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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Olympic Skater on June 24, 2017, 09:08:52 AM
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He's removed DC from his sponsor list and is wearing Vans at the Street League Munich stop. Thoughts?
http://chriscobracole.com/sponsors/ (http://chriscobracole.com/sponsors/)
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Nyah on Vita Footwear
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Damn reDisCover
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Wasn't this dude SOTY twice? Either Cole is really blowing it or DC is really really blowing it. Or both.
A dude like this should always have a home, I wonder if Berra had anything to with it.
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Wasn't this dude SOTY twice? Either Cole is really blowing it or DC is really really blowing it. Or both.
A dude like this should always have a home, I wonder if Berra had anything to with it.
They probably can't afford to pay him.
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cole is quite a skate nerd, he probably just enjoys wearing vans for the sake of it
i doubt he'll be put on the team though, most likely he'll be on diamond footwear or nike
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It's kind of sad that he will, most likely, never come out with a full part again.
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Think he may go to Straye?
?I'm going to be a part of a new footwear brand called STRAYE. The shoes will be dropping in the next few months and one of my all-time favorite skateboarders will be joining me on the team." - Jamie Thomas
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the Street League Munich stop. Thoughts?
I just wish Brian Schaefer would mention Tampa while he's commentating. . .
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the Street League Munich stop. Thoughts?
I just wish Brian Schaefer would mention Tampa while he's commentating. . .
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Omit Footwear coming soon.
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Fingers crossed for an Audio comeback
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Well he was going to be part boss at Zero
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Muska of CIrca?
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I don't like being a hater on this guy because he's so fucking awesome, but I lost a lot of respect when started selling out so much. He said 'fuck you' to Zero and Fallen when DC and Plan B came knocking. He started Omit apparel and then said 'fuck you' to his OWN project company and went to DC Apparel. And then taking cheques to wear stupid ass Monster wristbands and shit. Chris Cole is so fucking lame.
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I don't like being a hater on this guy because he's so fucking awesome, but I lost a lot of respect when started selling out so much. He said 'fuck you' to Zero and Fallen when DC and Plan B came knocking. He started Omit apparel and then said 'fuck you' to his OWN project company and went to DC Apparel. And then taking cheques to wear stupid ass Monster wristbands and shit. Chris Cole is so fucking lame.
His knife sponsor is pretty core though
Jokes aside he was my hero growing up. No one could fuck with him because he could do any trick imaginable and now.... Jesus you really are gonna have your own website and put fucking Cobra as your middle name? He's basically up there with Berra when it comes to kooking yourself
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I don't like being a hater on this guy because he's so fucking awesome, but I lost a lot of respect when started selling out so much. He said 'fuck you' to Zero and Fallen when DC and Plan B came knocking. He started Omit apparel and then said 'fuck you' to his OWN project company and went to DC Apparel. And then taking cheques to wear stupid ass Monster wristbands and shit. Chris Cole is so fucking lame.
Cole has a wife and two kids, bills, and a mortgage. He could have stayed on those dying brands, just to please everyone else while his paychecks got smaller and smaller, but at the end of the day who would that help? Fallen still would have gone out of business because of Nike and Adidas. Zero probably isn't all that far behind either with all of the new board brands and their lack of marketable pros. He still rips, but now he can support his family.
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Fingers crossed for an Audio comeback
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I don't like being a hater on this guy because he's so fucking awesome, but I lost a lot of respect when started selling out so much. He said 'fuck you' to Zero and Fallen when DC and Plan B came knocking. He started Omit apparel and then said 'fuck you' to his OWN project company and went to DC Apparel. And then taking cheques to wear stupid ass Monster wristbands and shit. Chris Cole is so fucking lame.
He went over a year without a board sponsor before ending up on Plan B, and Omit was dead a long time before DC Apparel. He didn't kill it, it died because it should have never existed in the first place. I'm not defending your point about the Monster checks but I bet they're enough to get any of us to point a wristband on.
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I feel like I need to take this space to make my Christopher Cole confession.
Even in my misguided (misled), bad tasted youth I never dug Chris Cole. His personal fashion style just seemed fake, and contrived to me. Later in life I learned that wasn't actually the case at all, and that Chris Cole just flat out has horrendous fashion sense.
