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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Tear Up a Trick on September 21, 2022, 05:33:03 AM
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Plenty of pros have started plenty of board companies, some successfully and some were complete failures.
Who is a pro who always rode for others but probably could have had his own board brand and it would have been a success?
Maybe you will mention a certain pro, and then someone will remind you that they did in fact start a board brand that you never heard of, and that will be embarrassing for them, and we will all get a laugh.
I think Caballero could have had his own successful board brand at different points during his career. In fact I think he's the only bones brigade guy who didn't do that?
I also think that Cheeks Skateboards or something by Chico Brenes could have been successful.
Others?
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Chico has a board company.
Check out chicostix.com
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i feel like koston, especially paired with guy mariano, would have a really successful board brand on name alone. those two would really do numbers.
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John Rattray should of had a company called "rat race" if only just because it sounds a bit like "rattray's".
3D should of been better not just a skate mental backup account but I think the reasons have been explained.
Tired could have a team or something more legit.
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Program Skateboards (pretty sure that was the name) - Brian Lotti....
had Dill, Gino, Wray and needed Markovich to get Rocco's blessing.
Markovich stayed on Color and the company didn't get to fully happen.
Would have been a mood/ positive vibes fo sho
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Ronnie Creager
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Chico has a board company.
Check out chicostix.com
How embarrassing!
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Ronnie Creager
Eat your heart out: https://theberrics.com/news-ronnie-creager-high-school-dropout
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dylan
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Janderson, Louie, Mason and Curren.
all top of their game, sick filmer and crew.
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Janderson, Louie, Mason and Curren.
all top of their game, sick filmer and crew.
I second this.
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rob dyrdek probably could have - i imagine the only reason he did not is because he had the foresight / knowledge that there just isnt a lot of money to be made in it.
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Honestly I think a list of 'Which Pro skaters shouldn't have ever started their own board companies' would be far longer and funnier. There's gotta be some absolute howlers of cringe company names and graphics out there...
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Dan Drehobl and John Cardiel
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rob dyrdek probably could have - i imagine the only reason he did not is because he had the foresight / knowledge that there just isnt a lot of money to be made in it.
Does this count?
https://quartersnacks.com/tag/seek-skateboards/ (https://quartersnacks.com/tag/seek-skateboards/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJhSY8nnAPw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJhSY8nnAPw)
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Janderson, Louie, Mason and Curren.
all top of their game, sick filmer and crew.
I second this.
Curren can stay on skate mental . I fuck with him but I need a part before I’m saying he’s at the top of his game . I mean last real part he had was filmed nearly a decade ago . What happened to that part he was talking about on the bunt?
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i feel like koston, especially paired with guy mariano, would have a really successful board brand on name alone. those two would really do numbers.
If it came out in 1999 or 2006 it probably would’ve done pretty well just off of their own popularity.
What we ended up with had a shockingly empty art direction. Also, they probably should’ve just sponsored an actual crew like how FA, Frog, and 917 did instead of getting random dudes from across the globe on some Captain Planet shit.
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McCrank
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Brandon Biebel and Weckingball should have created a company together
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Chris Cole but he fit Zero so well so I get it
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Shane Cross maybe
what board company do you reckon he’d be on if he were alive?
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Chris Cole but he fit Zero so well so I get it
didnt he start Cobra skateboads when he first left zero? or was it never officially launched? Could have sworn I though I saw this on his IG when I used to use it
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pretty sure he did
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Chris Cole but he fit Zero so well so I get it
didnt he start Cobra skateboads when he first left zero? or was it never officially launched? Could have sworn I though I saw this on his IG when I used to use it
it was supposed to be some dumb shit through the berrics called radder. glad that never happened
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Slightly off topic, but I wish Lance would have kept The Firm going forever. Also kinda wish Winkowski would start his own thing.
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Ray Barbee. But Krooked is also a great fit for him.
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dylan
He almost did start one with Alex Olson. Imagine the two of them arguing over graphics.
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Ray Barbee. But Krooked is also a great fit for him.
The rare case where "I could see him on Krooked" makes 100% sense
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Brandon Biebel and Weckingball should have created a company together
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Brandon Biebel and Weckingball should have created a company together
R O i D
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skateboards
Meat Skateboards sounds like something they could make work
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I really never understood why Element didn't just do a Bam company at his height, with Maldando and Getz and just put a bunch of rail hooper nobody ams on. Even keep the Element affiliation kinda like how it was whit Hosoi and SMA having Santa Cruz logos on the boards.
