Monday, June 28, 2010

UPDATE #32

STRUGGLE SKATEBOARDS IMPERIAL VALLEY RALLY RESULTS: TOP 5
1st Place: AMA (Alex,Manuel,Armando) Calexico,CA ---3,270 points---
2nd Place: GTA (Willie,Raul,Taven) El Centro,CA ---2,830 points---
3rd Place: LOS FLASHITOS (Jose Luis,Christian,Andres) El Centro,CA ---2,160 points---
4th Place: PSYCHO (Leo,Chan,Keiffer) Calipatria,CA ---2,080 points---
5th Place: KILLER SLUGS (Eddie,Eduardo,Brian) El Centro,CA ---1,500 points---

The point standings where close and out of 20 teams that signed up above are the top 5. They all truly shined in the contest and did exceptionally well. Good job to all 5 of you teams and congratulations to team AMA from Calexico,CA.

On Go Skateboarding Day we had a kickflip challenge in Holtville,CA. Holtville local KEVIN took the 1st place win with 75 consecutive kickflips. 2nd place went to Alex from Calexico,CA with 25 kickflips. And 3rd place went to Ryan from Niland,CA with 23 kickflips.

Also our final installment of the Struggle Skateboards "APPETIZER" promo video went up yesterday. Check it out below. It consists of throw away extra footage clips we had laying around. Enjoy! And PRE ORDER your copy of "SWORN" now!!!

Also we would like to welcome Andrei Archer to the RDT squad here at Struggle. Andrei is from Tampa,Florida and has been representing Struggle for a good while out there. Be on the lookout for him shredding throughout the gator state! Check out video of him below representing!



Also Struggle Am Diego Najera got 1st Place at the PYRO Go Skateboarding Day contest in Mexicali. And Struggle RDT rider got 2nd Place in another contest in Mexicali the week prior. Congrats to both for their great contest results.

We will have photos of the Imperial Valley Rally and kickflip contest winners up soon in our "PHOTOS" section of our Struggle Skateboards site so check it frequently.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

UPDATE #31


For all of you interested in getting a new Struggle deck now is the perfect time! We got a summer special going on in which you can get some FREE griptape with your order as long as you send in the code "FREE-G". Our Special ad offer features our RDT rider Tom Alexander doing a stylish airwalk.

And with Go Skateboarding Day coming up we are going to be the only ones in the Imperial Valley doing an official Go skate day event. Its going down in Holtville,CA at 4:00pm. There will be a kickflip challenge, a BBQ, and we will announce the winners of the Imperial Valley Rally event as well. So come on out and skate with us. We will be throwing out lots of prizes, doing raffles, and hanging out with all of the skateboarders that want to come out!

TEAM NEWS
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DIEGO NAJERA
got the back cover of our newest Struggle Skateboards catalogue. Front Blunt on a rail in Arizona. Big ups to Diego for pulling it off and landing the feature photo.

Also feel free to check out his interview in SEPTICORE magazine. Click the image below to get a more detailed view of the full two page spread interview.

Diego's APPETIZER part also just came out! And the final installment is done as well and will be posted up the second Diego's part has been up for two weeks. Check the skills below!

STRUGGLE SKATEBOARDS APPETIZER PROMO PART 6 of 7 DIEGO NAJERA from Struggle Skateboards on Vimeo.


You can also find Diego on the new DRISCOLLS team roster banner/poster that just released. Struggle skateboards riders RUBEN NAJERA and RAUL CRUZ can be found on it as well!