Luan rode for Volcom, Malto for 4 star, Theotis for Altamont and they all became walking billboards after getting on Nike.
If you wanna keep standing up for Nike like they have skateboardings best interests at heart then carry on supporting them and watch actual skate companies crumble because of it. Soon you’re dream of there only being 3 companies to choose from for skate footwear may even become a reality, how sick will that be! Am I right!?
Oh sick, Two contest skaters and a guy who wears Mountain Dew hats have become walking billboards because of Nike? Almost sounds like my original point. Again, legit people don’t become kooks because of Nike, kooks are the same, they just come with better paychecks and better made clothes.
And I don’t know if anyone’s let you know, but pro skaters job is being walking billboards. They don’t get free clothes and decks From their sponsors to be nice. They are there to wear the their sponsors shit. So wearing a Nike t-shirt isn’t anymore or less of being a billboard than wearing a Droors shirt.
Worried about the industry? How many sick skaters have been left hanging by Crailtap/Carroll because they won’t be head to toe Girl/Lakai. How many skaters have been given the opportunity to start their own company because of the money they get from Nike. There are obviously bad things that come from their presence because as with literally everything in the world, there are good and bad sides. Nike’s been around for 15 something years and I haven’t seen skateboarding killed. I’ve heard of some shops closing, but shops also closed before then too. But if you want to have a boogeyman, fine.