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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: chockfullofthat on May 23, 2011, 07:57:38 AM
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I know Cliche and Blueprint have given up a bit on their all Euro or all British skate teams but I always wondered why Australia never had a major board company with all the talent they have. ? Who do you think would make the best all Aussie team out of current or older skaters? ? Whether it's just a random group of good Aussies or people who fit together good on a team is your choice I guess. ? For starters:
1. ? Dustin Dollin
2. ? Chima
3. ? Lewis Marnell
4. ? Cale Nuske
5. ? Dennis Durrant
6. ? Tommy Fynn (nz i know)
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Mel Gibson. You'd have the best tour stories.
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Sure the team would be great, but Europe has a population of 700 million(?) and Australia something like 20 million. Focusing solely on Australia would never create a big income I'm afraid. A global brand based in Australia (Cliche/Blueprint style) could work...
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Incest...
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fuck australia
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Speaking of Australia, have you guys seen this "Border blah blah Australia"? Wow, people working at customs are such a buntch of fags, "oh neeow, dewdnt bryng een seeeeds eentoo AUSTRALIA!", for real, they say Australia all the fucking time. Who the hell do they think they are? Nothing but bunch of middle age sweaty cunts who like to talk down on people, funny how a smallest amount of power turns people into pricks. And the pride they have in their homeland! The fuck are you so proud about, the fact that you were first to give women freedom to vote? Criminal past? Please, even the one´s ive met in real life do nothing but talk about thier homeland. To hell with that, everybody comes from somewhere, drop the pride in things you cant effect. Ever seen somebody proud over the color of their hair? Damn right.
Sorry, im manstruating.
Edit: isnt Hoon all australian?
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Speaking of Australia, have you guys seen this "Border blah blah Australia"? Wow, people working at customs are such a buntch of fags, "oh neeow, dewdnt bryng een seeeeds eentoo AUSTRALIA!", for real, they say Australia all the fucking time. Who the hell do they think they are? Nothing but bunch of middle age sweaty cunts who like to talk down on people, funny how a smallest amount of power turns people into pricks. And the pride they have in their homeland! The fuck are you so proud about, the fact that you were first to give women freedom to vote? Criminal past? Please, even the one?s ive met in real life do nothing but talk about thier homeland. To hell with that, everybody comes from somewhere, drop the pride in things you cant effect. Ever seen somebody proud over the color of their hair? Damn right.
Sorry, im American a manstruating fucker of buts.
Well when you get to America they assume you're a terrorist, you get a nice healthy dose of radiation from the full body scanners and then you get the TSA assholes touching your dick and feeling your girlfriend up. Welcome to the USA home of the free
....pfffft fuck Americans nothing but a bunch of egotistical burger eating coke drinking ugly cunts. Well done on letting George W Bush have 2 terms and let your country become the laughing stock of the international community, creating pointless wars in the middle east with in excess of 100,000 civilian deaths. You can always tell when there is an American out of their country because they are
loud as fuck, don't stop talking about themselves, and usually talking about how 'awesome' or how 'cool' they are. No wonder Americans don't talk about their homeland as their responsible governments/fed reserve and fortune 100 companies were the trigger for the global financial crisis. Cunts like you should be jealous you're not an Aussie, last time I checked we had 4 cities on the worlds most livable city list in the top 30, oh and your neighbor Canada has 3, USA had one. Who the fuck would want to live in a shitty 3rd world country like America? No wonder we call Yanks Spetic Tanks, you're full of shit mate. Tooroo
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Speaking of Australia, have you guys seen this "Border blah blah Australia"? Wow, people working at customs are such a buntch of fags, "oh neeow, dewdnt bryng een seeeeds eentoo AUSTRALIA!", for real, they say Australia all the fucking time. Who the hell do they think they are? Nothing but bunch of middle age sweaty cunts who like to talk down on people, funny how a smallest amount of power turns people into pricks. And the pride they have in their homeland! The fuck are you so proud about, the fact that you were first to give women freedom to vote? Criminal past? Please, even the one?s ive met in real life do nothing but talk about thier homeland. To hell with that, everybody comes from somewhere, drop the pride in things you cant effect. Ever seen somebody proud over the color of their hair? Damn right.
Sorry, im American a manstruating fucker of buts.
