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I would be 500% more likely to cop a board if FOS added an "e" to the end. That 9" double shovel looks dreamy
+1 100% agree. I would never ever purchase any product by this brand, completely because of it’s name. It’s bizarre to me that of all the reconsiders/name change/logo change, this upsetting, tone deaf and really insensitive name just coasts along in skating. More bizarre with the lives lost/ruined by hard drugs in the skating community. Not funny, not cool, not edgy. Fuck heroin.
And here I was thinking it was merely a reference to the addictive nature of skating to people like us (may I include you in this?)
I never actually took it as an endorsement of the substance itself, but I suppose I could be wrong.
Personally, as somebody who still actively skates (such as it is) skreet at almost 50, I periodically need to explain myself to peers when I roll up on my bloard. On numerous occasions I’ve referred to skating as my personal version of heroin, in that I just can’t quit, regardless of how dangerous it may be to somebody my age. Junkies like me still need their fix, ya know?
But yeah, the drug is no joke. Pretty serious stuff, actually.
Thankfully, skateboarding isn’t.