Usually the day after Halloween really sucks cause you're probably all messed up from eating like 20 mini snickers bars and drinking about two liters of Pap's Blue Ribbon. But this year you better puke it off, cause The Cali Love Tour is hitting Nine Star West Los Angeles on Thursday Nov 1st @ 6PM. And if you're too busy making out with the porcelain wishing well you'll miss your chance to walk away with a ton of free stuff from Forum, Foursquare & Special Blend. Not to mention the video showings, autograph signings, and all around craziness that will be going off all night long. 

For more info on the event, and to peep the trailers to the new videos [CLICK HERE]

The RV

Well if you missed sunday at the beach.. heres what you missed in Newport …

and there you have it….. 

It's not an unusual sight to see Jereme Rogers hanging out at Nine Star WLA on a daily basis kicking it with the local skate rats and playing a game of skate from time to time when he's not skating the Dew Tour or the X-games. For the past 3 years Jereme Rogers has been a regular at Nine Star and even premiered his video "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood" at the Mission Viejo Nine Star. Just a couple of months ago Jereme decided to move on from Girl Skateboard and get on a different team which now is Plan B. In the meantime he was still skating hard and his choice of decks were none other than the Nine Star shop decks. We congratulate Jereme Rogers getting on Plan B alongside his good friends P.Rod, PJ, Sheckler and rest of the Plan B team.

Frontside Nollie Heelflip at Samo High pond gap. We had to bribe the security guard $60 bucks to let us sesh this gap. His name is Kevin and his price is $60 bucks for every 30 minutes.

 Boost Mobile ad can be seen in this months Trasher mag.

Photos: Burnett 

hot damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Use this it works everytime….

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. 

 Following the Stereo Demo/movie teaser, Boston's own Nate P., and 9*'s own AG got crafty with the 5 Stair and a clothes rack. 

Click and watch. 

Andrew G.

Nate P.

Just in 2007 alone so much has happened at Nine Star (Plan B demo, matix demo, 411 video premiers, Jereme Rogers autograph session, Skate the shop contest, skate the ramp contest, March Madness game of Skate Tourney are to name a few) that I can’t even remember all of them. But the Stereo demo is sure one event that will be remembered for a long long time, Stereo Sound Agency made it’s presence felt strongly by rocking the house and the Nine Star Mini Ramp. The team showed up accompanied by Chris Pastras and Jason Lee, The co-founders of this core skateboard brand. The team plus Pastras and Kevin (Stereo Team Manager) rocked the Mini Ramp while DJ Jp was rocking it on the 1’s and 2’s inside the shop. There were tons of skate rats skating the shop inside as well. Shortly after some mini ramp skating the stereo video was on the screen and it was a solid video with Jason Lee starring in it. After the video premiere Team Nine Star started to skate the 5 stair. Boston’s own Nate Principato was popping some mad tricks and earned himself a deck from Stereo. Ian Preston was also back in town and throwing down hammers (kid’s pants are so tight I don’t know how he even ollies without them tearing off!) He also earned himself a deck and some wheels courtesy of Stereo Skateboards and Hi-Fi Wheels. Everyone that attended the Demo went home with a goodie and crowds were super stoked on the Stereo Sound Agency Demo. The 5 Stair demo ended when Richard Massie landed his signature backside double flip. Soon after the racks were placed by the stairs to prevent anyone seshing the stairs,  Boston Nate Dogg decided that he’ll just ollie over the 5 foot rack and the 5 stair. Just when I thought that I had seen it all after Mike Mo Capaldi’s 720 flip on the 5 Stair, Boston Nate Dogg proved us otherwise. This kid can Ollie over anything. Boston Nate’s move inspired Andrew Gallagher to try the same. After front bonking the rack as a warm up, AG also ollied over the same obstacle and crowds were going crazy!!! What’s Next!?

Jeremiah was stoked to see Jason Lee! He's a big fan!

Chris Pastras and Jason Lee checking out the happenings at Nine Star

Jason Lee stoking kids out and signing autographs

Local ripper & hot shot Dante, scored a new deck from Stereo Skateboards. He looks pretty stoked!

Dante Trey Flippin' the 5 stair with his new Stereo Deck

Kevin (Stereo Team Manager) was stoked on Nine Star skate team throwing down for the crowd.

