Friends And Family Mourn Sin Egelja

Last night at Hensley’s Flying Elephant Bar & Grill in Carlsbad, California in a room that usually acts as a concert space, a large group of Sinisa Egelja friends gathered for a memorial roast. With a slide show of hundreds of photos of Sin rolling on a screen behind them as one friend after another got up to share stories of their creative, kind, funny, and sometimes demanding friend Sin.

The Skateboard Mag co-founder Grant Brittain spoke of the time that Sin lived with him and his wife and how Sin installed industrial shelving over the doorway from the inside forcing people to crawl through the shelves to get into his room. Todd Finney, a co-worker of Sin’s at Airwalk spoke of the time Sin said, “Todd, come in here.” And when Todd went in Sin was standing in his room wearing nothing but a briefcase held at his waist.

Alli Sport’s Chris Miller spoke of a time when they were in the far east sourcing products when Sin suggested they make a jacket out of cat fur, and then have “one pocket made of dog fur.” Miki Vuckuvich lead the group in a Serbian toast and then gave Sin’s daughter Stella one of Sin’s pro model skateboard decks which had a Serbian saying of good luck on it that Miki had never noticed before.

Between these stories Cec Annett would occasionally read from emails sent by people who could not make it (some of which can be read in the comment section here). It was an evening filled with great memories of a man that will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him.

Follow the jump for photos for just few of the people who attended.

Dave Swift, with event organizers Cec Annett, and Katie Becker.

Miki Vuckuvich explained a Serbian saying on the bottom of one of Sin’s decks and then lead the entire room in a Serbian toast.

Tim Swart, Ricardo Camargo, and Rob Dotson.

Grant and Sage Brittain.

Chip Morton, Brian Ridgeway, and Ron Lemon.

Jaimie Muehlhausen, John Hogan, and Walter Fiorentini.

Event hosts Cec Annett and Matt Hensley.