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.

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!

UPDATE #30

Imperial Valley Rally 2010 is here and its time for you to get your team together! If you happen to live in the Imperial Valley you are about to embark on one of the most entertaining contests you have ever skated it!  And if your not from the Imperial Valley we will have another contest coming up soon that you can enter no matter where you live in the world! 

RUBEN NAJERA got his first official Pro signature lace ad for SCOFF skateboarding. Check it out below. It is featured in the June 2010 issue of LEGITIMATE skateboard magazine.

Also below check out the newest installment of the Appetizer Promo series. A full RUBEN NAJERA promo/throwaway footage part. Enjoy! 

And last but not least. Struggle Skateboards Am DIEGO NAJERA got feature listed amongst all the pros in the past Sun Diego Am Slam contest on their flyer and actually skated in the contest against the likes of Chris Cole ,Greg Lutzka, and various other heavy hitters. Check out the video below the flyer.  

You can spot Diego at 4:23.

UPDATE #29

Struggle Skateboards Am DIEGO NAJERA landed the cover of SEPTICORE magazine! The photo was taken by our very own Pro rider Ruben Najera as well. And yes that is Struggle RDT rider Isaac Awan in the bottom corner filming. You can expect to see this trick and many more hammers from Diego in the upcoming Struggle Skateboards video "SWORN". Go out and demand SEPTICORE magazine in your shop, and if you happen to see a copy around you be sure to snag one for yourself and check out Diegos full page spread interview inside. Diego has also officially added DRISCOLLS as his shop sponsor. 

Also Struggle Skateboards Pro RUBEN NAJERA's "Vacation" deck got reviewed over at the popular BASIL and SPICE's website. CLICK HERE!!!! To read the review.

And Ruben also went out and got some rad first point perspective view footage with his EPIC action sports camera. Definetly a unique new way to get skate clips which really show foot positioning well to!

 And check out his Taildevil mini part as well! Nothing like sparking up the streets and having some fun on your skateboard!

And DRISCOLL's is officially Rubens shop sponsor now and word is that a full length video is in the works as well!

And our very own G ROCKA won the iStandard Producer showcase in Los Angeles. He rocked the Struggle Koi shirt the whole way through. He also scored an interview on their website check it out HERE!!!!
Way to go G ROCKA way to represent Struggle!

RDT rider Raul Cruz has added DRISCOLLS as his shop sponsor. 

Also we would like to wish well to our pro riders Anthony Johnson and Tyrone Olson on their future endeavors. They were awesome team riders and as a tribute below you can watch Anthony's video part for the Appetizer promo which happens to be number 4 of a 7 part series. Maybe we will get a Tyrone part together as well? We hope so.



Also we got the annual IMPERIAL VALLEY RALLY contest coming up! Stay tuned and find out when to sign up. Its FREE for all to enter. We leave you below with video from our latest contest the STRUGGLE SHOWDOWN 2010. Giant thank you to all that came out! And big ups to Alex Pineda for winning himself a sponsorship with us.

And for those of you living in San Diego County we got two new dealers. Buffalo Exchange in Pacific Beach carries the Struggle apparel and the legendary Mcgills Skateshop carries Struggle decks. We printed one more of Anthony Johnsons Pro model Salt lake Scenic deck and got it into Mcgills. Whoever buys that board and gets me a photo of them with the board and receipt gets another FREE deck on us! This is not a joke! Lets see who is down for a free deck! Get at me through email.  struggleskateboards@hotmail.com

BUFFALO EXCHANGE
Pacific Beach
1007 Garnet Avenue
SAN DIEGO, CA 92109

MCGILLS SKATESHOP
335 South Coast Hwy Suite S. 
ENCINITAS, CA 92024

UPDATE #28

The Struggle showdown is going down this weekend and its going to be bigger than ever! See you there! One of the biggest product tosses in Imperial Valley history will go down so get there.

TEAM NEWS
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RUBEN NAJERA got featured in an interview up on BOARD JOY's website. Board Joy is like Ebay but for everything having to do with extreme board sports. Pretty legit! Click the image below to get taken directly to the interview on the website. Be sure to browse the site as well. Maybe sell some goods as well.

