Wow, just finished watching, I have lots of thoughts

Video of the year. Everyone had great parts.

I forget about Jeremy Leabres/thought he was done, but goddamn he came through with a great part. Front blunt pop out on the bump to rail was insane.

Most women-represented brand in skating other than like Meow/There or the big shoe companies. Hadn't heard of the other two girls until this but they both killed it. Georgia came through with a full part with great clips. I was really impressed with all three of them and it gets me stoked to see more women ripping that hard, skating rails and big shit. Truly progressing women's skating.

Myle's part was dope and Braden Hoban's part was psycho. I'll definitely be rewatching.

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Honestly, not that bad of an outcome.

1. Family owned company (even ridiculously wealthy) have more leeway for higher operating standards because they aren't beholden to "money line go up" anyone-owns-it public co's and it's their "family legacy" so they don't want shitty behavior attached to their name.

2. Not Private Equity that just squeezes the juice to eke out a 30% return in 2 years.

3. They run YES snowboards which is actually a decently respected snowboard brand. Think Burton / Gravis except hoping they don't go the way of Gravis lol

4. The brothers can actually do a kickflip

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Seeing as they are from snowsports, their legacy is actually not the best. Nidecker as a snowboard brand vanished 20 years ago. They have one of the bigger factories iirc but their brand work was a failure. YES is going the same route, although the founders are legends and the current team is stacked. But the whole identity, the style, it's just not good. They should be the Girl of snowboarding but they're more like Flip.

Confused by your Nidecker comment. They absolutely still make boards. This group also owns Jones snowboards which are very popular in the snowboard community. Yes has merged with Lobster so no clue what that is going to look like.
Like others I have no idea what this means for skate shoes but Nidecker is a pretty successful ownership group.

Is Unclea Flea alright, does anyone know? I'm bummed he's gone.

I think I read he’s having some issues and wanted to go cold turkey on socials for a bit, so he focused for a while. I hope he finds the peace he needs and comes back soon, happier and healthier. That said, not stoked on this ingrown-ish toenail thing I’ve got going on. I got the fancy nail clippers and my foot in a salt water soak, but damn this unpleasant in the interim.

Footy.

So what the helm was Don Brown doing over there?

Liking transphobic posts on social media?