Diego Najera has been crowned the 2009 éS Game of SKATE Amateur World Champion! Stay tuned for videos from the event soon!
For his his awesome day of skating and fighting off the competition for two hours during the finals,...
As if winning the title of Amateur World Champion wasn't enough, the kind folks at éS Footwear, Skullcandy, Transworld Skateboarding and Nixon, have made sure that the top four skaters will be showered with a ton of cool prizes!...
We're starting off with this first list of tricks for the Tricktionary and of course we'll forget some - we've also left some out on purpose to see if you're really paying attention. So feel free to write in your suggestions below and...
Lake Forest, California (October 23, 2009) - More than 12,000 skaters competed in over 100 cities in more than 25 countries around the world in the éS game of SKATE Global Tour. Each éS Game of SKATE Global Tour stop crowned...
The éS Game of SKATE Finals 2009 will be held on November 14th, 2009, in Lake Forest, California. More information will be announced here soon, and all winners will be contacted, as well. Make your plans now!
With the anticipation for the rain date building for more than a month, this was the scene an hour-and-a-half before the scheduled start time!
With the last minute orders of driving to Virginia Beach to handle the daunting...
The rained out Game of SKATE will be held at Hotline, this Monday, Sept 14th at 4pm. Show up at Hotline to sign up, actual Game of SKATE starts at 5pm, however you must register between 4 and 5 pm. Previous entries from the rained out...
Considering that we had our photo intern Phil Blair as well as Jay shooting photos nonstop, I didn't really need to take any pictures of my own. Not to mention the fact that fifty percent of the time I had almost forgot that I brought...
Part 2 of my photo collection.
Patrick had a short phase on the trip where he sketched faces with a certain male body part for a nose. This was his most prized work of that kind.
I took this on the way into NYC--...
The éS Game of SKATE crew hit up the White City, Oregon skatepark back in June and this clip is from that session. Bebe, Jhonny, Patrick, Chinner, Doug. Filmed and edited by Mr. Dieter Galvan, filming intern estraordinaire! (This was...
Check it out... the guys at PLUS called us the other day and we're psyched to announce the rain date for the éS Game of SKATE (rained out on Aug 12th, 2009) will be Friday September 4th, 2009, at 3pm, in the same location as the original...
The NJ Skateshop éS Game of SKATE has been rescheduled! The make up day will be Tuesday, September 1st, at 3pm, at the Sayreville Skatepark. Please remember that this is only for the 12 -16 skaters who were still in it at the end of...
Tourist traps are a staple of the American road trip and every road seems to have them. I-40 has the Big Texan, home to the "free" 72 oz steak, there's I-80's World's Largest Truck Stop, and on I-95 just below the border between the Carolinas is the tourist trap to end them all, South of the Border.
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After the éS Game of SKATE in Sayreville, New Jersey got rained out, we headed over to NJ Skateshop where the folks were kind enough to hook us up with some NJ T-shirts, grip tape, and other goodies. The sudden rain had caused a little...
This is NOT final, yet, but we are trying to reschedule the éS Game of SKATE in Virginia Beach for Thursday, August 27, or the weekend that follows, August 29 or 30. We will have the info here as soon as possible! Stay tuned.
The main reason we all were so eager to visit Virginia Beach was none other than the Slayer concert. Jay's friend is the guitar technician for Kerry King of slayer, so he was generous enough to fork out 666$ worth of tickets to us....
Do as North Carolinians do. Or is it Carolonians? No matter what you call them, or they call themselves, we felt that since we were in North Carolina, we would forgo the standard restaurant chains and indulge ourselves in some Carolina...
Chinner is a funny cat. He's definitely got to be experienced to be appreciated, and his humor is dry and sarcastic, and since he spent many of his formative years under the tutelege of Mr. Jay Brundege, that should come as no surprise....
Not sure where it came from or even if a lot of people use the term, but we call people who look like someone else a "bizarro." The guy on the right is a bizarro Patrick Binkley we met at Game of SKATE in Frederick... but we didn't...
I'm beginning to feel like mother nature has it in for us. Maybe she isn't a fan of skateboarding, or flat-ground skateboarding more specifically, but either way she has been giving us some grief for the last couple weeks on the East...
While the homeys were filming lines we got a couple random pics of the crew doing some tricks in front of the LOVE sign at Love Park, where we got a two hour session bust-free tonight. Nice.
Doug Mares, hardflip
Oscar Gonzales,...
The éS Game of SKATE crew was told we couldn't hold the Game of SKATE at the L.E.S. Skatepark today (Tuesday) so we've got a new spot -- at 12th & A. The Game will be held Thursday, July 30, at 2pm. The spot is right next to Public...
After the Game of SKATE in Beverly, Massachusetts we headed to Woodman's seafood in Essex with the good folks from Eastern Boarder. Woodman's is legit, plain and simple. If you're in the area, Woodman's is the place to go, and I suggest...
Here are some photos that we took on our off day in Boston!
This is the view you see before entering the O'Neil tunnel.
We stopped at the farmers market to pick up some fruit. Personally, I wouldn't buy a bunch of limes...
With the Stomping Grounds Game of SKATE behind us, the crew and I had our sights set on Camp Woodward, the Pennsylvania Skate mecca, but an early morning text message received hours before our planned departure let us know that...
The éS Game of SKATE crew is on the road again! Our good friend Jay, aka Fabby, from our hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, joined us for the first week of the tour to help out and enjoy road life with us. We're excited to be on the road...
