Team Update!
by: Brink | Monday, September 19, 2005 | 33 comments
Tomorrow, the etnies crew is headed to the East Coast of Canada for a week long tour. West49 will be hosting Arto Saari, Ryan Sheckler, Rune Glifberg, Ronnie Creager, Kyle Leeper, Conhuir Lynn and Nathan LaCoste for two demos and two autograph signings in the Maritimes. Check the flyer for details. The tour ends September 26, and we’ll have photos and a story of everything that went down.
Arto Saari has been continuing his maniac mission. After King of the Road, he was in Huntington Beach for a few days, before he took off with Quiksilver on a short tour, Hawaii style. They were out in Honolulu for a little over a week doing a couple demos, autograph signings, and also skating some pools, bowls, and whatever other terrain they came across. After that he was on his way to Arizona to film and shoot photos. He got back from AZ last Friday, and proceeded the following day to the ASR trade show in San Diego. A couple signings (with Flip and Quiksilver) and a couple brews were on the SD menu. This weekend he’s headed back to Arizona for a Flip demo and autograph signing.
Bastien Salabanzi has been back in the States skating pretty much everyday. He was down at the ASR trade show over the weekend doing the same thing as Arto, minus the brews. He is also headed out to Arizona for the Flip demo/signing this weekend. Later this month, Bastien is headed back to France to skate and hang out with family before returning later in the year for a couple etnies things and Flip trips. Stay tuned.
Rune Glifberg has been doing the Dew as well as some other business as of late. Over the weekend, Rune was at the 4th stop of the Dew Action Sports Tour in San Jose, CA. In practice, Rune was making his run basically every time. When it came to finals, he missed his 1st two runs, and had to use a back-up run for his 3rd to stay on. He ended up in 5th place. Rune was also seen at the ASR show on Sunday, showing his daughter Alfa all the people in “costumes”. He also stopped by and said hello to the etnies, Flip, and Volcom folk. Rune will be with Arto, Bastien, and the rest of the Flip crew (etnies am Eric Fletcher will also be in attendance) this weekend in Arizona for that demo/autograph signing that we keep rambling about.
Ryan Sheckler has been busy winning contests, touring with Tony Hawk, starting school, and skating the streets as well. Whew. He won the 4th stop of the Dew Series in San Jose last weekend (that’s three out of four), which clinched the Series title. Congratulations Ryan!!! Next stop Orlando. Can he make it four out of five? We think so. He is currently on the Tony Hawk tour getting stuff for the DVD and additional bonus footage for THAW (Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland video game), as well as doing a 30-minute MTV show which will air at some point in the near future. Although Ryan wasn’t at the ASR trade show over the weekend, his shoe was.so if you were there you got to get a glimpse of it, or better yet hold it in your hands; or maybe you’ve just seen him wearing it in the coverage he has had in the mags or at the contests. Well, the wait will be over soon enough. The shoe will be in finer skate shops throughout the land in January ’06. Get ready!
Ronnie Creager was also at the San Jose stop of the Dew Series over the weekend. He qualified 3rd, but wasn’t able to put it all together in the finals. He ended up in 8th. Ronnie will be at the final stop of the tour in Orlando mid-October, so we’ll see how things go there. Ronnie left today for Arizona to go skate now that the weather has chilled out a bit there. He may even stop in on the Flip guys to see how the demo goes.
Stefan Janoski has been enjoying some downtime lately, translation...no trips! He had such a hectic summer with King of the Road and numerous other trips, that a little time to chill is just what the doctor ordered. If you are in the Sacramento area, you may catch him at some local spots.
Conhuir Lynn has been at home in Belfast, Ireland skating and hanging out with his family. He was recently at a Wild in the Streets event in Belfast. Apparently there were best trick contests at four or five spots, and Conhuir ended up destroying a couple of them, which won him some cash. Nice work chap!
Last but certainly not least, etnies would like to welcome Kyle Leeper to the team. You'll be getting plenty of Kyle updates from this point on.
jockey
Sep 20, 2005etnies rock yea
Francisco Lima
Sep 20, 2005wth am i really seeing bastien with a moustache? its an original idea. Anyway i hope they are fine andi wish good luck to all them in champs and in life.
