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7/9/15

Agenda Trade Show



The Agenda Trade Show is where the skate, surf, and skate & surf lifestyle companies go to show off their new goods to the retail shop buyers. The show is held a few times a year, twice in Long Beach, in January and again in July. the following are photos from yesterday. We were also here for the show back in January, click here for the blog post.

Dusters skateboards Booth.

GoPro's booth.

Showing off their newest soon-to-be on sale camera: GoPro HERO4 Session

Here it is with the new Kung-Fu grip mount. This is going to be excellent for those boxing match POV shots.

Plus, a few Gopro accessory companies were on hand with various creative mounts for Gopros.

Over at the Vans' booth, while business was being handled inside the booth, outside the booth Steve Van Doran was cooking up waffles for everyone.

Steve is always happy.

Zoo York booth.
At the Uppercut Deluxe/Z-Flex booth, skate legend Eric Dressen fresh from getting his hair cut by Shane Nesbitt.
"When we are kids or adults alike, there are always people we look up to for one reason or another, could be basketball players, baseball players, musicians, politicians, dancers or in my case, skateboarders. One of the guys in looked up to as a kid was Eric Dressen, dude had the best style, indelible fluidity, and an uncanny ability to wiggle through the streets on a skateboard. Today for whatever reason, he decided to come get his haircut by me and it was an absolute honor. When you finally meet someone you have held in such high regard for so long and they are everything you had expected and more, it makes the wait well worth it. One of the most humble, down to earth, righteous brothers I have ever met. Good times Eric and man, it was a fucking honor." - Shane Nesbitt

Speaking of Dressen, here's some of the new Dogtown decks with his old graphics.

Jim and Mike Muir in the Dogtown Suicidal booth.

New Dogtown wheels with names and graphics of streets in Santa Monica

The H-Street booth displayed some re-issue classic decks.

and some new ones.

A few months ago, we scanned and posted some old H-street newsletters from the early 1990's ( check out the high resolution scans in this blog post ). We brought this 1993 H-Street newsletter to the H-Street booth for Tony Magnusson to check out.

Deathwish decks..

Mobile surfboard making trailer?

This dog was just so happy to be there.

Samoan tattoo legend Su'a Petelo creating artwork for a longboard at the KahunaCreations booth. Did you know that Kahuna Creations invented the patented land paddle in 2006? Land paddling is the ultimate cross trainer to paddleboarding. Kahuna Land Paddling combines the smoothest riding longboards with world class land paddles. Did you also know that you can save 15% at KahunaCreations.com with promo code: STOKED.

See told you, check out KahunaCreations.com.

Selfie time!!!!!!! Famous Stars & Stripes booth girl Sydney likes to update her social media throughout the day.

A lot of sock companies nowadays.

Some new decks with classic graphics.

The famous Jim Phillips Screaming Hand was walking around.

Playboy clothing was there with a booth.

What happens when you don't have someone watching your booth.



Nice Sector9 board.

Salesman at work.

Sometimes, the simplier booths are the most interesting.


There was also some skating going on outside the convention center. Next blog post will have that. Several more photos of inside the show in the gallery: Agenda Show Gallery

Meanwhile, some other stuff of interest:


5/28/15

2015 Jay Boy Classic


Willy Lara

UPDATED 6-3-2015: Videos of the contest are now online: Jay Boy Classic Videos

The 2nd annual Jay Boy Classic was held on May 23rd 2015 at the Venice Skate Park. Hosted once again by Z-flex Skateboards, the Jay Boy Classic featured 3 events. First was an amateur bowl jam where skaters in 3 different age groups competed for over $2,000 in products, then a Masters Jam that featured skate legends such as Dave Hackett, Steve Olsen, Steve (Salba) Alba, Tony Magnusson, and Pat Ngoho. And wrapping up the day was the Invitational Cash Grab, where there was a list of tricks posted up, each worth a cash prize. Who ever was the first do a trick, or the highest or longest for some tricks, took that trick's cash. Basically an exciting free for all, as there was several skaters riding the bowl at the same time trying to be the first to claim the cash. Also up for grabs was the Osiris Shoes ‘Spirit of Jay Award’, a custom guitar from Prisma Guitars.

Esteban Jesus


Julian Torres

Spacoli


Charlie Blair


Dave Hackett


Salba


Pat Ngoho

Cash Grab Trick Board

Sean Johnson


Free stuff was being tossed to the crowd all day long.


Shaun Ross


Haden McKenna


Andrew Miller


Ramon Santiago


Jordan Toledo


Charlie Blair


Julian Torres
Haden McKenna


Sky Siljig


Desmond Shepherd


Salba

Nick Riviera

13 & Under Winners:
1. Desmond Shepard
2. Mile Dalnso
3. Bolton Bailey


14-17 Winners:
1. Julian Torres
2. Andley Lerma
3. Jarred Albright
4. Jesse Papik


18 & Over Winners:
1. Isaiah Sanchez
2. Andrew Miller
3. Sean Johnson
4. Nick Rivera
5. Esteban Jesus
6. Patron


Spirit Of Jay Award:
Willy Lara



There's a couple hundred more photos in the 2015 Jay Boy Classic Photo gallery


Videos of the contest are online now, Click Here..


More from Venice Skate Park: