How you guys doing? As you realized our internship is over, this class was a success for most of us, and I really appreciated the overall atmosphere!  So, a lot of us left Oside including me, I m writing to you guys from Costa Rica. Hell you should drop by here, amazing surfing and landscape. I m at playa santa Teressa, went for a cool morning session with some nice Euro chicks and back to my sweet hostel, swinging in a hammock, Pura Vida as we said here in Costa!

You guys will get some pictures soon from the travelling Octobomb, the concept is taking pictures of the board and cool people from all around the world, so stay tuned for some interesting pics!

Alex

I just wanted to say good bye and thanks for the great time here. I met great people, especially those who I worked with.

It was a really cool time, lots of fun but also a lot of work, but now it Holiday time

I wish you all a good future and I’m realy looking forward to see you guys again.

Have a good time

Uli

We’ve got Dan who never drinks and never likes to party…, Jessica with her “Where is my smoothie” attitude, Jen the girl who bejeweled her skateboard(first time I’ve ever seen that and hopefully the last), Stephen and his awesome thought process when you get Rockstar gum in him, Nick with his “Rockstar” life, Dana and her Michiganness…, Alex with his cigarettes and capris, and even that one guy from Germany grew on me ha ha.  A whole lot of characters made for a lot of good memories!  I will miss all of them.

BambooSK8 has taught me a lot of good lessons that I needed to learn.  I will forever ride bamboo!  Hopefully our intern class paves the way for awesome things to come from the next classes.

Peace,

Brian

Dan

Just though I’d give you a few ASR Pics. For your viewing pleasure.

Well I just got back from a week and a half vacation to New Zealand.  It was awesome, that country is amazing.  I didn’t get to snowboard or skate while I was there, but I did get to bungee jump and go zorbing.  Those of you who don’t know what zorbing is, its where they stick you in this big plastic ball type thing and roll you down a hill…needless to say it blew my mind.

Also while i was there I got to go to some skate shops.  Let me tell you, I was grateful to live in America when I saw the prices of their skateboards and snowboards.  A Zoo York deck, not even a pro model, was around $85.  A Forum snowboard with crappy bindings, was $1,000.  A Nixon t-shirt was $60.  So, I just felt bad for all the kids our there who can’t do those things because it’s too damn expensive!

But, other than that it was amazing.  The native culture was awesome, they cooked us a full meal that had been cooked in a local hot spring.  We went caving in the middle of nowhere and saw glow worms.  We took a ride on a jet boat that went 60 mph while doing a 360 about 30 feet from a waterfall.  But, I am also glad to be back to normal life.  Surfing, skating and relaxing on the beach.  Especially glad that the 12 hour flight is over with!  It took me a while to get over that, especially with roomates who play karaoke at every single chance that they get, I’m not bitter or anything…

Well, thats about all I have to say.  Can’t believe the summer and the internship is almost over!  I don’t want to leave.

Peace

Then after dinner the teams also competed in a Jiffy-Pop Pop-Off and then Camping Taboo which I had created that incorporated all the themes, activities, places, adventures or things having to do with our camping trips of the last 20 years. With some assistance of my mother we came up with the fantastic theme of ‘Foiled again!’ This means that on Saturday night (when we do our big group dinner with all 40 of us!!) everyone had to cook their food in tin foil. But to make things more entertaining and slightly ridiculous, everyone was required to make an accessory of tin foil and wear it to dinner! It was fantastic to see everyone’s creativity and geeky side come out in full swing! Here are just a few pictures for your viewing pleasure.

So as we are sitting there in all of our tin foil glory, my dad proceeds to inform us all of this monstrous storm that is cross Wisconsin and should be reaching us within a few hours. So imagine if you will 40 people sitting in the middle of the woods covered in tin foil with a severe thunderstorm on the horizon. In any normal situation, you would think that these people might get up, seek shelter and remove the tin foil from the tops of their heads… nope. We finish dinner, refill our adult beverages and gather our chairs around the bonfire to continue with the festivities… a Jiffy-Pop Pop-Off!! Which sadly enough I did not capture on video but it was hilarious. There was jumping, dancing, singing, and lots of shaking done in, around, and over the fire. While comical, I do believe that we had mistakenly preformed a native Indian rain dance and brought on the rain sooner than expected. But the rain did not stop us, once it let up a little and we made sure our fire was still blazin’ we returned to the fire for round two of the contest only to be rained out again. And again you would think that after a second time being caught in the rain that any normal person might just simply retire to their camper or tent if you are a real camper seeing as how it was already approaching midnight. (Sidenote: for those of you that no me or my family, we have never made any claims to being normal or anywhere near it.) So we return to the fire for a third and then forth time to finally view clear skies till about 3:30 am, when either the early morning hours or the adult beverages have taken everyone captive. Luckily just in time, for nearly an hour later the mother of all storms comes rolling through! Don’t get me wrong, I love me a good thunderstorm and miss them seeing as though San Diego does not see much of them, but I do not suggest enjoying or watching a storm from inside a very small tent, with very thin walls, and very low to the ground! Let’s just say that Dana did not get much sleep that night for fear of floating away from the monsoon that seemed to happening out doors or the deafening thunder that made the ground feel as though we had pitched our tent on the rail road tracks with a high speed train barreling down it, never mind the lightning that light up the campground to intensely and frequently that I seriously contemplated putting my sunglasses on so I might be able to go back to sleep! After about an hour I was finally able to go back to bed and get a couple more hours of sleep before we had to pack everything up, which was still soaking wet. But I wouldn’t have changed a single moment! I miss Michigan and the amazing light flickering, wall shaking, tent flooding thunderstorms that happen only in Northern Michigan. I love camping!!

How you guys handling those really busy 2 weeks of events? Still alive for the last and biggest one, the ASR?

I hope you had the opportunity to see live the surf contest at HB, it was wicked! Mark, Andrew Uno, Andrew Dos and I were there, we saw randomly Mike Fanning on the street, saw Reynold trying some sick air, Machado full of style as usual..  The day continued with Weezer’s gig and we ended up  at a random patio waiting for Uno.

Next day, straight to Maloof, enjoyed the skating vibe. Now guys be ready for the ASR, hope to see you there!

Alex

Week 14 already and I’m not ready to leave! Seems like we just started this program and its almost finished.  Anyway, I attended the Maloof Money Cup for a bit yesterday. Wanted to stay for the finals but of course I had to go to work. I did manage to grab a few pictures though before I had to leave. I do have to say, the Orange County fair is sick and way better than Del Mar. I had to record the finals so I didn’t get to watch until late last night but there was some awesome skating going down yesterday. Congratulations to Chris Cole for killing it and taking first prize.

Anyway its Monday here in the cave and I’m all by my lonesome typing away with my coffee in hand. This week is going to be another busy one. We interns have a lot to get finished and we have to prepare and promote for ASR.  We’ve got the philosophy, charter, MPS, one on ones, ASR, the blog and more. Check one on the blog.  Time for me to get this all done. Hope you like the photos and talk to you soon.

D

This coming week Uli and I will get the fantastic opportunity to go to this eventful event and represent BambooSk8.  If you there be on the look out for the Concrete Wave Tent and massive amounts of Bamboo Merch. Things don’t get any better than saving the environment while going to one of our generations best events.  Its gonn be EPIC.  I hope to see you all there!!  Come out and say hey…you may even meet the two lovely ladies below, but only if your lucky

Peace, Love, and Disco

check this song out by Set Your Goals, one of the bands playing at Warped Tour

The Few That Remain

beside dealing with our main tasks ( like me for instance: Europe) we are preparing for the Weekend, which entirely booked out with all the skate events: Maloof money Cup and the Us Open

they are going to be great, that’s for sure, although I won’t be around. But 4 days off and visiting my friends in San Francisco sounds good to me as well. Then we have two times the Warped Tour in our schedule for next week. Thanks very much guys for taking me to the one in San Diego, you make a childhood dream come true

We also faced a new girlie board design line today, created by Jen, I named the edition “Sissy 29″( check the pictures, maybe Girl skateboards should reconsider their designs

We are also considering a cooperation with Svarowski for this particular product line. The lead slogan might be the AndrewG quote: “Go Pink, or go home”

last but not least, during all this being- busy- mentality which rules our day, we had time for the more important things in life, like for instance….

