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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #150 on: February 15, 2020, 10:50:05 PM »
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Oh sweet another shoe company.
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Are you insinuating that there are a lot of skate shoe companies? I would argue the opposite, that there are very few brands left to choose from other than the major corporate brands. That said, it's probably financial suicide to try and break into the market independently due to the duopoly Nike and Adidas have on it.

Board companies are a whole different story, more than 1/2 of them need to go away.
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State, proper, straye, 3 sole tech brands, globe, dvs, fallen, DC, lakai, supra, and I'm probably missing some more.
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these are basically gone/ invisible/ or a mall brand
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Interesting choices on the bolding because dc is the mall brand of all mall brands. And by invisible do you mean small? Isn't a small shoe brand what a lot of people are asking for?
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I would argue that Vans is the mall brand of all mall brands - since they actually have stand alone stores in malls.
there’s a stand-alone dc store in an outdoor mall in amsterdam. also juggalos don’t wear vans, fool

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #151 on: February 15, 2020, 11:55:14 PM »
Ironically, the prices aren't too far off what we used to have to pay for pro model skate shoes in Europe back in the very late 90's, very early 00's.

Yeah you’d hate to know what those prices equated to in New Zealand shops at the time...

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #152 on: February 16, 2020, 03:51:34 AM »
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Oh sweet another shoe company.
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Are you insinuating that there are a lot of skate shoe companies? I would argue the opposite, that there are very few brands left to choose from other than the major corporate brands. That said, it's probably financial suicide to try and break into the market independently due to the duopoly Nike and Adidas have on it.

Board companies are a whole different story, more than 1/2 of them need to go away.
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State, proper, straye, 3 sole tech brands, globe, dvs, fallen, DC, lakai, supra, and I'm probably missing some more.
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Damn, that list just proves how bad we do need a decent skate shoe company. State and Proper are the only real challengers here, and unfotunately States are killing my feet and never seen a pair of Propers in Europe.
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Yes you're missing Vans which I would say is the only shoe brand besides Nike and Adidas and I guess Cons that make good shoes. The rest you mentioned have all seen better days.
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Pretty sure Vans falls into the category of 'major corporate brands'.

Sure, but vans have been part of skateboarding since pretty much there inception.
Have a lot stronger roots than Nike and Adidas.
So I would say they are closer to a skate shoe company than Nike or Adidas.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #153 on: February 16, 2020, 07:53:47 AM »
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Oh sweet another shoe company.
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Are you insinuating that there are a lot of skate shoe companies? I would argue the opposite, that there are very few brands left to choose from other than the major corporate brands. That said, it's probably financial suicide to try and break into the market independently due to the duopoly Nike and Adidas have on it.

Board companies are a whole different story, more than 1/2 of them need to go away.
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State, proper, straye, 3 sole tech brands, globe, dvs, fallen, DC, lakai, supra, and I'm probably missing some more.
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these are basically gone/ invisible/ or a mall brand
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Interesting choices on the bolding because dc is the mall brand of all mall brands. And by invisible do you mean small? Isn't a small shoe brand what a lot of people are asking for?
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I would argue that Vans is the mall brand of all mall brands - since they actually have stand alone stores in malls.

with invisibile i mean, nobody wears them, at least in europe. additionally, nobody knows whos on their, nor do they put out footage/ clips (these two things might be connected tho)

vans is a mall brand coloured "cool". DC is a definite mall brand but their image got very much better in the last 5 years with tiago & co

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #154 on: February 16, 2020, 09:23:22 AM »
Sure, but vans have been part of skateboarding since pretty much there inception.
Have a lot stronger roots than Nike and Adidas.
So I would say they are closer to a skate shoe company than Nike or Adidas.

That's a logic I commonly hear from people who are into (or work for) Vans, but reality, past all marketing ploys, is anchored in the present first and foremost especially in an industry as quick to update itself (sometimes) as the one of skateboarding. And in the present, besides the 'since 1966' act/hashtag, they are comparable to Nike/Adidas. I commonly hear people argue that Nike and Adidas have also supported skate events and skateboarders from early on and so on. I respect your consideration of their legacy, but from my perspective I think the lines currently may be blurrier than you think. Which I couldn't blame you for because Vans' strongest marketing argument since the Janoski has been how they're more 'core' but especially nowadays, that's essentially a fabrication.

That's coming from someone who would feel just as 'gross' skating in Vans as in Adidas and Nikes, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. Plus if you're satisfied with what Vans currently does (and they occasionally do cool local shit), then more power to you.
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #155 on: February 16, 2020, 09:31:08 AM »
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Sure, but vans have been part of skateboarding since pretty much there inception.
Have a lot stronger roots than Nike and Adidas.
So I would say they are closer to a skate shoe company than Nike or Adidas.
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That's a logic I commonly hear from people who are into (or work for) Vans, but reality, past all marketing ploys, is anchored in the present first and foremost especially in an industry as quick to update itself (sometimes) as the one of skateboarding. And in the present, besides the 'since 1966' act/hashtag, they are comparable to Nike/Adidas. I commonly hear people argue that Nike and Adidas have also supported skate events and skateboarders from early on and so on. I respect your consideration of their legacy, but from my perspective I think the lines currently may be blurrier than you think. Which I couldn't blame you for because Vans' strongest marketing argument since the Janoski has been how they're more 'core' but that's essentially a fabrication.

That's coming from someone who would feel just as 'gross' skating in Vans as in Adidas and Nikes, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. Plus if you're satisfied with what Vans currently does, then more power to you.

