See below for an excerpt out of an article from the San Jose Mercury News (circ. 228,537), which mentions the RipStik. In the newspaper’s regular People Watching feature they wrote about a police lieutenant who bought RipStiks for his kids and loved them so much he bought one for himself. He says it’s a great workout.

“The other thing, which is my new love, is I bought my kids a RipStik (caster board), and it was so much fun I ended up buying one for myself. But I need them to go with me because otherwise I look like a dork! They’re a cover for me to do what I want to do. It’s such a blast; it’s a great workout.”

Article by Mandy Major, San Jose Mercury News

See below for an excerpt out of an article from the Southtown Star (circ. 49,587), which mentions the RipStik. One local 10-year-old wants a RipStik for his birthday, but instead of asking friends for it he’s holding a fundraiser birthday party to raise money to send mosquito nets to children in Africa to protect them from malaria.

“Now, just days before his 10th birthday, the New Lenox boy is just as adamant about helping kids. So instead of asking his friends for a RipStik or a Subskate - both of which are top on his wish list - he’s hoping for donations for bed nets to protect children in Africa from malaria.” Southtown Star, By Duaa Eldeib, Staff Writer

Check out the RipStik segment that was shot at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego for Planet X TV and has been posted on the homepage of their Web site – www.PlanetX.tv (reach: 3,800). It’s a great nearly 3 minute clip, with various shots and angles of the kids riding the RipStiks. The show is making a dub of the clip for us and we’ll be sure to save for our files once we receive. We are also working to obtain viewership numbers for the particular show that it aired on.

The RipStik DLX was seen on last week’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother” on CBS. It can be seen during the scene in Barney’s (Neil Patrick Harris) office and is displayed nicely in the box.

Please see below for a RipStik mention in the Orlando Sentinel (circ. 213,406). The article highlights a local academic all-star, Tyler Ragland. One of his favorite activities is riding his RipStik.

Favorite activities: Playing football in the yard with my friends, baseball, dodge ball and riding my RipStik.

From the May 11, 2008 Orlando Sentinel article, “EDUCATION Academic All-Star”

The image below is of the RipStik in the May issue of KONO Magazine. It’s a great placement – a full page photograph of the board along with a RipStik Web site mention! You’ll see that the RipStik is also mentioned on the upper right corner of the cover.

See the picture below of a boy riding the RipStik in Kansas City from the Kansas City Star (circ. 247,274). This image accompanied an article about a college student.

Brent gets home to KCK regularly. One balmy Saturday he tries out a “ripstick,” a skateboard with two wheels instead of four. From left: neighbor Gary Wilson, Brent’s brother Zach Cahill, neighbors Tierra Gaines and Tayler Singleton.

See below for a RipStik mention in the Lake County News-Chronicle (circ. 3,532). The writer was walking around town looking for signs of spring and found someone riding the RipStik.

A neighbor’s grandson, in a short-sleeve t-shirt on a 45-degree day, was coasting down the middle of the street on a skateboard. Correction. A “rip stick.” Weird looking, wasp-waisted contraption that can be wiggled uphill as well as coasted down. It looked like spring to me, and so I clicked.

From the Lake County News-Chronicle article, “Stalking Spring - And Finding It” by Monica Isley

On Sunday, February 24th Fox Sports broadcast of NASCAR experienced a rain delay and they were doing on site interviews with NASCAR drivers and fans. One such interview ended up focusing on a kid riding a RipStik!

The RipStik was mentioned in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times (circ. 779,682). The article is about the 50th anniversary of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), well-known during the Cold War. The writer says that today the ICBM is more like a Hula Hoop in the age of the RipStik, which is a reference to the current popularity of the caster board.