Ruben is also featured in a full page ad for GLAMOUR KILLS clothing in the newest issue of Transworld Skateboarding May 2010 issue. Get your copy today and peep Rubens full page ad located in the back end of the magazine next to Transworld's Hallelujah video ad.




ANTHONY JOHNSON gave us word in that he is at work for his own television show! Sounds pretty rad Anthony cant wait to check it out. For sure there will be some other Struggle rider cameos featured on the show! Struggle represent! Oh and Anthonys board is officially in stock and up for sale on the Struggle website get it HERE!

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DIEGO NAJERA got 10th out of 159 of the worlds top Am skateboarders at the recent PHOENIX AM contest! This is an amazing achievement and we are proud of him. Good job Diego your killing it. He also got featured in 2 video montages on The Skateboard Mag's website. Check them out below.
Diego @ 2:05 with a Nollie Kickflip(click below)
http://theskateboardmag.com/watch/phoenix-am-day-1-qualifiers/

Diego @ 2:19 with a Switch bigspin heelflip(click image above or link below)
http://theskateboardmag.com/watch/phoenix-am-day-2-finals/

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Mariano Valenzuela and the rest of the RDT squad have their full parts up in the latest installment of the appetizer promo. Check it out below!

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Raul Cruz got a photo of his featured in the latest issue of Legitimate Skateboard magazine. Holding up some dollar bills. It was featured in a Struggle Skateboards WILD IN THE VALLEY article that was featured in the magazine.

If Feldman sent us over a sweet trick tip on him showing you how to do proper Nollie kickflips check it out!

Also featured in the latest issue of Legitimate Skateboard magazine was an ad for our SWORN video which got the back cover of the first issue of Legitimate.

We are also going to be accepting Pre-Orders for the SWORN video soon so get at us if you want to save yourself a copy already!

UPDATE #27

The final results of the recent Struggle Skateboards "Battle of the crews" contest are up. It was such a close competition every team in the competition did exceptionally well. Thanks to all that came out.

TEAM NEWS
-PRO-

TYRONE OLSON just got back from Tampa Pro representing Struggle Skateboards in full effect. Tyrone placed 46th out of the 82 street qualifiers. Super stoked for Tyrone and glad to have him repping us in the contests. Tyrone's new Struggle pro deck comes out in April as well. The Wisconsin Beer Badger deck will be up for Pre-Order very soon so stay tuned! here is some video of Tyrone at practice before Tampa Pro 2010 you can spot him at :40 seconds.


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DIEGO NAJERA is featured in our latest ad in TRANSWORLD skateboarding. Which is the April 2010 issue. You can find it on shelves as we speak and its available pretty much everywhere magazines are sold.

-RDT-

If Feldman sent us in some new footage of him shredding on his Struggle deck check it out below.

Also be sure to check out our APPETIZER PROMO!! Which is out as we speak. Every two weeks we will be releasing a new part to the video. Two parts have already been released within the last month. Both the FRIENDS section and the RDT struggle riders part 1 section have been released so be sure to check them both out. Its a FREE video for all to see and it counts down towards the full length "SWORN" DVD which will be released in late May early June of 2010. Below are the first two parts. There will be 5 total videos in the APPETIZER series so be sure to check them all out!
PART 1 of 5.

PART 2 of 5.

UPDATE #26

email us at struggleskateboards@hotmail.com
for all pre-sign ups!

Also we will be doing a skateboarding demo in Mexicali, Mexico on the 21st of March at Rio Nuevo Skatepark!


You can also now buy STRUGGLE skateboards product exclusively at PYRO SKATESHOP in Mexicali,Mexico. PYRO is our exclusive dealer in Mexico! Below is the address.

PYRO CLOTHING & SKATEBOARDS
BLVD. BENITO JUAREZ 1973-4
RESIDENCIAS
MEXICALI, B.C.
www.myspace.com/pyromxl


Also if you happen to live in the rad state of Florida you can purchase Struggle product from our new shop dealer there.
TREASURE COAST SK8 SHOP
741 SEBASTIAN BLVD. #2
SEBASTIAN, FL 32958
Be sure to check them out if you happen to be around the city of Sebastian and the friendly staff at Treasure Coast will take care of all our Struggle product and skate needs.