Agenda and Transworld Skateboarding Partner To Deliver “Cash On The Table” During Agenda Long Beach Agenda and Transworld Skateboarding Partner To Deliver “Cash On The Table” During Agenda Long Beach Latest Effort Supports Agenda’s Strategy Of Using Events To Build Overall Experience Last week’s Agenda Show in Long Beach added a new consumer-facing event called “Cash On The Table,” which took over the space right in front of the Long Beach Convention center, drawing large crowds. Agenda’s VP of Sales and Marketing Mike Carter says the event is in line with Agenda’s overall strategy of building cool events around the show to add to the overall experience. Agenda’s line-up of events has included everything from traditional parties, post-show BBQs, and movie premiers, to more unique efforts like Agenda Emerge and The Break video series. “All these consumer events help add to our ultimate goal of creating great energy focused on our Industry as a whole,” says Carter.

Last January, Agenda and Transworld Skateboarding collaborated to bring the popular Transworld Skateboarding Awards show to Long Beach, giving key skate retailers from around the country a chance to attend. This summer’s contest was designed to help make sure that a strong skate presence continues year-round. “Skate is an important category and a core pillar that helped build Agenda into what it is today. Partnering with a best in class media entity helps validate the event and align us with like-minded groups,” Carter says of the partnership with Transworld Skateboarding. Like the name suggests, the “Cash on The Table” format supplied a steady stream of $100 bills to skaters on the spot (a select list of ABDs was posted on a banner and $100 was awarded for the first one done, while NBDs got $200 or more depending the judges discretion). Transworld Skateboarding’s coverage summed up the level of skating: “First place on the day went to Tiago Lemos who nollie flipped the table twice in a row, nollie varial flipped it, and switch pop shove-it’d it.

Fellow Brazilian and Boulevard and DC rider Carlos Iqui got second with a barrage of tricks including switch frontside flip, nollie backside flip, nollie 360, switch backside flip, and fakie hardflip! U Haul Van Rental QueensThird went to Shmatty Chaffin who nollie inward heelflipped it and nollie bigspin kickflipped it. Homes For Sale On Chickamauga LakeHonorable mentions went out to Dane Vaughn for a half Cab flip and Andre Genovesi for a straight nollie heelflip.”Ralph Lauren Teddy Bear Crib Bedding Set “TransWorld SKATEboarding is excited to work with Agenda to bring a live skateboarding event back to the trade show arena,” says Transworld Skateboarding General Manager Monica Campana. “TWS and Agenda share a unified vision of how skateboarding can, and should be experienced at a trade show. 

The ability to create an environment and involve a combination of media, brands, retailers, professional skaters and consumers is a unique and refreshing opportunity for all of skateboarding.” Cash on the Table was presented by Kayo, with additional sponsorship from adidas skateboarding, CCS, Mitchell&Ness, RedBull and CA Skateparks. Complete Coverage of the July 2014 Agenda Long Beach TradeshowTop 10 Mini Ramp Tricks to Blow your Friends Mind Growing up skating we all had that one friend who was lucky enough to have a mini ramp in his backyard, garage, barn or some other shotty erected structure. These kids skated everyday and were the best not only because they had their own ramp, but also because they knew where every nail was poking out of the water warped and cracked masonite. It didn’t matter if their skate deck was cracked with grip tape peeling, or their trucks were held on with two screws, they knew the secret to skating their own mini ramp because lets face it every mini is different.

We’ve compiled the top ten mini ramp tricks that are timeless and stylish on any ramp whether it be a nail infested hunk of wood or something built be someone with actual carpentry experience. 10. Rock to Fakie It’s the first thing you learn riding a mini, its simple, timeless and a must know. Simply lift of that front truck, rock on the baseof the deck slightly lifting the front truck again going to fakie riding down the transition. The invention of the great Jay Adams and another classic. It is the gateway to many mini ramp tricks. Once you ascend to the top of the transition lift up the front truck rotating 45 degrees, and setting both trucks on the coping. Once settled on the coping, rotate another 45 degrees and simply drop in. Once you have got this down take it to the next level by going at it at a slight angle with more speed and you will slide the coping completing a 50/50.  This is a must know to keep your speed in able to progress into other more advanced tricks.

Since you have mastered a 50-50 a Smith grind and stall should come easy. Go at the coping as if trying to do a 50-50 only keeping your back trucks on the coping while your front trucks are off facing the ramp as you are sliding or completely stalled. This 50-50 variation is sure to make you look stylee and impress the homies. Now that you’ve got some basics down you are trying to get into more technical tricks. A nose stall doesn’t sound too awfully hard but you’ll be surprised how many times you’ll slip out on the coping receiving a nice shiner. Once you reach the top of the coping you want to shift all your weight onto the nose of the board balancing on the coping. Finishing the lip trick is the hardest part because you will be dropping in fakie. Once you have gotten all of this down start adding some style to it by reverting once you have dropped in fakie. Sometimes you just have to throw some old school tricks down to impress your friends and the old gents still rocking Rector pads from 1980.

A staple gun consists of taking your back foot of the board and planting it below the coping while using your front foot to stomp the board down on the platform.  In one smooth motion your front foot pulls the board back towards the ramp while hopping back onto the board with you back foot. Ride away fakie and prepare for the next wall. 5. Blunt to Fakie Not an easy trick to land, definitely an easy trick to get that swellbow you’ve heard so much about. Your back truck is placed over the coping while your tail is placed on the coping.  Ollie out, ride away fakie, and a blunt to fakie no longer refers to you and your friends passing counter clockwise in a skunky basement. 4. Lay back grind You need to know where something’s been before you take it farther and you can go way back with this OG grind. When riding up the transition lean back placing your trailing hand on or around the coping while turning the board putting it into a 50-50 or boardslide. Use your hand to push the grind farther and as the grind slows pull the board towards you while hunching down to settle the board on the transition.

Time to kick it old school again. Similar to a boneless but grabbing melon are nose. While ascending the transition of the ram bend down grabbing melon or nose, pull your front foot off slamming it on the ground on the heel side of the board propelling yourself vertically out of the ramp. In the air put your front foot back on and roll away fakie down the transition.  This is stylish and is sure to impress your friends. Invented by the master of disaster himself, Duane Peters. A disaster is when you ollie 180 at the top of the transition of the mini ramp landing with your front trucks facing the ramp, balancing on the coping. Then simply pull up your back trucks slightly and drop back in. If you want to show your friends how technical of a skater you have become once you have landed the ollie 180 on the coping revert and drop in fakie and start adding variations to the disaster. Getting blunted now has two meanings with all the variations of blunt stalls and slides you know.