Jess

or her birthday to be more precisely:

happy birthday little lady

Here is some pictures of Pope and his favorite ladies and his boys!!!

As I’ve sure you’ve already read but Jessee, Brian and I got to go enjoy the X-games with Mark, Andrew, and Geoff. Jessee already went into great detail about it so if you would like to hear more I suggest you wait 20 minutes and read her blog again. Otherwise hang in there, I’m working on creating a video of my favorite clips from the event. But it’s taking a little longer than expected since my computer hates me and I am still looking for the that perfect song for my video stars to rockout too. So stay tuned for those fun filled adventures!

Peace, Love & Coco Puffs

Dana

The car ride to L.A. for X Games 16 with five heads (Mark, Andrew, Brian, Dana and myself) in Dana’s Civic was… memorable. We had live serenades and sick raps performed by BambooSk8’s own BRock that included original styling and lyrics to songs that everyone, but B, knows the words to. Lets just say, its a great thing he is so Marketing and Advertising savvy or I could see him trying to pursue American Idol, just to get shut down by Simon and added to the humorous hopeful episode.

Of course the competitions were sick and packed full of incredible performances of gravity rebellion. We saw Travis Pastrana take his seventh Moto X Freestyle Gold. His final run was a victory lap that included a ridiculous double back that had everyone in the arena on their feet roaring with applause – stoked!!

Pastrana being the mack daddy.

Photo Highlights:

Moto X

Moto X

Now, getting to what we all want to hear about… the Big Air Finals. These guys were unbelievable. They made falling from 40 feet in the air onto your knees look like taking a fun ride down the slide in the playground. It was nothing to them and they all just got up and walked away, no problem. Crazy!

Carlsbad kid Jake Brown took 1st after launching the 70 foot gap with a solid backflip, followed by a 540 off the 27 foot quarterpipe. Bob Burnquist was nipping at his heels, scoring a 93 compared to Jake’s 93.66, but just couldn’t stomp the 900 spin off the quarter. Still, an amazing performance by skateboarding superheros.

Two riders hitting the ramp at once. One filming the other. Nuts.

Post X Games, the raps and serenades by BRock continued – that I kept trying to chime into and quickly making things awkward… I got put in my appropriate seat in the car (you know the one thats apparently named after me, thats in the middle, in the back, where I would be the first one to die if we were to wreck), and I heard Andrew’s new favorite word(s) more than anyone needs to hear botched English in their lifetime. And Andrew, if you are reading this, “Nun yown biznez.” Ya heard?

Mark is very lucky that the X Games somehow killed my Droid because if my phone could access its’ memory card right now, this blog would have gone a completely different way. Unfortunately, the video I shot of him “dancing” on Pope’s last night in Cali, is now in embarrassing video heaven. I guess he is right, Driod does NOT; which, right now, is serving in his favor. Would Verizon hurry up and get the iPhone already?!?

BTW, Brian – American Idol tryouts are August 19th in SanFran… I’ll give you a ride if you sing your heart out and fake lyrics for Paula…

Also, Thanks for being our Mario Andretti, Dana! We all heart you!!

So the moral of this story is that being an unpaid intern still has its’ benefits. Last night reconfirmed that working in the action sports industry is where I want to be and that life is good.

I heart BambooSk8!

Andrew, Mark, Geoff, BRock, Me, and Dana ignoring us, as usual.

Left side view.

Right side view.

So yeah, I probably could go on but lets keep it interesting. Oh and the cherry to my sunday this week was I put together my first sk8 board ever and I am so excited!!!! Whos gunna teach me some tricks?

Well, I try to. As you guys might now I’m German, and although the view you guys have about Germans( eins zwei, eins zwei and so on) I have to admit that you are more or less right. For instance, Germany I the only country I’ve ever been where you are moaned at you if you are one minute too late. Seriously? One minute?Yes! 8 o’clock is 8 o’clock and not 8:01. But thank god there are other Germans as well and I am happy that I am one of those:)

But anyway, If you followed our class 7 blog history you might have realized that I am likely to bullshit around, but not in this blog; I least I will try:)

First of all I have 3 reasons to write this blog.

The first is personal: Goodbye Pope( you might know him as Jeffrey from Intern class 6). This guy left sunny Oceanside this Wednesday which made us having a great party the day before until I guess 5 am. You can’t imagine how silent it was in the office the next day:)

he left us to work on some small Island, I just know it in the Atlantic ocean on the coast of New Hamster. Anyway, Pope, hope you have fun over there, but not as much as here so you regret leaving us:) Have a good time, see you in a couple of years for an awesome surf session; being in the water is really not half as fun without you.

Second reason: today I stumbled over the Blog entry of MarkD about his recent project “Vertical Gardens”,

Check it out its a great idea in my eyes

http://www.verticalearthgardens.com

Third Issue: In week 12 we are encouraged to write a bit about the internship here and our experiences so far.

I just can say its still great and as I focused myself I have to admit that I really gained lots of important experiences so far. First of all, my English language skills have improved dramatically. Additionally I feel like my work skills and my ability to get more things done in a shorter amount of time really increased. The whole working environment here supports my personal development like I never would have guessed and the best thing is, entirely without any lack of fun. It is simply great to see how our effort we have put in this company pays off. At this point, thank you guys for getting to know you and supporting my personal development. Due to this internship I am looking forward to go back to university for another year, just to learn thing which would have been useful to know while I am here, so now I am indeed looking forward to sit in the auditory again.

I wish you all a great weekend

cheers

Uli

Well, Denmark is going to have soon the opportunity to test our boards, this Danish web magazine (http://skateboard.dk/) gonna have the honor to try, organize a testing event on them local “venice beach” and write comments about our decks ! Sweden is following right behind with Norway and southern Europe isn’t too far neither.. Cant wait start packing those samples and check them article, pics of the event and so one.

Come to you mates later with some more Euro news.

Cheers,

Aex

As we were at a stop light, a black Lincoln Navigator pulled up next to us.  It was this lady in her late 30’s or early 40’s.  She rolled down her windows and started hitting on us…we were paralyzed.  So, the world just blindsided us with this question:  What do you do when a cougar in a black Lincoln Navigator rolls up next to you and starts hitting on you?  Still to this day, I don’t know what the answer is!  Oh and Islands Burgers is amazing!  Endless fries for life baby.

THE OCTOBOMB LAUNCH PARTY

Actually it was last Thursday when we finally aired our new board and experienced that all the blood, sweat and tears we’ve put in through the last weeks finally paid off in an breathtaking result; I sometimes like to exaggerate:) but no lie it was definitely a great party. Bull Taco filled our stomaches with great tasting tacos and served the hottest sauce I’ve ever consumed( thats no exaggeration, this stuff was really hot). We danced to the tunes of Boomsnap, Seth Petersen and Whit’s Band and got culturally enriched by Jess and her fiddle. We had so much stuff for the raffle and the silent auction, for instance a surfboard and of course our new designed Octobomb shirts, we couldn’t get rid of all this stuff. Not too bad, now I have some surfwax savings:)

But anyway, when we started at 7 pm I was a bit concerned because there weren’t that many people, but it turned out that Jen is a genius promoter. Just a bit later the shop was packed and we had crazy skate sessions going on outside, and everybody loved our board; which is simply awesome by the way.  So what can I say, it was a great party, thanks everybody, you all did a great job and thanks everybody who was there celebrating with us. If you haven’t been there, you better be sad now because you definitely missed a great party.

