Wednesday, January 14, 2009

STRUGGLE UPDATE #7


Congratulations to TIM HOLBORN from Anaheim Hills, CA for winning 1st place at this weekends 3rd annual STRUGGLE SHOWDOWN in front of Driscolls skateshop. 2nd place went to Victor Singo from San Diego,CA. And 3rd place went to Nick Quines from El Centro,CA. There were close to 200 hundred entrants. And there were hundreds more spectators there throughout the day.

Thank you to everyone that came out. Massive thank you to all the supporters and skaters that showed up repping Struggle decks. Also a huge thank you to all the sponsors of the event. ASHBURY eyewear, DML clothing, and NATURE hardware were kind enough to put in alot of the prizes for the contest. Make sure to support those awesome companies. We will have footage up of the contests final round up soon so keep checking back. Also next up we have a "Highest Ollie Contest" which will go down in our Calipatria city stop of the Valley Voyage tour sometime in February.

TEAM NEWS
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TYRONE OLSON has been busy lately filming for the new "Troubleshooters" video over in the East Coast. On top of that he is heavily racking up the footage for the highly anticipated Struggle video due in the near future.

RUBEN NAJERA has been welcomed into the flow program over at S-ONE helmets. Ruben has been rocking those S-ONE foot impact insoles since forever as well.

ANTHONY JOHNSON is plagued with the snow at the moment over in Utah. But he still managed to get some pretty sweet clips for a future Struggle Sundays episode in. Be on the lookout for that sometime soon.

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Rigo Soto is out at the moment with a bruised foot. He is currently hibernating and attending junior college. He will be back on his board in no time.

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Tim Holborn is the newest member of the Struggle RDT program. He won the STRUGGLE SHOWDOWN and we welcomed him onto our team with open arms. Welcome to the squadron Tim.

Mariano Valenzuela has been tearing it up with the Struggle Sunday footage. Never disappoints. Catch him half cab flipping to a town near you soon.

Flippy Zendejas is back on his board and we are stoked.

Wisconsin Neal, Aron Lawrence, and Nick Rodriguez are all currently getting footage for the Struggle promo which should be out in hopefully about a month. Stay tuned for more updates!

Oh yea and in case you missed it here was the last STRUGGLE SUNDAYS. WESTMORLAND,CA!!!!