éS Footwear

2004: Koston Lands Worst Trick

Wednesday, Nov 23, 2005 · Garry

Javier Sarmiento joins the éS team. His smooth, technical style will continue to inspire a whole new breed of tech skaters.

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The éS team embarks on the Hotlanta to Tampa Tour, Eastern Canada Tour and Europe Capitals Tour.

Eric Koston lands the Worst Trick at Tampa Pro, then decides to open his own secret indoor training facility in Los Angeles.

Cale Nuske wins Australia’s Skater of the Year award, taking home a cool $5,000, as well as bagging a cover and interview in Slam magazine.

Rodrigo Tx., Justin Eldridge and Cale Nuske endorse éS Apparel, bringing a stronger focus to the line and putting faces to the name.

The éS Game of SKATE turns into a national amateur series.

P.J. Ladd takes the top spot and $10,000 at the second annual Eric Koston’s éS Game of SKATE Pro Finals at the Action Sports Retailer trade show in San Diego.

Eric Koston appears in Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 video game and plays celebrity basketball with Justin Timberlake.

Movie star Rick McCrank makes his first cameo acting appearance in Ethan & Elliot, a homemade film by Anti-Social filmer Ben Wagner.

Justin Eldridge completes an amazing part in Chocolate Skateboards’ Hot Chocolate video, then he and éS filmer Scuba Steve each buy their own condos.

Unofficial éS Footwear fan sites multiply like bunny rabbits on MySpace.

The éS Spring line adds the APS, the Catch, the Cradle, Rick McCrank’s third pro model skate shoe, the McCrank 3 (unreleased), the Reaction and the Workout 100. The Fall line adds Eric Koston’s sixth pro model skate shoe, the K6, plus the Discover.

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The Holiday line adds Tom Penny’s second pro model skate shoe, the Penny 2, as well as special P.J. Ladd colorways for the Accel and the Accel Plus.

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2004 Headlines

• The European Union bans the import of poultry from Thailand, as bird flu spreads throughout Southeast Asia.
• The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• The City and County of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.
• Simultaneous terrorist bombings on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 190 people.
• Former President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, dies at age 93.
• SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately-funded vehicle to achieve spaceflight.
• Groundbreaking of Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in New York City.
• Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch’s The Scream, Madonna and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
• A jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of murder of his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Connor.
• Heavy metal guitarist Dimebag Darell is gunned down and killed during a performance in Columbus, Ohio.
• The strongest earthquake in 40 years originates in the Indian Ocean off the West Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on the Richter Scale and creating tsunami tidal waves that sweep across the coastlines of Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. At least 290,000 people from South Asia to Somalia, Africa die.

Timeline, Eric Koston, Tom Penny, Rick McCrank, Rodrigo Tx, PJ Ladd, Cale Nuske, Justin Eldridge, Javier Sarmiento, Scuba Steve, Game of SKATE, Web.