We even  had fake mustaches for everyone; Yes, damn right, FAKE MUSTACHES for everyone and for free.

So as you can see you definitely missed a rad party, check those pictures and find even more on our facebook. Here is also a video from the guys from PB Surf Shop and check the Octobomb Skate video on our sk8 blog, its sick.

PB Octobomb video

have fun with all the media stuff and have a great day

cheers

Uli

So we had out Launch Party last week on Thursday and it was awesome!! We had some crazy things happen that I’m not allowed to write about, things that dealt with hotel rooms, random people yelling, and things that may or may not be legal.  So overall it was a success.  I made it out alive.  Hope all you guys are having a good week and to everyone out there…keep skatin’

We are still busy with the Maloof Money cup, U.S. Open, and X Games, all coming up. We are all excited and want to have a presence at each of these events. We are currently figuring the logistics of who is going to be where.  I think I will be attending the Maloof street finals Sunday Aug. 7; it’s going to be sweet. Hopefully I can sell decks and promote Bamboosk8 as well as I did at the OB street fair. I’m bringing my A game and setting a personal goal of 15 decks!

Other than that, I’m still really enjoying my time here at Bamboo. I am still learning and trying to absorb everything I can. I know the end is near and I want to finish strong and leave a lasting impression. I need to continue to work on the personal goals and commitments I set at the beginning and see them through to the end. Our twitter account is gaining followers and I am still working on ways to increase the numbers even further.  I will see you all back in a week or so with another update. Until then, Lorber out.

mondays are allways, hmmm…..well……. let’s say they are. So anyway, this monday design queen Dana came in with a bunch of boxes containing a new load of T- shirts. Now we got the bamboo logo shirt in so many different colors as you can see on the pics. Furthermore, I got a shot of a rare situation: Mark being really busy( just kidding, he got injured on a soccer game.) We also have now crocodiles living close to the office, so watch your steps. And I’ve been searching a bit in our past and found this awesome picture of buddy Bob B. holding one of ours. This week will be pretty intense, we got a lot of stuff to do for thursday, where we finally are going to launch or new Octobomb board. You should definitely come over to PB surf shop, it gonna be an awesome evening and it is freeee!!!!! So hopefully see you there.

By the way,I had a severe personal change in my mind last week As a strongly convinced street skater( unfortunately more or less retired because of my knees:( I never was really into longboards, but cruzing through Oceanside on our 46″ Pintail is so fun, so I’m now considering about taking one with me to Mexico after this intern. I just have to figure out how to manage all my luggage. Through the last week there was the “Almabtrieb” Event going on close to where I am from, check the video, the track is pretty sick.

Wish you all a monday afternoon

cheers UliAlmabtrieb track 2010

Peace, Love & Coco Puffs

So, this week I have learned that the perfect time to skate our new Octobomb board is on Thursday July 8th at 2:10 Pm!  Look closely!

But everyone is getting stoked about the Launch party that is going down next week!!!!  So, a lot of our time is being spent on the finishing touches of that.  But, this week I have been researching a lot of things about skateboarding and it made me think about skateboarding and where it is heading.  For example, skateboarding will be in the Olympics soon…I don’t know how I feel about that.  On one hand it is good for it to be popular so we will have more parks and it could be accepted a little more and may become less “illegal.”  But, on the other hand skateboarding has been the sport without rules from the beginning, where outcasts can go and belong.  So, the counter culture sport becoming part of the culture…who knows, progression is progression I guess.  Well, that is enough of me rambling on, live Bamboo!

This speaks for itself

In case you can’t read the above photo:

1. “Have you ever seen midget porn??!!” – Erick

2. “Don’t gotta get ready if you stay ready.” – Mark

3. “Thats legit!!” – Wyatt

4. “Heather, is it good for you?” – B Rock

5. “I love those Sundays with those nut sacks.” – B Rock 2

6. “Whit! You are against ninjas?? You must not use ninja techniques!!” – Uli

7. “I think that might have happened after I chugged the 4 Loco..” – Jessee

8. “Ugh, hello, I don’t lick my own butthole!” – Dana

**Attention Jen, Dan, Nick, Steven, Heather, Andrew, Geoff, and definitely Whit – I expect greatness.

I have been having a blast here. Whether it’s meeting great new people, learning the ins and out of business and skateboarding, or attending events and doing anything asked of me. It’s all good and I’m loving it. I can’t wait for next week to see how this all comes together. We just got a shipment of Rockstar goodies to hand out and raffle off.  I’m chewing their caffeinated gum right now and drinking a cup of coffee. Its intense but I’m getting a lot or work done! Anyway, talk to you all soon.

Peace, Love & Coco Puffs

Dana

Dan doing the Hula on YouTube

Expect a follow up video on the craziness of Dan the Man. 4th of July is all I have to say about that.

These past couple weeks have been crazy, hectic, and awesome. We are gearing up for the most epic party ever! Just to remind you, it is on JULY 22, 2010 at PB Surf Shop. Be there, or else! Last night, Mark and I went to check out Boom Snap, a super rad band that resides in PB and they are now officially added to the line up for our party! I couldn’t believe how many ladies were avid fans, I mean, I can believe it, just wait until you see this base player – he moves like a dream. Unbelievable.

This party is going to be the best thing since wheels on boards. I hope you have your party pants ready!

Have an awesome 4th!!

So happy Independence day American fellows and enjoy!

1. cheer on your friends at the skate park

2. cheer for Edward of Jacob while watching the new Twilight movie!!

…that’s all I could think of.  Don’t forget to check us out on facebook!!  Later Playas!!

For example, today I learned that ninjas are invisible and can beat any competitor…both fictional and for reals.  That knowledge was handed to me from Uli, thanks man. I also learned that the band Scooter is the best band ever!  Here is their lead singer…

H.P. Baxxter, best singer ever!

We are currently working on getting some videos out there.  Next week we will also start our version of “Real World” here in the intern cave, so hopefully that goes well!

Check out the Facebook fan page and invite your friends!

I’m out!

We have been intensely working on this launch party, contacting companies and getting sponsors on board that want to come and be part of our night. Also, we are having live entertainment, food, raffles, and prizes, which are only going to add the awesomeness of the evening. I’m really enjoying this aspect of the internship experience and I’m thinking this is something that I am good at and want to continue. I like being out at events and telling everyone about our company. I can sell, and market, meet people, and establish relationships. I’m hoping that these qualities will provide a substantial return to the company. Planning these events can be stressful at times, but I like the pressure, and its fun. I can’t wait to see how the party actually turns out and the return all of our hard work produces. Anyway, that’s all I have for now. This week is going to be another crazy one. There are a lot of things to do and secure up in terms of the launch party and other events we have coming up. I’m dialed in though and up for the challenge. Until the next time. Lorber-Out

Stay Classy San Diego!

xoxo Heather

Safe to say….there is no such thing as a boring day here at Bamboo Sk8.

Good morning everybody,and happy GOSK8DAY by the way. I hope you will all have (or had so far; for my buddies at home) an awesome day on the boards which mean the world. Be prepared San Diego, the Bamboo Promo teams will roll over and crash the spots all 0ver the area. I really look forward to see all of you out there rollin’ n rockin’ your ass up (hope you’re happy know Whit). We did a pretty nice warm up on Saturday here in our HQ with barbeque, our awesome new Quarter and all our team riders and friends. It was a great day, except I hurt my ankle, which is better again by the way. At this point I would like to thank everybody out of the Bamboo crew for their effort on this day, especially our riders. You were really rockin’ this day and we have a few really nice shots we will put online as soon as possible. That’s all so far, have a nice day, go skate and see you soon.