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Penny- I think after Rowley left Flip it may have made sense
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I really never understood why Element didn't just do a Bam company at his height, with Maldando and Getz and just put a bunch of rail hooper nobody ams on. Even keep the Element affiliation kinda like how it was whit Hosoi and SMA having Santa Cruz logos on the boards.
Bam was the first thought also a brand under element would have sold like mad back in the day. Not like he needed the money thou.
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Janderson, Louie, Mason and Curren.
all top of their game, sick filmer and crew.
this is the last thing they want to do lmao. trade in all that fun to be saddled with responsibility, nah
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I really never understood why Element didn't just do a Bam company at his height, with Maldando and Getz and just put a bunch of rail hooper nobody ams on. Even keep the Element affiliation kinda like how it was whit Hosoi and SMA having Santa Cruz logos on the boards.
Bam was the first thought also a brand under element would have sold like mad back in the day. Not like he needed the money thou.
Maybe the reason to not do the bam brand was that people who liked bam bought other element boards. Put a different logo on bam boards and lose the spillover.
From memory most bam boards just said bam really big with an element logo so it kinda was like the hosoi already.
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(https://vz.cnwimg.com/thumbc-300x300/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Mike-Vallely-e1601752745853.jpg)
LOL JK
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Dela
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I sort of wish Kalis and Apples started what they were thinking of doing. No idea how it would have ended up.
On a different note, not a pro, but I do think Dime could have done really well as a skate team like how Huf branched off from a shop into shoes, but at this point they'd be ripping like half of All-timers team to do it.
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Snackman? Like a couple runs right before Alltimers started
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Donny Barley - I think had had a shop briefly? Could be a great East Coast brand owner…
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Janderson, Louie, Mason and Curren.
all top of their game, sick filmer and crew.
I second this.
Curren can stay on skate mental . I fuck with him but I need a part before I’m saying he’s at the top of his game . I mean last real part he had was filmed nearly a decade ago . What happened to that part he was talking about on the bunt?
im pretty sure that skate mental said they're coming out with a video next month so there'll probably be a curren part in there
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Plenty of pros have started plenty of board companies, some successfully and some were complete failures.
Who is a pro who always rode for others but probably could have had his own board brand and it would have been a success?
Maybe you will mention a certain pro, and then someone will remind you that they did in fact start a board brand that you never heard of, and that will be embarrassing for them, and we will all get a laugh.
I think Caballero could have had his own successful board brand at different points during his career. In fact I think he's the only bones brigade guy who didn't do that?
I also think that Cheeks Skateboards or something by Chico Brenes could have been successful.
Others?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Central Skateboards was Chico’s own board brand (coinciding with his shop)
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I know Lance had the Firm, but he could do another board brand. He talked about how he had a plan to do one not long on the Nine Club after getting on Flip. I wish that would’ve happened.
I’m surprised Austyn didn’t do one. I think he said he was suppose to do one. Surprised he didn’t make it happen.
Future board brand starters: Gilbert Crockett comes to mind. I think Kalis still could. Appleyard too.
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Jimmy Carlin or Billy Rohan
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BA
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Eat your heart out: https://theberrics.com/news-ronnie-creager-high-school-dropout
Haha yeah I was being sarcastic.
I mean this is truly just....
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/berrics/images/xmfn5_SpatulaBoard-Bottom_large.jpg)
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Janderson, Louie, Mason and Curren.
all top of their game, sick filmer and crew.
this is the last thing they want to do lmao. trade in all that fun to be saddled with responsibility, nah
+1. They all skate together anyway. There's enough boards in the sales bin at shops all over the world as it stands.
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I know Lance had the Firm, but he could do another board brand. He talked about how he had a plan to do one not long on the Nine Club after getting on Flip. I wish that would’ve happened.
I’m surprised Austyn didn’t do one. I think he said he was suppose to do one. Surprised he didn’t make it happen.
Future board brand starters: Gilbert Crockett comes to mind. I think Kalis still could. Appleyard too.
As much as everyone loves lance in that same interview he talks about how much money he donates to Christian shit (which if I remember correctly is how he fucked up) and don't know how many people would want to ride for that or how much that would turn off customers from buying.
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Brandon Biebel and Weckingball should have created a company together
Meatfart Skirtbroads
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Slightly off topic, but I wish Lance would have kept The Firm going forever. Also kinda wish Winkowski would start his own thing.
