ASR San Diego
The twice annual Action Sports Retailer Convention that has called San Diego home for at least 20 years is calling it quits, citing difficult economic times.
With some of the world's best surfboard shapers and designers in attendance, the Sacred Craft Consumer Surfboard Expo steals the show at ASR San Diego.
From fashion to surf and big brands to little ones, check out this little preview of the ASR Marketplace "Swim" show which runs concurrently with ASR San Diego from August 13-15 at the downtown San Diego Convention Center.
The upcoming Sacred Craft Consumer Surf Expo, which is now downtown San Diego during ASR, August 13th and 14th, has something for everybody, even antique collectors.
Gone are the days of massive budgets, company sponsored hotel rooms, and a week's worth of industry parties, but the show must go on! Check out the festivities from the Action Sports Retailer annual San Diego Trade Show... scaled down but far from dead!
Who knew that in this crappy economy a trade show could be so much fun? Hopefully you'll enjoy the photo gallery as much as we did creating it. Featuring the Filthy Habits premier by Billabong and Electric's Ry Craike movie premier party.
Although the ASR San Diego trade show is a shell of it's former self (remember when we all had hotel rooms and spent thousands in the name of "networking"?), all is not broken and companies still hire hot chicks to man the booths and roam the halls of the San Diego Convention center.
Sun Diego/Monster Energy ASR Party Friday At Bondi in San Diego
Billabong USA will host the world premiere of Still Filthy at the Hard Rock Café September 10th during the ASR Trade Show in downtown San Diego.
While the bi-annual "Action Sports Retail" trade show was a bit slimmer than in years past, those who did attend were greeted by a convention center full of surf/skate industry big-wigs who are hell bent on kicking this recession in the ass and having fun while doing so.
ASR San Diego hits this weekend (Jan. 22-24) and in between walking the floor and checking out the rigs, there will be some top notch industry shin digs happening as well. Here's your guide to where mayhem will be unleashed in downtown San Diego.