 Cheers

Uli

I’m writing to you guys with green finger tips from a freshly painted quarter pipe and it looks pimp! We’ve got out team BBQ tomorrow and the guys are going to love it! What else… Oh! Happy Go Skate Day to all you skaters out there on Monday!! We’ve been working out a game plan to hit up all the parks and officially wish everyone a Happy Go Skate Day with BambooSK8 stickers and flyers for our Launch party that we have been ferociously planning over the past week. And it is all coming together quite well. We’ve got the venue and some awesome sponsors so far, just working out some of the other details and I will be working on creating another installation piece for this event that we will being having down in Pacific Beach July 22^nd. So if you are in the area you should definitely cruise on by and check it out, we’ll have live music and yummy food. But I’ll keep you guys posted. We’ve had a crazy busy week here with lots of things to do and tight deadlines and I’m loving every minute of it, can’t wait to get started on these designs for the Launch Party and some sweet T-shirts designs that we’ve come up with for all the events this summer.  Check back with me for all the fun filled details! Laters.

Peace, Love and Coco Puffs

Mr. Lorber being his rad self.

Dan is definitely too legit to quit.

It has been a rad few weeks here at BambooSk8. Lots of things going on to keep all of us crazy busy. Our Octobomb release party has an official date: July 22nd at the Pacific Beach Surf Shop. Come one, come all! We are going to have bands, a DJ, grub from Bull Taco, and giveaways. I know we are a ways out, but mark down the date in you calender because it is going to be LEGIT! This weekend we are getting together with our team riders for a little grub/skate session. I’ve got my camera charged and ready to gather evidence of the radness of our new digs (i.e. the sweet ramp). Exciting times.

Keep shredding that Bamboo and always remember to be TOO LEGIT TO QUIT!

xoxo Heather

my failed attempt to skate around the warehouse

Dana's skateboard mosaic

We have been doing work here in the intern cave and the warehouse the last couple of weeks.  Just today we finished our own personal quarter pipe.  Nick was a champ and did most of the work.  We still had some stuff to do and it only took like 20 hours, 3 broken drill bits, 2 broken screwdrivers, and Alex and I staying till 9 last night to get it done.  But it is done and it skates well!  So, our warehouse skatepark is getting better every day!  Check out the facebook pictures to see how it turned out.

We have some cool crap going on the next couple of weeks.  Go skateboarding Day is on monday, and the launch of the Octobomb party is gonna be sick!  Gotta get back to work.

Peace,

Brian

it’s around 9:30 in the morning, I am looking forward to a great day with my Mastershoplist and I am tired. So far the news. I have to admitt that I had an awesome time so far in Oceanside. We finaly found an apartment more or less dircetly on the OS beach and today is moving day, which indicates more or less indirectly that I have to leave Mark’s chouch; unfortunately, I guess it’s the most comfortable couch on the whole wide world.

 I’m realy looking forward for the next time, we have so many different project which are all really cool and I can’t wait for saturday when our selfmade obstacles, among others a quater pipe( yyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssss, a quater pipe!!!!!!!!) are ready, thanks to mostly Brian and Steve; We’ll have awesome sk8 breaks.

By the way, you should try to see Whit playing his guitar, he can even make Bob Dylan songs bearable for my ears, but he will get famous anyway because he now is the big buddy of O’Mally Jones( yeeeessssssssssssss, O’Mally Jones!!!!!)

Anyway, a few days ago I got a text ( or, better said a few) from Melissa, which made me a bit confused, she wrote:

Why is it so easy to reject a good person? (Yet we stay with someone who takes us thru hell?) Why is it so easy… For us to leave home? ( But so hard for us to come up out of our hole?) Why do we sleep in school? ( but stay awake through a 3 hour movie?) Why is it so hard… to talk about God?( But to talk about premarital sex?) Why are we so bored when we look at a Christian book?( But find it easy to read Zane?) Why …is it so easy to ignore a Godly forward? ( Yet we forward  the demeaning ones?) Why are Churches getting smaller? (But bars and clubs are expanding?) Why… Is it so easy to worship a celebrity? (But very difficult to worship God?) think about it, are you going to forward this? Or are you going to ignore it… cause you think you will get laughed at or not cool? The Lord said: If you deny Me in … in front of your friends, I will deny you in front of my Father

Well, Melissa, true words! I have to admit these are all good questions, but I honestly have better things to do than minding about such things, like fishing, playing bocha with the French or counting every single bamboo spear in Andrew”s warehouse. Anyway, sorry that I didn’t respond, Melissa, but who the hell are you again?

So, I wish you all a great day, I will now check out how far the quater is constructed yet

see you soon

Uli

Cheers

Let the countdown to the big San Diego move begin.

Heather <3

It gets nuts in the inter cave sometimes and everyone begins to go a little crazy, you would to if you spent 9 hours in a room with no windows inhaling bamboo dust constantly.  Butttt it’s all good cuz we have some crazy stories and good times.  We’re putting together some pretty funny videos that will be posted on youtube, facebook, and other sites so get pumped for those.  In the meantime, get out and ride your bamboo decks for the world to see!! Hopefully the world will want one to.  You guys out there take care!!

ciao,

Erick

So, turns out interning here at Bamboosk8 is pretty sweet.  Everyone here is super chill.  Just working back in the intern cave with the other interns is always a good ole time.  It has been fun to talk to some of the Hookit sponsored kids to get to know some of our skaters.  Also, just getting to know the ins and outs of the company has been nice.

I am stoked for all the events and things that we have planned for the rest of the summer.  We have some cool stuff that we are getting ready for!   The Facebook and other social media are getting revamped and cool things will be happening there as well.  It is so nice to be with a company you believe in and like.  I got my first board just a couple of days ago and it rides real nice.  I just thought all the talk about Pop was just a sales pitch, but the boards hold up against all the hype.  Pretty legit!  Can’t wait for more skate sessions in the warehouse.

Keep Ridin,

B Rock

Dan Lorber here again. Week 4. Time to reflect back on the experience so far and how I think its going. Well, in short, it’s pretty freakin cool. It’s been exciting and challenging, interesting and demanding. It’s been quit the learning experience and I am so glad I have been given the opportunity to be a part of it. To date, I have not yet been able to attend an event.  We have only held one so far, the dragon downhill, but I plan to be at as many as I can. I think the experience of actually being in the field and telling people about our product will be something I’m really good at. Our product is dope, and I’m really looking forward to being in our booth and repping our decks. I’m on information overload right now. Leaning the ins and outs of the business and everything involved with it. My social media skills have improved greatly and I’m still learning. There is so much to know and I’m understanding that a strong social media presence is definitely the way of the future for businesses. I’m learning from the big bosses as well. Mainly that being organized, structured, and on time are very important characteristics to possess when operating a business. This is what I expected and I am grateful that they are here to support me and give me the knowledge and wisdom necessary to be successful in this industry and life in general.  To finish, I am so stoked for what is yet to come from this experience. I think I have just scratched the surface of what I am capable of and what I can bring to the table. I going to continue to work hard and contribute. I love my new bamboo deck and have been skating more than I have in while. So until the next time.

Peace, Love & Coco Puffs!

The event is from 11 am – 5 pm in Irvine, CA at California Avenue, below Anteater Drive, across from the Anteater Recreation Center.  There is going to be live music, Chronic Tacos, raffles for free decks, skate park for the trick skaters and a downhill bomb and slalom competition. Admission is FREE, but if you want to skate the park it is $5 and if you want to participate in the race it is $10.