Aj
Sep 20, 2005Have you seen all the stuff donated by action sports stars on ebay for the Katrina relief effort? Check it out, Sheckler has a bunch of stuff listed. Just cut and paste this link in your browser.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZdew_action_sports_tour_hurricane_relief_fundQQhtZ-1
izzy foshizzy
Sep 20, 2005omw! does Ryan Sheckler ever lyke sleep! omg! id die of tiredness (iz that word) if i were him! omw! das crazy. but congrats to Ryan Sheckler for winning lyke everything!
jared
Sep 20, 2005awesome, sounds like the etnies team is having a good time, wow it would be rad to be sponsered by etnies, and ryans new shoe sounds to be cool, good job crew! keep up the skating and remember to have fun!
sean
Sep 20, 2005yo i just got some Bastins they rock and i just learned how to 360 flip a 12 set !!!!!!!!!
sean
Sep 20, 2005me agin seems to me like every 1 loves those artos that mite be my next shoe and sheckler u are my idel !
Skate forever
Sep 20, 2005when is the Sheckler Shoe Comin Out
Brent Nason
Sep 20, 2005why does it take shecklers shoe to take so long to come out wow:|. i heard they were suppose to be out alreayd this month wtf
pride tiger
Sep 20, 2005nathan lacoste is friggin sick! why isnt he on the team
lil shecky girl
Sep 21, 2005does anyone no where i can see a picture of ryans shoe?
Aj
Sep 21, 2005Heres a couple of pics of ryans pro model shoes, not great pics, but thats them.
http://vansevents.com/downtownshowdown/images/stories/H7Q8379.jpg
http://www.skateparkoftampa.com/spot/images/vds05sheckryan.jpg
mike
Sep 21, 2005fuck this site is fucking shitty your team sucks ass
mike martin
Sep 21, 2005arto you suck ass man you fucking poser you too ryan faggit call my name out at the demo
Aj
Sep 21, 2005call my name out? what a loser
emily
Sep 21, 2005More Ryan!!! He's so CUTE!
emily
Sep 21, 2005The rest of the team. (other than ryan) is AWESOME!!! He is too. but by the look of the comments... he knows that.
sean
Sep 21, 2005whens ryhans shoes coming out i want to no cause im getting a pare so i can trash the shit out of them
ye`S
Sep 21, 2005I heard Bastien is going to an opening of a new park in Indiana(october 1 i think), is that true?
Skate till i DIE, surf until they bury me
Sep 21, 2005dude! the sheckler pro model shoe was suppose to come out this month i was suppose to get a pair for my bdayyyy! and now i have to wait until january... uhh.. .are there any holidays in january? haha... oh well...
does anyone know if the etnies team will be coming like anywhere near ohio or florida???
Anonymous
Sep 24, 2005ryan sheckler is tight, who else is on the team, oh yeah, arto saari, it sucks cause I go to this lame academy school, just now, so I can't keep up with my favorite skaters, I've been skating so much this summer, and now, I'm not cause of this school, but I'm thankful, cause I wanna be hewre and this school benefits for me. You gys rock and keep me to skating , skaters live long, oh yeah!!!!
Sonic
Sep 24, 2005Ryan Sheckler rocks, who else is on the team, oh yeah, Arto Saari, he rocks too. SORRY. REALLY SORRY. Awesome!!!!! I can't keep up with my favorite skaters since I've been going to this lame academy school seven miles from my house, so all I have time to think about is the school. In the summer I've been skating a lot and now, like not at all, it sucks man. I'm trying to keep up. But, I'm thankful, cause I'm really fortunate to be here and I'm thankful.
Sonic
Sep 24, 2005oops I left a comment two times, I'm such a butthead anyways you guys rock, live long.
Dustin
Sep 29, 2005hey. thanks for coming out to halifax. you have to come out for the new parks when it is built. that was amazing. everybody did wikked even though we had only a crappy skatepark for them. sheckler did 17 decks out of the bowl. Ronnie did the nolie tail, 360 heel out. that was sick as hell. you really have to come back out here.
josh
Sep 29, 2005hey! thanks for coming down to our crappy sk8 park in halifax, it was the best sk8in ive ever seen, i heard artto saying they might comeback for the new park opening, you guys should definately come back .....thanks again
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