So I am sad to see the first season of the Santa Cruz Roller Girls come to an end, but I know that next year will be off the hook. The girls did well with a 5/7 record and tons of excitement, the Santa Cruz Roller Girls may have to find a bigger venue next year. I did stream from my N95 phone throughout the night, here are some of the clips. Oh yeah get on over to Santa Cruz Skate Shop and purchase your Santa Cruz Roller Girl merchandise to support.
Its amazing this N95 phone is going to change streaming media for sure!!
You can see more of these clips at Ricky Danny’s profile
Overall it was a great season and I am looking forward to next year, Sam Diggs of KDON the Morning Madhouse and Ricky Danny of Santa Cruz Skate Shop/Skateboards.com and KDON’s The Morning Madhouse were at all the games in full support of our girls! Till next year!
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Ahh, ASR San Diego…the memories of scantily clad women (some shouldn’t), high fives and hand jives with all your bro’s, stupid security people that flex on little kids and product scavengers that go from booth to booth in hopes of free product from struggling companies. Did I mention that jail is always an option in San Diego as well? Anyhow, this ASR was extra special as we were broadcasting live from an undisclosed location inside of ASR through Skateboards.com TV, Josh “MadMan” Mattson winning the Transition for the 3rd time at 2008 Battle Of The Shops hosted by Automatic magazine, cruising the floor with Animal Chin and checking out all the after parties. First off the LIVE Broadcast through Skateboards.com TV both with our stationary cam and mobile cam view went off well as we had well over 1000 people watching out for pro’s, bro’s and ehemmm…well you know the rest. While I walked around streaming from my N95 phone catching random pieces here and there like
Too $hort from Oakland in the Famous Stars and Straps booth and Battle Of The Shops coverage. Make sure you join up over at Skateboards.com TV to get alerted when we go LIVE. 2nd day of the show we teamed up with Animal Chin..
yes you heard it right Animal Chin..
we found him..in my youth I often wondered what would happen if I actually found Animal Chin and what I would do…so when we he came into our secret location at ASR San Diego, all I could do was follow him around for the rest of the day. Animal Chin and our crew went from booth to booth as he cleaned up time after time. Did I tell you he makes the best fortune cookies in the world? Now the best part of ASR…2008 Automatic Magazine’s Battle Of The Shops held this year at ASR San Diego California.
We had our Skateboards.com/Santa Cruz Skate Shop team in place, the only Skate Team to travel from Northern California and compete against the likes of Active Ride Shop, Pacific Drive, Val’s Surf, Pharmacy Board Shop and 15 other high brow shops. This was our 3rd year showing up and dropping hammers with our riders Brandan “B-Lo” Howard, Nathan “Knox” Forson, Micah “M-ZO” Szoke and Josh “MadMan” Mattson. Right out of the gate, M-Zo was laying it down in the Technical division with guys like Willy Santos standing by watching the pressure was on, next it was Brandan Howard and the Double Set after flinging his body down and taking a bad stack the Transition was next.
Josh “MadMan” Mattson was defending champion 2 years running and people were gunning for him. CurrenCaples and David Loy tried and died..the MadMan was on fire using the whole ramp and skating like a possessed man in search of redemption. Last but not least, Nathan Forson was on tap to take on the Rail division with guys like Marquise Preston, Andrew Pott and Andrew Elliot charging. In the end, our Skateboards.com/Santa Cruz Skate Shop Team walked away with an 8th overall and Josh “Madman” Mattson once again took the Transition event with a 1st place making it a 3-PETE at the Automatic Magazine’s Battle Of The Shops 2008.
After winning the $500 first prize, The MadMan clearly stated he was up for a dinner at Dick’s Last Resort
and contemplating his next fishing pole purchase. Overall this was probably the best ASR San Diego show I have had in two decades. Not sure what’s next but make sure you stay tuned as you never know what hot mess we will be serving up to you next.
I have been so busy blogging elsewhere that I haven’t had a chance to update my own personal blog. There has been quite a bit of stuff in the business world and my personal world..I guess I can catch everyone up on the business front first. I haven’t really blogged about the business side because I had a few things up my sleeve that I didn’t want the world to know yet. So here it goes…I kind of figured out how our company will employ the social atmosphere that is encompassing the web. Most companies that are running social networks/communities feel autonomous in the sense that they do not acknowledge the other main players out in the field. Let me digress, FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, JustinTV and our Skateboards.com Blog etc…now in realizing that our market was already embedded within these other communities, I decided to reach out and exist where they exist with the intent of luring them back to our network to participate. When you go to www.skateboards.com you will see badges for our FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, JustinTV and our Skateboards.com Blog . In addition we are also streaming a LIVE TV channel for Skateboards.com TV through JustinTV. All of these components have helped elevate our social inbound traffic by bringing awareness of Skateboards.com to the masses. But…just having the profile is one thing the real trick is how you syndicate the content between the different sites…that is my secret and if you want to know we can discuss over the phone when you write a check to invest! After orchestrating the social attack we began to develop content and promote it through the various channels I have listed above. Our first LIVE Skateboards.com TV event was Black Tide courtesy of Total Assault and Interscope records. Skateboards.com TV, Sam Diggs, DK, Menace, Fringe and Zane made our way to the Shoreline Amphitheatre which was hosting the Mayhem Festival. We coordinated with the powers that be and linked up to interview the young metal band known as Black Tide.
