Seven Fold Skateboards
February 2, 2008 – 9:38 amBy: Bruce
Name: Seven Fold Skateboards
Team: Scott Archer
Matt House
Jake Mendelson
Jordan Puett
Caleb Orton
Chris Teta
Zak Allegri
Website: www.sevenfoldskateboards.com
www.myspace.com/sevenfoldskateboards
Chris Opilla, owner of Seven Fold Skateboards has come a long way since first earning his graphic design degree in 1999. After playing around with shirt designs and such for a few years until a few crew members starting asking about decks. Chris then looked around at a bunch of manufacturers and settled on a great wood factory in the Southeast who had made decks for a friend. In 2004, Chris moved to LA, and I ended up taking a job with Element Skateboards which “took up a ton of time. I kept involved with the team and consulted with my former partner while I was living the corpo life at element.” Seven Fold put out our first full length dvd in 2005 called, what?!, which was a killer video from what I saw in the promo. “About a year ago things started going real sour at Element real quick, a bunch of my close friends got fired or quit,” so Chris left back to the East Coast to start up Seven Fold Skateboards again. “It’s been an amazing 6 months, and the company has already turned around so quick and we are making a new promo video to drop soon, and working on a full length for 2009. We are expanding our clothing line and keeping it all made here in the USA.”