I hope to see you there, I’ll have the grip tape ready!

ciao,

Erick

I eventually decided that I wanted to build something.  I wanted to create.  I wanted to help people and make my own goals.  Thus, Vertical Earth Gardens was born.  I patented a vertical hydroponics garden with the help of a buddy, and decided this was the perfect time to try to turn a hobby into a business.

So far, I have learned more than I could have ever dreamed of in the last year.  It has been a lot of ups and downs, and I have been learning the emotional rollercoaster Wyatt and Geoff experience on a daily basis.  With that said, it has also been the most rewarding experience of my life.  I’ll leave the interns and fellow readers with this…… if you are struggling with what to do in life and where you are going, know that you can pursue your own path and own ideas.

Here is a great inspirational  documentary for the skate arena……——->

Steve Rocco

I’m so excited to be starting my internship with BambooSk8. When I interviewed for the internship I couldn’t believe how perfect of a place the company was for me. I just finished working as the marketing and promotions coordinator for the nonprofit group Green Campus. Green Campus works with universities around the country to teach and install eco-friendly technologies like solar panels, smart lighting, and heat transferable turf fields. I worked to promote a new iniciative to be on the student election ballot. Basically my job was to convince the students to vote yes on a $6 tuition increase that would, over the course of 10 years, add up to $10 million to go towards construction of renewable energy sources on UCSB’s campus. The initiative passed and construction begins this summer. My favorite thing about Green Campus’s project is the installation of eco-friendly soccer fields. The fields are made from a type of turf that not only absorbs the heat from the sun but then conducts the heat and energy into a generator and heats the nearby swimming pools as well as provides electricity for the also near by recreational center. UCSB, thanks to this initiative, currently hold the highest budget for renewable energy of any university in the country, and my name gets to go on that record breaker. A big part of working for Green Campus was planning awareness events such as eco-friendly bbqs and performace displays. I really love planning events like these and would really like to get on the event planning portion of BambooSk8. Its really exciting So needless to say finding an eco-friendly skateboard company was right up my alley.

I am stuck up here in Santa Barbara though, getting my bachelors degree until mid June. But I’ll be working as hard and as often as I can through emails and skype meetings to keep on track with the BambooSk8 team. I can’t wait to graduate, get down there and really get to work. 

Adios,

Heather <3

Jessee

Adios!!

So our four months have come to an end here at BambooSK8. I have had great experience here, meeting and working with the interns as well as the staff. For me it’s all about the people you work with, and the people here at BambooSK8 were some of the best I have worked with. I feel like things just fit well with our intern class, everyone one was really nice and had something different to bring to the table. We had some great times that I will never forget, like our fundraising party, or the trip to mission beach for a kit boarding contest, and going to a celebrity gifting event in LA, just to name a few. We grew really close and I hope to stay in contact with everyone. I just want to say thanks to everyone at BambooSK8 and class 6 for giving me this great experience.

First off, I am really stoked to be part of the Bamboosk8 7th intern class, this is going to be an amazing experience.  My name is Nick, I grew up and still primarily reside in Yorba Linda, California.  Growing up in Southern California presents a kid with a lot of opportunities to partake in action sports and I feel like I have embraced them all.  Throughout the 25 years of my life I have enjoyed just about every action sport their is, from skating to dirtbikes.  I currently enjoy, wakeboarding, snowboarding, and dirtbikes.  However, I still love to jump on a bike or skateboard and take some laps around the skatepark.  The amazing experiences that I have had within the action sports industry have lead me to study Sports and Entertainment Marketing at Cal Poly Pomona.  I am looking forward to this summer at Bamboo, and I just wanna keep having fun with whatever I am doing so that nothing ever seems like work.

Unfortunately, I am still sans mohawk as well. Despite my reputation in Colorado as Mohawk Matt, I have yet to find a suitable job that will pay me a living wage and allow me to have a rockin hairdo. I’m working on it though. With some help from Geoff my resume is polished more than its ever been, and hopefully one you lovely people that read this blog will send me an email that says – Hey, I saw your post about working with a Mohawk, we have just the position for you. Until then I’m headed to the SoCal Action Sports Network casino night tonight to try to gamble my way into employment.

I would like to start out by telling you all what I am currently up to in the world of action sports. I am interning at Sole Technology doing Retail Marketing for them. If you don’t know who Sole Tech is pull your head out of the sand and look them up! They are one of the world’s largest action sports compnay boasting brands such as eS, Etnies, Emerica, Altamont and 32. I am also graduating FINALLY from SDSU and just applied for my dual master’s program in the country of Malta. So things are pretty crazy right now. At Sole Tech I am dealing day to day with POP products and customer requests for custom artwork that you often see in-store. I also help out with organizing product, seeding our top accounts with current products and imputing and organizing orders. The job is awesome and one of my best experiences yet. Seeing day to day what a huge company such as Sole Tech does has been crazy and the people behind it are just as nuts! But my internship is sadly ending there this week, just as Bamboo once did.

I am sure by now your wondering, why do I even care what you have been doing? Well I will tell you why this story has you in it. The things I have accomplished thus far is greatly due to my prior experience at BambooSK8. And if you were even thinking, just for a millisecond, of joining this team DO IT! If you aren’t aware I myself was one of the Bamboo warriors. My internship and susequential emplyment was a bumpy ,crazy, fun ride and involved a lot of really fun and crazy folks. I interned with Bamboo for three months in 2008 and then was hired on as Project Lead in 2009 for the intern program. I helped  form new customer relationships, guide the intern program and learned how to maintain goals of others (and my stress levels )

My time spent at Bamboo helped me with more than just getting job experience. It enabled me to map out goals and realize that when those goals were achieved it felt awesome. It was this goal oriented processes that Geoff and Wyatt helped me with that got me where I am today. The internship is no joke and what they have going on there now is more than I could’ve ever imagined. I not only gained experience and saw how a business grows and operates day to day but I made life friends and created many many memories.

I guess the point of the story is go for it, take this opportunity to expand your knowledge and see where it takes you. When I started I never thought that I would be here where I am, and my time at Bamboo more than helped me realize my potential and got me the job at Sole. Hit me up if you have any questions about anything! My door is always open and you should open some doors for yourself as well. Take care and follow your dreams!

Kelly

Kellyloft@aol.com

TOP 10 REASONS MEN GROW BEARDS:

1) Facial hair is cool. Seriously. Having a dark forest of hair covering your face gives you an aura of suave mystery and a classy, debonair air.

2) We grow facial hair because it makes us manlier. Sean Connery (as Indiana Jones’ dad), Russell Crowe (Maximus), Tom Selleck (Magnum, P.I.) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) spring immediately to mind. Having any sort of facial hair means you’re not a metro man. It’s theoretically possibly to be manly without a beard, moustache or goatee — Daniel Craig (the new James Bond) is a prime example — but having a beard really does help.

3) We grow facial hair because it makes us look like Chuck Norris. Norris is the poster man for action. Norris has a beard (note that it’s still well-trimmed). Therefore we should have beards. The logic is unstoppable — just like Norris’ roundhouse kicks. On the Internet, it’s rumored that Norris doesn’t have a chin under his beard, just another fist. But the beard’s still important.

4) We grow facial hair because we like the way it feels. Think about it: You might have hair on your head, but we have it on our chins. Let me elaborate with the next two points.

5) We grow facial hair because we like to stroke it while we think. Nothing else can make us look more intelligent.

6) We grow facial hair because with it we can scratch our manly arms and shoulders. Contrary to popular belief (especially among those of the female persuasion), beards are not really itchy. Sure, they might be a little itchy those first few weeks, but after a while, that feeling goes away. In fact, the natural scrubby pad that is our chins is perfect for taking care of other itchy parts of our upper body, like our huge biceps.

7) We grow facial hair because we like the way it smells. Really. It smells good. You have to rub it a few times, but the sheer manly scent generated is second only to the wonderful aroma of a crew cut. It’s hard to describe, but bearded men know what I am talking about.

