A world without pros? What about a world without CEO’s???
What has your mall done for skateboarding lately?
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This is like the Napster/file-sharing issue in 2000. Has somebody already said that? I wonder if those three on the first website (world without pros) realize they’re telling this mostly to people who have to work shitty jobs in order to live.
Napster skates would be like getting a board without paying anyone for it. Like, I buy one board and then, magically, it becomes 100 boards at once.
Yea, I don’t think this parallels to the Napster issue at all.
I don’t think most pro skaters are very smart. They let their boss tell them what to do. I thought sneakers were the new pro deck when it comes to getting rich.
Skateboarding is way too cool these days to stay this way. Why do companies spend so much time fronting that being rich is so dam cool? What do they expect kids to do, fund it? I think this ad campaign is going to piss off more skaters into buying blanks then ever before. I for one don’t feel like being a sucker. From now on, small companies get my money. I dig my new Coda Pat Smith board out of Brooklyn.
If skateboarding wants to keep the interest of the riders they need to support local shops and keep the companies interesting for all riders, not just price point children.
Took the words right outta my mouth.
I too, am making a point to support the small
guy. I can’t identify with the large companies
anymore. I think guys like Birdo from Consolidated, and our local hero Oyola
with Traffic have the right idea.
If I’m not mistaken, both companies
have printed “shop editions” of their boards.
In my eyes, that’s the best way to support not
only the shops, but skateboarding in general.
F the IASC.
as far as i know most shop boards come from local woodshops and most of the dudes in the TWS article have their shit made overseas. the growing pains of skateboarding industry becoming what every other industry has already done- completely sell out to get MORE MONEY! witness Nocturnals new “shop boards” or better yet Reynolds new “pro” board, both hilarious in different ways.
What does it take, like 1200 bucks and call to Pennswood and we can reestablish Mr. M’s TSV in like 10 minutes, we’d have to change the name unless he forgot to get a trademark though, but then, we could not only be pros ourselves but we could again get pro and sponsored skater prices at local parks and events.
120 bucks each x 10 people = 10 decks each.
Its a capilalist world.
Not to mention people with a conscious are trying to buy local produce and goods to cut back on shipping. Shipping causes fuel waste and shipping over seas sometimes means that we are exploiting people.
If a skater were to act conscious they would buy boards created as close as possible to where they live, paying taxes locally boosts economics and is very American.
Or, you could order a 90 dollar limited edition jason jessee from skates on haight, one of only 250 made, that has graphics that tell you to “get fucked”, and he even had time to sign them all.