Archive for the 'Opinion' Category
May 5th, 2008
Posted in Stupid Shit, Indu$try, Opinion
Air Jordan Flipsyde
What just happened here? Skateboarding got raped. That’s what happened. You allowed them to build trust with you until you were brainwashed enough for them to switch logos on you. Go dunk sheep.
March 21st, 2008
Posted in Stupid Shit, Opinion
Proactiv Ryan Sheckler
Joining the celebrity line up with Jessica Simpson, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Melissa Claire Egan, Kevin Kasper, Serena Williams… Ryan Sheckler!
August 23rd, 2007
Posted in Indu$try, Opinion, Product Reviews
The Future of Skateboarding
The future of Skateboarding isn’t going to be digital. You might want to see how fast EA Games’ Skateboarding future is progressing though. How much loot you suppose these guys can rake out of Skateboarding‽
Floatyness Maximus
June 6th, 2007
Posted in Indu$try, Opinion
Skateboarding Teams
First stop? Venice? This could get interesting. Don’t forget we give points in skateboarding to the people that land on your feet if they are hanging out on the coping… Even more points if they can get the dude’s shins.
After months of wooing sponsors, and drafting bylaws and articles of incorporation, all Jeff Stern needed to create the first high school skateboard league was teenage skaters to get onboard and compete.
February 20th, 2007
Posted in Opinion
Pussy Graphics
There has got to be a reason why the Skateboard Indu$try hasn’t put full color pornography on the bottom of decks. Come to think of it… Why in the fuck hasn’t the Motocross Indu$try done it either? Please… Tell me why everyone is so fokken scared to do it.
Pussy Graphics.
Think about it… Blurred out on the X-Gaymes closeups.
Discuss.
February 8th, 2007
Posted in Stupid Shit, Opinion, Skateparks
The Lake Forest Zoo
How nice of the etnies skatepark of Lake Forest, CA to let us know what’s up. If mandatory full pads and beautiful steel bars caging you in weren’t enough, they just announced more fun stuff coming in 2007. Time to have a nice birthday party:
Birthday Party Packages - The Etnies Skatepark of Lake Forest is proud to offer three birthday party packages. Each package is designed to best suit each party’s needs. All Packages are for up to 10 participants. Each additional child will cost $20 up to a maximum of 20 participants. Each party will last for 2 hours. Party times availible [sic] are afternoons from 3pm-6pm or on weekends from 10am-6pm. Reservations are required at least one week in advance. A $100 security deposit is also required when making a reservation. Cancellation policy 72 hour advancced [sic] notice or loss of depsoit [sic].
Let’s see… Cute birthday parties, wednesday BMX nights, band nights with mandatory donations, 2007 waivers, photography policies, skate camps, snowboarding trips and unsolicited e-mail newsletters… Awesome. And on top of that, the good folks over at etnies have absolutely no control over the matter.
Nick Gates, a major force in helping to make skateboarding suck. Thanks dude.
January 30th, 2007
Posted in Indu$try, Opinion
Biggest Cock in the Industry
Who has the biggest cock in the indu$try? Is it a magazine publisher? Is it a magazine writer? Is it a Future Magazine editor? Is it a Skateboard distributor ? (pdf) Is it a Skateboard company? It isn’t a handboarder. Is it a Skateboarder?
Biggest Cock or the biggest dick?
Wassup Suckers?
December 24th, 2006
Posted in Opinion
Happy Holidays
This is good. Get that photographer a pro account at flickr.
December 14th, 2006
Posted in Indu$try, Rumors, Opinion, Facts
Sacklunch 3.0
The Flaming Bag of Crap is updated and has a fokken rss feed!
via: Skate Daily
DIS!
July 14th, 2006
Posted in Indu$try, Opinion
Skateboard or Sell Skateboard Shit
On a tour with Ron Allen a long time ago… Ron had writing on his griptape. He was riding for H-Street at the time and he was traveling around the country skating demos and shit in some of the smallest towns in the USA.
“You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge”
That’s what Ron wrote on his griptape in 1989. We discussed the shoes that Nike was putting on the market for Skateboarding back then… In a tiny ass town in Ohio… In between taking turns trying a 9 stair handrail.
One of the kids watching us had a pair of those pink Nike Skateboard shoes on and he commented on how we might want to try tightening the laces on our shoes… We both looked at the kid and didn’t say anything.
We both landed the next try and skated away from the rail and didn’t stop or even look back at that kid with those shoes on. That kid didn’t follow us and all the other kids that were watching instead of Skateboarding didn’t follow us either.
They witnessed.
Fast Forward to now…
There is a sort of verbal agreement in the Skateboard Indu$try regarding retail accounts and a no-compete within a 10 mile radius. Zumiez is about to open within the 10 mile radius of a lot of Skateshops this year and we mean A LOT. Check out their site and look at the list of brands that zumiez carries and you will see that almost every company that supposedly lives by the 10 mile rule is available at Zumiez. Except one company. Yep… Nike SB is standing by the 10 mile rule. Consolidated isn’t up there yet.
How smart is that? Trick all the Skateshop owners into thinking that Nike SB is on their side when they feel like everyone else completely left them for the almighty dollar.
Final thought: This just isn’t right at all
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