Thrasher Magazine

CJ Collins may be a young boy but he carries himself like a man. He’s not plagued with little-kid style or the inability to hold a conversation in the van. All this combined with a heavy bag of tricks landed him a spot as an am on one of the most prestigious teams in skateboarding. Barely a teenager, CJ Collins is now part of the Toy Machine Blood Sucking Skateboard Company. —Joe Hammeke

Headed out to Stix Ride Shop in Pomona for their annual Toy Machine signing and demo

Team Manager, Mike Sinclair, had a little surprise in store

Dan Lu approved

Eating pizza waiting for the rest of the team to arrive

Down to the last slice. Siri, how many slices of pizza can I eat?

Toy Machine’s benevolent overlord, Ed Templeton, right on time…

with the squad hot on his tail and my poor attempt at an Abby Road photo

First in line means first to high five Blake Carpenter

Each team rider had one of their pro model decks to hand out to a lucky Loyal Pawn of their choice

These two were all about the face signatures. They claimed they were never washing them off. Well, good for them the signing was on a holiday weekend so those signatures at least made it 'til Tuesday.

Proof of “If you’re not first, you’re last.”  Only one of them got a free deck. Thanks, Matt B!

That same Loyal Pawn took the opportunity to get an Ed Templeton original Transistor Sect drawing on his cheek. Too bad he’s too young to walk around the corner and get it permanently tattooed

The next kid in line took the safer, more permanent route, ala t-shirt

CJ Collins patiently observing the artist at work

This pretty much nailed it with the nipple as an eyeball

Wanna guarantee a spot on the Thrasher blog? Bring the mag to the signing. These guys know

Someone’s hoping there’s a set of wheels to be handed out

Belgian pride

Axel got his nails done by one Lizzie Armanto

Obvious stoke.

The secret handshake

A nearly complete list of signatures on his Toy Machine flag

Then Dan Lu with a tasty announcement.

No way!

To the face!

But this was one tough cake

Look, there’s a dent where his nose hit

Tough enough for Toy Machine

Next it was off to the Claremont park for a demo where Matt B casually films Blake Carpenter’s equally casual switch back tail

Toy’s newest Am takes right to the quarter pipe

Leabres kickflipped the Triton barrier

Axel with the impossible

Matt B set the camera down long enough to give the Loyal Pawns what they want

A young fan with an impossible (and shin guards)

From the looks of this, those shin guards may have not been all that protective

The Tempster, definitely knows his way around a demo.

Toy flow rider, Hosea Peters, switch flip caught clean

Tre Williams, front blunt.

CJ Collins, no comply to—ahh, just watch the video!  Congrats, kid! the future is looking bright