Anti-Blank Campaign

[satanmilk]

Sorry im new here, for educational paper purpose... i was trying to find the first anti-blank deck campaign from dwindle??? Anyone could help me please???

[GumOnMyGrip]

Sorry im new here, for educational paper purpose... i was trying to find the first anti-blank deck campaign from dwindle??? Anyone could help me please???

I don’t know if it was Dwindle but Tod Swank and the IASC had a lot of anti blank campaigns. Try googling International Association of Skateboard Companies. There was always anti blank stuff from them in the old Transworld Business mags. I think Jamie Thomas was pretty involved too…

[tom]

The Skateboard Mag was also involved. Blitz did a whole "a world without pros" website. The whole iasc felt very anti-skateshop, anti-local scene, and anti-skateboarder at the time

https://web.archive.org/web/20070221221801/http://www.aworldwithoutceos.com/wholesite.jpg

[Chavo]

The Skateboard Mag was also involved. Blitz did a whole "a world without pros" website. The whole iasc felt very anti-skateshop, anti-local scene, and anti-skateboarder at the time

https://web.archive.org/web/20070221221801/http://www.aworldwithoutceos.com/wholesite.jpg

You should look up the Transworld Business article "Under Fire A Special Report on the Skate Hardgoods Market". In addition to the Blitz and Dwindle campaign, the archived site above was a response by Slap's Grimcity.

[Allen.]

That shit aged like milk

[modern life is war]

Man blanks were all i could afford growing up haha. I never even remember this campaign happening but I was definitely a kid skating blank decks or hand-me-downs at the time so it's kinda pissed me off... Fuck dwindle

[manysnakes]

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The Skateboard Mag was also involved. Blitz did a whole "a world without pros" website. The whole iasc felt very anti-skateshop, anti-local scene, and anti-skateboarder at the time

https://web.archive.org/web/20070221221801/http://www.aworldwithoutceos.com/wholesite.jpg

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You should look up the Transworld Business article "Under Fire A Special Report on the Skate Hardgoods Market". In addition to the Blitz and Dwindle campaign, the archived site above was a response by Slap's Grimcity.

COMMUNIST CHINA

[MOE SYZLAK]

Funny, more than a few distributors carry DSM blanks....

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The Skateboard Mag was also involved. Blitz did a whole "a world without pros" website. The whole iasc felt very anti-skateshop, anti-local scene, and anti-skateboarder at the time

https://web.archive.org/web/20070221221801/http://www.aworldwithoutceos.com/wholesite.jpg

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You should look up the Transworld Business article "Under Fire A Special Report on the Skate Hardgoods Market". In addition to the Blitz and Dwindle campaign, the archived site above was a response by Slap's Grimcity.

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COMMUNIST CHINA

Totally unrelated, but I remember being super bummed after reading in a Corey Duffel interview that he hated communists. I thought he totally had to be a hard-hitting leftist (of which I wanted to be one), given how he was such a punk rocker and all that. I must've been 13 or so, around '02/'03. Oh, to be young and innocent again...

I remember feeling vaguely bad about skating blanks too. I was aware of the whole "blanks will kill skateboarding" sentiment, but I definitely wasn't old/educated enough yet to grasp any of it clearly. So I just kept getting blank boards and felt unnecessarily bad about myself.

[ChuckRamone]

Totally forgot about this till I saw that shitty ad full of fear mongering, projection and strawmen

[modern life is war]

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The Skateboard Mag was also involved. Blitz did a whole "a world without pros" website. The whole iasc felt very anti-skateshop, anti-local scene, and anti-skateboarder at the time

https://web.archive.org/web/20070221221801/http://www.aworldwithoutceos.com/wholesite.jpg

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You should look up the Transworld Business article "Under Fire A Special Report on the Skate Hardgoods Market". In addition to the Blitz and Dwindle campaign, the archived site above was a response by Slap's Grimcity.

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COMMUNIST CHINA

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Totally unrelated, but I remember being super bummed after reading in a Corey Duffel interview that he hated communists. I thought he totally had to be a hard-hitting leftist (of which I wanted to be one), given how he was such a punk rocker and all that. I must've been 13 or so, around '02/'03. Oh, to be young and innocent again...

I remember feeling vaguely bad about skating blanks too. I was aware of the whole "blanks will kill skateboarding" sentiment, but I definitely wasn't old/educated enough yet to grasp any of it clearly. So I just kept getting blank boards and felt unnecessarily bad about myself.

