Skateboarding Starts With éS Timeline

2006 Year in Review:

Pros Danny Garcia and Raymond Molinar join the éS Team. While there are plenty of technical skaters in the world, few can pull it off with flawless style. Danny and Raymond do…every time they step on their skateboards. Amateurs Nyjah Huston, Silas Baxter-Neal and Bobby Worrest join the éS team. Nyjah is a dreadlocked 11-year-old pint-sized powerhouse and contest killer who brings down the biggies with the best of 'em.

Danny Garcia makes the switch to éS.

Nyjah Huston Joins éS. In lieu of toys, 11-year-old Nyjah plays with handrails.

Hailing from the backwoods of Oregon, low-key amateur Silas is described by Habitat as a down-to-Earth person with relentless determination. Silas will skate anything.

Silas and Danny.

These days, it's rare to find an amateur with such diverse talent. Growing up on the rough-surfaced streets of the East Coast, Bobby is hand-picked straight off the rad tree for the Krooked team by the Gonz himself.

Bobby Worrest.

This is Bobby's sponsor me footage for éS from 2002, when he was around 15 or 16.

Bobby Worrest wastes no time producing parts for both the Krooked Khronicles and Get Familiar videos! Rick McCrank scores a Color mag cover and, like Nyjah Huston, an interview in The Skateboard Mag. Rodrigo Tx. earns a TransWorld Skateboarding cover and interview, while Canadian éS rider Jordan Hoffart is voted Canadian Am of the Year by the Editors of SBC Skateboard magazine.

Rick McCrank freaks out on the cover of Color.

Bigger please!

Rodrigo Tx. very large backside flip.

The éS team produces a 12-page filming tour article in The Skateboard Mag and a 14-page Cotton Candy Skies and Gumdrop Dreams photo essay in Slap, which covers the Denver to Utah leg of the same trip. The team also embarks on filming missions to Australia and Puerto Rico for their upcoming second video, éSpecial.

Scuba Steve and Justin Eldridge film for the éSpecial! video.

Rick McCrank and Justin Eldridge embark on the Badass Meets Dumbass Tour, Rodrigo Tx. joins the Feast Canada Tour and the éS team demos at the V7 Teenage Tour Finals in Chelles, Paris.

Bigger please!

Rick McCrank wins the Top Pro title of the Downtown Showdown contest, while Nyjah Huston claims second place in the Skatepark event at the Dew Action Sports Tour Panasonic Open contest in Louisville, Kentucky, then gets voted MVP at the third annual GvR, leading the Goofy team to victory.

éS Europe team rider Daniel Cardone wins the Quiksilver Bowlriders contest in Malmo, Sweden; places second at the Bowlmasters contest in Brixlegg, Austria; and wins The Machine Award at the Slam Trick Invitational in Marina di Ravenna, Italy.

Daniel Cardone schralps it up at the Quiksilver Bowlriders contest in Malmo, Sweden.

Unknown German amateur Alex Mizurov takes the third annual Boost Mobile + éS Game of SKATE Amateur World Championships and 2006 Finals by storm, winning both the am and pro events.

P.J. Ladd is honored with his very own gold colorway Venture truck!

P.J. Ladd's signature Venture color.

P.J. Ladd switch backside flips a big four-flat-four.

éS offers the P.J. Ladd + Plan B Collaboration, featuring a limited-edition P.J. Ladd pro model shoe in a black nylon bag, a baseball cap, and a super-rare éS + Plan B skateboard deck.

P.J. Ladd massive kickflip.

Harvey Spannos, a surreal skate comedy filmed by Corey Adams and starring Rick McCrank, takes top honors at the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival at Sundance and wins the Fuel TV Experiment, which gives Corey up to one million dollars to make his next film.