f'ing awesome

[sprained_ankle]

Touzery, Sean, and Sage don't have any boards out.

Dill has 2 boards, Gino has 3 boards.

Everyone else has 1 or 2 boards out.

Brand feels stagnant; can see why Tyshawn wanted something new.

What would you do to pump some life back into the company?

Or move AVE, Aiden and Touzery to Hockey and be thankful for a good run?

[sprained_ankle]

[dannyprovolone]

who

[AdditionalSlip]

I've seen a lot of brand new FA decks snap within less than a week. Reminds me of when girl had to mass produce shitty bloards

[BALARGUE]

I've seen a lot of brand new FA decks snap within less than a week. Reminds me of when girl had to mass produce shitty bloards

your friends need to learn how to land bolts

boards are fine

but Dill needs to do something with his brand and add new blood.
Beatrice pro is not it

[kook1234]

Adding Bike lock berle, adding Beatrice, losing Tyshawn are 3 missteps in a row.

I’ve broken both a FA and Hockey deck this year over maybe a combined 10 sessions. I do think their boards are lesser quality and to me, it seems like it started during the pandemic.

Hockey team is solid and violet is more exciting than FA right now

[formula420]

Adding Bike lock berle, adding Beatrice, losing Tyshawn are 3 missteps in a row.

I’ve broken both a FA and Hockey deck this year over maybe a combined 10 sessions. I do think their boards are lesser quality and to me, it seems like it started during the pandemic.

Hockey team is solid and violet is more exciting than FA right now

Do you know who makes fa boards? Or do you think dill is pressing them himself?

[kook1234]

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Adding Bike lock berle, adding Beatrice, losing Tyshawn are 3 missteps in a row.

I’ve broken both a FA and Hockey deck this year over maybe a combined 10 sessions. I do think their boards are lesser quality and to me, it seems like it started during the pandemic.

Hockey team is solid and violet is more exciting than FA right now

[close]

Do you know who makes fa boards? Or do you think dill is pressing them himself?

Was PS now BBS?

[manysnakes]

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Adding Bike lock berle, adding Beatrice, losing Tyshawn are 3 missteps in a row.

I’ve broken both a FA and Hockey deck this year over maybe a combined 10 sessions. I do think their boards are lesser quality and to me, it seems like it started during the pandemic.

Hockey team is solid and violet is more exciting than FA right now

[close]

Do you know who makes fa boards? Or do you think dill is pressing them himself?

These posts are from another universe where everyone is oblivious to the fact that two or three companies produce the vast majority of skateboards.

I don’t know or care if FA is producing new decks, but given their super-sale back back in November/December, it would seem like the smart move is to slow down the production of new decks for a while, until a year or two worth of unsold inventory is cleared.

[sharkin]

Fucking A’some

[håkanhellström]

[Cuban_Lynx]

Didn’t Dill say he was going to pull the plug after 10 years?

[SwitchNollieHeel]

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Adding Bike lock berle, adding Beatrice, losing Tyshawn are 3 missteps in a row.

I’ve broken both a FA and Hockey deck this year over maybe a combined 10 sessions. I do think their boards are lesser quality and to me, it seems like it started during the pandemic.

Hockey team is solid and violet is more exciting than FA right now

[close]

Do you know who makes fa boards? Or do you think dill is pressing them himself?

[close]

These posts are from another universe where everyone is oblivious to the fact that two or three companies produce the vast majority of skateboards.

I don’t know or care if FA is producing new decks, but given their super-sale back back in November/December, it would seem like the smart move is to slow down the production of new decks for a while, until a year or two worth of unsold inventory is cleared.

I felt down right scammed by these old boards, ordered 4, have 1 left and it’s fuckin winter where I am. Old stale frail sale wood.

[Badmeaningood]

Berle just stumbling from one gear crisis to the next. Never seen someone so confused.

[Rasmus]

Didn’t Dill say he was going to pull the plug after 10 years?

Hasn't Dill just said a lot over the years? I try to always take his words with a grain of salt.

[Mongo Lloyd]

Will confirm that I snapped a Hockey board on a kickflip on flat.

Love the company, but man does Dill put out some ugly clothes, and graphics.

[AdditionalSlip]

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I've seen a lot of brand new FA decks snap within less than a week. Reminds me of when girl had to mass produce shitty bloards

[close]

your friends need to learn how to land bolts

boards are fine

but Dill needs to do something with his brand and add new blood.
Beatrice pro is not it

Fair enough, every one of those guys went straight back to buy the same fa/hockey.

That being said I do think the change in woodshop amid huge supply chain issues is being felt. Just cause its bbs doesn't mean the company didn't ask them to cut corners to ship a given amount. There are more fa/hockey boards in my local than anything else.

One of my friends broke it 10 minutes after leaving the skateshop, went back 1st shop guy was like you know how it is, land bolts. His buddy took a look at it, started pulling the plys apart with his bare hands, the thing had no glue. *yes this guy also replaced it with the another FA, broke a week later

[augustmoon]

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Adding Bike lock berle, adding Beatrice, losing Tyshawn are 3 missteps in a row.

