And I didn’t suggest you were hating them for shaking things up but in essence you are. It used to be that you had to be good and mesh with the guys in the van to get on the right team. They instead want you to be reasonably good but mesh well with the viewing public through social media - an “Anti Koston” if you will.
And as far as “low impact gimmick” goes, check out Sam Vestal. Kid is pretty good tbf.
They’re shit.
Their company is shit.
Anyone that backs them must also back shops like Route One.
Most of the skaters I know who shop route one think Nike is the best thing ever for skateboarding and rate Shane O’Neil over all other skaters
Whatever you say old man 
That dude is not on their team list on the site. But yeah, he’s ok.
The list shows Giger, Hill and Kyro, they have pro boards. That’s what i’m talking about.
But hey, you’re right, I do have old man syndrome sometimes but when quality is at stake and not just with skateboarding, I like to see the right people rewarded.
He’s an am.
As I say mate, I’m not a fan. I wanna watch Gustav be a magician and hope to see MJ putout a part someday.
Merely arguing a point.
You’ve managed to turn the ‘Stoked’ thread into a fucking depressing place. That kind of sums up Revive Skateboards ironically. Haha.
That’s cool and all i’m saying is that the bar should not be this low, regardless of who the company is. Revive can do what they want, the skaters can do what they want, but why do they need to be pro? It cheapens it and they must not feel worthy, or does an overdose of YT notifications cause immense bouts of Dunning kruger?
To be fair, I did that. I didn’t need to call his mates stoke out.
Why shouldn’t they be pro?
If kids like the guys they see on YT (and I’m sure you appreciate kids love YT more than mainstream telly these days) and want to buy a board with their name on then the brand would be foolish not to produce them.
Supply and demand innit.
It didn’t need this level of 'I will keep posting ‘till everyone agrees with me!’ either did it, because I won’t.
Didn’t mean to do that, trying to see positives in summat I’m not even a fan of.
I mean, in a few years the whole world could be buying sporting goods brand decks, I’d rather a kook who loves skating gets money instead of John Donahoe or whoever.
shut up
It’s a forum mate, discussion is kind of the purpose.
And I don’t expect you to agree with me, whatever I say is tarred my employment history - the second I don’t sit in the fence it’s always gonna get brought up. Pretty much the reason I rarely post anymore.
But fuck it, I love skateboarding, I wanna chat shit about it with like(ish) minded people.
Who knows, maybe in the 2030’s I’ll get called out by local stationary shop affiliates for my current job role
Lol at this conversation.
This is what skate forums are for.
Whatever you think of Revive/Shrock etc - the fact is that skateboarding’s current inclusive status is celebrated almost universally - women are welcome, LGBTQ+ people are welcome, old cunts are welcome, newbies are welcome, etc etc etc.
Revive is a consequence of and, in some respects at least, a contributor to this shift.
Yes, in some respects Revive (and all the other YouTube/Social Media driven brands) can be seen as vampiric in so far as they were clever enough to see that more kids watch YouTube than will ever read Thrasher.
There’s another way of looking at it too - one that understands that skateboarding is ultimately a leisure pursuit and thus is fundamentally futile on an essential level - from that perspective Andy Schrock falls into the same category as Versace Plug, or Nine Club or Skate Moss or whoever.
If you listen to what Shane O’Neill says about Social Media in his Nine Club interview, he pretty much co-signs the YouTuber approach but with the cultural vindication of progression and inclusion within ‘the industry’ too.
Not even sure what I’m trying to say really.
I’ll never ride a Revive board but I’ll watch Wally’s mate’s YouTube videos and hopefully skate with him again at some point.
It doesn’t matter.
Julien Stranger still exists…
No problem with a thread for it to be talked about. Love one in-fact, we need more threads. Just hate looking in a thread thats 30 posts deep with nothing to do with why it was started. I like my daily dose of stoked. I’ll go just post hot/emo/chicks in the insta thread then?
You’ll be pleased to hear that I finished my grouting then ha ha.
And managed to slappy 5050 through a obtuse angled curb the other day and got a genuine high 5 off my kid for doing it.
(Nearly passed out still but hey I’m almost 50, I’ll take whatever I can get).
It’d be even better if the world had some more footage of Julien Stranger instead of this garbage.
Keep it in the Middle Aged Shed thread, jeez! Haha. Stoked for you!