These guys are on fire and will be huge soon…did we mention that they are going to be playing with Motley Crue in Japan????Here are some pics of the days events…
Being that I do radio on 102.5 KDON, we have access to artists as they come through. One in particular we got to interview for Skateboards.com TV was HardNox out of Concord California representing Universal/Blackground records.
These guys are off the hook, they busted out their smash “She’d Rather be with the DJ”
acapella for the viewers and now we actually sponsor them through our brands Santa Cruz Skate Shop and Fringe Clothing.
Skateboards.com TV didn’t stop there, we then negotiated an X-Games 14 appearance with future partners SponsorHouse.com. For two straight days we streamed LIVE from X-Games 14 out of the SponsorHouse.com booth, with a direct view of the Vert Ramp and tens of thousands of X-Game fanatics. Skateboards.com TV commanded the LIVE stream with thousands of viewers watching and chatting with
SponsorHouse athletes Ducky, Ruben and X-Games Silver Medalist Jeremy McGrath who was kind enough to give us a short interview and sign hundreds of autographs for waiting fans. Needless to say we were able to gather a larger viewership due to our social quadrangle of promotion by interlinking all of our social exposures and broadcasting through Skateboards.com TV, JustinTV and SponsorHouse.com. Here are a few pics from the X-Games 14 scene
On a personal note, our newest son Carter is getting so big he turned 7 months old and has been the highlight of our lives lately. He seems to be learning things daily, like how to reach out when we want to pick him up and orchestrating getting his nene into his mouth on his own. My older son Zane is working hard at Santa Cruz Skate Shop making his old man proud as I now know he is cut from the same cloth and can handle the business when he gets old enough. My Oldest, Autumn just recently performed in front of a packed house at the Seattle SuperDome. My Kids make me so proud…
On a more serious note, my father, my biggest supporter has been in ICU for about two weeks now fighting for his life…if you have ever watched a loved one go through this it is really humbling and life changing. I love you Dad!
Riding the tarp-surfing tsunami for a good cause By ISAIAH GUZMAN Posted: 09/05/2010 01:30:14 AM PDT SANTA CRUZ — For years, the Grind Out Hunger campaign has been asking kids to fill barrels with food donations. Now, to get them to donate over the Labor Day Weekend, it’s offering to put them in a barrel —… Continue reading » […]
The innovators of Tarp Surfing and http://www.tarpsurfing.com/ will be on site at Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop pulling barrel after barrel for all to enjoy. All you have to do is bring 1 pound of food for every Tarp Barrel you would like to get (all food will benefit http://www.GrindOutHunger.org/)…watch as Homer Henard (Wizard of the… Continue reading » […]
These skateboards will land right before the kick off at The Santa Cruz County Fair on September 15th 2010!!! Schools will be vying to receive one of these as a trophy for the most pounds of food raised! Stay tuned for more news!! Skateboard graphic graciously donated by Jimbo Phillips. […]
SC Family member Bud Freitas and filmer/editor Kyle Buthman are throwing it up for Santa Cruz! Vote for Bud’s section on Innersection TV and represent! Throw a comment up and vote, and oh yeah Bud isn’t pissed…he just says hi with his middle finger! ENJOY… click HERE or on the image below. […]
TarpSurfing has become a world wide phenomenon and SC is right there with it! Take a look at the screen shot and link on over to Apple’s Website to watch the video yourself (look in lower right corner for “TV AD” click and watch)! I guess you could say Tarp Surfing is the new POP […]
If you live in the 831 or close enough to drive, we have a VIP event for you. Just become a Fan of Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop (if you suggest to your friends make sure they tag your name on the wall to increase your chances of getting selected) and KDON 102.5 and […]
The new carbon fiber skateboards from RollsRolls incorporate a new deck concept, provisioning for better riding and making them the lightest and strongest longboards currently available in the market. The deck lowers the center of gravity which provides better riding and ease of movement. Each model is priced differently and the prizes range from […]
The owner of a deli at the Inner Harbor’s Light Street Pavilion wishes there were “many more Officer Rivieris to deal with our problems.” A recreational boater from Fallston credits the officer with saving her daughter’s dog. And a resident of a waterfront condo praises the officer for shooing away youngsters who […]
Christian Hosoi Lines Up His Second Consecutive Gold Medal in the Skateboard Park Legends Final In its second year as a medalled event, the Skateboard Park Legends Final continued to impress and delight the judges and fans as some of the most influential skaters gathered together to bring their best tricks to X Games 16. Christian […]
