Element Skateboards

Element is a skateboard company that was established in Atlanta, Georgia in 1992 as Underworld Element. The company later dropped the "Underworld" from its name and became known as just Element. In 2001, it was purchased by Billabong International. The founder and president of the company, Johnny Schillereff, invented the logo as being the life of natural wood and being "one" with the board.The Element logo is a stick figure style tree inside a circle, often white in a red background. In some renditions, the logo is also circled by the words: Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth, the four basic elements. Element is also the main sponsor of Visalia YMCA Skate Camp, located on Sequoia Lake near Miramonte, CA.



Element Footwear

In 2006 Element Skateboards launched a footwear brand called Element Footwear. Element footwear comes in many different styles and has different collections called the earth, wind, water, and fire collections.

The Element Footwear team consists of:
Mike Vallely
Tosh Townend
Chad Tim Tim

Team

Main team

Bam Margera
Tosh Townend
Chad Muska
Darell Stanton
Mike Vallely
Vanessa Torres
William Torres
Nyjah Huston
Chris Senn
Jeremy Wray
Brent Atchley
Bucky Lasek
Chad Tim Tim
Tony Tave
Collin Provost
Jimmy Lannon

Former riders

Dallas Rockvam
Colt Cannon
Jake Rupp
Bill Pepper
Kris Markovich
Mike Fraizer
Donny Barley
Tim O'Connor
Natas Kapus
Kenny Hughes
Teddy Powell
Julien Stranger
Mike De Geus
Harold Hunter
Rick Ibaseta
Chris Hall
Andy Howell
Curtiss McCann
Pepe Martinez
Jeff Pang
Pj Ladd
Terry Kennedy

International Teams

Australia

George Newsholme
Pedro Day
Jamie Hawley
Jesse Mailing
Josh Rio
Rob Kenworthy
Esther Godoy
Nick Curry
Sam Burton

Europe

Bas Janssen
Evelien Bouilliart
Janne Saario
Jo Lorenz
Michael Mackrodt
Sebastian Hepp


World

Soichiro Nakajima (Japan)
Seigi Maeda (Japan)
Spiro Razis (Chile)
Lauren Ellis (New Zealand)


Elemental Awareness

Elemental Awareness is an organization designed to promote wilderness conservation and survival skills to young people through skateboarding. The program was started by Mike Kershnar and Todd Larson. The idea of the program is to promote environmental values to kids in a way that will get them interested and enthusiastic, which for many is through skateboarding.

Another goal of Elemental Awareness is to promote skateboarding by providing scholarships to skate camps, taking kids to professional skating facilities, and letting them meet with professional skaters.

The wilderness survival and conservation aspect of Elemental Awareness is officially recognized by Tom Brown and his school of trackers.

Elementality

 - Bam Margera

Elementality started (with Vol. 1) as a series of full videos to be released several years apart. Now with the recent release of Vol. 2, it has grown into an Element skateboards video magazine much like 411VM, with 15 minute videos to be released twice a year.