I respect the guy's skill level on the board, but if he was a shining representative of skate fashion, then skaters must appear visually uggo to the unknowing masses.
Therefore Cobra fit in on an irrelevant DC. DC is the kind of vomit Chris Cole deserves, and needs. Cobra and DC could have been the perpetual vomit fountain that sustained each other for the rest of eternity, but he had to go and fuck it all up double wrist band and all.
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I feel like I need to take this space to make my Christopher Cole confession.
Even in my misguided (misled), bad tasted youth I never dug Chris Cole. His personal fashion style just seemed fake, and contrived to me. Later in life I learned that wasn't actually the case at all, and that Chris Cole just flat out has horrendous fashion sense.
I respect the guy's skill level on the board, but if he was a shining representative of skate fashion, then skaters must appear visually uggo to the unknowing masses.
Therefore Cobra fit in on an irrelevant DC. DC is the kind of vomit Chris Cole deserves, and needs. Cobra and DC could have been the perpetual vomit fountain that sustained each other for the rest of eternity, but he had to go and fuck it all up double wrist band and all.
I always thought it was Christophe.
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For a guy with such a ridiculous career, I don't see a big name brand really being that interested in him. Especially Vans or Adidas as I don't see him fitting their aesthetic. Nike sponsors, everyone now with no real vibe to the team, so it's a logical landing spot I guess. Diamond could also work.
As for selling out? He didn't leave Zero until it was on the brink of collapse with potentially shady stuff going on with Blackbox (trying to get Mystery riders to sign a contract to then sell the brand such as Asta). Do people really think that you should stick with a brand that isn't paying you what they are contractually obligated to when you have a family to support when another brand is willing to pay you properly?
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I don't like being a hater on this guy because he's so fucking awesome, but I lost a lot of respect when started selling out so much. He said 'fuck you' to Zero and Fallen when DC and Plan B came knocking. He started Omit apparel and then said 'fuck you' to his OWN project company and went to DC Apparel. And then taking cheques to wear stupid ass Monster wristbands and shit. Chris Cole is so fucking lame.
His knife sponsor is pretty core though
Jokes aside he was my hero growing up. No one could fuck with him because he could do any trick imaginable and now.... Jesus you really are gonna have your own website and put fucking Cobra as your middle name? He's basically up there with Berra when it comes to kooking yourself
Same here, fucking loved Cole. Sure, he is lame. His hairstyle is lame, taste in music is lame, he likes lame things, I know. Still, his kook level is is kind of harmless and he seems like a nice person.
Berra and Koston, on the other hard, are insane. Pretty sure they are into creepy shit like stalking and probably have restraining orders on their asses. For some odd reason Berra was given the liberty to write for TSM (when it was still amazing) and would always write some insane shit. The part that scares me the most is all the crazy shit he he held back.
I say, let Cole be lame. At least he does not have a backyard full of corpses.
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Is Cole the first skater to do a flip back side noseblunt on a rail?
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Is Cole the first skater to do a flip back side noseblunt on a rail?
i think so. first switch tre crook on a ledge?
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Is Cole the first skater to do a flip back side noseblunt on a rail?
i think so. first switch tre crook on a ledge?
I feel like Bobby Worrest has done this at least once. Am I wrong?
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chris cole on emerica would make my week
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chris cole on altamont and emerica, full makeover, regular fit blue jeans, Large tee (preferably mustard), Romero's current shoe
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Think he may go to Straye?
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?I'm going to be a part of a new footwear brand called STRAYE. The shoes will be dropping in the next few months and one of my all-time favorite skateboarders will be joining me on the team." - Jamie Thomas
Highly doubtful he would go to Straye, would be cool though
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Filament
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As for selling out? He didn't leave Zero until it was on the brink of collapse with potentially shady stuff going on with Blackbox (trying to get Mystery riders to sign a contract to then sell the brand such as Asta). Do people really think that you should stick with a brand that isn't paying you what they are contractually obligated to when you have a family to support when another brand is willing to pay you properly?
i agree with you there, but can't defend the monster sponsor tho. i wouldn't have a problem with it on gp. but the way he used to talk about energy drink sponsors, it would be like if tommy sandoval went and got on nike.
