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Andrew Allen Week Day 1: Blasts From The Past
Posted March 19, 2012, 1:49 a.m.
Welcome back to the latest installment of Vans Rider Week. This week we focus on The Mayor of San Juan Capistrano, Anti Hero pro, Andrew Allen. Typically we set the week off with an exclusive interview with the rider but we've decided to save that until tomorrow and instead begin with Andrew's four major interviews from the past few years. As we were researching Andrew for his exclusive interview Thrasher, Transworld, Skateboarder and The Skateboard Mag were good ...
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Elijah Berle Week Day 4: Baby Pictures & Cover Talk
Posted March 8, 2012, 3:03 a.m.
ELIJAH BERLE: THEN AND NOW
Ever wonder what some of your favorite skaters looked like when they were just starting out? Well, with Elijah Berle you don't have to wonder anymore. We hit up Elijah's mom and like all moms she was more than happy to hand over some baby photos of young Elijah. We, of course, refused the naked baby Elijah in the bathtub photos. Thanks anyway, mom.
So for the 4th day of Elijah Berle Week ...
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Elijah Berle Week Day 3: Five Favorites
Posted March 6, 2012, 8:01 p.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 third Day of Elijah Berle Week we follow Elijah around Venice and Santa Monica to check out five of his favorite spots:
Video by Grant Hatfield
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Elijah Berle Week Day 2: TSM YBAM Interview
Posted March 6, 2012, 1:46 a.m.
Welcome back to Day 2 of Elijah Berle's Rider Week here at Vans. Yesterday we set things off with a lengthy, exclusive interview with Elijah.
If you happen to live under a rock and don't realize the strategic timing of Elijah's Week, then chances are you didn't get the latest issue of The Skateboard Mag where they awarded Elijah 2011 Year's Best Am. And if you didn't get the issue or you don't ...
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Elijah Berle Week Day 1: Exclusive Interview
Posted March 5, 2012, 1:41 a.m.
Back on December 6th, 2011 we officially announced Elijah Berle and Daniel Lutheran as our newest full-on ams after them putting in serious time and miles of shredding. Since then Elijah has been on the road filming non-stop for the upcoming Chocolate video. Recently The Skateboard Mag crowned him Year's Best Am and so it was only fitting that we dedicate our third Rider Week (after Daniel Lutheran's and Johnny Layton's) to young Elijah. For Day 1 ...
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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: 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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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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Daniel Lutheran Week Continues with Dial Up Memories
Posted Feb. 8, 2012, 7 a.m.
For as long as the world has been hearing about Daniel Lutheran they've been hearing stories about all the photos he carries around in his cellphone. He literally has thousands upon thousands of shots that he takes around with him at all times. We asked him to share a few of his favorites with us. We were going to call this The Lutheran Eleven but he just kept finding images that he was stoked on. Here are some of ...
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