Crusiers

Emerica Andrew Reynolds Crusiers complete with G2 in the heel.

Scrape by the Lake - 10th Anniversary

Last weekend THE premiere Ontario car show, Scrape by the Lake, celebrated it's 10th Anniversary in serious style down in Niagara. Sponsored by Etnies and LRG, Scrape is run by Faction Sales' own Joe Wing and his renowned Rollerz Only car club. This year the place was packed with over 5000 people and showcased over 700 cars in addition to some skateboard and motocross demos and everybody's favorite 'Miss Scrape by the Lake' bikini pageant.

Click HERE and HERE for more info.

etnies Brett Simpson wins US Open of Surf 2009

LAKE FOREST, CA. (July 26, 2009) Today etnies, own Brett Simpson was awarded $100,000 for winning the US Open of Surf in front of his hometown crowd on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier. This is the largest amount a surfer has ever won at a single contest! I couldn't ask for more than to win that at home. I am so stoked I won my first 6-star WQS event at home!

-Brett Simpson

US Open of Surf 2009 Results:
1. Brett Simpson
2. Mick Fanning

Check out etnies.com for additional details on the etnies surf team!

10 with Cairo (exclusive Timebomb interview)

Our own Andrea Tam hooked up 10 with RVCA's Cairo Foster. The people want to know. Click THIS.

Experience Bali

Introducing the Bali Focus. From surfer to environmentalist, the Rob Machado Experience continues, this time focusing on Rob's passion for photography and directly applying to his signature frame. Each year while Rob was on tour he would travel with different cameras. One year it would be a 35mm, the next it would be a Polaroid. Years later, he would find himself consistently coming back to one of his favorite Indonesian surf spots, where he took this photograph and appropriately named it Bali Focus.

Slap Magazine Featuring LRG In China !!!!

Another amazing tour article done up by by the LRG skate team and of course Joe Brook and the Slap crew, scope the HD tour vid on the last page, be patient for it to load it's well worth the viewing, Anthony Claravall killed it on the filming, Love that dude !

Click here to go to Slap to scope it !

Cool Kids

Super hyped on this show. If you are in the Toronto area you are lucky for this one.

SBC Skateboard Magazine Deer Man Contest !

Click here for contest details !

eS Game of S.K.A.T.E. - Ontario Finals

This past Sunday the Ontario finals for the eS Game of S.K.A.T.E. went down. It was a long contest with over 100 skaters vying for the $500 cash prize. Some seriously intense games went down with the provinces best shredders going head to head, but in the end the last two left standing were the past two years previous winners Mike Mains and TJ Rogers. It was an epic game but in the end the victor would be TJ taking out a super game Mains with a perfectly crispy full cab flip. Big ups to TJ, everybody that skated and to everyone that showed up, it was an awesome day and an amazing contest!

No coping?, No problem! BMX Jam Series

August 16th - at William Griffin Bowl, North Vancouver
September 13th - at Seylynn Park, North Vancouver

The follow up series to last years "Gapping That Hip"

Free to enter, tons of prizes and cash for the pros!
We call it, you land it, you win...that simple.
Old school snake runs, loud music, and bmx.
What more could you want?
make sure you check the killemall promotion site for details...

FUCKED UP - Toronto Show Photos

Here are a few pics from the beautiful chaos that was the Fucked Up homecoming show that went down last Thursday in front of the 750 person capacity crowd. Amazing sets by Vivian Girls and Women. And if you didn't get your ltd. FU x Altamont t-shirt at the show, then sorry, they sold out! But some more awesome stuff is in the works.

For more photos click HERE courtesy of our friend Jess Baumung.

Thirty-Two outerwear launch re-cap

The hundreds of snowboarders, retailers, media and hipsters at the ThirtyTwo Outerwear Launch Party, in the etnies Showroom in SoHo last night, won't ever forget it! They previewed ThirtyTwo's first- ever outerwear collection, hung out with team riders JP Walker, Joe Sexton and Simon Chamberlain and saw a sneak peak of the ThirtyTwo and StepChild movie “This Video Sucks." The party made such an impact that the NYPD shut it down just before JP Walker's part was played on the sneak peek. More HERE.

BJ Penn

RVCA's BJ Penn jumps out of a 3 foot pool while training for his upcoming fight. Almost 3 million hits! Check it HERE.

Brakeless

A little late on this post but had to clean out the photo files. Shouts out to Brakeless in Montreal who helped us with RVCA's Council Of Doom premiere. A good 75 people took the mass bike ride that ended up with our RVCA rep Gui getting into an altercation with one of those heated MTL drivers. Yes, cops came and in the end Gui got his freedom.

Visually Heard Raekwon

LRG's inside scoop on the Raekwon photo shoot can be seen HERE.

Open Happiness

Wondering where that $2,000 LRG jacket went? Well here it is. 
Here is a VIDEO that will clearly be way too happy for Mr.Birnie featuring Cee-Lo (Dungeon Family), Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes), Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy), Janelle Monae & Brandon Urie ( Panic At The Disco).

Dinosaur Jr's ‘Over It'

Some great skate and BMX action in the new VIDEO featuring some etnies kicks. Are they really that good?

Pacific Division

LRG fam Pacific Division drops a new MIXTAPE.

eastcoast annual skateboard tour

Broken Social Scene - Show of the Year!

If you weren't there then you've probably heard about it and probably know that you missed out BIG TIME! If you were there then you know how epic this show was. Over 6,000 Torontonians packed it in on the edge of Lake Ontario to see their hometown heroes and RVCA friends Broken Social Scene play what has already been touted by local music media as "one of the most significant Canadian concerts of the decade". The band played for nearly 3 hours and were joined on stage by friends Feist, Metric, the Stars, and Jason Collett playing all their classics as well as favourites from the previously mentioned bands. BSS frontman Kevin Drew was even overheard saying "...that was the best show we've ever played". The concert was also filmed my marquee Canadian filmmaker Bruce Macdonald for an upcoming feature film.

Click HERE to see BSS play the classic 'Anthems...' with guests Feist, Emily Haines (Metric), and Amy Millan (Stars). This was the highlight of the show.

Click HERE to see some amazing photos of the event.

Off The Hook

OFF THE HOOK in Montreal finished their new ad campaign. See them in person if you are ever in MTL and say what up!

Fucked Up x Altamont LTD. t's

Here are some shots of the ltd. edition Fucked Up x Altamont t's that will be available for one night only...TONITE, at their big homecoming show at the Phoenix in downtown Toronto. These shirts have been made to a limited run of only 75 so tonite is your chance to be one of the select few to pick one up. The artwork features all the Fucked Up 7" labels from the last few years, with a few secrets and surprises upon closer inspection. This is definitely one for the record collector heads. Props to the Bait Shop for the awesome screening work on the shirts.

For more info on the big show tonite click HERE!

eS Zine

Here's some excerpts from the upcoming eS Zine, dropping at some of your favorite skate shops soon.

Formerly recognized as Freshjive

From Rick Klotz; Since I started Freshjive, I have had a personal conflict with this business of "branding". In fact, I was so conflicted at one time, that I quit working. I am in the business of promoting the company brand yet personally I am not interested in items for the brand name. It's a bit of a quagmire with me because I hate the culture of promoting a brand yet I enjoy designing clothes and t shirt designs.

Beginning with our spring 2010 line, we will no longer be using our brand logo or name on any of our product, including all labeling and t shirt designs. Nowhere on any product will our name or previous brand logo be used anymore.

Thirty Two outwear launch party