SEP 03: Coming Very Soon !!!!

Text: Hali Estrada.
Photos: Gunther Estrada.

We had a great weekend with the beautiful models Cat, Chara and Bree for the new upcoming PRO-Series. The new boards are looking hot and they will be release on September 20th. Thanks so much to the talented Dinah and Erica , you girls rock !! :) and of course to our dear friend the amazing Jessica Louise :).  We are lucky to be surrounded by so many talented people, thats why we love to live here in the City of the Angels ;) so make sure to come back on the 20th to check the new Boards and to get one before they are gone :).

CFL.

AUG 17: New Colors !!!

By Hali Estrada.

Its been hotter than hell lately here in the city the Angeles so is the perfect time for two new color combos of the “Chongoatia” Team Board, ( Pink and Turquoise) available now in all sizes. Some more new stuff is coming very soon and the new store and website are looking pretty good and will be ready in no time so keep checking back for all the updates.

AUG 16: New L.A Headquarters

By Hali Estrada.

We are finally set up at our new headquarters on Main Street in Los Angeles and we are working right now on a New website and a New store so we will let you know as soon as we have everything ready to go. Thanks to everybody that helped with the move and make sure to check back for all the new stuff !!!. CFL !!.

AUG 06: How to 360 KickFlip ??

By Hali Estrada.

The best way to learn anything is by watching the Pros doing it and by practicing a lot, no words and no explanations, nobody can really teach you how to do a trick, specially a 360 kick flip, everybody has their own way and their own style to do it. You can certainly learn a couple of things by watching Sebas doing his thing in this clip filmed by Gunther on a sunny afternoon in “The City of the Angels”, and maybe you can get some of Sebas wings by buying one of his PRO boards, now available also in 8.5 so what are you waiting for ???.

CFL.

JUL 25: Jesus Pop.

By Hali estrada.

Los Angeles is an amazing city for Skateboarding, you can find spots everywhere you go; the other day Gunther took us to this spot outside  American Apparel where you can find a series of banks one after another,  Jesus brought his picnic table and Gunther took some nice pictures of what I like to call the “Jesus Pop” which you can see in the Ad below. After Jesus and Giancarlo tried some other stuff we head to another spot we found the week before to get some footage, the day was perfect and we got a couple nice lines there; after a couple more hours we went to Salman Agha’s “Pizzanista” to get some Pizza before calling it a day. So whats the point of this entry ? very simple, you want “Jesus Pop”? then go get his “Dragon Board”. Made 100% in USA by Skateboarders using the best materials and the latest “Secret Technology” :/ to make you POP way over shit just like Jesus :) and if you act now you will receive a FREE logo tshirt so what are you waiting for ??.

JUN 21: Skateboarding Day ???

By Hali estrada.

I’ve been Skateboarding for  almost 25 years now and during all this time only injuries made me stop, like in 1997 when I Hyperextended my knee fracturing my femur a tearing my ligaments, the Doctors said I wasn’t going to be able to Skate ever again but I was back on my Board after 5 months and Im still Skating to this day.  Growing up we never had a “Go Skateboarding Day” and I think that if Skateboarding wasn’t as popular as it is now a “Go Skateboarding Day” wouldn’t exist. Go Skateboarding Day is EVERY DAY, at least for me.

June 21st had a different meaning for me growing up, June 21st is my Dads Birthday. My Dad was born in 1944 in Tacna, a South Province in my home country Peru and he moved to Lima (The Capital ) when he was 4 years old. He went to school in Lima and after High School he got a daytime job to pay for his University classes  where he met my Mom, they got married after a while  and they had 3 kids, I was their first child.

My Dad is a great man, he might have a masters degree in finances and a 10 inches thick resume but he is way more than that; My Dad  is a funny and creative man; He made a Styrofoam cutter out of a battery and a little cable to make us Styrofoam planes when we were kids; He draw a huge Spiderman in our room and let us draw whatever we wanted on those walls too; He grabbed a piece of thick wood in 1987 and made us Skateboards heavier than life, later in 1991 he covered with Fiberglass a home-made board I broke in an early attempt to make a board with Concave; He recovered my stupid $120 Reebok Pump sneakers after I got robbed; He loved to play the guitar ( Until I broke it, sorry Dad); He likes mysteries and UFO’s; He loves books and he reads a lot; He has a huge library constantly growing and he has one million stories to tell…So to me he is an inventor, a painter, a comedian, a carpenter, a musician, a handyman, a hero and more than anything a dreamer, he bought a doorbell and the bell before even owning a house.

Our parents always supported us when it came to Skateboarding and Im grateful to had parents that let us be who we wanted to be and let us follow our dreams even if they took us far away from them. So today being my Dads Birthday and also the so called “Go Skateboarding Day” I was thinking that birthdays, holidays, anniversaries and every other kind of “Special Day” doesn’t mean that all the other days are not special or important. Every single day is Go Skateboarding Day and we grow older by the second so lets celebrate today, tomorrow and everyday. Happy Birthday Dad !!!! ;)