Wink is a company man. He be deep in the Cult of NHS. Multiple boards out on SC and Creature, pro model Indy’s, and 2-3 sets of OJs. Even Bronsons.
Can’t say I don’t envy the guy. Rad skater all round, when he’s doing other stuff than the invert hand stand thing.
The stuff he puts out via NHS is really dope, so I kinda don’t hope he goes and does his own thing.
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BA
3D?
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Dela
nah
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Tom Greene.
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Donny Barley - I think had had a shop briefly? Could be a great East Coast brand owner…
I don't think Barley gave a fuck, I assume he was making so much of off Quiksilver he really didn't care cuz he was without a board sponsor for so long. I heard 2nd or 3rd hand from Sal that he had an insane minimum that he wanted from a deck company that no one could afford him, but a lot people wanted him. Thats why Sal eventually got him on Zoo when he was running it, spend that Ecko money.
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BA
I most certainly would have bought a BA board. I'm going to say Anthony Poppalardo as well
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3D?
Word
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Shane Cross maybe
what board company do you reckon he’d be on if he were alive?
legit thought about this the other day. R.I.P. but i cant help but wonder where he would have gone after Flip. Krooked? Alien/Habitat? Baker?
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Shane Cross maybe
what board company do you reckon he’d be on if he were alive?
Prob would of just stayed on flip like dgonz and Luan. Hopefully would of lasted a while Chimas the only one of that gen of Aus guys that didn't burn out and end up back in Aus doing bullshit
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Also
Which Pro Started His Own Board Company But Should Have Never Did:
MJ
Guy
Nyjah's dad
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Nick Trapasso LE was Heeeektik
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Shane Cross maybe
what board company do you reckon he’d be on if he were alive?
Shane, Chima and Lewis seemed to be the most productive ones. Jake Duncombe seemed to pile out early while the others were just heatin up
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I know Lance had the Firm, but he could do another board brand. He talked about how he had a plan to do one not long on the Nine Club after getting on Flip. I wish that would’ve happened.
I’m surprised Austyn didn’t do one. I think he said he was suppose to do one. Surprised he didn’t make it happen.
Future board brand starters: Gilbert Crockett comes to mind. I think Kalis still could. Appleyard too.
Isn't Quasi essentially JJ + Gilbert?
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I kinda wish that kalis and appleyard company would have happened
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Slightly off topic, but I wish Lance would have kept The Firm going forever. Also kinda wish Winkowski would start his own thing.
Wink is a company man. He be deep in the Cult of NHS. Multiple boards out on SC and Creature, pro model Indy’s, and 2-3 sets of OJs. Even Bronsons.
Can’t say I don’t envy the guy. Rad skater all round, when he’s doing other stuff than the invert hand stand thing.
The stuff he puts out via NHS is really dope, so I kinda don’t hope he goes and does his own thing.
Yeah Winkowski boards are some of the dopest things Santa Cruz has put out in a while other than reissues, it would suck if he went off and did his own (probably much worse) thing and left his status of being the most notable person on Santa Cruz behind
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Eat your heart out: https://theberrics.com/news-ronnie-creager-high-school-dropout
Haha yeah I was being sarcastic.
I mean this is truly just....
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/berrics/images/xmfn5_SpatulaBoard-Bottom_large.jpg)
It’s insane how bad that brand was. Dude really is amazing on a board though. Mirror lines always gonna make me sweat.
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Slightly off topic, but I wish Lance would have kept The Firm going forever. Also kinda wish Winkowski would start his own thing.
Wink is a company man. He be deep in the Cult of NHS. Multiple boards out on SC and Creature, pro model Indy’s, and 2-3 sets of OJs. Even Bronsons.
Can’t say I don’t envy the guy. Rad skater all round, when he’s doing other stuff than the invert hand stand thing.
The stuff he puts out via NHS is really dope, so I kinda don’t hope he goes and does his own thing.
Yeah Winkowski boards are some of the dopest things Santa Cruz has put out in a while other than reissues, it would suck if he went off and did his own (probably much worse) thing and left his status of being the most notable person on Santa Cruz behind
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMmmQMHmNJ/?igshid=NjQxMzA2Mjk=
The most notable person on Santa Cruz
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https://youtu.be/-2SbTeePCu4
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https://youtu.be/lCjwY86583U
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Deluxe shoud start a new superteam:
Ishod, Mason, Curren, Louie
Woud hit like Girl 93
Put Ryan Lee as a filmer in the van and you have
a full length in 3 month completed.