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:


7/7/15

Video: Go Skateboarding Day Ladies Demo



Video of the Go Skateboarding Day Ladies Demo at The Venice Beach Skatepark. Check out the previous blog post for the photos.

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7/4/15

Video: Skate Your Ass Off Contest



Here's a video recap of The Go Skate Your Ass Off Contest at The Venice Beach Skatepark. Check out the previous blog post on the contest for a photos and complete recap.

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7/2/15

Skateboarding Scenes From Old Movies: Hard Ticket To Hawaii


Between 1985 and 1998, filmmaker Andy Sidaris produced series of B-movies known as the Bullets, Bombs, and Babes series. All 12 movies focused on the adventures of a team of secret agents and were mostly filmed in Hawaii. The action scenes were silly and way over-the-top and the agents were always played by Playboy Playmates (who would always get naked).

Hard Ticket To Hawaii was released in 1987 and is the second film in the series. It features a skateboarding scene. The skater was played by professional skateboarder Russ Howell. Russ, who had started skating all the way back in 1958, was actually the first professional skateboarder. He had set some Guinness World Records, one for longest handstand on a skateboard (2 minutes) and another for the most 360s (163). In Hard Ticket to Hawaii, he gets to show off both of those moves.

All 12 of these films are in a DVD collection called Girls, Guns and G-Strings: The Andy Sidaris Collection (12 Film Set) And it's on Amazon for under $6. That's less than fifty cents a movie.



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Curt: The Story Of Surfing's Oldest Grom

CURT is a short documentary about 50-year-old competitive surfer, Curt Harper. Diagnosed with autism as a child, Curt faced many challenges growing up, but one thing that came easy was his love for surfing. Over the past 21 years, Curt has become a beloved fixture in the Southern California surf scene, having played an unlikely, yet vital role in the growth and development of multiple generations of groms.




7/1/15

Video: O.G. Jam



Here's a video recap of The Old Guys Jam at The Cove Skatepark in Santa Monica. Check out the previous blog post on the contest for a photos and complete recap.

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