Disclosure: I work for High Grade Distribution (Satori / Creation) as the team manager and media dude
Unfortunately, I don't have any updates to the future of Creation. I've been telling the team that for quite a while now. When I started working at High Grade back in 2009 it was tough to sell those boards. There was a big push a couple years ago by bringing on Chris Dyer to art direct the brand, as well as put a few new people on, and release a video / go on trips... but things came up that didn't involve me and the brand has been at a standstill since then. There have only been a handful of boards in stock for a good chunk of time. Most of the smaller sized boards that we had were donated to SkateQilya in Palestine.
Chris Luhring went to Friendship skateboards and Josh Love is currently doing his thing teaching yoga and shredding, they are both still on Satori.
As for Satori we have a lot of wheels stocked up as well as gear. We have been supplying companies with hemp / organic cotton clothing. If any skate companies want to start using more sustainable products for their brands, they should hit up
[email protected]Makavelli, which wheels did you get from us? I've been the middle man between hundreds of sets of wheels getting to our team riders for nearly 7 years and feedback on wheel quality has been positive.
If you are into hard wheels and want a set that are damn near impossible to flatspot, the recycled plastic cores would be the ones I'd recommend. As for the soft wheels, all of them handle the streets with ease.
Watson, I put that together as a joke. Turning a weed leaf into a humanized skateboarder on photos I'd shot was actually a fun way to kill the monotony of working with skate media. Your memory is off as it was an actual weed leaf, not a cartoon, but who cares about specifics these days?
If you wanna call that one of the most embarrassing things from a skate company, I'd gladly accept the trophy for that, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be deserving of the spot. Our webhost crashed years ago and a lot of the old media files got corrupted, hence the broken images.