Tony Alva上海见面会

著名的狗镇男孩之一、Vans品牌的老牌职业滑手Tony Alva将来到中国上海与中国滑手见面并进行交流活动！Tony Alva是影响着世界滑手的滑手之一，他来自滑板的发源地美国Dogtown狗镇，著名的滑板影片Lords of Dogtown就是以他为原型叙述了滑板历史的开始，而Tony Alva将于6月18日出现在中国上海，代表Vans品牌在上海举行首次见面会，具体安排为中午13点在上海SMP板场举行签名会，接着于下午17点在上海著名的音乐厅Love Park进行Demo交流活动，如果你是Vans板鞋、Tony Alva大师的忠实Fans，你一定不会错过这次由Vans公司带来的大师见面会!

Tony Alva生于1957年9月2日，他来自著名的滑板发源地美国Dogtown狗镇，是正宗的Z-Boys之一，与Tony Hawk、Steve Caballero等滑板大师一样齐名，他是将滑板运动从早期的泳池地形带入街式滑板的先锋之一。1977年 Alva 19岁的时候的开办了有史以来第一个由滑手自己建立的滑板公司Alva Skates，第2年他被Skateboarder滑板杂志评为年度最佳滑手，而且他还登上了吉尼斯世界纪录。

目前Tony Alva是Vans品牌的职业滑手，他希望能将滑板的原创风格带到古老的中国大地，为中国滑手们带来最经典的滑板发源地的文化，Tony Alva邀请你参与Vans上海Alva见面会，不见不散！

Tony Alva will be in Shanghai China on 18th June!! Get your pack and come to Shanghai to see the skateboarding legend face to face! This signing demo is hosted by Vans Inc, and the detailed info should be reviewed by yourself that day! See you there....

Tony Alva (born September 2, 1957) is one of the original Z-Boys and is considered to be one of the most influential skateboarders of all time.

He was born in Santa Monica,California and comes from a Latino family. The level of aggression with which Alva skated was in stark contrast to the traditional style of the era which was still based around tricks formulated in the 1960s. Alva and the other Z-Boys were among the first to bring skating empty pools into the mainstream. In these early days, it was noted that Alva was hitting the lip so hard that he was actually taking off, hence Alva is often credited for the first recorded aerials, a frontside air, although Alva himself claimed that George Orton was the first to perform aerials (Skateboarder magazine, July, 1978).

In 1977, at age nineteen, Alva shunned the major skate companies to form his own skateboard company, Alva Skates. Alva's company was the first company ever run and owned by a skateboarder as well as being one of the first to use layered maple plywood for the skate decks. The same year he was voted 'skateboarder of the year' in Skateboarder Magazine's readers' poll and he set the Guinness World Record for barrel jumping.

Alva is featured in the documentary on Venice Beach skate culture Dogtown and Z-Boys which was fictionalized into the 2005 feature film Lords of Dogtown. He also played the role of Tony Bluetile in the 1978 film, Skateboard: The Movie.

Tony Alva recently signed a three year deal with Vans shoes and his new pro model high top was released in 2006. He is also sponsored by Independent Trucks and Vestal Watches. Tony also played bass in the band The Skoundrelz, which featured ex-Suicidal Tendencies members Mike Dunnigan and Mike Ball as well as ex-member of Wasted Youth Dave Hurricane.

Tony Alva was recently featured in the video game, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

In December 2005, Tony Alva opened two stores in Southern California locations. The Alva Shop stores are located in Oceanside near San Diego, California and, the other Alva Shop was opened in Los Angeles on Fairfax Ave. In December of 2006, he celebrated the first anniversary of the stores with a party at the Los Angeles Alva Shop attended by some of the old Z-boys, current Alva Team members, MySpace friends, skate fans, some minor celebrities including “Ryno” Ryan Opray of Survivor, and members of the general public. Tony signed autographs and served as DJ for the catered event. The evergreen bad boy image of the legendary Z-Boy was present in the publicity post card invitation for the Alva Shop 1 Year Anniversary Party which featured a drawing of a hand flipping the bird with a lit wick coming off of the end of the middle finger as if it were a birthday candle.