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Hey it's one of our great gift ideas for the holidays! The Altered Electric skateboard, check it out…

This vid will be available to buy on Nov 3rd, but you can catch a sneak peak at the Nine Star Premiere this Sunday Oct. 28th after "Skate The Shop". Get to Nine Star by 7PM to catch all the action…

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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 

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.

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. 

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.

    Eh yo waaflles, this past sunday was the banger to the MARCH MADNESS SKATE TOURNY 2007! brought to you by 9star,RedBull,FreshPark,and i think that 's allof them. So if you weren't here you missed out on some great grilling thanks to 9star andChris Radcliff (for doing most the grilling) and also to everyone who ate the meat product (check out the photos below). The evening didn't end there, we still had lots skating to get done. Kicked it off with the 15 and up over  kids skating for a spot in the finals against WLA, a big power up goes to everyone who skated.

    The fourteen and uunder division finals went down and it was pretty fun to watch, kids are getting way to good way to quick. West L.A. took home the younger division. After it was all finnished the top two kids of the 15 and up division played 3 rounds of skate, the kid with the best of three won, declairing which store got to keep the CUP! Mission Viejo is now the champs! so thats about it, check out the pictures and be shure to get back to nine-star and check out the cup of victory..

cheers, brandon

If you haven't seen skateboarding in high definition you have to check this out. Since our lovely computer monitors are actually HD sets by themselves, this little 150mb download is totally worth it. You have to check it out..great video. Click the picture to download. After you download you have to unzip the file using a program like winzip . After transferring the file to your hard drive you have to rename the file extension to .mp4. At the end of the file just change the .m4v to the .mp4. You can then enjoy this thing…. This is Girl and Choc. video guy…..

It was the second Sunday of the MARCH MADNESS 2007 SKATE TOURNEY!  and what a day it was. The level of skating was on a rise with all the kids having a week to cross their T's and dot their I's. The finals for the Fourteen and under division went off as Chance Moreno took home the gold and will be representing Mission Viejo this up coming Sunday for the Battle Of the Shops. The finals for the fifteen and over division are also this Sunday, so if ya don't know now ya know slips!

BE SURE TO BE HERE FOR THE FINALS AS THE CITY OF ANGELS VISITS THE CITY OF… WELL, HOT SOCCER MOM'S I GUESS.

CHEERS, Brandon

BRANDON.

      MORE TO COME SOON! 

Kevin Romar and Abner Jacques

SCOTT MARTIN IS WITH IT.Abner jacques with switch 50-50Run-in view of "El Diablo" 

Lookin good, expect to see em real soon,

Skate the shop winners and pictures!!!

7 Stair:
1st Aaron Gomez- back 180 melon, 50-50, over krook. Prize-$100 9* Gift Certificate
2nd Devyn Yangenheim-boardslide, feeble, noseslide side rail. Prize-Nine Star deck

2 Stair:
1st Rene Hontiveros big spin, fakie full cab, tre, and so on. Prize-Element deck

High Ollie/Best flat ground trick:
1st Scott Martin 5 decks, switch hard flip. Prize-Element deck

Skate the Shop takes place on the last Sunday of the month, every month!!! Come through, thow down, have fun, maybe even win something.

A clip from the first ever Lakai video “Fully Flared.” Can’t wait to watch this on the 50” plasma! For more info and to view the trailer check out lakai.com

Get your bandaid on before it starts… now that’s plannin.

I can ollie higher than you! I am willing to put money on it. Anyone anytime come to the shop and after I get off I will ollie over your head. Hell I will even ollie over Don Vito's pervert ass. Ask for Russell.