This article was written for skateboarders and hopefully you will figure out that elskateshop.com is a skateboard shop. After speaking with skateboarders and receiving thousands of sponsor me tapes we figured this topic needed to be addressed.
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El Skate Shop - The Wildest Skateboard Shop in the West
El Skate Shop began in 2002 as online shop AND brick and mortar shop in Huntington Beach, CA. At 177 square feet we were fairly certain we owned the title of "Smallest Skate Shop in The World".We also went by the slogan of "The Almost Non-Profit Skate Shop" where we priced our inventory very low in order to make easier for people to keep skating. You could buy blank decks from $16 to $20. Grip was $3.
As of 2021, elskateshop.com is mostly an archival site. However, we still do sell grip tape, wax and hardware and may one day get back into the business of selling skate goods.
Past team riders included Dallas Rockvam, Aaron Babila, Chris Treiber, Chris Hernandez, Mike Davidson, Matt Bublitz, Amber Moffatt, Darrell Noran, Eric Ricks and Ryan Fitch.
Check out some skater profiles like Wee Man, Bam Margera, Danny Way, Andrew Reynolds, Eric Koston, Riley Hawk and Geoff Rowley. We try our hardest to make these entertaining reads. If not, let us know and we'll revise em for ya.
This video must live on.
This is from that weird era when there were two companies: Baker and Bootleg. They had the same font in their logos. Both teams kind of had the same demeanor. It was almost like Girl and Chocolate – but it wasn’t. They were two completely different companies ran out of two different distributions.
If you want to know where Bam Margera got his “game” from you need to look no further than a skateboard video put out by Big Brother Magazine back in 1995.
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Choosing the right wheels size for your board ain’t that hard. A lot of it comes down to how much you want to push and how high off the ground you want to be.
When it comes to street skating, I’ve always found it awkward to ride big wheels – your ollies seem sketchier with big weels and your flips become cumbersome. But that’s just me…
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We’re down for small shops and we want to make sure we spread your store far and wide.
If you would like to include your shop in our directory, please email us a description about why your shop is rad. Use the contact form on the bottom right side of the page.
Please include a link to some photos of your shop.
Thanks!
– El Skate Shop
Welcome To Skateboard Hell…
Maybe most of you know this already.
But this is warning to the entire world. SO LISTEN UP!
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Because.
Because Anti Hero is the exact opposite of Nike.
It’s actually the exact opposite of a lot of things. And that’s a good thing!
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Our long-time friend Frank is in this band. It’s yummy.
Company:
Thrasher
This guy has some pretty smooth style. Check him out!
If skateboarding had a bible – this would be it.
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