Well when you get to America they assume you're a terrorist, you get a nice healthy dose of radiation from the full body scanners and then you get the TSA assholes touching your dick and feeling your girlfriend up. Welcome to the USA home of the free
....pfffft fuck Americans nothing but a bunch of egotistical burger eating coke drinking ugly cunts. Well done on letting George W Bush have 2 terms and let your country become the laughing stock of the international community, creating pointless wars in the middle east with in excess of 100,000 civilian deaths. You can always tell when there is an American out of their country because they are
loud as fuck, don't stop talking about themselves, and usually talking about how 'awesome' or how 'cool' they are. No wonder Americans don't talk about their homeland as their responsible governments/fed reserve and fortune 100 companies were the trigger for the global financial crisis. Cunts like you should be jealous you're not an Aussie, last time I checked we had 4 cities on the worlds most livable city list in the top 30, oh and your neighbor Canada has 3, USA had one. Who the fuck would want to live in a shitty 3rd world country like America? No wonder we call Yanks Spetic Tanks, you're full of shit mate. Tooroo
nobody cares. take it from a fellow australian, when you get your back up about "australia is the best evaaaahh fuck all yous cunts" you just sound like an insecure and obnoxious dickhead. give it a rest
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Speaking of Australia, have you guys seen this "Border blah blah Australia"? Wow, people working at customs are such a buntch of fags, "oh neeow, dewdnt bryng een seeeeds eentoo AUSTRALIA!", for real, they say Australia all the fucking time. Who the hell do they think they are? Nothing but bunch of middle age sweaty cunts who like to talk down on people, funny how a smallest amount of power turns people into pricks. And the pride they have in their homeland! The fuck are you so proud about, the fact that you were first to give women freedom to vote? Criminal past? Please, even the one?s ive met in real life do nothing but talk about thier homeland. To hell with that, everybody comes from somewhere, drop the pride in things you cant effect. Ever seen somebody proud over the color of their hair? Damn right.
Sorry, im American a manstruating fucker of buts.
Well when you get to America they assume you're a terrorist, you get a nice healthy dose of radiation from the full body scanners and then you get the TSA assholes touching your dick and feeling your girlfriend up. Welcome to the USA home of the free
....pfffft fuck Americans nothing but a bunch of egotistical burger eating coke drinking ugly cunts. Well done on letting George W Bush have 2 terms and let your country become the laughing stock of the international community, creating pointless wars in the middle east with in excess of 100,000 civilian deaths. You can always tell when there is an American out of their country because they are
loud as fuck, don't stop talking about themselves, and usually talking about how 'awesome' or how 'cool' they are. No wonder Americans don't talk about their homeland as their responsible governments/fed reserve and fortune 100 companies were the trigger for the global financial crisis. Cunts like you should be jealous you're not an Aussie, last time I checked we had 4 cities on the worlds most livable city list in the top 30, oh and? your neighbor Canada has 3, USA had one. Who the fuck would want to live in a shitty 3rd world country like America? No wonder we call Yanks Spetic Tanks, you're full of shit mate. Tooroo
Tooroo!! i lol'd!!
Australia > USA for so many, many reasons im not even gonna go into it. its like you guys focus your own nation with the dumb shit you do to yourselfs..
watch my rep go minus 1000. :(
america fuck yeah!
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and an all aussie team would be gay. couldnt see it working.
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What's up with those censorship laws then? Sounds pretty Kim Jong ILLLL
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fuck australia
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Al Boglio tried it with Time back in the day, didn't work out....
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/time.jpg)
Now he's doing Cliche which is working out, dude was a mad skater too...
btw this happened to be in the same mag so i thought i would scan it too...Its Dustin when he was super young kickflipping at an sds comp at the hordern pav during the best trick section, which he won...Has to be the first foto he ever had in a mag...I was there and I was blown away at how good this tiny kid in a beret was...
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/dollin.jpg)
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what about a all gay skateboarding team?im pretty sure everyone on here would be on it.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Platinum an Aussie brand back in the 90's?
The problem with starting a board company over here is
A: most kids don't want to skate, they want to scoot. This makes me sad, but maybe I'm just a cynical old bastard.
B: boards here are expensive. Reeeeeaaal expensive. Like $100 a pop. What reason would I have to spend $100 on a board per month when I can get 2 established manufacturer boards, shipped here, for the same price?
C: lack of exposure. This relates to point A in that, sure, skateboarding may be pretty popular in the USA at the moment, but it's still pretty much a nothing activity over here. Arguably, I would say that skateboarding reached its high-water mark in the late 90's in Australia and is unlikely to reach the same level again for a while.
