We are stoked to see Chocolate slowly rising back up to the relevance the brand used to have. A reason for that probably is the breath of fresh air brought by the new team riders, but also still including some OG riders on trips. Who doesn´t love to see a Vincent Alvarez skating the same spot next to the young Erik Herrera?
Filmed & edited by John Marello.
Crailtap wasn’t sleeping when they found out about Erik Herrera and immediately took him under their wings in a very official matter.
Crailtap’s eye for talent was always spot on. Follow Carl Aikens through the streets of NYC and wonder why he does not buy any grocery and who his latest IG followers are.
Chocolate keeping it Chocolaty with their newest addition! Hakeem seems like he would have fit on in any era of Chocolate.
100% entertaining. Raven Tershy has become one of the gnarliest skaters out there and here you can see what he has been up to lately. Lakai Limited Footwear‘s “The Flare” is out now.
Not a secret any longer. Yonnie Cruz got accoladed by Chocolate Skateboards. That’s what you get when you work your ass off.
This time the crew takes a cruise through downtown LA where you get busted quickly.
Featuring Yonnie Cruz, Sean Malto, Andrew Brophy, Tyler Pacheco, Kenny Anderson, Vincent Alvarez, Mike Carroll, Stevie Perez and Diego Johnson.
Even in the sunny land of LA it occasionally happends that it is raining. So for the latest Crailtap Weakdays episode the crew had to take shelter at the Crail Park.
Featuring Jerry Hsu, Vincent Alvarez, Justin Eldridge, James Capps, Jon Sciano, Andrew Brophy, Braydon Szafranski, Rick Howard, Brandon Biebel and Chris Roberts.
With its ups and downs I’d say 2016 was all in all a solid year for Girl and Chocolate Skateboards. Some of the good moments of the past year are composed in this review edit.
Featuring Vincent Alvarez, Tyler Pacheco, Brandon Biebel, Simon Bannerot, James Capps, Jerry Hsu, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Rick McCrank, Justin Eldridge, Kenny Anderson, Andrew Brophy, Elijah Berle, Cory Kennedy, Chris Roberts, Jeron Wilson, Zach Saraceno, Griffin Gass and Johnny Jones.
Fly outs, lines, back-to-backs and good times. That’s what Girl and Chocolate Skateboards made of their day at Rosemead, California. To see Andrew Brophy in there as well is maybe not enough to claim that with Girl he might have found a new board sponsor after Cliché went out of business, but still interesting enough to start a rumor.
Featuring Tyler Pacheco, Vincent Alvarez, Simon Bannerot, James Capps, Andrew Brophy, Justin Eldridge, Rick Howart and Jerry Hsu.
No one does it like Jerry Hsu does. This is highly entertaining footage for us and borderline crazy commitment on Jerry’s side.
The Chocolate Skateboards team spend a fun day at the Rosecrans Ditch. “I’m a ditch boy” ….. “I love ditch.”
Featuring Vincent Alvarez, Rick Howard, Tyler “Manchild” Pacheco, Johnny Jones, Sam Smyth and a special guest.
We are guessing but this one is probably in honour of Keenan Milton and there are some definite highlights in this, Kenny Anderson is always a highlight, Vincent Alvarez is pretty great and the unexpected Brian Brown line is just straight gold but somehow the clip still feels kind of random. Random sprinkled with gold.
We rarely post park clips, but for a legend like MJ we do an exception because with one of the finest styles in the world he looks just great in every possible environment.
Jeder fing mal klein an, selbst Marc Johnson. Obwohl dieser gar nicht so klein war, als er sein Sponsor-Me Tape gefilmt hat. The Back Forty präsentiert eine ziemlich amüsante Zeitreise in das Jahr 1993; begleitet von Ol Dirty Bastard – musikalisch versteht sich.
Photo by Ben Colen.
Kenny Andersons CONS KA3 steht in den Startlöchern und wer Kenny live sehen möchte bekommt BALD die Gelgenheit dazu. Bis dahin tröstet dieser Clip und spätestens die letzte Line wird dich motivieren vorbei zu schauen.
Der vierte Teil von Chocolates Epicly Later’d ist draußen. Ein wichtiges Thema in dieser Folge ist, wie Skater damit umgehen, wenn ihre Zeit als Pro zuende geht. Sie geben Einblicke in das Proskater-Business und berichten, wie der Druck irgendwann zu hoch wird.
Wieder mal viele interessante Einblicke in das Leben von aktuellen Top-Fahrern, aber auch alten Chocolate Teamridern:
Zur 20 Jährigen Feier von Chocolate Skateboards erscheint nun ein Epicly Later’d mit der Topfirma. Episode 1 ist heute veröffentlicht worden. Mit dabei sind interessante Interviews von vielen Skateboard Legenden, die noch nie Teil der Epicly Later’d Show waren.
Den ersten Teil könnt ihr euch hier anschauen. Voilà:
Die Jungs von Chocolate Skateboards lassen das Feiern einfach nicht mehr sein – Zu Recht! 20 Jahre Chocolate Skateboards in NYC und Denver mit unter anderem MJ, Jerry Hsu, Kenny Anderson und Sean Malto.