Andrew Allen
ANDREW ALLEN STATS...
Hometown
San Juan Capistrano, California
Currently Resides
San Juan Capistrano, California
Sponsors
Vans shoes and clothing, Anti-Hero skateboards, Spitfire wheels, Independent trucks
Date of Birth: March 12th 1986
First board: Don't remember but it had a gator on it.
On Vans since: 2003
Nickname: Most recent one is Brondo.
Stance: Regular
Shoe size: 9.5
ANDREW ALLEN BIO...
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ANDREW ALLEN INTERVIEW...
What shoe do you skate?
The Old Skool or AV SK8-LO.
What’s your set up?
Anti-Hero 8.06 x 32 deck, 53mm Spitfire Classics, Indy 139s, Swiss bearings.
What’s the best trip you’ve ever been on?
Israel. We had a good crew and our tour guide, Avi, gave us the royal treatment with skate spots, sight seeing and nightlife.
What is the best story you’ve ever heard or been told?
Read any Jeff Grosso interview. Those are pretty moving.
Favorite Vans rider?
Nathan Fletcher. Dude rips at surfing.
What trick can’t you do that you wish you could?
Regular 360 flips.
What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?
I try to take the bad with the good.
What are some interests outside of skating?
Beach life is awesome in the summertime.
Last good book you read?
Freaky Dancin’. It's a biography of Bez from the band Happy Mondays. It's fascinating to read about how insane the dude's life has been.
Five songs that have to be on a mix tape?
The Scarface soundtrack sums it up.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
I have no idea.
Five essentials for any Anti-Hero road trip?
Skateboard, sleeping bag, knife, fresh socks, lighter.
Any useful camping lessons to share with the kids?
Watch footage of Frank Gerwer to learn how to stoke a fire.
I know you’re getting more into food these days, who is your favorite chef?
I don’t really have one, but my brother-in-law cooked Thanksgiving the other day and it was super good, so I’ll give it to him.
If you were going to the electric chair, what would your last meal consist of?
A steak, mashed potatoes, asparagus, and a Stella.
Hometown
San Juan Capistrano, California
Currently Resides
San Juan Capistrano, California
Sponsors
Vans shoes and clothing, Anti-Hero skateboards, Spitfire wheels, Independent trucks
Date of Birth: March 12th 1986
First board: Don't remember but it had a gator on it.
On Vans since: 2003
Nickname: Most recent one is Brondo.
Stance: Regular
Shoe size: 9.5
ANDREW ALLEN BIO...
Coming soon.
ANDREW ALLEN INTERVIEW...
What shoe do you skate?
The Old Skool or AV SK8-LO.
What’s your set up?
Anti-Hero 8.06 x 32 deck, 53mm Spitfire Classics, Indy 139s, Swiss bearings.
What’s the best trip you’ve ever been on?
Israel. We had a good crew and our tour guide, Avi, gave us the royal treatment with skate spots, sight seeing and nightlife.
What is the best story you’ve ever heard or been told?
Read any Jeff Grosso interview. Those are pretty moving.
Favorite Vans rider?
Nathan Fletcher. Dude rips at surfing.
What trick can’t you do that you wish you could?
Regular 360 flips.
What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?
I try to take the bad with the good.
What are some interests outside of skating?
Beach life is awesome in the summertime.
Last good book you read?
Freaky Dancin’. It's a biography of Bez from the band Happy Mondays. It's fascinating to read about how insane the dude's life has been.
Five songs that have to be on a mix tape?
The Scarface soundtrack sums it up.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
I have no idea.
Five essentials for any Anti-Hero road trip?
Skateboard, sleeping bag, knife, fresh socks, lighter.
Any useful camping lessons to share with the kids?
Watch footage of Frank Gerwer to learn how to stoke a fire.
I know you’re getting more into food these days, who is your favorite chef?
I don’t really have one, but my brother-in-law cooked Thanksgiving the other day and it was super good, so I’ll give it to him.
If you were going to the electric chair, what would your last meal consist of?
A steak, mashed potatoes, asparagus, and a Stella.
