{"id":52501,"date":"2018-02-09T13:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52501"},"modified":"2018-02-09T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:07:08","slug":"tom-schaar-goes-pro-for-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52501","title":{"rendered":"Tom Schaar: Element’s Newest Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Schaar<\/strong> has a pro model and it’s an Element Skateboard<\/strong>. It’s about time and it looks good. Welcome to the world of getting a slice, Tom. We hope it sells like . . . well, we hope it sells better than most.<\/p>\n

Element Founder, Johnny Schillereff<\/strong> says \u201cTom is a gentleman, ripper, friend, family and officially a professional skateboarder! Congratulations and thank you Tom for ten years of dedication to Element. It is an honor to have been with you and your amazing family since the get. We love you Tom!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For photos from what appears to have been a great “surprise” night, follow the jump.<\/p>\n

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ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS WELCOMES TOM SCHAAR TO PRO TEAM
\nOpen Minds Lead To Open Doors<\/p>\n

Irvine, CA (February 9, 2018) \u2013 Element Skateboards today welcomes Tom Schaar to the Pro Team. Element\u2019s celebration of Tom comes after ten years together and seeing Tom mature from prodigy to one of the world\u2019s best transition skateboarders.<\/p>\n

Tom started skating for Element in 2008 at just 8 years old. His list of accomplishments range from recent full video part, a Thrasher interview, Vans Skate Park Series World Championship, X Games and Vans Pool Party victories, to being the youngest skateboarder ever to spin a 900 and first skateboarder ever to land a 1080…<\/p>\n

Element Founder, Johnny Schillereff says \u201cTom is a gentleman, ripper, friend, family and officially a professional skateboarder! Congratulations and thank you Tom for ten years of dedication to Element. It is an honor to have been with you and your amazing family since the get. We love you Tom!\u201d<\/p>\n

Element presented Tom with his first board last night at surprise party at Tony Hawk\u2019s indoor ramp in Vista, CA with the Element team, hundreds of family and friends. Tom signed limited edition boards that are available now on elementbrand.com right before boarding a flight to Australia to participate in the annual Bowl-A-Rama event in Bondi Beach.<\/p>\n

Congratulations Tom! —<\/p>\n

About Element Skateboards: in 1992, the Element seed was planted. Our goal was simple, to be the best we could be in the most honest and ethical way possible. We joined together to elevate what we all truly believe in. Today we continue to create the art, direction and message on the constant path to bring progress to skateboarding. We are more than a business; we are a family, all on the same journey for the growth within ourselves, Element and all that surrounds us. – Johnny Schillereff, Founder<\/p>\n

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\nIt was a big surprise.<\/p>\n

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\nTom signing boards.<\/p>\n

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\nSteve Van Doren and Johnny Schillereff.<\/p>\n

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\nBam and Tony. (Good to see Bam out and about.)<\/p>\n

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\nGrayson Fletcher lifting it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Schaar has a pro model and it’s an Element Skateboard. It’s about time and it looks good. Welcome to the world of getting a slice, Tom. We hope it sells like . . . well, we hope it sells better than most. Element Founder, Johnny Schillereff says \u201cTom is a gentleman, ripper, friend, family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52514,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52501\/revisions\/52514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}