Make these skaters PRO please!

[uncle blake]

Ian Mcleod
Franco Cammayo
Jeph Howard
Ski
Gumby...


and while your're at it at least put this guy on your Am team...
Tim Taylor (if he's not already)


and quit giving rookies free blades. Tired of seeing these flow edits of dudes that couldn't shine MY boots, let alone the real deals.
give me teh free bladz if your going to waste them

[jake1990]

ssshhhhhh.

[killinemsoftly]

Ian Mcleod
Franco Cammayo
Jeph Howard
Ski
Gumby...


and while your're at it at least put this guy on your Am team...
Tim Taylor (if he's not already)


and quit giving rookies free blades. Tired of seeing these flow edits of dudes that couldn't shine MY boots, let alone the real deals.
give me teh free bladz if your going to waste them


just quoting for the truth of the matter... it kills me seeing people put out edits every day that are better than lots of the flow riders for companies out there... razors i know you guys have been doing shop sponsors for years now... but maybe its time to move on to something different for now?

[smiley]

i like your hidden message and i agree

[Rotgut]

and quit giving rookies free blades. This. Everyone is always saying how the industry has no money, yet every skate company flows two hundred kids skates. It's like it's no big deal to be sponsored any more. Then these kids gives their friend the hand me downs, they put new frames on them, and bam no money circulating in blading.

[greg is cool]

PS

nimh, stop fucking with ur riders, montre, bolino, and jory should not be listed as ams(check their site). stop listing them as am's only to promote oli short, thank u.

[uncle blake]

and quit giving rookies free blades. This. Everyone is always saying how the industry has no money, yet every skate company flows two hundred kids skates. It's like it's no big deal to be sponsored any more. Then these kids gives their friend the hand me downs, they put new frames on them, and bam no money circulating in blading.


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[jakeordie]

Ski
As far as real street pros are concerned, no one ever EARNS or DESERVES turning pro.....some are CHOSEN and most are not. The idea that a skater will be turned pro once they reach a certain degree of talent/style/maturity is a fantasy.....just a marketing angle sold to skaters willing to believe the fantasy and pay for the reality.

Sorry, that's how it works.

[jakeordie]

nimh, stop fucking with ur riders, montre, bolino, and jory should not be listed as ams.
It's like one of those movies where it keeps getting harder to suspend disbelief until you just have to turn the telly off.....I think I know why Jon Elliott is laying low these days.

[NickL]

does anyone else find it hard to accept that a couple months ago iain mcleod wasnt even sponsored? its mind-bottling

[killinemsoftly]

does anyone else find it hard to accept that a couple months ago iain mcleod wasnt even sponsored? its mind-bottling

because skaters bottle minds...


:roll: :roll:

[Adam K]

^ ahahhaha owned.

Agreed Blake.

[AJ Pow]

you're*

[mr. trevor]

mcloed def one of the best

[killinemsoftly]

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[AJ Pow]

:wink:

[Tra]

my mind is bottles
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1237/557660277_cc189c6e8a.jpg

[gatsby]

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/06/21/2_Blades_070614041138432_wideweb__300x375.jpg

[sexydavid]

If I had a skate company... my entire pro/am/flow team would be about 5 people. There's no way I'd flow all those random kids.

But then again, I will never start a company.

[NickL]

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/06/21/2_Blades_070614041138432_wideweb__300x375.jpg
thanks for understanding mind-bottling

[alanchrishughes]

who are all these said flow riders?

[B-Gault]

RobG needs a pro skate. Too bad Rollerblade sucks.

[killinemsoftly]

RobG needs a pro skate. Too bad Rollerblade sucks.

are you trying to say there wont be one?

because there probably will be.

[B-Gault]

I didnt know RB did "pro" skates anymore. Idk, I cant keep up anymore. I know he doesnt have one though and its long over due.

[killinemsoftly]

i mean... they haven't yet but there is a new team manager from the past... and he hasnt been on RB that long...

[Rotgut]

who are all these said flow riders?The best local blader in your home town. Every home town.

