Element Skateboards
From Freepedia
Element is a skateboard company that was established in Atlanta, Georgia in 1992 as Underworld Element. The company later dropped the "Underworld" from its name and became known as just Element. The Element logo is a stick figure style tree inside a circle, often white in a red background. In some renditions, the logo is also circled by the words: Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth, the four basic elements.
Element's current sponsored team consists of... Pro's: Bam Margera, Tosh Townend, Jake Rupp, Colt Cannon, Mike Vallely, Vanessa Torres, Chris Senn, Jeremy Wray, Bucky Lasek
Am's:, Tony Tave, Tyler Bledsoe, Erick Pries, Ahbi Huston, Nyjah Huston, Colin Provost, Brett Atchley
Flow: Dallas Rockvam, Justin Schulte, Levi Brown
Twigs: Jason Gallagher, Devon Lamb
Australia: Josh Rio, George Newholme, Esther Godoy, Shane Matthewson, Pedro Day, Jesse Maling, Jamie Hawley, Rob Kenworthy
Europe: Bas Janssen, Jaane Sario, Jo Lorenz, Michael Mackrodt, Sebastion Hepp, Jean Marc Soulet
Pro Rider Bam Margera starred in the hit MTV shows Jackass and Viva La Bam. Bam is the creator of the most successful Skate Series ever, the CKY series. Bam also co wrote and starred in the movie Haggard
Element is a prominent company in skateboarding with a global distribution network reaching out to over 50 countries. It was bought in 2001 by Australian surfwear company Billabong International.
Elenmental Awareness
Elemental Awarness is an organization designed to promote wilderness conservation and survival skills to young people through skateboarding. The program was started by Mike Kershnar and Todd Larson. The idea of the program is to promote enviromental values to kids in a way that will get them interested and enthusiastic, which for many is through skateboarding.
Another goal of EA is to promote skateboarding (since it is a much healthier hobby than drugs or crime, which many of these kids would otherwise be involved with). They do this by providing scholarships to skate camps, taking kids to professional skating facilities, and letting the meet with professional skaters.
Elemental Awareness is officially endorsed and primarily funded by Element Skateboards. The wilderness survival and conservation aspect of Elemental Awareness is also offically recognized by Tom Brown (naturalist) and his school of trackers.
Videos
1993: Sky Pager
1994: Fine Artists
1996: Third Eye View
1999: World Tour
2005: Elementality
