Archive for December, 2002
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 5th, 2002
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Cheat Here
Mike Neuman found Lox Shoes and sent us the link. We can’t thank him enough for showing us the best things to buy if we really want to wreck ourselves on a rail. We found it odd that there are 3 skill levels to buy. What’s a mule kick?
December 5th, 2002
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South Coast Riders Extreme Sports Club
Australlians jump on crocodiles and shit. Clubs and organizations sound like a great idea in the beginning. Wasn’t there a little club called I-Level not too long ago? Go ahead boys, take extreme sports “to a new level”. “Potential sponsors are also invited to the meeting” K-Y Jelly sounds like a good sponsor.
December 5th, 2002
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Gearing Up for What They Call “Getting Down”
Skaters in Caracas are buff! We think the Animal Chin-Salba-Sergie Ventura-Spencer Fujimoto looking dude in the picture needs a pair of Clawz. Those work gloves aren’t coordinating with his Muska Pack, Skate Rags and Simple shoes.
December 4th, 2002
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Ulterior Motives
Someone seems to think that Skateboard classes will keep kids in school. “The skateboarding class would teach etiquette and safety, such as using protective equipment, the dangers of attempting “tricks” beyond the students’ skill levels and skating near traffic or on irregular surfaces.” Someone get this kook a dress and a pair of rollerskates.
December 3rd, 2002
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Girls Everywhere!
BettyBoards has so many email addresses for girls that skate that we figured you would want access to them. Look at all the little chickies you can send hatemail to.
December 3rd, 2002
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Simpsons Game is Crap
Hallen tells us that Simpsons Skateboarding Sucks. We’ll bet that most of you could have guessed that. Maybe we should thank the guys that made THPS for making a game that can’t be beaten? Wait, Maybe we should ask them to put more tits and ass in the game!
December 2nd, 2002
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Dude, Where’s the Flowflab?
We all know Chris Gentry; nice guy, pretty good skater, who’s endorses one of our favorite Useless Crap companies: Flowflab (or whateffer its called, they all crap). But lets take a deeper look into the wonderful world of Chris Gentry.
According to the news on his site; “WON 6th place at ESPN b3 etc”. Wait a minute, you don’t WIN 6th place, you GET 6th place! Also Chris strives to be the next Eminem? They even made a videoclip? Thats nice and all, more power to him, but what in the name of bad taste? Nice fukkin photoshop job!
Big ups to Mark “This shit is out of control!” Carroll for attending all this to us.