CRV WKD and Mersey Grit are the best UK companies.
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What is Mersey Grit?
Didnāt realise CRV WKD still made boards.
CRV WKD was actually a brand? Thought it was just some inside joke among mates
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I canāt find a website for themā¦
They have boards out, even pro ones.
Christ. Thereās so many. Itās overwhelming. Theyāre all competing for a tiny market as well. Insanity.
I thought it was Australian
Real shame about Landscape, theyāre the only British board brand Iāve bought boards from since BP went under. It sometimes felt like they lacked a bit of direction/strong marketing for a while, but theyāve put out some really good stuff over the years.
damn gutted about landscape, classic company
thought it was a shame descent went down pulman had a sick thing going there
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Could be getting my wires crossed, and it wouldnāt be the first time but didnāt Landscape kind of become a thing because of some weird identity issue between UK based Organic and US based Organika, name wise that forced the UK company to have to reinvent itself?
Yeah Iām sure this is correct.
Just watching the vid now and itās a shame theyāre done but nice to go out on a high note, I suppose.
I interviewed Joe earlier this year and there was a bit of Landscape talk: https://www.northskatemag.com/new-blog/joe-gavin-interview
Here are those bits, for the mobile bois:
How much did Massey have to do with shaping the whole image of Landscape?
Oh man. I think he had everything to do with it. I feel like Portraits gave it the look that weāve always tried to keep up. He gave it that style and that video definitely said a lot about Landscape. Thatās the kind of Landscape that Iām always aiming for.
Fos, the owner, has been out in LA for a while now, but how much input does he have into Landscape?
Fos and Nick [Orechio] from Power Distribution make the decisions really. I just kinda put things on the table, and try and help out the team, and get people boards and whatever. Itās a weird one, because I just want to skate. But I have to step up, I have to do it and it makes sense. It was almost just the same shit I was doing anyway. General hype and always wanting to film. I always thought that Landscape should be making a video ā if weāre not doing anything we should be working on something! So as soon as I kinda took over I just wanted us to film because thatās all I know! I just feel we should work towards something and give people something proper. Thatās what you want when youāre sponsored by somebody ā you want to be part of something and work towards something. In a way that would kinda reintroduce Landscape too. Now that thereās a few different people on the team. Just to get skateboarders backing it again, on a purely skateboarding level, just because we all love to skate and we want to make a video. I just wanted to make something, basically!
Itās almost ten years since the last Landscape video. Itās going to be a reminder to some people and an introduction to others of what Landscape is all about.
Yeah, exactly. I donāt think thereās going to be a massive change in what we do. Weāre still going to do the pro logo boards and stuff like that. Keep it clean. Some people wonāt know what it is and what itās done, so we want to try to show them that. And also try to bring back a little bit of that British skate video vibe, where itās spread out. In my head, I want to get a trick at Lloyds, and I want to get a trick at Bristo Square or Southbank. Iām not trying to find some crazy new spot. I think with a lot of things everyoneās trying to find the new shit. Weāve got something good here in the UK; it looks sick. Weāve got classic spots! Letās make the most of them.
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Whatās next for you then? Getting the Landscape video finished?
Yeah. It would be out, I think, if I hadnāt rolled my ankle. I think my whole motivation for everything was really low for five months. I couldnāt even skate to film other people, so I didnāt do much. I feel like when I can skate Iām quite good at getting other people to skate as well, so we can get a lot of shit done sometimes. But when Iām not skating Iām just not even bothered. Itās hard to say to myself, āIām team manager. We still should go on a tripā, and I should just chill and sort it out but at the same time Iām just like, āFuck thatā¦ I want to skate!ā Haha! That sounds stupid but my heart isnāt in it if I canāt skate with the boys. Basically Iām holding everyone up! Haha! Maybe I should just have put it out when I had like thirty seconds of footageā¦ But nah, I need to do something proper before Iām too old.
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I got asked to ride for āOrganicā by Fos in my old Slam days. I turned it down as I thought the name was weird and really not my vibe. Heard that after a while there was some issue with Organika in the US so they changed the name to Landscape.
A bit check me out but you know, chill.
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Wasnāt Organic started before though?
How many skateboarders do you think there are in the UK who buy a board every few months?
Iām gonna say less than 4000.
Yeah I think it might have been but maybe there was more weight/money behind Karl Watsonās gig
Without doubt, still not on really, even back then the UK was hardly a small player in the grand scheme of things.
Also, Organic was backed by Slam and Landscape was Fosā own gig. I might be making this up, but I think he wanted total control over it with Slam being the silent partner, but it didnāt work out like that, so he went off on his own but couldnāt take the name with him.
Also, was nearly called Skyline.
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