We grow facial hair because we can store food in our beards. Did you enjoy that s’more you had earlier? Good. You can lick your beard and still pick out bits of graham cracker, chocolate bar and marshmallow for hours afterward.

9) We grow facial hair because the chicks dig it. Err … I mean, women find beards attractive. Ok, maybe just some girls. But I’ll take any reasonable advantage I can get.

10) We grow facial hair because we’re lazy, but in a good way. Think of it as a sort of laissez-fair outlook on life. If you don’t shave, you save time for more important things, like getting an extra 15 minutes of sleep or perhaps breakfast. Remember: This is not an excuse for being a slob; if you have beard, you should try to keep it under control.

Santa Clause OUT! 

- Geoff Koboldt, President

http://www.malakye.com/asp/front/sendmail.asp?Recor=0&sm=any&keywords=&ID=12488

Respectfully,

BambooSK8

There are a whole bunch of reasons why a forest gets cut down. Your sweet hardwood floor? Came from a forest. That paper you’re writing on? Yup, forest. Your sweet Brio trainset? That too.

So, cutting down trees is a necessary thing for us to live; especially for things like making houses. But that doesn’t mean cutting down forests is a very desirable thing. Forests do a lot of good things for us: they provide the world with oxygen, are significant carbon sinks (and clean the air in other ways too), are home to a lot of unique and fragile biodiversity, they prevent soil erosion and improve soil quality and finally (and maybe most importantly) they’re great for making tree forts. So the more forest we cut down, the less of this sweet stuff we get. Kind of a bummer right?

A lot of people quite a while ago realized what a bummer this is, and decided to plant a lot of trees, which is a really great thing. But unfortunately, as a planet we still aren’t planting them fast enough. But we’re getting better; we did a better job this past decade than we did the decade before of planting trees. And using bamboo instead of traditional wood helps too, because bamboo grows back from its shoot on its own; usually really quickly.

So, as you can see, even though we’re improving, we’re actually doing alarmingly bad. But everyone can do their part; encouraging tree planting campaigns and being really conscious of what you’re buying is a good idea (for example a bamboo deck does much less harm than a maple one). Anyways, if we can turn this trend around, we can help our planet, our health and our economies a lot.

Also, Janell smells.

See you next week!

The obsession has begun to take over our lives. We now have a weekly funds collection so we can buy our jar for next week (collected, of course, in an old Monster Mix jar). Yea, we eat a jar a week – over two pounds of Mix. Actually, lately it’s been more like a jar and a half a week. It’s gotten really bad. The worst part is, we only have a month left together. Then what? I can’t afford to sustain my addiction on my own! I’ll go into physical and psychological withdrawals, complete with the shakes and hallucinations. What am I going to do? This is gonna be bad! Oh man, I gotta calm down. Gotta get myself another handful, stat!

Let’s Begin:

There you have it, it seems to be a tie for now. Tune in later this week for Fohawk Vs. Mohawk, which is better and why. And don’t miss next week’s “Is that a beard or are you a Santa-in-training?”

This first one is an easy one: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It’s a giant area (anywhere between the size of Texas and the size of the US) in the Pacific Ocean filled with garbage: specifically, tiny pieces of non-degradable pieces of plastic. Because of how currents move in the ocean, most of these plastics are concentrated into one area (the size of Texas) and create a giant glump of garbage in the middle of the ocean. (That’s a bad thing)

Where does the plastic come from? Well, anywhere really. Most plastic doesn’t decompose. When we’re finished with something plastic (a grocery bag, a coffee cup, a telephone, whatever) usually one of four things happen to it: 1. It gets thrown away and sent to a garbage dump where it will wait for a couple of hundred years to break down 2. It will be recycled 3. It gets littered somewhere (more or less the same as the first) or 4. It ends up in Water.

#4 is a lot more common than you’d expect (or at least I expected). A lot of plastic litter ends up in waterways as litter that got swept to sea by rain or wind. A lot of it is gets dumped there deliberately (because its easy to dump in the ocean).

What’s nice about this environmental disaster, is that there’s a lot an ordinary person can do really easily to help: and that’s just trying to avoid plastic as much as possible: bring bag when you go shopping, pick products with less packaging, etc. And what’s great is that a lot of people are already doing all this.

Anyways, I highly recommend watching Vice Magazine’s Garbage Island documentary from 2007. They do a really good job of showing what’s going on without being high-minded assholes (though they are sort of just regular assholes). Enjoy!

Congratulations Winners!!

I think right now we’re right around half way through our internship here. This last half has cruised by, and I’m excited to see what the next half brings; hopefully a world draped  in bamboo decks.

So you’ve already heard about the party and all that, so let’s look ahead – we’ve been very busy here in the Intern Cave and so there’s A LOT coming up!! We’re going to have another fundraiser party later this month. The more money we can raise the better!! We are also partnering with another charity to design a limited edition deck with part of the proceeds going to the charity, so keep your eyes out for that. Finally, we are going to be at Clash at Clairemont this year, so I expect you all to stop by and say hi! It is March 27th at the Clairemont YMCA.

In the next few days I’m going to try to get a picture or two up from the fundraiser so you can live vicariously through us. haha Till then, I’m out!

Monday I weaved my way around a few rain clouds on my way to  drop off the new Zine. (Its the paper in the box telling about our company and why bamboo is the right way to go.) If you’ve bought one of our decks already you know what I’m talking about. If not, be sure to look for it in your box on your next deck purchase. The new one touches on our environmental impact, strength of the bamboo, and long lasting pop. If you’ve sent in pictures for our Photo Contest your picture might be in the Zine! Check it out with your next deck.

Tuesday was a very productive day in the Cave. We spent some time getting things reorganized and primed for greatness in the future.We also consoled Marty on Canada’s loss and I ate a lot of PB&J.

Friday was our BambooSK8 fund raising party. We were raffling decks, taking donations, and cutting up the dance floor. The bands were really good with different people switching instruments, great vocal harmony, and a fun feel. I’d highly recommend checking them out. The event went well and once everything was done the BambooSK8 staff  commandeered the second dance floor until they kicked us out at closing time. I made it home dry once again to close out the week with no rain on the motorcycle. Wahoo!

We’ve been talking a lot about art here lately; our new deck graphic, our graphic design contest; and just what a dope canvas a bamboo skateboard makes for art.

Anyways, that’s what’s on my mind these days. If you’re in the mood for watching something lifechanging about creativity check this out… education is where you find it…

http://www.bamboosk8fundraising.myevent.com/3/donate.htm

Our Goal is at least $3,000 so we (and by that I mean, the kids) really need your help!
Things around here in the warehouse have been in motion with shipments moving like crazy! Somedays I fancy the thought of climbing up the mountains of bamboo in this place, but then the thought of an earthquake comes to mind and I quickly retreat to the intern cave!…Oh yeah, and I wiped out for the first time since I’ve been here…darn those cracks in the concrete! Haha! BUT, there is nothing quite like a bruise to brag about.

Next weekend on FRIDAY is our big CHARITY fundraiser party in San Clemente, come party with us!! Three bands, multiple rooms, and some cool, good looking people — gonna be a gooood time. =)

We also are going to be at the Clash at Clairemont on March 27th! Its a HUGE day of skating to benefit grindforlife.org, which helps people with cancer. Check it out!!

This SATURDAY 2/13, we will be at MISSION BEACH (at San Fernando St) in SAN DIEGO for the CKA Kiteboarding Competition. We’ll be playing beach games, hanging out and watching the kiters rip it ALL DAY. We also have some codes for discounted boards! Woo! See ya there!!!

Last week BambooSK8 made a spash at ASR and Crossroads – two industry trade shows aimed at action sports. I wasn’t able to attend but the company was represented well and I hear our decks turned some heads.