Dude I’m telling you all, like Silhouette you’re one of my favorite posters. Bro I’m being real I know people very high up at VANs, plenty of the big cats were sponsored or are sponsored by VANs. I’m telling you that you genuinely don’t know what you’re talking about and I’m not a VANS homer. I brought this up in the honesty thread but when they sold to VF there were stipulations in place. They have deeper roots then all the other brands. If I ranked skate companies I would rank them as such:

Corp.
Nike/Cons, NB#, Adidas
In between:
Vans
Core:
Sole Tech, Lakai, this Pontus stuff, etc.

Also why do we support skater owned brands when skater owned brands didn’t even support the core shops. This shit pisses me off to no end, and I feel this is such a slap thing because In real life most people I talk to know all about this.


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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #156 on: February 16, 2020, 09:41:03 AM »
Yeah I had read and acknowledged that other post of yours. I'm just a bit stuck in my habits and over the years, have developed a very sharp edge when it comes to what I personally want to support.

Your last point is also valid to consider, but that being said - playing the devil's advocate here - Vans has their own stores too which regularly seem to compete with local skateshops in most average-to-big cities.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #157 on: February 16, 2020, 09:42:47 AM »
- Vans has their own stores too which regularly compete with local skateshops in most average-to-big cities.
considered this yesterday w the rowan’s dropping - my local vans store ( 2 pretty close got them) and my local skate shop got them.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #158 on: February 16, 2020, 10:00:33 AM »
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If this is going be as fuckable with as everything else Pontus does, it is definitely going to be to fuck with!

Can anybody explain to this old man though, how you get to see these mentioned photos and prizes of the shoes?!? I can't seem to figure out shit on my own..  :-\
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seems they are about to remodel the site. no shop online anymore for the old stuff under the 3-3-20 name. so rn you can't order them or check prices. the shop and models released so far were still up when this thread was created two weeks ago.
I managed to find them by typing shoe in the search bar.

Never saw that Mad Circle part before, and I've got to say that it was very enjoyable. I was actually never really really stoked on Pontus in the old days. Today he's one of my absolute favorites though..
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #159 on: February 17, 2020, 05:19:15 AM »
PONTUS NEEDS TO DO AN INTERVIEW WITH SOMEONE REGARDING THIS SHOE COMPANY STAT
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« Reply #160 on: February 17, 2020, 05:46:29 AM »
haha nah

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #162 on: February 18, 2020, 03:59:47 AM »
thank god that never made into production

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #163 on: February 18, 2020, 06:40:34 AM »
i hope all the shoes have pontus quotes on the inside of the tongue tab.

"inspire others to inspire themselves"

"wallride oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah"

"spicy kev!!!! spicy spicy spicy!!!!!!"
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« Reply #164 on: February 18, 2020, 06:51:32 AM »
i hope all the shoes have pontus quotes on the inside of the tongue tab.

"inspire others to inspire themselves"

"wallride oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah"

"spicy kev!!!! spicy spicy spicy!!!!!!"
I’d rather then stick with Morrissey quotes and put Louie on the team.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #165 on: February 18, 2020, 06:53:32 AM »
i hope all the shoes have pontus quotes on the inside of the tongue tab.

"inspire others to inspire themselves"

"wallride oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah"

"spicy kev!!!! spicy spicy spicy!!!!!!"

I've been waiting for someone to do a "Follow Scott Bourne - No one" spoof ever since Strongest of the Strange first came out.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #166 on: February 18, 2020, 06:53:51 AM »
thank god that never made into production
yeah they are literally ice creams
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #167 on: February 18, 2020, 06:59:09 AM »


YKWTF is in the box

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #170 on: February 19, 2020, 07:42:19 AM »
I’m an above average bowler. Said it before but my game improved so much ever since I lost a finger.

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #171 on: February 19, 2020, 08:31:21 AM »
DB - Dane Brady
NR - Nick Rios
CM - Chris Milic
JA - Jesse Alba
LH - Ludvig Håkonssen

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« Reply #172 on: February 19, 2020, 08:37:27 AM »

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #173 on: February 19, 2020, 09:15:23 AM »
DB - Dane Brady
NR - Nick Rios
CM - Chris Milic
JA - Jesse Alba
LH - Ludvig Håkonssen

why these two?
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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #174 on: February 19, 2020, 10:43:31 AM »

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These look like slimmed down version of some ICE CREAM shoes

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #175 on: February 19, 2020, 10:53:29 AM »
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DB - Dane Brady
NR - Nick Rios
CM - Chris Milic
JA - Jesse Alba
LH - Ludvig Håkonssen

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why these two?

That team with Ludvig would be so good!

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Re: "Last Resort AB" Pontus Alv on making (skate?) shoes
« Reply #176 on: February 19, 2020, 11:28:32 AM »
lol whats up with that Ludvig guy, he's like as good as any average dude at a local skatepark.

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« Reply #177 on: February 19, 2020, 11:38:31 AM »
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These look like slimmed down version of some ICE CREAM shoes

Reminds me of Beloe footwear.

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« Reply #178 on: February 19, 2020, 11:59:54 AM »
lol whats up with that Ludvig guy, he's like as good as any average dude at a local skatepark.

Oh c'mon.

https://youtu.be/HEKqcTi4cDI

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« Reply #179 on: February 19, 2020, 12:12:03 PM »
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lol whats up with that Ludvig guy, he's like as good as any average dude at a local skatepark.
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Oh c'mon.

https://youtu.be/HEKqcTi4cDI

Ludvig in person is a real one. High skate IQ and regular IQ. His skating at the brick spots in downtown LA is no fucking joke. Those things took me an hour just to do a fucking axle stall on. Now I’m not the fucking most well trained at street tranny or tranny in general, but fuck did it look like it would be a cakewalk just staring at those things. Like I can do phat ass wallrides on flat walls, so pretty fucking shocking.


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