Kevin was so stoked that he even tried the world's most famous 5 stair for himself. 

Richard Massie of Nine Star threw down his signature backside double flip.

While the kids were throwing down hammers inside, the old skooler (Kevin and Pastras) were shredding the mini ramp in front of the store.

The Nine Star mini ramp was slaughtered by the Stereo team!

Big Boss was overlooking the whole demo and gave thumbs up on the turnout.

DJ JP is at it again spinning on the 1's and 2's

Kids took a break and checked out the new Stereo Video coming out soon.

Even Torey Pudwill showed up for the Stereo Sound Agency Demo. 

After the demo was over and the racks were put back to prevent kids from skating, Boston's own Nate Dogg just got all BoStoned out and decided to ollie over the whole thing!

Andrew Gallagher of Nine Star & Stereo got inspired by Boston Nate and decided to ollie over the rack himself.

Nate 180 ing the rack and getting Jiggy with it.

Another summer is upon us and Nine Star officially started it's summer season by hosting the third annual surf demo at Bay street in Santa Monica. Aviso, Surf Prescription, surftech were the manufactures that present representing Rusty, Channel Islands, Surf RX, Lost, Cole,. There were boards ranging from fish, long boards, hi performance short boards and anything in between available to demo. This was a perfect opportunity for everyone to come out and try the boards that they always dream of having. Nine Star has also brought back it's "board trade in" program which enables surfers to bring their used board, no matter how new or how beat up (We even took a board broken in half!) to the store and trade it in for a new stick! The board trade in drive will be effective until June 30th.

Enjoy the pix from Surf Demo 2007 at Bay Street Santa Monica

The Troops

Are those all carbon fiber boards? sweet!

This is Joel, Joel is responsible for all the goodies that we have in our surf Dept. When you see Joel at the beach say Hello to him, He's also a nice guy.

Black surfboards of death! The Avisos are at Nine Star calling your name!

Bobby, the man behind the Aviso movement.

Bryan, a loyal 9 Star customer for the past three years trying out some of them HOT HOT Avisos.

Nine Star's own Mr. Coleman Butts leading the troops in and out the water.

Another Aviso about to get used and abused by Coleman.

Kris Latz of Nine Star is back in action after moving back from Hawaii.

Kris Latz of Nine Star making sure the ladies were having a good time.

Bay street action. 

Hello boys and girls, pals and gals,

Skate the shop was back in action this past Sunday and guess what? It was off the hook and I ain't rappin' fake!  We had some heavey hitters coming thru this time around such as the likes of Andrew Gallagher of Stereo and 9 Star, Nate Principato (March madness winner), Dante Pope (Local ripper and hot shot), Jeremiah Bohnet of 9 Star & DVS, Matty Lemond aka Ziggy (multiple times winner of previous STS) of Nike & 9 Star were just a few to name. The day started with the master chef Chuck Evans aka C-Huck firing up the grill and feeding some hungry skate rats some dogs. Soon after it was on. This skate the shop sesh took place on the 4 stair followed by the 5 stair. after a 45 minute session, there were some serious tricks that went down. Andrew Gallagher's frontside flip (4 stair) to switch hardflip (5stair) earned him the third place and some Hi.Fi Wheels courtesy of Stereo skateboards. Nate Principato, kid who won the WLA march madness and the newst member of team 9 Star straight destroyed the stairs. The kid threw down hardflip, double flip, nollie flip, fronside flip, kickflip stale fish and switch trey bombs. His second place run earned him a Stereo deck. First place went to Jeremiah Bohnet, a kid who was suspended from participating in the Skate The Shop contest as a punishment for what he had done the night before. What did he do to deserve getting banned from STS? lets just say his skateboard flew into the store window the night before and left us with a sky high window replacement bill! Right when the contest started he was given ok by the team manager to put on his jersey and jump right in. Only there was one condition, he had to win and winning he did by throwing down a perfect nollie halfcab flip followed by a pretty damn good looking hardflip! He's also thrown down some switch backside flips (looks like Jeremiah has been hanging with Jereme Rogers) The kid earned himself a Stereo deck, Hi-Fi Wheels and a $100 store credit. The kids in the crowd also got swag from Ogio and Stereo skateboards.

