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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Coolhats on December 18, 2018, 05:18:40 PM
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No longer listed on Polar’s IG. Anyone know why? Anyone have any guesses?
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maybe he blew it at some point
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Yeah I heard he I like it here inside my mind don't wake me this time.
ps what are we doing here I don't get it
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maybe he No complies & wallrides+shuvits.mp4
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Stenstrom!
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what's with all these opinionated bastards?
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Least favourite part
/guy in the polar video
Skated to his own music that was bland and didnt fit the rest of the video. Did some good tricks
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Least favourite part
/guy in the polar video
Skated to his own music that was bland and didnt fit the rest of the video. Did some good tricks
i feel the same about him
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I really like his skating and his style, but if he isn't out skating... Polar is a skate company right?
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rumors of Roman and Oski leaving Polar sooner or later too
euro tm what do you know about that ?
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rumors of Roman and Oski leaving Polar sooner or later too
euro tm what do you know about that ?
say it ain't so.
oski leaving would be a harsh blow in the wake of Kevin dipping to Hockey...
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*off
and who the fuck is David Sternstrom?
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Nope
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I really like his skating and his style, but if he isn't out skating... Polar is a skate company right?
polar is a sex company. skateboarding is just its medium.
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FUCK OF
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Stenstrom iced out of Polar? Not cool, Pontus.
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maybe he blew it at some point
Haha , blew it.
Digging your profile picture, Sheldon is a G.
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FUCK OF
no u
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Bummer. Love his skating but not surprised when Paul and Oski get the pro bump but not him. He could be pro. He had some of my favorite clips in Please Charge but that was like 2 years ago
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and who the fuck is David Sternstrom?
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You the type of annoying ass kids that say "see you next year" at 11:59 on new year's eve
Scrub it, kooks
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I just came in here to see the trolls of cry and yeah no idea who stenstrom is
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Pontus is suffocating his children.
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I think Stenstrom is sick but don’t know where else he’d go. Maybe he just wasn’t skating much?
Also, would be really strange for Oski to leave; I doubt that rumor’s true. Pontus basically rose him up from nothing while he’s grown up and he lives in Malmö. He’s already getting that Nike check, no reason to leave Polar.
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Also, would be really strange for Oski to leave; I doubt that rumor’s true. Pontus basically rose him up from nothing while he’s grown up and he lives in Malmö. He’s already getting that Nike check, no reason to leave Polar.
All it takes is one conversation where drunken egotripping Pontus can't hold his tongue but instead insinuates that without him Oski would be nothing but some run of the mill park kid from Sweden.
The next day all is seemingly well but deep in his mind Oski can't help but to think about Pontus's disrespectful tone. And voilà, the seed has been planted.
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Also, would be really strange for Oski to leave; I doubt that rumor’s true. Pontus basically rose him up from nothing while he’s grown up and he lives in Malmö. He’s already getting that Nike check, no reason to leave Polar.
All it takes is one conversation where drunken egotripping Pontus can't hold his tongue but instead insinuates that without him Oski would be nothing but some run of the mill park kid from Sweden.
The next day all is seemingly well but deep in his mind Oski can't help but to think about Pontus's disrespectful tone. And voilà, the seed has been planted.
This guys knows. Lot of hype for Pontus here - but spend a day with the dude and you would be over Polar.
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Pretty harsh critiques of Mr. Alv, maybe he should let the company be run by others so the team can chill and he can focus on the thing he does best which is making some of the best skate videos ever.
All that business is taking away from the art of his work.
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Also, would be really strange for Oski to leave; I doubt that rumor’s true. Pontus basically rose him up from nothing while he’s grown up and he lives in Malmö. He’s already getting that Nike check, no reason to leave Polar.
All it takes is one conversation where drunken egotripping Pontus can't hold his tongue but instead insinuates that without him Oski would be nothing but some run of the mill park kid from Sweden.
The next day all is seemingly well but deep in his mind Oski can't help but to think about Pontus's disrespectful tone. And voilà, the seed has been planted.
Apparently that's how they lost their latest clothing designer.
Pontus is well known for being a dick, nonetheless he's capable of delivering great products and films.
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Always thought his shared part with Oksi in ILIIMM was a stand out part in the video (apart from Danes)
its at the 30min mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abTTtyAPeN4
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When he skates it looks totally amazing, there is almost nobody I know that makes transition skating look so effortless and fun. A special talent but work beats talent if the talent is not working.
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rumors of Roman and Oski leaving Polar sooner or later too
euro tm what do you know about that ?
say it ain't so.
oski leaving would be a harsh blow in the wake of Kevin dipping to Hockey...
no
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Pontus is suffocating his children.
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Does no one here recognize the correlation behind Pontus being a “stubborn, control freak, asshole” and Polar being arguably the best skateboard company? With amazing videos, graphics, trips, team, art, quality of boards, clothing, etc. all directed by Pontus himself? Call the guy a dick or stubborn but in the end he has great ideas and his methods are successful. The team gets hooked up and paid to skate while Pontus makes all the videos. Let the man who has devoted the last ~7 years of his life to running his brand do his thing.
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When the polar team came through my town they were bunch of mothers cunts apart from David he was a good man so best of luck to the man in the rest of he’s journey
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Does no one here recognize the correlation behind Pontus being a “stubborn, control freak, asshole” and Polar being arguably the best skateboard company? With amazing videos, graphics, trips, team, art, quality of boards, clothing, etc. all directed by Pontus himself? Call the guy a dick or stubborn but in the end he has great ideas and his methods are successful. The team gets hooked up and paid to skate while Pontus makes all the videos. Let the man who has devoted the last ~7 years of his life to running his brand do his thing.
