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.

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.

Trauma – La Deca-Danse

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Company:

Trauma Skateboards

Alex Richard part

Oscar Candon part

Ben Delaboulaye part

Julien Merour part

Melting part

Year Released:

2011

Featuring:

  • Alex Richard
  • Ben Delaboulaye
  • Guillaume Martinez
  • Jeremy Garcia
  • Julien Merour
  • Julien Morin
  • Nicolas Rouquette
  • Oscar Candon
  • Walid Mamine

El Commander Says:

I’m going to assume this footage is from Europe. France? Europe is one of those places where the cities are either impossible to skate or they’re perfect. I remember going to Italy in the 1990s right after I thought I was going to start a skateboarding wheel company. I had some wheel samples with me and I thought I could pop into a skate shop or two and start building some overseas customers. No deal. The streets where impossible to skate on. Everything was cobble stone or rough as hell.

But then you watch this video and there’s marble and smooth surfaces for days. You just never know! Maybe that’s why Italy doesn’t have much of a skate scene? It’s all in France and Spain from what I gather. If you’re ever in Seville (Sevilla), there’s these amazing tranny-columns in the middle of the town. Skate em!