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Back in 2006, wen The Skateboard Mag was still in its infancy, we took a trip down Mexico way for them with Geoff Rowley, Dustin Dollin, Andrew Allen, Van Wastell (R.I.P.) and a bunch of former Vans riders. Recently TSM reposted the 7 year old article for us to enjoy again.
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The latest installment of The Skateboard Mag's man about town Atiba Jefferson's Sorry For Partying web-sensation has clips from Anthony Van Engelen, Jason Dill and Andrew Allen:
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Head over to ESPN for a fun interview with Andrew Allen about his love for the movie Point Break.
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For those of you who live in a cave and haven't seen the latest King of the Road or have neighbors that steal your Thrasher from your mailbox, Thrasher was kind enough to roll out each webisode one by one starring our own Tony Trujillo, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner, Gilbert Crockett, Daniel Lutheran, John Cardiel. We'll gather them here for your viewing pleasure
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Check out this unseen footage of Andrew Allen, Tony Trujillo, Chima Ferguson, Omar Hassan and team manager Jamie Hart shot by Su Young Choi on an Australia tour back in 2009:
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The latest issue of Thrasher is the heralded, annual King of the Road issue, it includes an hour+ DVD of the fun and it's in skateshops now!
This year a number of Vans riders were On The Road including Andrew Allen who was on the Anti Hero team that got switch-first place. We caught up with Andrew to get a set of six of his road memories from this year's KOTR.
6 Essential Road Jams
1. Roger Miller ...
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Andrew Allen is the guest on the final episode of the Bones Brigade Trivia Show where the topic of discussion is Stacy Peralta's legendary film "The Search for Animal Chin."
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The 2012 Thrasher King of the Road teams are out on the highway, looking for adventure. We'll gather the links to all the team blogs here to keep you up to date with the action:
Anti Hero
—Anti Hero Blog #1
—Anti Hero Blog #2
—Anti hero Blog #3
Toy Machine
—Toy Machine Blog #1
—Toy Machine Blog #2
—Toy Machine Blog #3
—Toy Machine Blog #4
Alien Workshop
—Alien Workshop Blog #1
—Alien Workshop Blog #2
—Alien Workshop ...
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Last week Thrasher announced the four teams that will be in King of the Road this a bunch of Vans riders were in the mix to get voted onto the tour with Toy Machine, Anti Hero, Alien Workshop and Creature.The people have spoken, the votes have been counted and Phelps is here to announce who gets in the van from each team! Head to Thrasher for all the riders' profiles.
Congrats to the Vans riders who made it!
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Part 2 of Skateboarder Magazine's Mehring's Bearings in Singapore with Andrew Allen and Van Wastell is worth checking out for all the great photos and the retelling of the story where Andrew broke Van's arm in an arm wrestling match.
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Head over to Skateboarder's site for a bunch of Andrew Allen sequences from a Vans trip Jonathan Mehring did back in 2007.
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Head over to the Skateboarder Magazine Site and check out the latest Mehring's Bearing for some rad photo of Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner and a bunch of other dudes.
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Not long ago we posted the footage from our trip to China in the Stage 4 Video. Here's the article that goes with that footage from the newest issue of The Skateboard Mag
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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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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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The relationship between a skater and his photographer and filmer is a unique one and it can make or break a career. Many times the best tricks have been discounted because of shitty angles, with no fault to the skater. 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 ...
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"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 fourth Day of Andrew Allen Week we follow Andrew around San Juan Capistrano to check out five of his favorite spots:
Video by Grant Hatfield
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Welcome back to the third day of Andrew Allen's Rider Week at Vans. In case you missed the first days, yesterday was an Exclusive Interview with Andrew and the first day we collected all four of Andrew 's major interviews from the past couple years. Today we take you back in time once again with all of Andrew's Anti Hero Skateboards and Spitfire Wheels ads with some added commentary by Mr. Allen.
That spot is in East LA ...
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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. A few months back Andrew had to get his ankle scoped due to a major slam on a hubba and has been sidelined since. Thankfully, when we caught up with him for this exclusive interview he was back on his board and back on the road with his Anti Hero teammates heading to Texas ...
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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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Check out Andrew Allen's noseblunt pop over on the newest installment of Transworld Skateboarding's Sighting.
