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| skategeezer |
 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:02 pm |
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I don't really post much at this forum, but I've always felt grateful to Slob for putting it up.
I think now is the time to start getting things rolling with it.
The seeds of the revolution within skateboarding have been planted a long time ago. Not just a year or two ago as some might think...but at least 15 years ago.
It's now starting to really happen.
Three years ago at this very forum in a thread entitled "letter to thrasher" you could sense the roots were building.
We're now three years later and the mags are suffering. Thrasher is down to 13,000 subscribers (at least that's the figure Transworld published). And yet websites like this one are impacting people not monthly BUT by the hour or minute.
Where does this culminate? Simple. The over extension - the building of huge warehouses, the creation of too much overstock, the never saving for a rainy day, the expectation that it would always be growing, the belief that you could do no wrong, the attitude that you could screw with the indy shops while at the same chasing the mass market - all of that is coming home to roost.
I can feel it....you can feel it.
Suddenly, people are realizing that they can break free....and be whatever they want in skateboarding.
The next generation is hitting and they see it all...and while they may not embrace it all, they certainly have less issues than their predecessors. About freakin' time.
This is what skateboarding has always been about and why sometimes, it has to die only to be reborn. |
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| slob-air |
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:11 pm |
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It's not dead yet. It's feeling better. 
Yeah, we've got a crop of groms here that are into checking it all out. Not just sponges, they seem to have huge magnetism—and see more as better. |
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| jerseygatekeeper |
| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:27 am |
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| i am hoping to be up in the tree to help the roots stay strong . skateboarding is my gateway [s]drug[/s] to the people i want to surround myself with and help out in any way i can. i skateboard for the good of the planet and want to continue to bring peace all around . the people i meet, the places i go irreplaceable . i would never want any 100k office job , blah blah blah , get a job get a job get a job , i dont want to hear it anymore . i have a job and its to let people be happy and healthy. if skateboarding consumes your day , then why polute it with things such as television. non stop bull on that thing . enjoy the planet we live on and help a brother out if he needs helping out . why complicate our lifespan . all "they" want is us as slaves so they can make way to much money. skate , live , repeat. |
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| jerseygatekeeper |
| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:30 am |
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| thrashers new total of subscribers.... 76,628... i yai yai |
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| motorpsycho67 |
| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:43 am |
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| jerseygatekeeper |
| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:57 am |
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| something wrong with what i said up there? |
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| slob-air |
| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:55 am |
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| Not technically, but that was a real old thread and you are a n00b so 1 + 1 = .... |
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| jerseygatekeeper |
| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:44 pm |
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| one year old isnt that bad on a 10+yr fourm, its still a current topic in my mind . i like i what i saw felt compeled to put in my two cents that i had. nice to be here guys 2011 and still goin strong. |
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| kirb-slider |
| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:07 pm |
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oh gawd... i have a feeling you and djnednumbskull are going to hit it off and drop some real street, dope, bangin', stupid, mad, fresh, jive knowledge on our old crippled asses.
fuck the world. |
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| slob-air |
| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:11 pm |
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jerseygatekeeper wrote: one year old isnt that bad on a 10+yr fourm, its still a current topic in my mind . i like i what i saw felt compeled to put in my two cents that i had. nice to be here guys 2011 and still goin strong.
Nobody is disagreeing. Its just fun to pick on the n00bs sometimes. You'll get to do it eventually. |
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