If it were a viable, sustainable project I would start a board company today. Any company name suggestions?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Platinum an Aussie brand back in the 90's?
canadian i believe
The problem with starting a board company over here is
B: boards here are expensive. Reeeeeaaal expensive. Like $100 a pop. What reason would I have to spend $100 on a board per month when I can get 2 established manufacturer boards, shipped here, for the same price?
the only reason local boards retail for the same price as american is because the american companies wouldn't be competitive in the australian market otherwise. of course australian boards could be sold at a good profit for 1/3 less than an american board, but if shops did that who would buy american product? it's a shitty situation, but that's what it boils down to.
after growing up in australia i feel really spoiled to be living in california and paying the super cheap prices for product over here
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Speaking of Australia, have you guys seen this "Border blah blah Australia"? Wow, people working at customs are such a buntch of fags, "oh neeow, dewdnt bryng een seeeeds eentoo AUSTRALIA!", for real, they say Australia all the fucking time. Who the hell do they think they are? Nothing but bunch of middle age sweaty cunts who like to talk down on people, funny how a smallest amount of power turns people into pricks. And the pride they have in their homeland! The fuck are you so proud about, the fact that you were first to give women freedom to vote? Criminal past? Please, even the one?s ive met in real life do nothing but talk about thier homeland. To hell with that, everybody comes from somewhere, drop the pride in things you cant effect. Ever seen somebody proud over the color of their hair? Damn right.
Sorry, im American a manstruating fucker of buts.
Straya's fine mate.
Well when you get to America they assume you're a terrorist, you get a nice healthy dose of radiation from the full body scanners and then you get the TSA assholes touching your dick and feeling your girlfriend up. Welcome to the USA home of the free
....pfffft fuck Americans nothing but a bunch of egotistical burger eating coke drinking ugly cunts. Well done on letting George W Bush have 2 terms and let your country become the laughing stock of the international community, creating pointless wars in the middle east with in excess of 100,000 civilian deaths. You can always tell when there is an American out of their country because they are
loud as fuck, don't stop talking about themselves, and usually talking about how 'awesome' or how 'cool' they are. No wonder Americans don't talk about their homeland as their responsible governments/fed reserve and fortune 100 companies were the trigger for the global financial crisis. Cunts like you should be jealous you're not an Aussie, last time I checked we had 4 cities on the worlds most livable city list in the top 30, oh and? your neighbor Canada has 3, USA had one. Who the fuck would want to live in a shitty 3rd world country like America? No wonder we call Yanks Spetic Tanks, you're full of shit mate. Tooroo
Tooroo!! i lol'd!!
Australia > USA for so many, many reasons im not even gonna go into it. its like you guys focus your own nation with the dumb shit you do to yourselfs..
watch my rep go minus 1000. :(
america fuck yeah!
You can type less if you read KobraKais posts in any thread and see they are attention seeking provocative statements.
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What was Kewday considered? I'm pretty sure it's over now, but I don't remember any non-Australians riding for them. Hell, I only remember Bartie riding for them, and he owned it.
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? Al Boglio tried it with Time back in the day, didn't work out....
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/time.jpg)
? Now he's doing Cliche which is working out, dude was a mad skater too...
? btw this happened to be in the same mag so i thought i would scan it too...Its Dustin when he was super young kickflipping at an sds comp at the hordern pav during the best trick section, which he won...Has to be the first foto he ever had in a mag...I was there and I was blown away at how good this tiny kid in a beret? was...
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/dollin.jpg)
haha. my mate Ducky won the longest ollie at the same comp. good times.
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Holy crap, those who complain are even more of idoits than I suspected them to be. News flash fags: I dont give a fuck about your "attention", plus.... TAM TAM... ..Ive never as much as been to Amurrica!
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What's up with those censorship laws then? Sounds pretty Kim Jong ILLLL
in a nutshell it comes down to too many out of touch over religious zealots in parliament. lame.
anyway there have always been quite a few all australian teams around. boards, clothing whatever. its just they could never be as big as the US or europe or whatever. and anyone on these teams could never hope to be as big as they could be on an overseas teams. and its a tiny market so many go under.
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? Al Boglio tried it with Time back in the day, didn't work out....
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/time.jpg)
? Now he's doing Cliche which is working out, dude was a mad skater too...
? btw this happened to be in the same mag so i thought i would scan it too...Its Dustin when he was super young kickflipping at an sds comp at the hordern pav during the best trick section, which he won...Has to be the first foto he ever had in a mag...I was there and I was blown away at how good this tiny kid in a beret? was...
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/dollin.jpg)
Time was so sick. Good boards, better team. Amazing videos. Money is still hands down one of the best vids to ever come out of Australia.