Not sure how old Corey was at that point but in this 10 year old ccs interview he says he believes in socialism...

https://youtu.be/emGZ5XQk42I

He's so corny haha

[radcunt]

Never heard of this but skateboarding doesn’t need graphics or pros, businesses do.

[satanmilk]

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The Skateboard Mag was also involved. Blitz did a whole "a world without pros" website. The whole iasc felt very anti-skateshop, anti-local scene, and anti-skateboarder at the time

https://web.archive.org/web/20070221221801/http://www.aworldwithoutceos.com/wholesite.jpg

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You should look up the Transworld Business article "Under Fire A Special Report on the Skate Hardgoods Market". In addition to the Blitz and Dwindle campaign, the archived site above was a response by Slap's Grimcity.

Like the blitz distribution?

[TwisT]

Awe fuck, I barely remember this.

But you know who made blanks look cool?

FUCKING PROS!

So many older skate videos had pros riding blanks. Or you see and add with a pro on a blank with a sticker and the minimalism of it, looked cool. Also, I remember there was a rumor that pros rode better boards than what was sold in stores, that’s why they didn’t have graphics on them.

[tom]

Awe fuck, I barely remember this.

But you know who made blanks look cool?

FUCKING PROS!

So many older skate videos had pros riding blanks. Or you see and add with a pro on a blank with a sticker and the minimalism of it, looked cool. Also, I remember there was a rumor that pros rode better boards than what was sold in stores, that’s why they didn’t have graphics on them.

It wasn’t really a rumor. Some people have custom boards/shapes made for them, and sometimes pros ride boards made specifically for them from a different woodshop. The first few that I personally skated were some boards Blind made Corey Sheppard around 2004. His boards were made for him on BBS/Bareback decks instead of DSM/whatever they were called back then

The best part of that ad was Dwindle insinuating that Chinese made blank boards were inferior while having the absolute worst dogshit Chinese made boards at the time. DSM might hold up now, but they had a hard reputation to shake in regards to quality

@satanmilk yup. Blitz Dist. Per Welinder had to walk that one back pretty hard after just a couples of weeks. The backlash was pretty intense with a lot of it originating on slap. There are some long dead threads on here that you can search for that will give you a pretty clear picture about how out of touch a big part of the skateboard industry was at the time 

[Allen.]

Also this wasn’t just anti blank boards, but anti shop board as well.

[Prince]

blanks are dope. i remember hearing a rumour (i was very young) that kareem would sand his off his graphics because they were too heavy. lol

[Mean salto]

Also this wasn’t just anti blank boards, but anti shop board as well.

This is where I remember people not giving a shit. At first it made sense because it seemed like it was anti random bundle of boards off eBay which you'd see a lot of at the time but then when it's like hey don't buy that slightly cheaper board from the actual skateshop while most companies themselves had logo boards and even price points that were basically their own blanks anyway the argument fell a part a bit

[IusedToSkateMore]

Oh boy. Way back. The chief was such a kook about this.

Grim did a great job w that site too.

Now we got people hording $18 element decks lol

[Tacos Liz]

fuck your 80$ decks

[Jebediah]

I know this happened a long time ago but this is inspiring... To buy more blanks and shop decks

[troy]

Whose got the plug on generator blanks or any other good blanks people recommend?

[Chavo]

Couldn't find the original pdf online. Click the link under the image (standard HTML doesn't work here so I couldn't figure out how to embed the link from the image).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uy-olw7LA_3GPYxZJAOFf7QGzt8KtzlH/view?usp=share_link

[TheLurper]

Couldn't find the original pdf online. Click the link under the image (standard HTML doesn't work here so I couldn't figure out how to embed the link from the image).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uy-olw7LA_3GPYxZJAOFf7QGzt8KtzlH/view?usp=share_link

Great post.

I was on the anti-blank bandwagon, but the anti-shop board irked me to no end. The end of this tries to say that shops could sell a pro board for 55, the shop I worked at in 2002-03 sold pro boards for 40-44 including grip. We made nothing on pro boards. Hell, even today Cowtown sells Zero boards for less than $55.




Without pros, who would work/live in my warehouse?

[modern life is war]

Whose got the plug on generator blanks or any other good blanks people recommend?

I think these are BBS blanks.

https://skatesamples.com/products/blank-deck-premium-2-dye