We’ve also begun to promote our fundraising party on February 26th at OC Tavern in San Clemente. There will be some great live music, good brews, good people and good times. Its all to help us start some after school skate programs in schools and you can buy tickets at bamboosk8fundraising.myevent.com in advance. Check out Bri’s post for all the details.

There are also going to be some good contests going up on Hookit hopefully by the end of the week. If you’re not on Hookit, get on. If you are, make sure you’re friends with BambooSK8’s Eco Tribe and check in frequently for updates. We’ve got three unique contests going up soon so check in and see what you can win.

As always, if you know of some good shops that need some good shop decks, let us know. Until next time, get out there and tear it up.

These are exciting times. A couple of us went down to walk around what has been called “ASR Lite” this week and took away some mixed feelings. Even though it felt like the event itself was on life support, our decks were turning heads while we were just walking around. It feels like there’s a wave of bamboo fever about to crash on the skate scene about our cleaner, better and just plain gorgeous decks.

But the coolest thing in San Diego this week wasn’t the (lusterless) glitz and glam inside the ASR; it was what was going on accross the parking lot at the Crossroads show; all sorts of people who just dig skating were slamming it. There was a little girl, who was maybe 2 and a half feet tall shredding it with the big boys. It was nice to just see skaters getting off on skating.

Anyways world, here at BambooSK8 we’re changing the face of the skating world one deck at a time. We’re in the proccess of getting our boards under some riders and people are digging it.

They say you can’t draw water from stone, so we’re liquifying; I suggest buying a boat, ’cause we’re gonna flood.

See ya there!

If you’re in the area, I suggest getting out your bamboo board and cruising on down. Remember, the best weapon in the battle for sustainability is knowledge.

Learn yourself!

First let me say how psyched I am to be freezing inside the BambooSK8 cave, I love the vibe of this company! Let me give you some insight for what to expect from our class in 2010. If you haven’t heard about Loop’d yet, check it out! It’s an amazing site that connects action sports athletes with each other and most importantly, our sponsorship! We would love to see what you could do, so posts those videos of tricks we are yet to see in places that push the limits! We have graphic design, Top Promoter/Fan contests, and new contests are always in the works on Loop’d too.

On a side note, BambooSK8 is a totally green company and we want to know what else we could be doing that we may have missed. If you guys have any great ideas out there on how to manufacture even more green than we do and especially if you know of great, low energy ways we can heat this cave let us know! Also, if you know of any green charities and/or fundraisers we should get involved with, please email us at marketing@BambooSK8.com

See ya there!

Just landed here on Industry St. and am stoaked to get my hands dirty in the world of skateboard manufacturing. I got a mean green streak and there’s a strong environmental vibe going on around here, so I’m excited about that. I’m just getting my bearings so not much to report, except that the water is warm and I’m excited to dive in.

Winter is a wonderful season.

I’ll check back in a couple weeks. Cheers!

Peace.

On a side note, next week is our final week as interns at BambooSK8.  I am so thankful for having this opportunity at BambooSK8 and I can’t say enough goods things about the company.  BambooSK8 is truly the future of skateboarding and everyone in the industry is starting to realize the benefits of skating bamboo.  All of us interns who stuck it out and completed the internship have really learned a lot and good things are in our future.

Til next time.  KIR.

Longboard sales are going well they are flyin’ off the shelves! They look really good to I think people will be stoked on them.

Hopefully all goes well in LA on Monday…fingers crossed.

Back to the drawing board.

1. Show respect to everyone because you never really know who they are
2. If you spill your drink in the park take off your shirt and clean it up or else someone will slip and break their arm
3. If you are going to someone elses park bring a gift. If you are of age, beer, if you aren’t then water or energy drinks
4. Don’t drop in on any one EVER
5. If someone does something sick hoot and holler. Trust me they’ll do it for you in return and it will push your skating that much further.

6. Most importantly respect the park. Skaters barley have anywhere to skate anymore so why trash the one spot we are allowed to skate

BambooSK8 was fortunate enough to have a month of free advertising on Rerip.com and I was given the opportunity to create an ad for the website. Check it out if you haven’t already.  The BambooSK8 website has been going through some changes as well and it is really coming together.

All of us interns have come a long way and dedicate a lot of time promoting a quality, sustainable product, that is truly the future of skateboarding.

This Saturday (November 21st) ASEC will be opening their Greenroom at Pacific Beach Surf Shop. There will be food, drinks, live music, live art, a surfboard gallery, and much more. Come out and support ASEC with the BambooSK8 crew from 6pm-11pm! Go green!!!

We set up a booth alongside Ocean Beach Surf and Skate which featured a skate demo. Below are some pictures I took at the event.

Next year this event will be even bigger and better so be sure not to miss it next time around.

Peace…

This park is a reflection of the big things that are possible when the skateboard and snowboard communities come together.

R.I.P. JLA
(“Jeff Anderson is snowboarding. Jeff Anderson is skateboarding. Jeff Anderson is passion. Jeff Anderson is unity.”)

Come out and support the cause!

I have been working on creating partnerships with other eco-friendly companies for future events and promotions.  I can’t really talk about the details but keep your eyes and ears open. The word of bamboo skateboards is spreading in a rapid way thanks to our interns.  Everyone is starting to realize the benefits of bamboo skateboards as opposed to maple.  One day when bamboo replaces maple we will all be able to breathe a little easier.

The last couple days we received a new shipment of our hybrid bamboo decks and wow do they look amazing. After years of testing and feedback, these are truly a reflection of perfection. These decks are flying like hotcakes so any of you shop owners out there or loop’d kids better get on it if you want to skate some fresh bamboo. Those of you who have already ordered your decks please feel free to send us some feedback.   It has been a great experience so far and I look forward to bigger and better things in the future.

Til next time.

RAD-Roll Anything Day

Let the training  begin…

Photos courtesy of Skateboard Revolution:

One of the main objectives of this internship is to spread the word of BambooSK8 and create awarness for future generations to come.  I can’t say enough good things about this company and the internship program.  Bamboo skateboards are the wave of the future and have proven to be superior to its counterpart maple.  Tested and proven in the Sole Tech labs to have more POP than maple!!!  What more do you want in a skateboard than a durable product thats got POP? 

We want to thank all you kids out there on loop’d network that are buying our decks and supporting us.  Keep on sending us those photos for the weekly photo contest and keep on rippin’.  Whether your buying our decks directly from us or in your local skate shop, you are starting to see the light and supporting a good cause.  One day when all those maple trees are gone what will you turn to?

This is a great company and a wonderful opportunity that I am proud to be a part of.  Until next time….

NateP

There was plenty of entertainment and eye-candy throughout the weekend.  One of the highlights of the event was probably the Volcom skate ramp.  It was fun watching groms destroy it and old school skaters trying to hang.  One kid that definitely stuck out was Little Louie Lopez.  Its hard to keep up with the skate scene these days with all these young guns coming up.  The trick that stuck in my mind was a gap to frontside krooks down and across a good portion of the ramp.  Freakin’ Groms!  One other highlight was the first ever Office Boyz skate contest.  Its a contest put on by Malakye that involves desk jockey’s and employees from around the Actions Sports Industry.  You would be surprised at the level of skating by the people who sit behind a computer all day and  work in this industry.  Do they really work all day? I think they are taking way too many skate breaks.

Overall ASR was a great experience and our team of interns did a great job.  People were even asking for our decks when we were loading up the truck in the parking lot.  I would say it was a success for BambooSK8. Way to go team!

Peace out.

LiV well…

ride grass…..PEACE!

Does anybody know what was up with the booth that was selling Ron Burgundy sunscreen..?

Breathe easy, Skate Bamboo

More to come……

Skate Green,

Mark O.

