Posts tagged Johnny Layton
Vans Team Help Open Jack's Garage in Dana Point
Posted April 11, 2012, 1:38 a.m.
Jack's Garage in Dana Point had a grand opening of mega proportions on Saturday and decided to invite some of skateboarding's elite to christen the new Jack's Garage skate shop. The Vans posse showed up to sign body parts and posters and Dill and AVE decided to unveil their new Syndicate collaboration shoes. Hot dogs and pizza were provided for the beach babies; shirts and posters were handed out to everyone from girlfriends to grandmas. There was ...
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Come Meet the Vans Team this Weekend!
Posted April 6, 2012, 10:30 p.m.
Hey Southern California skate rats, we want to see you in Dana Point tomorrow, Saturday, April 7 at 1 PM for the Grand Opening of the new Jack's Garage skateshop. Vans team riders Anthony Van Engelen, Johnny Layton, Andrew Allen, Daniel Lutheran, Curren Caples plus Jason Dill and whole slew of other pros from around the industry will be on hand to meet and greet and shred the gnar with you! In addition to the demos, free give aways ...
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Vans Video Update from South America: Part 2
Posted April 5, 2012, 4:19 p.m.
Last week we told you the guys went down to South America for a filming mission with Greg Hunt for the new Vans video. Geoff Rowley, Tony Trujillo, Chima Ferguson, Daniel Lutheran, Johnny Layton and Chris Pfanner landed safely in Chile and then…radio silence. A week passed with no word on their where-abouts or well being. We started to worry. It wasn’t like them not to check in. We emailed Sharon Lutheran, Daniel’s mom, because if anyone ...
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Vans Video Update from South America: Part 1
Posted March 26, 2012, 6:38 a.m.
A new international filming mission has begun. A five man crew of Tony Trujillo, Chima Ferguson, Daniel Lutheran, Johnny Layton and Chris Pfanner along with Greg Hunt, Cody Green and Anthony Acosta just embarked for South America yesterday. Straight off a 15 hour flight to Chile, directly into an autograph signing at an "extreme" mall. The place had a skatepark, wave machine and nothing but shops that sold stuff that was "extreme." A bunch of kids came out and got ...
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Johnny Layton Week Ends: Five Favorites
Posted Feb. 24, 2012, 11:58 a.m.
"Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eye lashes
Silver white winters that melt into spring...these are a few of my favorite things!"
Everybody has got their staples, their favorite things they can't live without.
For Final Day of Johnny Layton Week we follow JLAY around
Long Beach to check out five of his favorite spots:
Video by Grant Hatfield
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Johnny Layton Week: Acosta's Angles
Posted Feb. 23, 2012, 4:19 p.m.
At Vans we’re lucky to have two of the best in the business in filmer Greg Hunt and photographer Anthony Acosta helping us show you all the great skating our guys are doing for this upcoming Vans video. For the 4th day of Johnny Layton Week we dug through Anthony Acosta's archives for some of his classic shots of JLAY from over the years.
We were at Woodward for a week Johnny and Andrew Allen came. We had ...
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Johnny Layton Week: Toy Machine Ad Archive
Posted Feb. 22, 2012, 9:41 p.m.
Day 3 of Johnny Layton Week continues. The first two days we had a two-part interview with JLAY. (Here's JLAY PART 1 & JLAY PART 2 if you missed them.) With Daniel Lutheran Week we raided his cellphone and planned on doing the same with Johnny until we got an unexpected email from Ed Templeton. We had hit up Ed to see if we could get the ad Johnny had mentioned with his dad in Iraq with the spray painted ...
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Johnny Layton Week: Exclusive Interview Part 2
Posted Feb. 21, 2012, 7:53 a.m.
Yesterday began Johnny Layton's Rider Week with Part 1 of his exclusive interview on how he started skating and got on Toy Machine. Today we continue with the 2nd part of his interview where we learn about how he got on Vans, his near baseball career, bumming out Brian Wenning and what it took to ollie the Pulaski Double Wall.
FYI, one by one, week by week, we’ll be focusing on all your favorite Vans riders. We’re ...
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JLay Interview on ESPN
Posted Feb. 21, 2012, 6:37 a.m.
In Support of Johnny Layton Week his Toy MachineTeam Manager, Mike Sinclair, interviewed him for ESPN HEREabout being a Big Boy.
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Johnny Layton Week: Exclusive Interview Part 1
Posted Feb. 20, 2012, 1:24 p.m.
Welcome back to the second installment of Vans Rider’s Week. This week we feature another Toy Machine team member and long-time Vans rider, Johnny Layton aka J-Lay. We start the week off with an in-depth interview covering J-Lay’s early days, his ties to Neil Heddings, how he won his spot on Toy Machine, who he pissed off by switch tre-ing MACBA, how he could have been a pro baseball player and his historic ollie at Pulaski. We cover ...
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