I didn't mind some of the Original Intent shoes.  HUF 5s were great to skate in. 

the main reason why lakai left was because of the problems that have been going on over the past 2 years or so at podium, what really pisses me off though is how they drop a ton of their pros but still send 5000 shoes to their flo-cal riders

Gavin is the marketing guy.
The Dunlop brothers were calling the shots.

Hey, thanks for contributing so much. This discussion would have really suffered without your input.

Everybody knows Birdo was right, just most people don't care.

do most people still think that the most durable shoes are the best ones? because they are not.

bummer.  well, i am bummed because i love Daewon, but i don't like DVS shoes.  i hope it works out for him.

as far as the Nike thing, they do wield a more power as a corporation but at the end of the day if the shoes sucked nobody would skate them.  i don't skate DVS because i thought the pairs i had were terrible.  I did buy their video though, which was sick.

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I didn't see it mentioned.

Podium handles Diamond Footwear.  Not clothes or hardware.

I had 1 pair of DVS shoes somewhere around 2001.  They sucked, they look worse now.  Also, not giving my money to a company with a motorcycle team.  Just not going to. 

Personal preferences, I have mine, you can have yours too.  But don't say NIke isn't hurting the smaller guys.  It's like saying Walmart never put anyone out of business, and that's just foolish.

nike has defiantly hurt skater run brands, but they are not solely to blame for podium's shitty state of affairs. i know a bunch of the guys from that camp and this is what i've gathered from them. there were a ton of down to earth, legit, skateboarders employed over there. and the most common complaint that i heard from them was that it was poorly run by the higher ups. granted, who doesn't hate their boss? but im assuming there is some truth to the complaints when they couldn't pull it together after the atomic active bomb went off. soon after hurricane active, they started dropping employees and pros like crazy and every brand under the podium umbrella has been for sale ever since.  girl/choco took lakai and nobody has stepped up to take matix or dvs. i lived with two longtime employees and still keep in touch with a few who still work there. and all i can say is that active has been a huge catalyst in demise of skateboarder run companies and unfortunately some have not been able to recover. i just hope the podium crew can figure out a way to pull this one off because they still have a bunch of good people workin there.

Thank you.


And Keenan's shoes were always good.

Daewon on Lakai

it seemed to me that DVS only put Busenitz on the team after he won Tampa pro.
Vans and Emerica had their chances with him but failed to see how fuckin' sick of a skater he is.

in a time of personality marketing, it's great to see Dennis and a few others getting paid close to what they deserve for just being amazing skaters and nothing else.

Would be amazing

im guessing tpuds will join the DC superteam, and daewon will probably get on etnies or some shit

Surprise, surprise, B of A is the primary creditor.  I hate being right.  They are the worst.