1st place Jeremiah Bohnet (9  Star, DVS)

2nd Place Nate Principato (9 Star) 

3rd Place Andrew Gallagher (9 Star, Stereo, Hi Fi Wheels, Inglewood Auto Tinters)

Checkout:

Stereosoundagency.com

Grillin' some hot dawgs

Kids posting up before the contest.

Matty "Ziggy" LeMond collecting checks for showing his strategically placed stickers.

Heeeeyaaaaaw!

Andrew Gallagher likes to dance with his board as a part of his pre contest ritual.

Andrew Gallagher Switch hardflipping into 3rd place.

Safety first kid, helmets are a good idea!

DJ JP, spinning on the ones and twos.

Dancing on the registers? only at 9 Star!

Nate Principato meets the famous 9 Star five stair.

JB (Our skate buyer) decided to compete and not judge this time around. Watch out kids, he's an old fool from the old skool and he's got somethin' fresh for y'all!

Jeremiah Bohnet, 2nd STS win in the last 3 months!

STEREO TEAM DEMO SUNDAY JUNE 3RD @ 6 PM!!!  

I never saw this coming. National Go Skateboarding is now officially recognized by the The US House of Representitives.

thats a big deal folks!!!! 

If you visit the snow department page on 9star.com, you will notice an interesting picture in the "snow department" tab, go check it out if you don't know what I'm talking about. For those of you who have ever wondered who/where/what that picture is, I present the original animated gif for your enjoyment…….

CLICK HERE: http://ninestarpork.ytmnd.com

For this month's skate the shop competition we decided to give the 5 stair a rest and headed outside to break in our new Mini Ramp. Here's how it went down…about 20 kids entered…there were not enough female skaters to split the guys from the gals, so Hanna and Allysha had to go up against 18 boys…more on that later…the first round was a 1min 30sec run…we then cut the pack down to 6 finalists(Matty, Elijah, Jeremiah, Hanna, Alexi, and Adam)…there were also 3 little rippers(Morgan, Allysha, and Evan) that we felt deserved their own final, so we let them battle it out for a Nine Star Deck. The finals were a tiring 2min run. Blah blah blah…let's let the photos do the talking…

Patiently waiting for the contest to begin 

Elijah made sure Judge Jason Butler saw this one

Nine Star's own ADAM KEELY had plenty of steeeeeeez to make it to the finals

Matty showing everybody how it's done

Alexi made it to the finals with his smooth style and consistent run.

Jeremiah also made it to the finals…must be his hot new Nine Star T

Hanna. Enough said.

Hanna-kickflip indy 

Excuse me boys while I 540 out

Morgan was putting on a show as usual

Hey world-this is Evan-he's nine years old-so yeah

Allysha was pleasing the crowd with her hand plants 

Allysha airs it out

Judges Andrew and Jason were absolutely baffled by the talent and were left speechless by Hanna and Allysha's runs.

That's Morgan's Dad in the back, he was the official time keeper.

….and the winners are:

1st Place- $100 Gift Certificate to Nine Star-HANNA

2nd Place-Kenny Anderson Chocolate Deck-MATTY

3rd-6th Place-Chocolate, Girl, Crailtap T's-Elijah, Jeremiah, Alexi, and Adam

Winner of the little ripper division:

1st Place-Nine Star Deck-ALLYSHA

Nine Star's Skate The Shop contest is held on the last Sunday of every month at 6pm. It's either held inside the store on the 5 stair, or in the mini ramp. First Place is always at least $100 Gift Certificate to Nine Star. Other prizes vary depending on what kind of gear we can round up. 

So wegot this kid Adam K working in our skate dept. and he's a pretty cool kid. A little young and sometimes crazy but overall he's an a'ight kid. Today was the day that Nike Pee Wee Dunks dropped so naturally all the Nike SB heads rolled in and Adam K made sure to buy his before they were all gone. After purchasing his fresh kicks he goes ahead and puts them next to some other kid's shoe box that happened to look just the same as Adam's! So an average Joe would normally raise a flag in their mind and not put two similar boxes next to each other because when they do one might get confused on which box was theirs or not notice at all in times of hurry and just grab the wrong ones, which in this case that's what happened. Adam took the wrong box which contained the other kid's old shoes! But the icing on the cake is when Adam sold his own box of shoes to another customer because he was sure that his shoes were in a safe place (which were actually that other kids old shoes). Now he's stock with some other kids shoes and no more in his size left at the shop. If you see him bummed out tomorrow, just give him a hug……………………..ha ha!

