MidWest. Blue Collar. workshop. hard at work making Your Boards, right here in the chips. Cincinnati, OHIO
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thanks Brian Martin--BrownDog!!!
Brian hosted us for days and days. Thanks, Angel, wife of BrownDog!
Monday, June 22, 2009
Logo Series: Shops Pre-order!
We're offering our LOGO SERIES to shops at a discount on batches over 5. pre-orders are being accepted now for July shipping, so arrange it with us! We're right here and ready to set you up with your order, on time and on price. get us on our email up there at the top of the page and let's get you the stuff you need to get this amaazing wood under the feet of your local crew.
One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People Eater!!!
Fickle is that company. the one that's going to run whatever the hell graphic we feel like because it hit us as rad at the moment. That can backfire. But this time it DIDNT!!! This little dude is RAAAAD as all GET. he comes in our epic "8 and an eighth"--perfect for whatever trucks you're rocking. Hit us up and get some in your shop quick--they're going to run out fast. Don't worry though--you're orders keep us ordering, and there'll always be more to come. Look forward to more barneys in more colors, and our upcoming logo series as a discount option!
The Board Room-Knoxville
Know what's fun? going on a road trip to Jell as a crew and having a shop get excited about your boards, just like that, and invite you back as soon as possible. Man, when we rolled into Knoxville, this shop had an enthusiastic youngster at the park repping hard and telling us we Just HAD to go there! Blessings on young CRUE in K-ville for being 100% on the daily! I'd totally armwrestle anyone who looks down on him.
this shop grabbed three boards and sent us on the way with gas money! Talk about hospitality. But by the time we'd repacked our gear, they sent someone to get a FOURTH board, because someone snatched one up within minutes. Good feeling...
Thanks to nathan and regina Phillips who welcomed us with true southern hospitality. You guys got it done! We made it home!
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Okay, you got us! We're not big on keeping you apprised at all our activity. Chock it up to spending our daily days staying on our boards. We session daily, usually by lunchtime we've hit a few spots. Then everyone hits stuff as work and life allow on the second half of the day...
First up, we have developed a flow-level for new riders on fickle. We're building our crew now, and just got back from a 5 day road trip south on 75. These trips are about getting to know each other, even more than they are about marketing Fickle. We visit with locals and shops and stuff, but our focus is on Jelling as a crew. We have three riders on this intro-level, and are looking forward to adding some or all of them to our "team", soon.
next, there are a lot of shops that have expressed levels of support for Fickle. We set 20 shop contacts as our goal for the year, back in January. As of now, we have that and more. These are shops that have said, "yeah, we'll put you on the wall and see if people want you..." not shops that are drinking the Fickle Cool-Aid.
Response to our boards is stellar. They are simply the highest quality wood that you'll find in a lot of areas. Even locally, companies and shops tend to go with wood shops that source their materials from lower-quality vendors. Sadly, the whole wall in some skateshops we visit is covered with wood from non-domestic sources. In one shop in particular we noticed that every single board in the shop was non-domestic! That means made in china or south of the border. Fickle was the only domestic product. And the quality difference is evident.
Matt Simpson just spent a week skating in California. You know matt. He's the broken foot five posts or so down. he's a ripper and we're too busy skating to show you. You go rip some yourself and you'll end up like matt, if you don't wuss out and quit--He's 35 years old and has kids and a wife and everything and still holds it down with beanplant-fakies on vert. Suck it.
anyway, the rippers in Cali went WILD about our 8.5 board. they are ordering from us direct! Do you know how rad it feels to have all this hate going down on you for being new and different--Cincinnati telling you you're a freak, while California is beating on your door for your product? Oh yeah, and by "cincinnati" we mean only the ONE shop of the five relatively local core shops. This shop bills itself as the beating heart of Cincinnati skateboarding--okaaaay. ...beating a dead horse, maybe.
You can sell some wack fashion image of what skateboarding is, or you can sell great quality product, put together in a fully-domestic operation, with a proper local HQ... No matter what brand of sneakers you wear, local is better, domestic is better, cheaper is better, and BETTER is better. By a sheer accident of getting tired of skating punky, cheap wood, We ended up covering all the bases.
