Element Skateboards
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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 founder and president of the company, Johnny Schillereff, invented the logo as being the life of natural wood and being "one" with the board.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.
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[edit] Team
Element's current main team consists of:
- Bam Margera
- Tosh Townend
- Chad Muska
- Darell Stanton
- Mike Vallely
- Vanessa Torres
- Nyjah Huston
- Chris Senn
- Jeremy Wray
- Brent Atchley
- Bucky Lasek
- Chad Tim Tim
- Tony Tave
- Dallas Rockvam
- Collin Provost
- Jimmy Lannon
- Levi Brown
- Angel Aguilar
- Mike Barker
International Team:
- Soichiro Nakajima (Japan)
- Seigi Maeda (Japan)
- Spiro Razis (Chile)
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.
[edit] Element Footwear
In 2006 Element Skateboards launched a footwear brand called Element Footwear. Element foowear comes in many different styles and has different collections called the earth, wind, water, and fire collections
The Element Footwear team consists of:
- Mike Vallely (released two new Element pro model shoes)
- Tosh Townend (released a new element pro model shoe)
- Brent Atchley
- Chad Tim Tim
- Dallas Rockvam
- Levi Brown
[edit] Elemental Awareness
Elemental Awareness 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 environmental values to kids in a way that will get them interested and enthusiastic, which for many is through skateboarding.
Another goal of Elemental Awareness is to promote skateboarding by providing scholarships to skate camps, taking kids to professional skating facilities, and letting them meet with professional skaters.
The wilderness survival and conservation aspect of Elemental Awareness is officially recognized by Tom Brown and his school of trackers.
[edit] Videography
- Sky Pager (1993)
- Fine Artists (1994)
- Third Eye View (1996)
- World Tour (1999)
- Elementality Vol. One (2005)
- Element Rise Up The Europe Element Video (2006)
- Elementality Vol. Two (2006) (released on the internet only)
- My Element (2007) Will be Element Skateboard's next skate video release, though not much information has been disclosed, it is said to be a full video. It will feature Element's newest pro; Chad Muska's first Element video part. (Information from www.elementskateboards.com).
[edit] Elementality
Elementality started (with Vol. 1) as a series of full videos to be released several years apart. Now with the recent release of Vol. 2, it has grown into an Element skateboards video magazine much like 411VM, with 15 minute videos to be released twice a year.
