The Element Perspective – Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell is a true renaissance man; as an artist, film director, photographer, painter, sculptor, traveler, skateboarder, surfer, global record-label founder, designer and stuff maker, Thomas is surrounded by a world of hobbies. Campbell, who lives and works out of a tiny, nondescript house in the hippie surftown of Bonny Doon, California, just outside of Santa Cruz.

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Backyard Skate Session at PLG’s

Monster Energy’s PLG is a true competitor in every sense of the word. He excels under pressure and his competitive track record is heavy; right up there with the winningest skaters in history like Tony Hawk and Nyjah Huston. Just like skateboarding, PLG is constantly evolving and his future has Bowled Corners, Pool Coping, Love Seats, and heated backyard sessions on the horizon.

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David Gravette: A Boy And His Flat Bar

David Gravette got his first flat bar from an old CCS catalog almost 20 years ago and used that thing to learn what it takes to become one of the gnarliest rail skaters of all time. That may sound like a claim, but it’s really not. David can sit on a rail with a certain kind of confidence that only comes from thousands of hours of flat bar sessions. Funny enough, all of those sessions were on that old CCS rail. Fast forward nearly two decades and David is the newest edition to the CCS team, so we thought it was fitting to take that old, rusty flat bar out of retirement and drag it around the city to see what kind of shit we could get in to. Luckily for us there was plenty of shit. We’re stoked to have David as part of the crew at CCS!

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