I’ve broken both a FA and Hockey deck this year over maybe a combined 10 sessions. I do think their boards are lesser quality and to me, it seems like it started during the pandemic.

Hockey team is solid and violet is more exciting than FA right now

[close]

Do you know who makes fa boards? Or do you think dill is pressing them himself?

[close]

These posts are from another universe where everyone is oblivious to the fact that two or three companies produce the vast majority of skateboards.

I don’t know or care if FA is producing new decks, but given their super-sale back back in November/December, it would seem like the smart move is to slow down the production of new decks for a while, until a year or two worth of unsold inventory is cleared.

[close]

I felt down right scammed by these old boards, ordered 4, have 1 left and it’s fuckin winter where I am. Old stale frail sale wood.

Lmao only I’m on my second, and I’m 190.  Nothing wrong with those boards at all.  Land your trucks better

[Southernmost]

I do agree with the brand being stale. Louie pretty much carried them on his back last year. KB’s 1-2 clips on his story or maybe a hard post per year won’t help much. I have a feeling AVE has been stacking for a serious part which could help a lot. But I think it’s a stretch to say the boards are lesser quality. I skated 2 Hockeys recently which were great and I’m currently skating a FA from 2021 which is also fine.

[Mongo Lloyd]

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Adding Bike lock berle, adding Beatrice, losing Tyshawn are 3 missteps in a row.

I’ve broken both a FA and Hockey deck this year over maybe a combined 10 sessions. I do think their boards are lesser quality and to me, it seems like it started during the pandemic.

Hockey team is solid and violet is more exciting than FA right now

[close]

Do you know who makes fa boards? Or do you think dill is pressing them himself?

[close]

These posts are from another universe where everyone is oblivious to the fact that two or three companies produce the vast majority of skateboards.

I don’t know or care if FA is producing new decks, but given their super-sale back back in November/December, it would seem like the smart move is to slow down the production of new decks for a while, until a year or two worth of unsold inventory is cleared.

[close]

I felt down right scammed by these old boards, ordered 4, have 1 left and it’s fuckin winter where I am. Old stale frail sale wood.

[close]

Lmao only I’m on my second, and I’m 190.  Nothing wrong with those boards at all.  Land your trucks better

It’s not a FA/Hockey thing either, and goofy when people suggest otherwise. My break was years ago when they were using PS Stix, who I think at times puts out shoddy wood.

[Shrinedescender]

Brand definitely feels stagnant. I'm sure boards are still selling and Dill's creativity for clothes and graphics is still going strong, but from the team/video perspective it seems like they have some deadweight, and they could benefit by imbuing some new blood. Joe Campos and Diego Todd were great additions to Hockey, and FA would benefit in adding that kind of talent to their roster. The way I see it, FA is supposed to be more of a legacy brand than Hockey, with pros that are maybe more fashionable or "cooler" in the traditional sense. Adding Beatrice to that list, while she has some buzz through peripheral skate media outlets, would be a mistake; as I don't think people are that hyped on her in terms of her actual skating. If I were Dill, I'd drop Berle too just because of the whole drama with his kits and style being derivative and goofy. It sours the character of the brand. He seems to elicit more eyerolls than stoke every time he shows up in something,

[mattchew]

Six years ago I broke the tail on a Hockey in less than three min on a flat ground kickflip. Then I  flipped the board around to skate the nose, first kickflip that way and that snapped too. Totally anecdotal but easily the shittiest board I’ve ever skated, taking longer to grip than break. Haven’t and won’t ever support them again.

My feeling is that Hockey is dope but has a terrible name, FA is wack and has a terrible name, and Dill couldn’t be more upriver.

[jgonzalez]

Jason Dill meet n greet with pizza and bouncy house.

Take a photo with the Dill Doll

Buy a curly wig for that photosynthesis dill look

Painting with touzery

Berle dunk tank

Poetry reading and lecture by dill

Kadow food pop up

Coffee and croissant pop up with krod

Poets pop up shop but Gino never shows up

If you’re lucky you can sneak a sip of Andrew Allen’s home made hooch

Make your own class photo deck booth

FA carnival cumming soon that would fix FA

[Lhotse’s Pit of Death]

Kill FA. Move everyone good to Hockey. Dump Bea and Lij. Have AVE be the legacy spokesman instead of Dill. Make less product.

[Allen.]

If Jimmy Britches could skate those boards, you guys are fine

[Idk]

You guys skate those ugly ass shapes?

[fakie nollie]

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[close]

Hasn't Dill just said a lot over the years? I try to always take his words with a grain of salt.

I hang onto his every word

[Theme For A Jackal]

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Didn’t Dill say he was going to pull the plug after 10 years?

[close]

Hasn't Dill just said a lot over the years? I try to always take his words with a grain of salt.

Yeah that's just Dill, it's not cool to let anyone know you might actually care about something, have to pretend like even your own stuff sucks

[Spaced Cadet]

I know that FA is still fine by checking slap and seeing that people are still complaing about it.

[zahed]

seems like FA has lost it's identity, meanwhile hockey has a solid roster. i think the best thing for the company would be to get involved in mergers & acquisitions and absorb limosine.