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The new Vans Stage 4 is basically the Captain America of skate shoes, scientifically engineered to be the the best skate shoe ever and boasting skateboarding's first-ever "vulcanized cupsole" with Vans' revolutionary new WAFFLECUP construction. This all thanks to the input of Gilbert Crockett, Chris Pfanner, Chima Ferguson and Andrew Allen. Watch the video, gasp at the skating and understand why the Stage 4 with WAFFLECUP technology will change the world:
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Have you recently been jumped by the Wu Tang and left shoeless?
Is it that time of the month (where you need new shoes)?
Are you in a skateshop unsure of what shoe to choose and Yelp isnt Yelping?
Then perhaps this ESPN review of the new Stage 4 shoe can sway you into trying
the new shoe designed by Chima, Pfanner, Gilbert and Andrew Allen.
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The filming missions continue in the latest issue of The Skateboard Mag
with the guys heading over to Chris Pfanner's homeland of Austria.
Check out Anthony Acosta's amazing photos of Dollin, AVE, Pfanner, Allen, Crockett and Berle below
and go grab a copy (On newsstands now) so you can tear out the pages and hang on your wall!
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Last week was Transworld's 30th Anniversary Party
and the legends of today, tomorrow and yesterday were all in attendance.
Check out shots of Cab, Hosoi, TA, Andrew Allen and more at the party.
Look for video interviews soon.
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Welcome back to the 8th and final part of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7 if you missed them.
Ace photographer Anthony Acosta along with Anthony Van Engelen, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner,
Chima Ferguson and Gilbert Crockett are on a filming mission with Greg Hunt in Hong Kong
for the upcoming Vans video.
Today we received a postcard from Acosta. It read ...
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Welcome back to the 7th part of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 if you missed them.
Ace photographer Anthony Acosta along with Anthony Van Engelen, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner,
Chima Ferguson and Gilbert Crockett are on a filming mission with Greg Hunt in Hong Kong
for the upcoming Vans video.
Welcome to the rest of your life. Or at least the rest of ...
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Welcome back to the 6th part of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 if you missed them.
Ace photographer Anthony Acosta along with Anthony Van Engelen, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner,
Chima Ferguson and Gilbert Crockett are on a filming mission with Greg Hunt in Hong Kong
for the upcoming Vans video.
Today the fellahs make skate at a demo/signing in Chengdu.
Chengdu is apparently known ...
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Welcome back to the 5th part of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 if you missed them.
Ace photographer Anthony Acosta along with Anthony Van Engelen, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner,
Chima Ferguson and Gilbert Crockett are on a filming mission with Greg Hunt in Hong Kong
for the upcoming Vans video.
Today Anthony sends photos from their last day in Guangzhou. This place was good to the guys ...
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Welcome back to the 4th part of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 if you missed them.
Ace photographer Anthony Acosta along with Anthony Van Engelen, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner,
Chima Ferguson and Gilbert Crockett are on a filming mission with Greg Hunt in Hong Kong for the upcoming
Vans video.
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Welcome back to the 3rd part of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed it.
Ace photographer Anthony Acosta along with Anthony Van Engelen, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner,
Chima Ferguson and Gilbert Crockett are on a filming mission with Greg Hunt in Hong Kong for the upcoming
Vans video.
Today we find the guys at the suddenly famous Guangzhou Ribbon that has been popping up
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Welcome back to the second installment of The Vans Team's Adventures in China.
Here's Vans in China Part 1 if you missed it.
Ace photographer Anthony Acosta along with Anthony Van Engelen, Andrew Allen, Chris Pfanner,
Chima Ferguson and Gilbert Crockett are on a filming mission with Greg Hunt in Hong Kong for the upcoming
Vans video. One can not fly half way around the globe without shaking some hands and kissing some babies upon arrival.
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A crew of the Vans dudes are in China
on one of many filming missions
scheduled for the upcoming months.
Anthony Acosta's photos will keep you posted on their adventures
as they develop...
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Skateboarder Magazine was on hand to document Greg Hunt's art show in LA HERE.
More photos can be found on the Vans Flickr HERE.
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Anti Hero's Andrew Allen is the star and namesake for this week's Shore Break Baby:
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Thrasher remixed Andrew Allen's PREVENT THIS TRAGEDY PART:
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