Local
Domestic
cheaper
Better.
No matter what kind of wood you want to skate, get out there and skate! Don't line up. Push the limits. Build on strength. progress. Don't show off--grow. And don't let anyone push you around, telling you that you don't wear the right clothes, or have the right hair. Don't let a jock mentality skate-jock you into "Jock Law" living... That'll end up with you as some industry cog. Don't be a cog. Think about what YOU like and live with that. And give wood that lasts a try. Don't settle for less than what you want and who you really are becoming...
First up, we have developed a flow-level for new riders on fickle. We're building our crew now, and just got back from a 5 day road trip south on 75. These trips are about getting to know each other, even more than they are about marketing Fickle. We visit with locals and shops and stuff, but our focus is on Jelling as a crew. We have three riders on this intro-level, and are looking forward to adding some or all of them to our "team", soon.
next, there are a lot of shops that have expressed levels of support for Fickle. We set 20 shop contacts as our goal for the year, back in January. As of now, we have that and more. These are shops that have said, "yeah, we'll put you on the wall and see if people want you..." not shops that are drinking the Fickle Cool-Aid.
Response to our boards is stellar. They are simply the highest quality wood that you'll find in a lot of areas. Even locally, companies and shops tend to go with wood shops that source their materials from lower-quality vendors. Sadly, the whole wall in some skateshops we visit is covered with wood from non-domestic sources. In one shop in particular we noticed that every single board in the shop was non-domestic! That means made in china or south of the border. Fickle was the only domestic product. And the quality difference is evident.
Matt Simpson just spent a week skating in California. You know matt. He's the broken foot five posts or so down. he's a ripper and we're too busy skating to show you. You go rip some yourself and you'll end up like matt, if you don't wuss out and quit--He's 35 years old and has kids and a wife and everything and still holds it down with beanplant-fakies on vert. Suck it.
anyway, the rippers in Cali went WILD about our 8.5 board. they are ordering from us direct! Do you know how rad it feels to have all this hate going down on you for being new and different--Cincinnati telling you you're a freak, while California is beating on your door for your product? Oh yeah, and by "cincinnati" we mean only the ONE shop of the five relatively local core shops. This shop bills itself as the beating heart of Cincinnati skateboarding--okaaaay. ...beating a dead horse, maybe.
You can sell some wack fashion image of what skateboarding is, or you can sell great quality product, put together in a fully-domestic operation, with a proper local HQ... No matter what brand of sneakers you wear, local is better, domestic is better, cheaper is better, and BETTER is better. By a sheer accident of getting tired of skating punky, cheap wood, We ended up covering all the bases.
Local
Domestic
cheaper
Better.
No matter what kind of wood you want to skate, get out there and skate! Don't line up. Push the limits. Build on strength. progress. Don't show off--grow. And don't let anyone push you around, telling you that you don't wear the right clothes, or have the right hair. Don't let a jock mentality skate-jock you into "Jock Law" living... That'll end up with you as some industry cog. Don't be a cog. Think about what YOU like and live with that. And give wood that lasts a try. Don't settle for less than what you want and who you really are becoming...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Columbus This Saturday!!!
We are filming at Grove City, Westerville, and Powell this Saturday. We'll visit with our friends at Embassy, Old Skool, and Trilogy Skateshops... Catch us up there if you can! Meet our new team members (soon to be into-ed properly online).
We'll start around 10am at Grove, hit up Embassy to see if they need boards, then Hit Westerville and Old Skool around Noon-thirty or onepm. The day will finish with a visit to Trilogy and an extended Session at Powell until the end of the day...
We'll start around 10am at Grove, hit up Embassy to see if they need boards, then Hit Westerville and Old Skool around Noon-thirty or onepm. The day will finish with a visit to Trilogy and an extended Session at Powell until the end of the day...
Monday, June 1, 2009
Barney Reissues!!!
you all know we're a young company, right? So for a lot of the shops that we're getting into, this is the FIRST run of Barneys! This gets mad props wherever we take it! Thanks to KB for a job well done!
Get them while they last!
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