The greatest artists are often the biggest assholes. It's always been that way. I'm just trying to enjoy the art, not go to dinner and a movie with any of these fucks. Unfortunately, we live in an age where it's cool to get outraged and offended by literally everything.
Well, for me as a personally thing I cant enjoy anything Polar does. I used to ride for the largest skate shop in Sweden, as one of the OG members. I started to get to know Pontus when he got a girlfriend in a town nearby mine, and skated some with him in my town (around when he filmed for Mad Circle i think) - dudes a wierdo, but I never acted on him, never said a a bad word or anything, always treated the dude friendly.
So he got a proposition to ride for the same skate shop I did. Pontus demands? Kick me off. And a large sum of money to fund The Strongest of the strange, if my memory serves me right. Got kicked (the owner was a well known kook, so no suprise for me really) - that was a bit short lived cause him and Pontus beefed out fairly quick.
Still to this day Im still nice to the dude if I see him, I even rented out an old apartment I had left in my possession after moving in with a girl to the Polar crew when they came by my town a few years ago. Do I have respect for him? No.
David is sick though. I meet him in Stockholm when he was just a small kid, super cocky little dude at the time. Pretty cool to se him became so good.
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^ really good story, thanks for sharing.
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Does no one here recognize the correlation behind Pontus being a “stubborn, control freak, asshole” and Polar being arguably the best skateboard company? With amazing videos, graphics, trips, team, art, quality of boards, clothing, etc. all directed by Pontus himself? Call the guy a dick or stubborn but in the end he has great ideas and his methods are successful. The team gets hooked up and paid to skate while Pontus makes all the videos. Let the man who has devoted the last ~7 years of his life to running his brand do his thing.
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Does no one here recognize the correlation behind Pontus being a “stubborn, control freak, asshole” and Polar being arguably the best skateboard company? With amazing videos, graphics, trips, team, art, quality of boards, clothing, etc. all directed by Pontus himself? Call the guy a dick or stubborn but in the end he has great ideas and his methods are successful. The team gets hooked up and paid to skate while Pontus makes all the videos. Let the man who has devoted the last ~7 years of his life to running his brand do his thing.
i think people are aware, it usually comes up when pontus is discussed
The greatest artists are often the biggest assholes. It's always been that way.
Pontus is well known for being a dick, nonetheless he's capable of delivering great products and films.
the thing he does best which is making some of the best skate videos ever.
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is it easier to dislike him but like polar, compared to every other pro skater/company owner?
I think this is a fine line.
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Does no one here recognize the correlation behind Pontus being a “stubborn, control freak, asshole” and Polar being arguably the best skateboard company? With amazing videos, graphics, trips, team, art, quality of boards, clothing, etc. all directed by Pontus himself? Call the guy a dick or stubborn but in the end he has great ideas and his methods are successful. The team gets hooked up and paid to skate while Pontus makes all the videos. Let the man who has devoted the last ~7 years of his life to running his brand do his thing.
The discussion is not really about the quality of his work or output (which are both great) but more about if the current structure is the best one for the company, the riders & Pontus.
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i think he is on a fashion influencer chick, so why would he skate
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sorry for reviving a dead thread, but I just noticed that david is on the last resort team and he was actually in their latest video. does anybody have any intel on this? (why he left polar and ended up back on last resort)
references
https://usa.lastresortab.com/pages/team
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https://youtu.be/5Wteo6xrIKE?t=493
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sorry for reviving a dead thread, but I just noticed that david is on the last resort team and he was actually in their latest video. does anybody have any intel on this? (why he left polar and ended up back on last resort)
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https://usa.lastresortab.com/pages/team
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https://youtu.be/5Wteo6xrIKE?t=493
I think he works for stussy in some capacity now, he still skates polar boards in all his clips I imagine he makes more money doing whatever he does for stussy now than he would skating and probably just skates and films for fun while getting flowed polar boards and LR's
I'm pretty sure polar has even reposted some of David's ig clips too it seems like they are still friendly and the decision to be off the payroll was pretty mutual.
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pretty sure he’s back on polar and also riding for last resort ab full time
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there was some talk going around that he tried to focus on a modelling career
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he had a short interview in solo where he said he was basically just over skating for a bit, and quit.
From his Instagram it looks like he’s skating better than ever though
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Yeah i always heard it was for the modeling thing. I was also under the impression that he was back on polar because of I remember correctly, they said “welcome back” or “welcome home” sometime last year and then last resort thing came about also. Just confused me when he had no clips in SLYGACI
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Yeah I heard he I like it here inside my mind don't wake me this time.
ps what are we doing here I don't get it
I wanna gnar you for this
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in like 10 years when all the polar riders leave and do interviews about their time riding for polar, we're going to find out that pontus is the euro version of jamie thomas
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if he's back on polar, im not entirely sure to what capacity bc he's still not listed on their team roster. given everything we know about pontus, if david was back on the team, i think his name would be listed on their site bc i remember it being listed a long time ago when we blew it at some point came out
see at the bottom of the page for the roster
https://usa.polarskateco.com/g
regardless, like some mentioned above, he's been posting footy on the gram, i hope he's doing well. i enjoyed his part in WBIASP
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if he's back on polar, im not entirely sure to what capacity bc he's still not listed on their team roster. given everything we know about pontus, if david was back on the team, i think his name would be listed on their site bc i remember it being listed a long time ago when we blew it at some point came out
see at the bottom of the page for the roster
https://usa.polarskateco.com/g
regardless, like some mentioned above, he's been posting footy on the gram, i hope he's doing well. i enjoyed his part in WBIASP
He's been back on for over a year -
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQOvUkkDUEe/
I can see why people are confused. No tricks in polar's new video but Kyle Wilson randomly has a guest trick in the first montage.
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I’m sure Oski could easily leave to start his own board company with shark logos