re: did Baker Launch with Baker 2G
From what I remember, Baker Bootleg came out (all leftovers from The End + on birdhouse boards, no baker boards yet, full boulala part) then shortly after maybe 6 months, the ads and boards first dropped, and then like within another few months they had baker 2G out.
Menikmati and then This is Skateboarding are 2 really important videos because of how well they were executed and elevated Sole Tech into such a huge force
Mostly it was Board Teams before and when you have a shoe company you will get guys from a wider variety of board sponsors which results in a really different dynamic. but shoes really turned the page here and started paying a lot of skaters a lot of money and obviously the big 4 took note of this and took over soon after