Another former intern from class 3, Greg, is now working for us heading up our longboard business.  We expect great things from Greg!!

Also, yesterday, we had lunch with a former intern Kenny from the first internship.  Kenny is now helping our old friend Donald at Dark Horse Distribution (Grind King, Termite, Dogtown) with operations, as well as venturing into some new technological things.

Our former intern Krystie who was hired at Fox after our internship is kicking butt over there, and still finding time to help us with various graphical items.  We can’t say enough good things about her!!

Once the market picks back up, we are hoping to see more of our interns find jobs within the industry.  At the same time, some interns find that action sports just isn’t for them… or that they thought they wanted to do sales, but realize they dont… it’s all a part of the process of self growth.

Here are some pictures of Alyx, Andrew and I taking bamboosk8 into open water… just another average day at the office:
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And last night two of our previous interns, Kristie S and Mark D, had some of their deck art work displayed at Tap Room in Pacific Beach. Their skate decks will be hanging at the bar for the next month if you want to go check it out.

TapRoom Art Show

I'm on a Boat

Shawn

I’m Christie one of the new intern for BambooSk8. A little about me I am Colombian and I was raised in San Diego, CA my whole life. I currently go to school at The Art Institute of California, San Diego. I graduate at the end of this summer with a Bachelors of Science in Fashion Marketing and Management.  My biggest passions are photography, art, and traveling. Growing up in SoCal has allowed me to be surrounded by surfers, skaters, and snowboarders which inspired me to get into the action sports industry.  As an intern at BambooSk8 I have been able to work and multiple projects while interacting one on one with skaters through networking sites.  I look forward to learning more about the skater’s lifestyle and being a part of crazy events throughout the summer such as Go Skate Boarding Day, ASR, and more!

Christie

 ”most likely to succeed” – Greg

“class clown” – Mark D

“best photography” – Jamie

“most creative” – Kystie

“most persistent” – Mark O

“most improved” – Brittany

“most congenial” – Monica

“most dilligent” – Monique

Most importantly for Geoff was giving a plaque to his lovely girlfriend Catherine – “the woman behind the man”.

We then followed the evening with a final thank you from Mark and then photos, hugs and autographs.  This group will definitely be missed and we are confident that they will do well in life in their future roles in action sports and hopefully skateboarding.  No matter what, they will always be a part of the bamboo family.

So I’m Kennen (a.k.a. kage, kbear, conan, rage, etc…).  I started as an intern here at BambooSK8 about a month ago.  I went to school in Ithaca, NY – the craziest hippie town around, think San Francisco but with happy hippies.  Got my bachelors in fiber science from Cornell in January and moved straight back home to Orange County.  Ithaca was awesome but it was way cold!  I thought I was gonna get a job right of college no problem, but the economy thought otherwise.  It’s cool though, this internship has been pretty sick.  I’ve been able to do way more as an intern here than I would have as an employee at any major company.  Right now I’m working on the textile side of bamboo and have a couple projects in the works.  I’m pretty stoked for this weekend, we got Go SK8 Day on Sunday – I’ll be wandering around various skate parks in Orange – and I plan to get a tech package done for my first bamboo product!  More about that next time though…peace

kage

So kids, farewell time!! This will be my last post.. I was lucky enough to get a job as a designer at Fox Racing and have already begun on that whole new journey.. I will miss the bamboo crew, and the fun crazy work environment, I had a ball and learnt a lot about how start-up businesses operate in this tough industry- was experience ‘behind the scenes’ that you definitely wouldn’t get at any of the bigger boys within the action sports industry.
I started my internship on the other side of the world- in Australia- and ended my bambosk8 journey here in Oceanside, CA. Just proves that you can be anywhere in the world and gain valuable experience- as long as you have skype!! While I was at bamboosk8 I worked on graphic promo material and I helped develop the new and improved website which will be launching soon, keep your eye out for it..
So thanks to everyone – Geoff for giving me a chance on the other side of the world, and thanks to all the interns- you guys are awesome and do a great job!
Will miss you all,
Krystie

ps
If you want to see some sexy bamboo decks I will be featured in a skateboard art exhibition down in San Diego on the 1st July, the gig is at ‘Taproom’ and will feature different artists from SD and OC- mark D- another intern, will also be in it so come along!

I’ve been learning a lot about the company, products and customers lately.  I was able to help out with some of the latest ASEC skate demos in orange county and had a blast seeing everyone stoked on BambooSK8 including some of the top pros in the industry.  I’ve also got a lot of positive feedback from a couple friends on how the boards perform which is awesome.  Here’s a pic from the latest ASEC event in Huntington Beach of some of the local skaters who will all be skating these rad boards soon.

This past weekend we went to the Orange County High School of the Arts and a high school out in Huntington beach for ASEC skate demos called Recylce Your Brain. Fabrizio Santos and Tash Townend were there! We gave away 100 decks! It was a pretty fun and I walked away with some free stuff of my own. Over all a good time.

Brett in front of the Bamboo Sk8 tent and deck sculpture!

One word really describes this: Baller

Well kids, my time at BambooSK8 has come to an end and I’m very grateful for the opportunities I had during my four months here. I got to meet a lot of cool and interesting folks and really work on honing my photography skills. I had a blasty blast working on the start-up of the music program and I really hope it grows into something awesomely huge. As for me, I’m getting ready to dive back into ESPN full time in the fall for more drunken college football shenanigans. I’m also getting closer to seeing my dream of starting my own photography business come to life. I’m even shooting a wedding this month, eek! Cross your fingers and toes, too, for good measure.

a hui hou,
j

Here is the poster for the Isla Vista Surfrider Foundation concert this Saturday in Santa Barbara.  If you live in the area come check out the event!!!  This foundation is critical to keeping California coastlines excelent for surfers and marine life.  We are hoping on working more with this foundation in the future.

Party….Mark D

Back for more, cause I aint had enough.  Get ready for more blogs and more event photos.  Here are some pictures from Earth day up In Santa Barbara!!!

-Also, Isla Vista Surfrider foundation concert this weekend!!!!!

Here is a link our Loop’d profile where the contest is featured: http://www.loopd.com/members/bamboosk8/Home.aspx 

Toodles,

Mo $

Here are 2 example advertisements that krystie and I worked on:

Hey guys

So I finished another few boards over the weekend… Here is one of them! Workin hard on the new website design, check out the sneak peek.. Thanks to out past intern Jaimie for some awesome photos of the Alex..
Also finished a collaboration on a board with MarkD today. Image coming soon!

Cya
K

Good luck, have fun and skate safe!

-Monica

Just wanted to give this blogging thing a go and say a big hello to everyone that I have not had the pleasure of meeting quite yet

I had a great time at the ASEC event, those little kids can rip it up out there, totally fearless! Anywho, hope you all have a great week and see you all soon!

Cheers,

Erin

p.s. Chrystie- I love the skateboard!

Hey kids!

Krystie here… i’m a newbie (well kind of) here at BambooSK8, all the way from the land down under!! Im an Aussie who gets a hard time around here for my accent, but im slowly teaching the crew some good quality Australian slang

So a bit about me- im a graphic artist, i make things look pretty, and i love to paint. I’m currently working on a brand spankin new look for our website, so keep an eye out! I work on anything from labels, brochures, advertisements, logos, stickers, websites.. and lots more. I also paint boards, this image shows you one of them- they will be available for purchase if you are interested.

So i’m super excited about the long boards that will be coming out soon- you should be too!

I will upload new board images as I finish them- hope you like

Krystie

As promised is the photo shoot Jamie Mark O and myself did last week.  Just learned how to animate GIFS, lucky you.  Maybe the title should say “Bamboo Sk8, cleaning up the streets”

Any other ideas for a title or text to add?

Mark D out