yah everyone cool like you ran companies with shit products cuz everyone was busy with having skate cool cred your fucking rite those wheels -bearings are good
Not really, there were a lot of good companies that really needed our support. Around '94-98 I had just moved back to southern California and was skating 8+ hrs/day almost every day and going through a lot of product. I had a couple Powell mini-logo boards when $ was tight and don'tthink a single one lasted more than a week before the nose or tail broke off. Meanwhile Real's decks were rock solid, Think has great shapes and super pop/response, Consolidated boards were great at the time, companies like Creature and Scarecrow were spawning, Mad Circle was hot shit, Capitol was peaking, and I rode all of them. Later in the 90's I skated mostly Anti Hero (had the Stranger greedy salesman from like their 2nd-3rd run of boards) and 151.
I'm not trying to assert credibility, just saying there was lots of good stuff available and at the time Powell was known for fucking over riders, undercutting prices when pros were making almost no money as it stood. Powell was seen as grom gear, with their angel boy shit being the driving force behind the company.
Yeah, Powell was uncool to ride but there was a good reason, and those reasons are still valid to this day. Even with Stacy back, where's Brad McClain's pro model? Where is anyone's? I think Cab has a board, and that Killian Martin dude does, I even saw a Stacy Peralta deck not long ago, but what about the guys like Aquil and McClain? That's what's wrong with Powell and George Powell was/is responsible for that.