You love the shred lifestyle and everything that surrounds it. You live and breathe it. You go for what you want in life but you want more. You want to pass on what you love about skating, surfing, or snowboarding to the next generation. You see what action sports has done for you, but [...]
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4 Ways To Become The Best In Your Field
Imagine you find your ideal company to work for, get hired, and in 3 years, you become recognized as one of the best people in your field? Sounds like a joke, right? Nope, I’ve seen it with my own eyes. The above picture is STOKED Sophia, our Senior Program Manager. On February 28th, she was honored [...]
STOKED also changes school culture
You got to love people who take a chance and believe in you. They’re the ones who have the most faith and place the most trust. In return they get your utmost commitment and devotion. That’s how I would describe our relationship with Principal Chris Aguirre and City Poly Technical High School in Downtown Brooklyn. [...]
Racing Up 1,576 Steps for STOKED
Have you ever wanted to do something big, something awesome? Have you ever wanted to join something greater than yourself? Have you always wanted to make that change to be better? Celebrity fitness trainer and new Snow Mentor Jonathan Angelilli helps people do exactly that. In many ways, Jonathan is a professional motivator. He motivates people to act; he [...]
New Bindings, New Beginnings
Last Sunday, STOKED Los Angeles embarked on its 7th trip to Snow Summit which is celebrating its 60th Anniversary. STOKED Los Angeles plans to take 6 trips to Snow Summit this year, the most snow trips we’ve taken since 2009! First week of the year started off with a blast. We had a record setting [...]
LA’s 2013 Launch
I got a chance to head out to STOKED LA for the first half of this week and help them get their action-packed spring programming off the ground! Starting next week, STOKED LA will kick off two separate after school skateboard build programs: one at their headquarters, which doubles as a community center for STOKED [...]
Lily’s Farewell and “Best of” Stoked Stories and Lessons
For the past 19 months I’ve had the privilege to work for an amazing action sports youth development organization and take away valuable life lessons and memories. Our core values: Success, Teamwork, Openness, Kudos, Energy, and Determination create our culture here. We thrive on those values at work and in our lives. One of the [...]
2012 Stoked Awards presented by Mtn Dew photos
Last night was our most successful event. Ever (more on that to come). Nearly 150 guests showed their support by coming to the 2012 Stoked Awards presented by Mountain Dew. …More details to come…For more photos by our photographer Amy Postle go here!
Snow Mentor 2013
Snow Mentor is a big part of the youth development work we do at STOKED. In fact, Stoked Steve’s first dream for STOKED was to create a snowboard mentor program for inner city youth. It’s exciting to be living the dream, as STOKED is now entering its eighth year of Snow Mentor! Snow Mentor is [...]
Stoked does Disaster Relief in the Rockaways
STOKED is in a unique position as the meeting point for several sects of people: youth, adult volunteers, creative professionals, mentors, teachers, athletes, community organizers and parents. Our community is big and growing bigger, our energy is through the roof, and the desire to do good things with our time is the glue that holds [...]