[gatsby]

if you can mistyflip you deserve a sponsorship

[Rotgut]

if you can mistyflip you deserve a sponsorshipUnfortunately it's even easier than that for most companies.

[killinemsoftly]

and from knowing gumby... he definietly would do so much stupid ass shit if he was pro for someone... the tricks he would throw down would be stupid... he just wants to be pro so he can throw down for someone!

[denialmind218]

foolish....flowing so many riders is very dumb.....i know someone already said it but most of the kids dont deserve it and its rippin off our industry....a shop sponsor should be enough!

[xxxx]

I'm going for it either way Seth.
I don't need a fucking title to throw down with a seriousness.

Anyway, I don't deserve to be pro beside any of the 5 others named (including Tim).
I'm going to put in work for the next two years, do my best to strengthen the rollerblading scene in The South, and try to go pro right before the world blows up in 2012. :wink:

Watch (or participate). The journey is going to be fucking nuts. :twisted:

[DemetriuSTL]

I'm going for it either way Seth.
I don't need a fucking title to throw down with a seriousness.

Anyway, I don't deserve to be pro beside any of the 5 others named (including Tim).
I'm going to put in work for the next two years, do my best to strengthen the rollerblading scene in The South, and try to go pro right before the world blows up in 2012. :wink:

Watch (or participate). The journey is going to be fucking nuts. :twisted:

If this is gumby and if u dont mind me askin what happen with valo?

[MyGlockGoPopPopPop]

PS

nimh, stop fucking with ur riders, montre, bolino, and jory should not be listed as ams(check their site). stop listing them as am's only to promote oli short, thank u.

SRSLY.


I was so pissed when they announced Oli as a pro for NIMH, any rollerblader would rather see Montre, Jon Jon, or Joey skate. If you disagree you are retarded.

[jeremyspira]

Jeremy spira flow models coming soon.

[jakeness13]

this thread is now about will ferrell:
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http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z90/rcqtball/Ferrell.jpg
http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv167/oxguy/ferrell.jpg

[xxxx]

If this is gumby and if u dont mind me askin what happen with valo?

This is indeed Michael Braud

I basically got dropped from the Valo AM team because I more or less quit skating on a competitive level for a year in 2006 to become a professional alcoholic.(Valo 2? I don't even remember filming the few tricks I did for that shit. Going skating drunk and stoned had become a hobby at that point)

Long story short, skated Joey's NIMH's a couple times and FUCKING LOVED them.

Quit drinking in search of my mind and got on NIMH.

And that's that.

[daniel.farmer]

who are all these said flow riders?The best local blader in your home town. Every home town.

seriously? I don't think there are THAT many flow riders. I don't know how many there are in other contries, but in Denmark, there are 3 flow riders and 1 pro. In my opinion, that isn't much.

[r.s.]

who are all these said flow riders?The best local blader in your home town. Every home town.

seriously? I don't think there are THAT many flow riders. I don't know how many there are in other contries, but in Denmark, there are 3 flow riders and 1 pro. In my opinion, that isn't much.wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many in the US

[Harry Maynard]

Gumby <3

[i=danimal]

I love bein better than some of these "flow" kids.... Lol

Ps, I'm sponsored by my girlfriend. Free rollerblades from any company I choose, and clothing from anywhere as well. Best sponsor ever! Beat that, razors!

[giorgio oehlers]

If this is gumby and if u dont mind me askin what happen with valo?

This is indeed Michael Braud

I basically got dropped from the Valo AM team because I more or less quit skating on a competitive level for a year in 2006 to become a professional alcoholic.(Valo 2? I don't even remember filming the few tricks I did for that shit. Going skating drunk and stoned had become a hobby at that point)

Long story short, skated Joey's NIMH's a couple times and FUCKING LOVED them.

Quit drinking in search of my mind and got on NIMH.

And that's that.

HAHA

[bksteezin]

There are a ton of remz flow kids. Razors has like three times that.

