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 Norman, Eric Ricks and Ryan Fitch.
Bam Margera is one of those skaters you either love or hate. How did Bam Margera rise to such popularity? Well I guess it all started when Bam met Mike Maldonado in Pennsylvania. Mike met Bam Margera at a skatepark and got Bam Margera to start skating street. As time went on, Bam Margera got sponsored. In a wise move, Bam Margera decided to quit school and move to California to pursue skateboarding (even though this is rarely a wise move). This was probably during the mid 1990s. Continue reading →
Lot’s of San Francisco hill bombing and tranny skating. Pretty typical video for a mid-90s skate vid. Very home video style. The opening scene is pretty crazy – long-ass hill bomb in the rain. Continue reading →
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. Continue reading →
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. Continue reading →
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… Continue reading →
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