After a two-week California hiatus the éS Game of SKATE crew is back on the road! The van will be rolling through Flagstaff and Albuquerque on our way to Sunday's Game in Nebraska, which marks the beginning of the second leg of the...
A nice little slideshow from the first half of the 2009 éS Game of SKATE tour. All photos by Phil Blair, winner of the éS Internship of a Lifetime.
A bunch of the éS team and some flow riders will be cruising the East Coast on the éS Game of SKATE tour! Kellen James, Jimmy McDonald, Josh Matthews, Kevin Terpening, Mike Anderson, and Danny Garcia will be at the New York, New Jersey,...
So straight outta Medford we headed up to White City to skate this really fun street-plaza park. White City by all definitions is a tiny town with it's roughly 6000 people, yet it contains some pretty interesting history nestled amongst...
For our crew there are some staple Utah offerings that must be enjoyed: Einstein Brother's Bagels, amazing skateparks and beautiful scenery. We made sure to take full advantage of all these and then some!
Check out some fun times...
Due to some locations issues, the éS Game of SKATE in Las Vegas scheduled for Monday June 29th, with Pharmacy has been postponed. Stay tuned and we'll have a new date and spot soon!
We arrived in Vegas late Saturday night for another stay at the always-luxurious Motel 6. We were a little sketched-out by the high attendance of hookers on the premises, and one hooker in particular jumped out of a tricked-out Escalade...
It seems a bit played to use a quote from the Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as the title for a post about Vegas, but between that and "Viva Las Vegas!" I'll take the former.
With our Game in Vegas postponed...
June 25-26
The rain that messed with us during the Game of SKATE never seemed to slow down, so we didn't get to skate the downtown skatepark. We ate dinner at PF Chang's, where, as usual, Bibi tried his moves on our beautiful waitress....
Often-times when Games of SKATE are held in the strip malls surrounding skateshops the other business owners in the malls are not too keen on their parking being commandeered by a bunch of skateboarders. This, however, did not seem...
June 21- Go Skateboarding Day
The day we had all been waiting for, sort of; go skateboarding day. While Mark Waters and the Emerica team were going wild in the streets of Vancouver, B.C., the Game of SKATE crew and I went wild in...
After our late-night web work and short 3-hours of sleep in Ashland, Oregon, we were awakened by the blaring sound of the wake up call at 5:30 am sharp. We rounded up all our stuff and were on the road heading north by six. An hour...
After a rainy night in Portland, our plans of skating Burnside early in the morning fell through. We packed our stuff and our day began.
After a heated battle of foosball hockey at our favorite Portland breakfast spot, Voodoo doughnuts,...
It is said that the best camera is the one that's with you, so when we only had time for a 2-minute pit stop at one of the US's most legendary skateparks I used the 1.3 megapixel that just about everyone has in their pockets to capture...
After waking up and boarding the van, our research led us to Voodoo doughnut shop in Portland for breakfast. Voodoo doughnut shop not only has some of the best, and wackiest ideas in doughnuts, they have a mellow hippy vibe that both...
After a good night’s sleep in Medford, Oregon, we decided to spend our off day hitting up some local skateparks along the way on our 6 hour drive to Portland. The first park, which was near our hotel, was the Medford Park,...
After we wrapped up the Game of Skate in Santa Cruz, we were anxious to get to San Francisco. There were some of the crew who'd never been and those of who have been to the City by the Bay always enjoy ourselves -- so much to see and...
The éS Game of SKATE crew finally hit the road for the first leg of the tour today... the van is packed, the trailer has been puzzle-pieced together by Jay, the Transworld, éS, and Skull Candy stickers were placed, and the crew was...
Southern California is about as far as you can get from my Midwest hometown of Chicago while still being in the continental United States. Not only is it 2,000 and some miles of physical distance between the two, but the differences...
The crew has been trickling in over the last 2 weeks: Patrick Binkley graduated from Ball State University (where David Letterman is an alumnus) and made the trip. Our éS Internship of a Lifetime filmer, Dieter Galvan, arrived last...
Correction: There is a Game of SKATE in Seattle...Don't sweat our sloppy web-keeping, the éS Game of SKATE will still be coming to Snowboard Connection in Seattle's hip South Lake area on June 20th at 3pm (be there at 2pm to sign...
Check out the Public Square Group's éS Game of SKATE here. This event benefits the efforts to promote skateparks and skateboarding in the Greater Cleveland area.
East Meets West - eS Game of SKATE 2009 from Public Square Group on Vimeo.
The éS Game of SKATE Tour Schedule is up and complete. Check it and make your plans to get to the nearest game now!
Congratulations to the éS Game of SKATE Internship of a Lifetime winners! The Interns are:
Photography: Phil Blair, from Chicago, Illinois.
Filming/editing: Deiter Galvan, from Beaumont, Texas.
Writing/blogging: from Indianapolis, Ind., former éS Game of SKATE winner Patrick Binkley.
And if Dieter...
For all you Twitterheads, you can now follow the éS Game of SKATE on Twitter. There will be schedule update announcements, news about winners, as well as where the éS Game of SKATE crew and the éS Team will be skating during the summer tour. Follow us here and we'll see you on the road!
We've just posted the first five US Games of SKATE dates in the schedule and there will be more to follow very quickly. Tell your friends, make your plans now for summer, and get to work on those switch tré flips!
“éS Footwear and the éS Game of SKATE are calling you out. We’re going to find three (3) of the best-qualified candidates to come along on the Official 2009 éS Game of SKATE tour and join us in making some skateboarding history.
Come on tour with éS