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Speaking of Australia, have you guys seen this "Border blah blah Australia"? Wow, people working at customs are such a buntch of fags, "oh neeow, dewdnt bryng een seeeeds eentoo AUSTRALIA!", for real, they say Australia all the fucking time. Who the hell do they think they are? Nothing but bunch of middle age sweaty cunts who like to talk down on people, funny how a smallest amount of power turns people into pricks. And the pride they have in their homeland! The fuck are you so proud about, the fact that you were first to give women freedom to vote? Criminal past? Please, even the one?s ive met in real life do nothing but talk about thier homeland. To hell with that, everybody comes from somewhere, drop the pride in things you cant effect. Ever seen somebody proud over the color of their hair? Damn right.
Sorry, im manstruating.
Edit: isnt Hoon all australian?
your right that show is a shocker, infact aussie tv in general is pretty shocking... i hate tv... one probelm we have in australia is that once we make over $50,000ish we must pay 40% in tax, as a result we get a pretty sweet health care bill and money for doing nothing (presuming you aint got a job) but the real problem is most of that money is spent on providing government jobs for stupid, power tripin' douches who serve no real purpose in life.
this ridiculously high tax is a serious reason as to why we could never have a major league fully pro skate team. why do you think modus lost there aussie tag as quick as possible. we don't get much hoon around here, i had a pair of there wheels, they were really bad but we do have a few small deck companies; Folklore, GMTA, Passport and Four,as a team they just seem to hook local dudes up with decks and a bit of cash for doing demos and that. deck quality is up there forsure.
as fare as my favorite all aussie skate team goes, this pretty much sums it up
http://youtu.be/oVZVvxO0B7Y (http://youtu.be/oVZVvxO0B7Y)
*edit: i tried to have the video pop up, didn't work, your just gonna have to link it... ps anyone got a majic tip fell free to give me the headz up
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How come question marks pop up everywhere everytime I edit a post??
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? Al Boglio tried it with Time back in the day, didn't work out....
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/time.jpg)
? Now he's doing Cliche which is working out, dude was a mad skater too...
? btw this happened to be in the same mag so i thought i would scan it too...Its Dustin when he was super young kickflipping at an sds comp at the hordern pav during the best trick section, which he won...Has to be the first foto he ever had in a mag...I was there and I was blown away at how good this tiny kid in a beret? was...
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/dollin.jpg)
Adam Tanner was sick, pretty badass back in the day
Adam Tanner Time Skateboards (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE2vsLCDoLg#)
first and foremost tanner + harriss pt 4 of 5 skateboarding (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-D-utB4YI#)
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Speaking of Australia, have you guys seen this "Border blah blah Australia"? Wow, people working at customs are such a buntch of fags, "oh neeow, dewdnt bryng een seeeeds eentoo AUSTRALIA!", for real, they say Australia all the fucking time. Who the hell do they think they are? Nothing but bunch of middle age sweaty cunts who like to talk down on people, funny how a smallest amount of power turns people into pricks. And the pride they have in their homeland! The fuck are you so proud about, the fact that you were first to give women freedom to vote? Criminal past? Please, even the one?s ive met in real life do nothing but talk about thier homeland. To hell with that, everybody comes from somewhere, drop the pride in things you cant effect. Ever seen somebody proud over the color of their hair? Damn right.
Sorry, im manstruating.
Edit: isnt Hoon all australian?
your right that show is a shocker, infact aussie tv in general is pretty shocking... i hate tv... one probelm we have in australia is that once we make over $50,000ish we must pay 40% in tax, as a result we get a pretty sweet health care bill and money for doing nothing (presuming you aint got a job) but the real problem is most of that money is spent on providing government jobs for stupid, power tripin' douches who serve no real purpose in life.
this ridiculously high tax is a serious reason as to why we could never have a major league fully pro skate team. why do you think modus lost there aussie tag as quick as possible. we don't get much hoon around here, i had a pair of there wheels, they were really bad but we do have a few small deck companies; Folklore, GMTA, Passport and Four,as a team they just seem to hook local dudes up with decks and a bit of cash for doing demos and that. deck quality is up there forsure.
as fare as my favorite all aussie skate team goes, this pretty much sums it up
http://youtu.be/oVZVvxO0B7Y (http://youtu.be/oVZVvxO0B7Y)
*edit: i tried to have the video pop up, didn't work, your just gonna have to link it... ps anyone got a majic tip fell free to give me the headz up
That is probably the worst description of the Australian taxation system I have ever read. How old are you? If you made over $50,000 last year and paid even close to 40% income tax I would be changing accountants this July.
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i live in australia (QLD) and make over 50000k and definaley do not get taxed 45%!!!!!
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bring Boom back, hands down the best team Australia ever had.
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i liked xen's team back in the day. their video a new beginning (i think) was pretty awesome. aaron jenkins part blew my mind how with how batshit insanely tech it was. are they still around?