[chefkoch]

who are all these said flow riders?The best local blader in your home town. Every home town.

seriously? I don't think there are THAT many flow riders. I don't know how many there are in other contries, but in Denmark, there are 3 flow riders and 1 pro. In my opinion, that isn't much.wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many in the US
It seems to be better in europe, the people that are flow for a company here deserve to be in that position, I don´t now how many flows we have here in Germany though

[jakeordie]

Ps, I'm sponsored by my girlfriend. Free rollerblades from any company I choose, and clothing from anywhere as well. Best sponsor ever!

Beat that, razors!
They already have.


































http://rotaatio.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/icons-purple-murda-m.jpg

[r.s.]

Ps, I'm sponsored by my girlfriend. Free rollerblades from any company I choose, and clothing from anywhere as well. Best sponsor ever!

Beat that, razors!
They already have.


































http://rotaatio.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/icons-purple-murda-m.jpgyou wuck it to that picture? You seem to have an obsession with it.

[Special ED]

what is the difference between flow and pro? i don't see any.

[jakeordie]

you wuck it to that picture? You seem to have an obsession with it.
I knew you wouldn't get it, I've seen your skates.

http://www.create-a-mural.com/i//web_rainbow_cool.jpg

[r.s.]

We beg skate company's for colors, we get some color, now we have all the homophobic retards freaking out over it. I love it.

[Pulp]

Don't forget jc Rowe and Matt Moya

[Jake The Snake]

what is the difference between flow and pro? i don't see any.

a pro gets payed, ams get hooked up and brought on tours and trips sometime, flow dudes just get blades

[Rotgut]

who are all these said flow riders?The best local blader in your home town. Every home town.

seriously? I don't think there are THAT many flow riders. I don't know how many there are in other contries, but in Denmark, there are 3 flow riders and 1 pro. In my opinion, that isn't much.Everything is per capita my friend. See where yeah there may only be a couple of kids per area that are sponsored well that's out of only a handful of people. The ratio is just absurd.

[Geoff from FL in VA]

If this is gumby and if u dont mind me askin what happen with valo?

This is indeed Michael Braud

I basically got dropped from the Valo AM team because I more or less quit skating on a competitive level for a year in 2006 to become a professional alcoholic.(Valo 2? I don't even remember filming the few tricks I did for that shit. Going skating drunk and stoned had become a hobby at that point)

Long story short, skated Joey's NIMH's a couple times and FUCKING LOVED them.

Quit drinking in search of my mind and got on NIMH.


Wowsers!

If you're going to the Pow Wow Qualifiers, how are you earning a bottle of Fighting Cock this year?



And that's that.



Wowsers!

If you're going to the Pow Wow Qualifiers, how are you earning a bottle of Fighting Cock this year?

[jakeordie]

We beg skate company's for colors, we get some color, now we have all the homophobic retards freaking out over it. I love it.
I had royal blue Daytonas, I liked the colour.
I had maroon 5th Elements, I liked the colour.
I had navy Khutis, favourite colour skates I've owned.
Always wanted the brown Xsjados, I liked the colour.

There's a middle ground between flat black and neon pastel shit that belongs in a fruit loops box or a happy meal. :roll:

[killinemsoftly]

I love bein better than some of these "flow" kids.... Lol

Ps, I'm sponsored by my girlfriend. Free rollerblades from any company I choose, and clothing from anywhere as well. Best sponsor ever! Beat that, razors!

congratulations guy... so why dont you have a sponsor? i was even on razors flow once and if your better than most flow riders you were probably better than me... glad i dropped that shit though! nimhs are the best skates ever...

[Rotgut]

We beg skate company's for colors, we get some color, now we have all the homophobic retards freaking out over it. I love it.
I had royal blue Daytonas, I liked the colour.
I had maroon 5th Elements, I liked the colour.
I had navy Khutis, favourite colour skates I've owned.
Always wanted the brown Xsjados, I liked the colour.

There's a middle ground between flat black and neon pastel shit that belongs in a fruit loops box or a happy meal. :roll:Now that you're an American citizen it's "color".








http://techbuddha.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/american-flag.jpg

[jakeordie]

There's a middle ground between flat black and neon pastel shit that belongs in a fruit loops box or a happy meal. :roll:Now that you're an American citizen it's "color".You know what they say.....you can take the boy out of Australia, but you can't take the Australia out of the boy.

