I enjoyed it, I’d love to have had some Dylan stories. When all these dudes do other stuff they seem to get some dope stories about Dylan out of em where as these guys seems to avoid the topic unless the bring it up. Crob just straight up asked why 2016 was the worst year seemingly ignorant to the fact Dylan passed and the toll it took on the company with him being their most prominent pro and all.
I want to know which real am was hating on the name to nakel. As for the biting and blocking comment he only mentioned the holographic being an issue and no one has one so I’m assuming he’s calling out a wood shop or something. Who cares he puts himself on somewhat of pedestal , he obviously really appreciates the culture and the stuff he’s appropriating. Hopefully kids take note and look more Into the stuff he’s inspired by. I think it’s needed right now. I had a kid today and ask me a few other dudes at the park if we grew up when they’d flip kick flips with their hands . I’m 25 and and my buddies 22. The history of skating and the age a lot of us on here are hyped on seems lost on kids these days and it’s only been like 6-7 years of the whole social media, free full length and solo part era took off. Dill said himself In this episode the key to making a company is narcissism and over confidence , seems he follows his own advice, and it seems to being working for him. This was sick and I’m glad we have dudes like him in the industry doing everything themselves just for the love that has to be added stress on top of still being expected to Skate at a pro level.
I’d actually love to see him sit and down and talk with Ellington and Reynolds about running board companies and still skating and their different approcahes to the business side of it. Reynolds has always outwardly said he is more of hands off owner when it comes to the business and overall running of the company and focuses on skating and scouting new talent and stuff and middle manning for hr type stuff but his position has likely shifted more to dealing with business stuff as they became a distributor. Dill started FA at a way later age so I’d be interested in hearing his views on it having essentially run workshops team stuff but not their overall image or products.
If only we could get pros to start pushing for smaller shoe brands but at least boards are selling well enough that smaller independent brands can survive. Though Id guess with FA soft goods and small production runs fuel their success instead of selling a bunch of boards.