I still start my days like this!
years ago on the old sidewalk forum someone (whos name I canāt remember) gave me a brand new set of rictas after donating to a fundraiser they did.
I never used them and they got lost as shit moved round in the house. Found them today while tidying the spare room, 10 minutes before my new deck arrived!
Absolutely buzzing.
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Are they still white?
Theyāll sound like plastic.
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Yep. Still white.
Spanky sent me some rictas for something I helped out with on the old forum. Iām guessing Spanky sent them!
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Spanky getting rid of his shite sponsor proddy.
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Yeah those Rictas probably werenāt from my own pocket, I think we got Shiner or someone to donate some proddy for giveaways, canāt remember now, it was a long time ago
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Sweet chair in the window! What make is it?
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Replica Eames chair FTW!
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The real one at work is amazing. I think I miss that the most about furlough.
Always wanted one, donāt have the room for one though, maybe when the kids have fucked off iāll grab one to spend my last few years of life in. What a perfect ending to work towards.
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I went to check - Iāve got Rhythm is a Mystery on 12"
Which reminds that records are trendy, might have to photo some of them for 'da gram 
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cycled to the skatepark & had a full on 3 hour session whilst boozing then stopped for a pint at my favourite pub on the way home. iām in an intense amount of pain but absolutely 100% worth it
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The extra legs a few beers gives you is so worth it ha!
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A mate of mine who is young enough to have grown up as part of the social media generation (and weird/skilled enough to love mental flip tricks) has just become Reviveās first UK rider.
I know the brand isnāt ācoolā to us over 40ās who remember the 90ās but for a lad from a small mining village in west Yorkshire, in an age where domestic sponsorship is essentially a thing of the past, I think itās amazing heās been able to vlog himself onto one of the worldās biggest selling brands.
āStokedā doesnāt come close to covering it!
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Thatās a shame. All their riders are half decent but none are good enough for traditional sponsorship. The industry was hooking up far too many people as it was over the past how many years but this just lowers the bar even more.
When everyone is pro, no one will be pro. Totally lost itās importance and sheen.
I clicked on one of their vids the other night out of curiosity but the title ended up a total clickbait lie. Title was something like āmost progressive skating in Santa cruz everā and it was just sub par skaters playing skate in the streets, barely landing basic tricks and looking like they just started skating, which is fine, people like to see messing about but it wasnāt what they said it was going to be. I know, what was I expecting? But this is just shite and shows how fake and desperate for recognition these dudes are.
Iām stoked your mate is stoked but honestly, if heās good enough for sponsorship and he is looking for kudos maybe he should look somewhere else, unless heās looking for quick boosts from those online notifications.
Edit: sounds cunty but itās not aimed at your mate, just revive and those online kooks.
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Are you sure it was Revive? Coz, as kiddie centric the brand focus is, most of the team are genuinely āgood,ā just in need of a little direction to be less kooky.
And, TBH, in the modern world, itās as good a board sponsor as you can hope for - their whole model is based around pushing the individual skaterās youtube, which in turn advertises the brand. Most of the lads on the team are pulling in well in excess of $100k a year from this alone, plus the brand pays them.
As much as you or I arenāt buying the boards, Death and The National riders arenāt making that with the standard model.
John Hill is good enough for sponsorship to be fair. He was on Birdhouse before Revive. Iām not sure how somebody like Andy Shrock gets a pro part though? Itās all based on Youtube and money basically. If they hadnāt have made money through subscribers etc. then they wouldnāt be on Revive.
A guy I know bought a Revive board but heās in his early twenties. I donāt understand why you would get a Revive board.
Nah it was Braille but itās the same thing deal.
If you feel that them making money like that is justifying their content then thatās your opinion. I donāt personally. Itās fine to make money, make a living but be moreā¦ I donāt know what the word isā¦ oh well, itās not important right now, iām eating.
