out of the lineup?

Anyways Jay, would you do us all a favor and just leave him off the schedule and let Skyler handle back of house until the playoffs are over?  I mean come on dude the guy is busy enough already filming, skating and battling the Celtics.

And now, the rest of those "How to" videos with Nate Principato, do as the master instructs. Will someone please post a comment with the story of how these came to be, they're actually pretty good little vids? 

 

I have no idea where this came from, and it looks like it's like a million years old but it is definitely worth a post just cause of the awesome negative transition effects and all the zooming in and out. So here it is, the first in a series of How-to's from Nate Principato… "How to drop in on a skateboard" 

This was put together about three years ago. Thought i would share it. Aww the days of golden knees.

Jeramiah Bohnet and Jeron Walker are straight holdin' it down at culver city skate park. The Rogue Status skate team is lettin' 'em know how to keep things steezy, Holla!!! Check the video

Alex Lee from Los Angeles, is straight killin' it these days. At only 6 yrs old, he's pullin' tricks many of us can only think about trying to do. Not only does he kill it on the slopes, but he can be found at your local skate park shralping the bowls!!! His sister Pricsilla, who is 10, also shreds and is and up-and-comer for chicks who shred. Be on the look out for these two at USASA Nationals for snowboarding, good luck guys!!

Priscilla Lee 10 Years old Snowboarding Mammoth 2008 from Priscilla Lee on Vimeo.

Alex Lee Mammoth 2008 from Alex Lee on Vimeo.

Check the video clip of 9star shop rider Jeramiah Bohnet. He gets pretty technical with a nollie big spin hill, followed by a cab buck-80,  leading up to a board slide 270…steeezy and clean!!! Tune into the blog next week for the Clip of the Week! venice clip.mov

9 STAR SHOP RIDER CHARLES EVANS JR. HAS BEEN SHREDDING THE LOCAL MOUNTAINS. HE RECENTLY PLACED 4TH IN THE ACTIVE "SPONSOR ME" COMPETITION AT MOUNTAIN HIGH. CHECK THE MOUNTAIN HIGH WEB PAGE FOR ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE AND VIDEO OF THE COMPETITION. MORE TO COME  AFTER THE ON-SNOW DEMO, SEE YOU GUYS IN MAMMOTH!!!

These limited release shoes are inspired by the love of the backyard mini-ramp. And to go along with their release Nike 6.0 is hooking one lucky kid up with the chance to get ramp whiz Nate Wessel to build a custom mini-ramp in their backyard! Check out the contest details and the shoe at Nine Star next week.

BMX PEEPs..to whom pivits consern

LA got new COLONY pivital's! witch look incredible and comfortable!! 

so COME PICK ONE UP !