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i liked xen's team back in the day. their video a new beginning (i think) was pretty awesome. aaron jenkins part blew my mind how with how batshit insanely tech it was. are they still around?
I saw some dude skating a Boom not long ago. It had the biggest nose ever, though, like ridiculously huge.
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Speaking of Australia, have you guys seen this "Border blah blah Australia"? Wow, people working at customs are such a buntch of fags, "oh neeow, dewdnt bryng een seeeeds eentoo AUSTRALIA!", for real, they say Australia all the fucking time. Who the hell do they think they are? Nothing but bunch of middle age sweaty cunts who like to talk down on people, funny how a smallest amount of power turns people into pricks. And the pride they have in their homeland! The fuck are you so proud about, the fact that you were first to give women freedom to vote? Criminal past? Please, even the one?s ive met in real life do nothing but talk about thier homeland. To hell with that, everybody comes from somewhere, drop the pride in things you cant effect. Ever seen somebody proud over the color of their hair? Damn right.
Sorry, im American a manstruating fucker of buts.
Well when you get to America they assume you're a terrorist, you get a nice healthy dose of radiation from the full body scanners and then you get the TSA assholes touching your dick and feeling your girlfriend up. Welcome to the USA home of the free
....pfffft fuck Americans nothing but a bunch of egotistical burger eating coke drinking ugly cunts. Well done on letting George W Bush have 2 terms and let your country become the laughing stock of the international community, creating pointless wars in the middle east with in excess of 100,000 civilian deaths. You can always tell when there is an American out of their country because they are
loud as fuck, don't stop talking about themselves, and usually talking about how 'awesome' or how 'cool' they are. No wonder Americans don't talk about their homeland as their responsible governments/fed reserve and fortune 100 companies were the trigger for the global financial crisis. Cunts like you should be jealous you're not an Aussie, last time I checked we had 4 cities on the worlds most livable city list in the top 30, oh and? your neighbor Canada has 3, USA had one. Who the fuck would want to live in a shitty 3rd world country like America? No wonder we call Yanks Spetic Tanks, you're full of shit mate. Tooroo
No, fuck that, the United States is beast, most people are just pissed they cant live here.
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For fucks sake, again: I´ve never even been to USA so people, stop bitching. Mother Russia beats every other place anyway.
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For fucks sake, again: I?ve never even been to USA so people, stop bitching. Mother Russia beats every other place anyway.
It's all good mate, I just felt like being a keyboard warrior that day, people live were they live, travel and skate/surf the world I say,
be nomad. A countries just a line on a fucking map.
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Anyone remember this guy....?I think he was a Kiwi but was always shredding at the Saleyards and the city, I think Boom came from
NZ and then morphed into xen??? Juice had some really good skaters too,
Levi Hawken Bombing hills (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27m1842awf8#)
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To be honest, I haven't seen much of the local Ozzie mags & vids recently, but Dennis Durrant, Spencer Eagles and Andrew Currie always produce the goods as far as I'm concerned.
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Boom is still around in New Zealand, unfortunately they now make shoes and snowboard outerwear and their ads
are often a full page photo of a trick at a skatepark, shot most propbably by someones dad.
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i liked xen's team back in the day. their video a new beginning (i think) was pretty awesome. aaron jenkins part blew my mind how with how batshit insanely tech it was. are they still around?
Jenkin is insane.
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spencer will rip a park to bits then beat up the local jock.
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No problemo tb302!
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i liked xen's team back in the day. their video a new beginning (i think) was pretty awesome. aaron jenkins part blew my mind how with how batshit insanely tech it was. are they still around?
Michael Davidson and Aaron Jenkins in XEN A new beginning. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0B3H6oUtTc#)
here is michael davidson and aarons jenkins part. good stuff
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i liked xen's team back in the day. their video a new beginning (i think) was pretty awesome. aaron jenkins part blew my mind how with how batshit insanely tech it was. are they still around?
Michael Davidson and Aaron Jenkins in XEN A new beginning. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0B3H6oUtTc#)
here is michael davidson and aarons jenkins part. good stuff
Davo's the original Sydney skater imo....I remember going to the old martin place pitt for the first time and watching Davo and Ben Harris trying nose blunt slides on those rounded marble ledges and thinking shit these guys are waaay better than me....
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Anyone remember this guy....?I think he was a Kiwi but was always shredding at the Saleyards and the city, I think Boom came from
NZ and then morphed into xen??? Juice had some really good skaters too,
Levi Hawken Bombing hills (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27m1842awf8#)
ahhh, levi hawkin. quite possibly the ugliest person i've ever seen in my life