2003 Year in Review:
Justin Eldridge and Cale Nuske join the éS team. Justin's amazing pop and switch skating abilities blow minds far and wide, while Cale's hard-charging skills on a board make him known as the Thunder from Down Under.
Cale Nuske nollie front boards a shiny, well-supported rail.
The entire éS team embarks on a well-received Scandinavia Tour, including stops packed with screaming kids in France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Arto Saari at home touring Scandinavia.
P.J. kickflip shifty on tour in Scandinavia.
Eric Koston, Rick McCrank, Paul Rodriguez, P.J. Ladd and Alexis Sablone embark on the first-ever Thrasher King of the Road Tour, the contest-like trip in which four skate company teams travel from the East Coast to San Francisco, completing special assignments along the way to accumulate points for 1st place.
éS Footwear introduces the first-ever official éS Game of SKATE at the Action Sports Retailer trade show in Long Beach, California. Appropriately, éS team riders Eric Koston and Paul Rodriguez battle it out for the top spot, and P-Rod happily takes home the $10,000 1st place prize.
Paul Rodriguez receives his $10,000 check for 1st place at éS Game of SKATE.
Eric Koston wins the X Games Global Challenge in San Antonio, Texas, as well as the X Games IX Street event in Los Angeles (good thing, since his image was plastered all over the city on X Games IX billboards), and scores a 21-page "Koston: Box Set" video history article in TransWorld Skateboarding.

P.J. Ladd begins to rack up some long overdue coverage via interviews in Slap and TransWorld Skateboarding.
2003 brought with it Tom Penny's and Rodrigo Teixeira's first-ever pro model shoes.
Tom Penny's first-ever pro model shoe, the Penny.
Tom Penny kickflip shifty Besos Barcelona, Spain.
Rodrigo Teixeira's first-ever pro model shoe, the Rodrigo Tx.
Rodrigo Tx. fearlessly switch back tails into the dark.
Mikey Taylor and Paul Rodriguez continue to amaze as they stack up large amounts of footage for their parts in TransWorld's 2004 video, In Bloom.
Mikey Taylor front feebs a seriously casual rail.
éS Footwear opens a top-secret, state-of-the-art training facility in Orange County, California, consisting of nothing but flat bars and manual pads made out of pallets and other random scrap wood.
éS Proves That it is Still Possible to Enjoy Skateboarding
2003 Product
2003 Headlines
- The new United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
- The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon re-entry, killing all seven astronauts onboard.
- More than 10 million people protest the Iraq War in over 600 cities worldwide, the largest war protest to take place before the war occurred.
- The Iraq War: Land troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invade Iraq.
- The birth of Dewey, the first cloned deer, occurs at Texas A&M University.
- Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation.
- The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska.
- A roller coaster accident at Disneyland injures 10 and kills one.
- California voters recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elect Arnold Schwarzenegger to succeed him.
- The Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of supersonic travel to a close, at least for the time being.
- Former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is captured in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.
2003 Ad archive
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éS Collection - ad Feb 2003
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Rick McCrank - ad Feb 2003
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Mikey Taylor - ad Mar 2003
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Koston Collection - ad Apr 2003
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Eric Koston - ad Apr 2003
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Paul Rodriguez - ad May 2003
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The Contract - ad May 2003
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Penny Signature Model - ad Jun 2003
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Tom Penny - ad Jun 2003
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Cicero2 - ad Jul 2003
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P.J. Ladd - ad Jul 2003
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Justin Eldridge - ad Aug 2003
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The Rodrdigo TX Model - ad Aug 2003
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Eric Koston - ad Sep 2003
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Rodrigo TX - ad Oct 2003
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éS Apparel - ad Nov 2003
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Paul Rodriguez - ad Nov 2003
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Justin Eldridge - ad Dec 2003