Archive for December, 2002
December 10th, 2002
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SOTY Finance News?
Tony Trujillo wins Skater of the year and Vans sends out a finance press release? Tony doesn’t suck but Vans just can’t help but look stupid here kids. The TNT image is worth $5.95 a share at the time of this post. Get your calculators out and start wrecking pools.
December 10th, 2002
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Rachel Burstein is a Dumb Broad
Rachel Burstein writes in a sports column for her College Newspaper. “According to a newly released medical study, the average 14-year-old boy loses half the weight of his daily food intake in blood spilt at skateboard parks.” Fuck art. Let’s bleed. If you find this dumb bitches email, give her a shot in the mouth. Link came from Wheelbite.net
December 10th, 2002
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Hockey Must Suck
Mark Carroll tells us the Phoenix Coyotes are giving away skateboards. That’s the second time this year that hockey used skateboards to attract fans. You think we will ever see a day when x-gaymes promoters start giving away hockey sticks so kids will come see the x-gaymes?
December 9th, 2002
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PrimeTime Tony
Mike Neuman pointed out that Tony will be on 60 Minutes II on Wednesday evening. We can’t wait to hear the stupid questions Charlie Rose will ask him. Wouldn’t be great if Andy Rooney did the asking?
December 9th, 2002
Posted in Indu$try, Stupid Shit
If You Can’t Skate, Make Money From It
“Brian Pappas learned his lesson about skateboarding: He tried it once, fell off and didn’t get back on the board again.” Instead he built a franchise and called it Paradise found. Would you like fries with your skating?
December 9th, 2002
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What the Hell?
We really have no idea what to think about Maverick Skateboards. We do know that it’s worth taking a look at. Tits and ass on monday. That’s all we have good to say about it.
December 8th, 2002
Posted in Indu$try, Useless Toys
Are We Having Fun Yet?
Not so long ago we posted Chris Gentry Toys (you know, Flowflap shit) and we found it odd that there were actually people supporting this lost cause. This friday we posted the letter from Flowflap and again we witnessed odd reactions. We then decided to track and see where those reactions came from. And, lo and behold, they all came from the same person! Someone in the San Diego area is a harsh Flowflap fan. How do we know all this? Hold down your mouse over a suckers name for a sec, and do your own tracing.
Why dont you ban the ip range? Ofcourse we could have done that, but then we be missing out on all the childish fun! We ONLY ban comments from fruitbooters since this site is not meant for fruits. Flowflappers are more then welcome!
December 7th, 2002
Posted in Stupid Shit
Asian Xtour
Someone at the Asian Xgaymes died last year when a handlebar hit him in the chest. The Asian Extreme Sports Federation wants to get the Government and Sports Councils involved in these games. That sounds like a lot of dumb shit for corporation sponsored contests. Who needs ‘em?
December 6th, 2002
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The Next Fridays Fanmail
That’s correct, it’s the next Friday’s Fanmail! We received a bunch of fanmail. A lot of “your site rocks” ones as well, but those aint half as fun as the following…
thrizy writes: “damn, you must be a pretty bored guy…. you put all your time into this shitty website, you must be online 24/7. I bet you don’t even skate. I mean, when would you even have time for it! Im not trying to diss you man… but its pretty lame that you spend all your time on google and shit navigating the internet finding all these gay website that sell gay products. I mean, who really cares??? Who gives a fuck if some lame company makes a shitty product. It’s not like its gonna sell anyway. This whole website just looks like a big waste of time to me. Why dont you get out and skate or something instead of making this trash. Please respond….”
– Sorry bro, no time to respond, we’re too busy surfing the information superhighway.
Next email from skateboarder (what an original name!). He writes: “fuck you all that made this site. im a skater and i dont drink or do drugs. so fuck you.”
– That’s ok Andy, you dont have to hide yourself for us behind that unoriginal name. We love you anyway.
We also received this contender for the longest sentence ever: terry mofuckn niebs writes: “hahah well at least we know the person who designed this page is a fag and he doesnt have any money or a girlfriend because he has no talent what so ever and oh i see wowoow you can diss us but really if we met you you wouldnt diss us cuz you would have a skateboard placed somewhere where you dont want it placed with a lot of power in it, skaters rule and dude get a life you are a loser why dont you diss people that ride harleys or people that play base ball or people that fish why not them because you had a close encounter with a skater and ever since you have been a scared little girl about it way to go congrats to you you rule and jocks keep showing gay pride ok love ya pz oh rep droabetaks rep droabetaks team for life rep droabetaks and i love the girls say hi for me on your fony web page”
– Hi!