 
Adam K. at one of his finest moments! 

Adam's new Dunks….well at least that's what the box said, this was what was inside it.  

What he was hoping to get. 

It's mid April and I'm still obsessing about the March Madness. Why is that? is it cause I'm just getting too old and living in the past? naw…That ain't it. What ever it is, it is what it is, you hearrrrd. Since I'm still obsessing on what happened on the West LA March Madness in its final week, I'll give you a recap along with some pix. Basically this year we had lots of surprises and there was not a dull moment thru out the whole contest. The crowd had come in to see last year's champ and Nine Star's own Jorge Comelli. He was the crowd favorite and the most likely to win, although there was fierce contestants in the elite 16 representing local talent along with Nine Star team's Andrew "El Potta" Pott.

Jorge Comelli had to face Nate Principato, a kid who had just moved to LA from Boston in hopes of skate superstardom. JC won the rock paper scissors match up and went first. In no time he handed Nate Principato two letters and in another minute he handed him two more. At this point JC was in full control and almost home. So he wanted to kill Nate Dawg with something special, but that something special attempt went wrong and Nate Principato was on. Hardflip rewinds? Are you kidding me. His style was super clean as Jay Janelle (Our Store Manager) put it "he's like from Tony Hawk Proskater". Nate Dawg did the impossible and the most unexpected, he came back from having a S K A T and knocked out last year's champ and crowd favorite Jorge Comelli. Nate Dawg was on fire that night and as the rounds came, he went ahead and just kept knocking people out one by one til the finals. That's where he played the winner from last week, Richard Massie of Nine Star team.

The Final was as exciting as it could get. Two very different styles of skating and lots of crazy variations of tricks went down and after a long 10 minute game of skate Nate Dawg Principato was declared as the 2007 WLA March Madness Champion. Nate Dawg earned himself $250 Nine Star Bucks, Fresh Park Quarter Pipe, DVS Shoes, year supply of Red Bull and a chance to represent West LA Nine Star versus Mission Viejo Nine Star battle of the champions.

14 & under was no different than the 15+ division. Lots of talent and it was nice to see what the kids had learned since the 2006 March Madness. All those hours spent at Nine Star training had really made a difference in some of the kids and we are so stoked to support these little skate rats and their skating habits. It was also very nice to see a lot of parents there in the younger division supporting their kids. Now I know there are soccer moms out there, but we are definitely brewing some skate moms at Nine Star. 

14 & Under final was between Matt "Ziggy" Lemond and Casper Stockwell.  Ziggy went in the final as last years champ defending his title but Casper hadn't shown up for games, he was serious and serious about taking the champs spot. The final was pretty exciting and each skater showcased their special moves, but at the end Matt "Ziggy" Lemond came on top as the victor and held on to his championship for another year. So if you think you got what it takes to beat this kid, then cruise on to Nine Star after school hours and see if you have what it takes.

Enjoy the photos.

Jason Butler came outta retirement and made it into the semis. He's the dude that gets us all our skate goodies and you might see him at the cove skatepark regulating on a regular basis. Ladies, show him some love!

JB throwing down hammers and eliminating foo's!

Homie Elijah and Homie JW showcasing mad skills, someone sponsor these kids before they charge too much!

 Jeron Walker Trey flippin' and $hit

The three Mackateers. JW, Ziggy and Jeremiah of DVS and 9Star

Someone told the cops that Jorge was killing it so they stopped by to make sure there were no homicides being attempted. He was released soon after the officers were informed that he was killing it in a game of skate. Silly cops.

2006 March Madness Champ Jorge Comelli

DJ JP was amping the crowd and the skaters with some gansta $hit.

The crowd and specially Greg was so focused on the Madness 07 that they didn't blink for a second….ok maybe they did but they were still super focused. C'mon just look at Greg's face.

Max and Richard Massie judging the 14 & under contest. Richard was a finalist in the 15+ division.

Richard Massie switch hittin' it.

Nate Principato was hands down the ultimate winner. 

Flippin' it trey style.