AND THE WINNERS ARE......

This years Imperial Valley Rally contest was super close! In the end 

"THE FUNKY DANK" team with members from Brawley,Westmorland,and Imperial won. 

Freddie Ortiz from the FUNKY DANK team with his teams prizes. CONGRATS to FREDDIE, VARGAS, and FLIPPY on the Imperial Valley Ralley win!!! And a tremendous thanks to the sponsors:

UPFUL hardware

UNDERGROUND WHEELS

CVZ clothing

SKATEAID

and FRSH apparel 

for the amazing prizes they contributed to the winners. 

2nd Place team GOOMBAS (Isaac, James, and Diego) El Centro,CA

3rd Place team SK8SQUAD (Ricky,Kevin,and Steven) El Centro,CA 

Team Dulhja from Niland came in a close 4th place. With literally 30 points away from 3rd place.

Below are the top 6 scores.

1st  THE FUNKY DANK  3,490 points

2nd  GOOMBAS  3,035 points

3rd  SK8SQUAD  2,550 points

4th  DULHJA  2,520 points

5h   BAND AID SISTERS 2,125 points

6th  TEAM ALPHA SUPER COOL DYNOMITE WOLF QUADRANT  1,975 points 

We also held a Kickflip competition on the same day as the IVR awards. There was tough competition for second place but Isaac Awan took the 1st place gold with ease. 

Isaac Awan with his 84th kickflip.

2nd Place Henry Beltran did 11 kickflips. And Isaac Awan took the gold with 86 kickflips in a row.

It was also official GO SKATEBOARDING DAY and we would like to thank everyone of you that came out to skate with Struggle. Much love and we look forward to doing this every year to come. 

On a side note we would like to welcome some new riders to our squad as well. 

Tommy Ries from Wooster,Ohio is now a part of our Flow Team. 

And Adam Mitchell, Dana Phillips, and Ryan Quent from Wooster,Ohio are all now on our RDT program. Super pumped to have them joining the Struggle and be on the lookout for some coverage on our new riders! 

GO SKATEBOARDING DAY!!!!

This upcoming weekend is GO SKATEBOARDING DAY!!! No one is doing anything for the Imperial Valley so we figured we might as well make something happen! The 2nd annual Struggle Kickflip challenge which is open to "UNSPONSORED" riders only this year. And of course free entry if you have a Struggle board. Also we will hold the IMPERIAL VALLEY RALLY 3 award ceremony on this day. So if you were a part of a team that participated this year be sure to show up. If none of the team members from the "winning" team show up then the first place prize automatically goes to the 2nd place runners up. SO BE THERE!!!

Oh yeah! And you can now order STRUGGLE skateboard goods through our newest online retailer. 

OCSKATEBOARDING.COM

click on the link to check out the shop! They have all 3 of our PRO decks in stock at the moment!

UPDATE #12

The Imperial Valley Rally entries are in and currently being looked over and judged at the moment. Stay tuned for an announcement as to where the "Award Ceremony" will be held. It will probably be done in conjunction with another event as well.

Speaking of events this upcoming weekend (Saturday June 6th) you can find some of our Struggle riders doing a demo for you over at the Imperial Valley Fairgrounds. The demo is indoors and is part of an IVROP event is going down hand in hand with the city.

The "BRAND SPANKING NEW" Struggle Skateboards website is done as you may very well have already checked out! It took a while but we are proud of the outcome and the new look. There are tons of new features on it and be sure to join our very own "Children of the Struggle" skate community that we have going now. So many great things to come from Struggle in the near future so stay tuned and keep checking back for the updates.

Also we would like to make you all aware of the newest Struggle dealing shop.

GREY SOCIETY SKATESHOP
133 North Bever St.
WOOSTER, OH 44691

and also for you Illinois shredders out there you can get your goods over at:

TWIN RIVERS ARCHERY

207 North State St.
JERSEYVILLE, IL 62052

both are owned and operated by an amazing kind staff that cares about skateboarders. Be sure to support those core shops if you happen to live nearby them.

We got our "promo" video in the editing bay at the moment. The name might change for it but for now we are calling it "Continuum". Maybe we should do a video naming contest? What do you guys think?

TEAM NEWS

ANTHONY JOHNSON recently got a full interview in the latest "Heavy Water Magazine" issue.

TYRONE OLSON has currently been logging in even more clips for the latest Struggle promo and full length video due out 2010.

RUBEN NAJERA now has his own POWERBAR display which will be featured at just about every grocery store and convenient store in the United States and select countries carrying Powerbar products. Expect to see the display sometime within the next coming months.

FLOW

Former RDT rider Mariano Valenzuela just got bumped up to flow for us. Congrats!

Rigo Soto recently got back from a photo shoot. Be on the lookout for the trick evidence soon.

RDT
We would like to welcome IF FELDMAN to the RDT squad!! Welcome aboard mate! If is from Beavercreek,Oregon!

Also for those of you that took notice or might have missed it. We got a contest going on in our "Contest" section of the all new Struggle website. We need a NEW Struggle flash banner! The winner gets hooked up legit!! So get on it with your creative skills and get at us with a new Struggle banner!