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Think he may go to Straye?
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?I'm going to be a part of a new footwear brand called STRAYE. The shoes will be dropping in the next few months and one of my all-time favorite skateboarders will be joining me on the team." - Jamie Thomas
Highly doubtful he would go to Straye, would be cool though
Jamie was talking about Muska.
Sorry, correction: MU$KA.
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kastel
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chris cole on altamont and emerica, full makeover, regular fit blue jeans, Large tee (preferably mustard), Romero's current shoe
Funny thing is, I can totally picture him like this. He's flexible like that.
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Cole's BMX company, Cult, is almost entirely Vans team riders. I think he's got a good in there and would just skate Vans with almost zero responsibility/obligation to Vans that a normal team rider would be subjected too.
Think Rileys Dad with Lakai etc
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How much would you guess Cole was making a month at DC?
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How much would you guess Cole was making a month at DC?
Ten grand'ish
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chris cole on altamont and emerica, full makeover, regular fit blue jeans, Large tee (preferably mustard), Romero's current shoe
Funny thing is, I can totally picture him like this. He's flexible like that.
he would need to stop that 5mph tic-tac style of skating he's been doing for the last 5 years
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How much would you guess Cole was making a month at DC?
That's a fuck ton of money and I wish I made that but I bet it was closer to 20 plus 50-100k shoe royalty checks each quarter. Keelan was making 10k from dgk as a comparison. Remember how bad of shape D.C. Was when they signed him, plus he was 2x skater of the year. Idk why I care.
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
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Cobra is on Cult BMX. He must have ownership there's no way he can hang with those dudes.
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Keelan was making 10k from dgk as a comparison.
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How much would you guess Cole was making a month at DC?
That seems pretty high
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
But Tony Hawk doesn't have a shoe sponsor...
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
But Tony Hawk doesn't have a shoe sponsor...
doesn't need one. that's the point.
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
But Tony Hawk doesn't have a shoe sponsor...
Technically no, but he gets shit from Lakai
side note: does cobra have any bmx footy?
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
But Tony Hawk doesn't have a shoe sponsor...
side note: does cobra have any bmx footy?
I'm quite surprised none of the big name brands have offered a lot of money (or if they haven't that he hasn't agreed). Seems every brand wants to have a couple legends around to buy credibility. Nike has Lance, Adidas has Gonz, and Cons has TG. Not the same because he's always been with them, but Vans still has Cab.
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
But Tony Hawk doesn't have a shoe sponsor...
side note: does cobra have any bmx footy?
I'm sure they have, but I don't think he gives enough of a fuck because Birdman has been swimming in cash since the late 90s. Difference between him and other legends is that he's already making the type of money that those sponsors are able to offer him.
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Is Cole the first skater to do a flip back side noseblunt on a rail?
Did he use a launch ramp to do a flip or did he just fly into a flip off flat? Either way, the Mega Ramp Gang better be paying attention!
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
But Tony Hawk doesn't have a shoe sponsor...
side note: does cobra have any bmx footy?
This is the only bmx footy I could find.
https://youtu.be/tIx4tltim1w
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
But Tony Hawk doesn't have a shoe sponsor...
doesn't need one. that's the point.
And my point is that maybe this is Cole's first step in his Tony Hawk transformation
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
But Tony Hawk doesn't have a shoe sponsor...
side note: does cobra have any bmx footy?
This is the only bmx footy I could find.
https://youtu.be/tIx4tltim1w
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1970kids is some industry guy. Seems to be upset with Chris and Rob D parting ways with DC. It's probably as simple as not being able to afford him.
Frink of course is defending his corporate overlords until the very end. Don't get me wrong, all the skater owned shoe co.s have made some mis-steps, but he doesn't wanna believe that Nike/Adidas/Cons are just buying the business. Biggest hypocrisy in all of the skate industry.
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well brink happens to know the full story
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How much would you guess Cole was making a month at DC?
Cole was one of a few guys to get $1mill a year contracts with DC.