And here’s one from a rocket scientist named Will: “Skateboarding doesn’t suck, you guys suck! This site sucks and you’re frail. I have been skating for as long as I remember, and appreciate the exposure that skateboarding gets now. In addition, inventive products like the Soft trux and Ollieblocks help skaters become better skaters by developing their skating muscles. You can practice your tricks when you can’t go out and skate. Just because you guys are too dumb to make use of products like these, doesn’t mean you have to spread your ignorant asessment of what they are to us real skaters. FUCK OFF “
– Will, when skateboarding makes it into the olympics, we will make sure to give you a ring to represent Team Goof.
AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLE PEOPLE, FOR OUR FINAL FRIDAYS FANMAIL WE BRING YOU…[insert drumroll here]… AN AMAZING EMAIL FROM THE GUYS AT FLOWFLAB!!
Here’s what I think: I don’t really mind either way if you like to bag on our “crap.” The thing that I wonder is this: When you really look at skateboarding, it has become so homogenized that anyone who is experimental or tries to do or build something different gets labeled as trying to “grab a pile of cash.” Yeah, the corporate exploitation of skateboarding is exactly that (Mountain Dew, Pacific Sunwear, etc.) but the people who are actually developing new skateboard products are usually small, have no money but decided to experiment. The results may be crappy, or they may be legit- but the thing is, they are actually adding more to skateboarding by exploring new ideas than the average “legitimate” skate company that just follows the generic skateboard company formula: Screen new art on outsourced maple every season, put together a “team”, buy a bunch of ads, and try to sell abunch of clothing. What does that add to skateboarding? How is that not “sneaking in the backdoor to grab a pile of cash? What are those companies providing that isn’t already there? Looking through a skateboard magazine is like driving through the suburbs- every subdivision looks exactly the same. So basically what it comes down to is this: the great thing about skateboarding is it is all about diversity, experimenting, being open minded, being creative. However, the skateboard industry is mostly conservative, closed-minded, and cookie-cutter.
If you really want to cover a story about the exploitation of skateboarding, how about an expose on Nike, who has their eye on taking a huge chunk of skateboarding just like they are trying to do with surfing by buying Hurley- Talk about sneaking in the back door.
Anyway, I like your website though I don’t agree with everything.
For the record- Me and my partner Piet developed the DCS trucks back in ’94 with the legitimate goal of bringing surf/skate/and snow closer together. We just built the boards and rode for fun. It wasn’t until 2000 that we started Flowlab and started selling the boards. Since then, we haven’t made a penny on the company, since any money we make goes into experimenting and developing new products. We did license the design to The Bomb Factory, who produces a lower-end version (the Flowboard) for the mainstream market (Sportsmart, etc) and they hired Gentry to promote the board. Also, that board you had on your site called the Transpeeder (5 wheels on each axle) is actually a direct ripoff of our board and its from the U.K.
5 wheels doesn’t even work (it has to be seven for a fluid carve) So yes, that thing is purely an opportunist in England trying to ripoff the next “scooter” and save a few bucks by leaving out a few wheels.
We aren’t in it for the money- just for the fun of carving the hills of S.F., seeing people get stoked on the boards and experimenting with new products. Thats why we call the company Flowlab. Flow is about the feeling and Lab is about engineering products that create that feeling. If you want a board to try out, email me back and I’ll get one out to you in Florida? or wherever you’re at. We just came out with new 2003 deck GFX all based on the streets of San Francisco. Pick one out here. Ride it down a hill, then give it a legit sucker rating.
Maybe you can even do a giveaway contest on your site.
anyway, thats my 2 cents
later. . .
mike
December 6th, 2002
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Another Piece of Shit
xXtremeConnections has girl atheletes of the month and a bunch of fags on their site. sk8shop dot com sent this crap to us along with a contest to win Kelly fuckin’ Osbourne’s CD. We clicked over and saw a Gentry photo-shoot too. We don’t know if we should stay on the mailing list for comedy or opt-out for less spam.