Kassia, Keir, and The Riz!

Longboarding in France, Snowboarding at Mt Hood, and Huge Barrels at the Mexican Pipeline. The Maku Lifestyle Ambassadors Kassia, Keir and Rizal have all been super busy the past few weeks.

Check it out,

Kassia is in Biarritz France right now for the Roxy Jam World Longboarding Championships. She just advanced to Round 3 and word has it she is killing it! Good Luck Kassie!



Keir just competed in the Burton Abominable Snow Jam 1/2 Pipe at Mt Hood and pulled off the best trick with a huge alley-oop mctwist! Congrats!





And last but not least, Rizal jetted away from Beautiful Bali to the Mexican Pipeline of Puerto Escondido to compete in the X Games Surfing Event for the World team.

A BIG high5 to Charles and crew down at Mixture in San Diego. They are our newest retail partner. I am honored and really excited to have them on board!

The really cool thing is they are in the old Taylor-Dykema skateboard factory. TD was pretty much the original and largest domestic skateboard factory starting back in 1978 making boards for Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and eventually for companies like Girl, Chocolate, Crail Tap and a slew of others. TD also had a snowboard facility down by the Coronado Bridge and a super cool guy named Ernie DeLost ran the factory. Ernie taught me everything I know about snowboard manufacturing as TD was the factory that made all of the boards for Lamar back in the early 90's when I first got into the snowboard industry. Pretty rad how everything comes full circle! Here is a great History of snowboarding by my friends at Method Magazine

The Morning After Mess...

The Surfrider foundation, Sun Diego Boardshop and Billabong put a beach clean up together for July 5th. Again this year the kids and I (As well as 50 or so others) went down to our local beach "Ponto" and spent a couple of hours cleaning up trash leftover from the 4th of July. We actually topped last years number (77lbs) with over 100lbs of junk between the 4 of us! The good news is there were far less Cigarette butts to clean up this year but I am still curious as to when the Carlsbad City Council is going to step up and join the rest of the Coastal Communities in SD county and outlaw Smoking at the beach. Hello Mayor Lewis and council are you listening...!?!

By the way, cigarette butts are the number one item found in urban runoff pollution. For those of you that smoke do us all a favor and hold on to your butts!


Mason, Ally, and her friend Averi reaping the rewards of some Billabong goodies after a long morning of picking up trash.


The Bounty of bags, pallets, and other assorted trash we gathered.


The crew from Billabong gave away lots of goodies throughout the morning, many thanks to So.Cal rep Gary for the donations.