So, no, he wasn't getting $10k/month.
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Cobra is on Cult BMX. He must have ownership there's no way he can hang with those dudes.
yeah, cole co-owns cult bmx
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Not sure if this was put up yet
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How much would you guess Cole was making a month at DC?
Cole was one of a few guys to get $1mill a year contracts with DC.
So, no, he wasn't getting $10k/month.
and lets not forget taxes y'all....mans is in the ~40% bracket ($121,505.25 plus 39.6% of the amount over $418,400)...so if this is true he brings home around 40k a month after taxes
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Some shoe company will pick him up. When Tony Hawk is done Tony Hawking Chris Cole is planning to start Tony Hawking if you know what I mean.
Bagel Bites?
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1970kids is some industry guy. Seems to be upset with Chris and Rob D parting ways with DC. It's probably as simple as not being able to afford him.
Frink of course is defending his corporate overlords until the very end. Don't get me wrong, all the skater owned shoe co.s have made some mis-steps, but he doesn't wanna believe that Nike/Adidas/Cons are just buying the business. Biggest hypocrisy in all of the skate industry.
Can we please add Frink to the list?
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God Brink probably never even uses his candles at home because he just constantly wants to smell his own farts 24/7
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well brink happens to know the full story
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God Brink probably never even uses his candles at home because he just constantly wants to smell his own farts 24/7
Brink's farts all smell naturally like vanilla bean and midsummer nights
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I don't like being a hater on this guy because he's so fucking awesome, but I lost a lot of respect when started selling out so much. He said 'fuck you' to Zero and Fallen when DC and Plan B came knocking. He started Omit apparel and then said 'fuck you' to his OWN project company and went to DC Apparel. And then taking cheques to wear stupid ass Monster wristbands and shit. Chris Cole is so fucking lame.
ahahah fuck you to Zero and Fallen?! Jamie Thomas ran Black Box into the ground and Cole did the smart thing and got out before things got even worse. When Cole left Fallen for DC he became part owner of Zero or did you not know that? He didnt say fuck you to OMIT either. if you havent started your own company yourself than you wouldnt know how much work it is and time and money. He learned that the hard way and had to shut it down. He has a wife and two kids. if you were in his position you would take what you can get to provide for your wife and kids so that they can be alright and you can continue doing what you love. Kooks like you who dont know the industry or what its like to pay bills and have to provide for yourself or even others are why theres so much wackness out there. in the end who fucking cares as long as everybody is getting money and eating its all good.
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I don't like being a hater on this guy because he's so fucking awesome, but I lost a lot of respect when started selling out so much. He said 'fuck you' to Zero and Fallen when DC and Plan B came knocking. He started Omit apparel and then said 'fuck you' to his OWN project company and went to DC Apparel. And then taking cheques to wear stupid ass Monster wristbands and shit. Chris Cole is so fucking lame.
ahahah fuck you to Zero and Fallen?! Jamie Thomas ran Black Box into the ground and Cole did the smart thing and got out before things got even worse. When Cole left Fallen for DC he became part owner of Zero or did you not know that? He didnt say fuck you to OMIT either. if you havent started your own company yourself than you wouldnt know how much work it is and time and money. He learned that the hard way and had to shut it down. He has a wife and two kids. if you were in his position you would take what you can get to provide for your wife and kids so that they can be alright and you can continue doing what you love. Kooks like you who dont know the industry or what its like to pay bills and have to provide for yourself or even others are why theres so much wackness out there. in the end who fucking cares as long as everybody is getting money and eating its all good.
this fucking guy knows the whole story!
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Mikey Taylor and Berra also commented on 1970kids' Insta post. You know a company is blowing it when they let Steve Berra go!
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If Berra picked up a new shoe sponsor I would stop believing in everything and assume I died a long, long time ago.
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If Berra picked up a new shoe sponsor I would stop believing in everything and assume I died a long, long time ago.
Yeah that DC situation really made me question everything I hold dear. I actually like Berra's skating too but I highly doubt he got on the team with the same type of contract as the likes of Cole and Mikey I.e - ones that stipulate demo attendance, video parts, ads- things that involve actually skating.