[Roc.N.Rol]

I thought this thread was going to mention either Mike Torres or Tim Adams; both deserve so much for what they've done.

[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]

how to get sponsored before:

skate better than other people.





how to get sponsored now:

make some online edits and shout out the productz.



as for the original post...
iain should be pro and is def top 5. everyone knows its a joke that he isn't being paid big dollars (whatever that means in blading).
franco should not be pro, imo.
jeph has his own wheel.
ski has his own wheel.
gumby already broke it down for you. (also, gumby FTW. way to get shit straight in life, dude! A+)

[ap_muh_fuckaz]

jeph howard is pro in my book. he may not be classified as such by 'the industry' or whatever, but he has a pro frame and 3 pro wheels... this guy shreds hard. very very hard. promotes hard. and now i'm gonna go fix his car while he's at work...

[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]

^^^what he said

[alanchrishughes]

who are all these said flow riders?The best local blader in your home town. Every home town.

seriously? I don't think there are THAT many flow riders. I don't know how many there are in other contries, but in Denmark, there are 3 flow riders and 1 pro. In my opinion, that isn't much.Everything is per capita my friend. See where yeah there may only be a couple of kids per area that are sponsored well that's out of only a handful of people. The ratio is just absurd.

so like who then? i dont know if there is a dif between flow and am but when i think of that i think of montre and bolino ams for nihm, pza and franco for create originals, etc and all those dudes i think actually deserve to be pro

[jakeordie]

I think most of the names mentioned in this thread will be pro for their current sponsors in time. New skater-owned companies like Create Originals can't support 4 pros in their first year or two, and some ams need another year or two to cement their status as seasoned veterans.

But Razors & Ski is a joke.....dude killed shit forever and repped loyally with insane sections.

[al dolega]

The simple fact is that there are more people who deserve pro status (or at least a lot more recognition/pay/exposure/etc than they're getting) than there are available slots/spaces/money to do so. People love to run around and point fingers at this company and that company but it's just a byproduct of rollerblading being where it's at right now; it's no one faction's fault.

Proportionally, our current population has a shitload of older (in age and/or experience) people, of which many are of course amazing at skating, but very few youngsters (of any ability) coming in (or staying in) to support them. In order to support/sponsor/appreciate all the people who deserve it, rollerblading needs way, way more young/new kids. We don't have them, so the pros/should-be-pros/etc suffer for it.

Ideally our age/experience demographics should look like a pyramid: a wide base of new/young skaters at the bottom, and a narrow peak of older/experienced/amazing skaters at the top. With a tapering middle comprised of skaters who fall between the two extremes, of course. The money flows upward, but it's fighting the gravity of markups, costs, employees, taxes, etc, which all siphon money off on the way up; thus the base needs to be wider than the peak.

But it doesn't look like that right now, it looks like a rectangle, or even an inverted triangle. There isn't enough money to fight that gravity, so very little reaches the top of the graph. We're like a huge tree that's lost most of its roots and whose water supply is drying up; soon we will just dry up and fall over.

[Kevin Lubovich]

Jeph Howard should be pro. Don should have a pro skate. My two favorite blaerz.

[SoSure]

We're like a huge tree that's lost most of its roots and whose water supply is drying up; soon we will just dry up and fall over.
http://jiveturkey.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/debbie_downer.jpg

[azrider]

THIS THREAD IS GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING

[jakeordie]

THIS THREAD IS GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING
I typed this huge super SRS response to what Al said, and then I was like AHHHHHH FUCK IT, CLOSE WINDOW. :lol:

[dag.]

eh.. those guys already get enough recognition. all good as fuck though. but give blake kelly, jt truitt, and guys like those fucking skates. and me some, since i'm poor.

[denial06]

THIS THREAD IS GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING
I typed this huge super SRS response to what Al said, and then I was like AHHHHHH FUCK IT, CLOSE WINDOW. :lol:

damn jakeordie.. no matter how negative the response was to what Al said etc. it needs to be said and read. somebody has to drop the best technology ever in purple, you should just change your text to purple.

[al dolega]

THIS THREAD IS GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING
I typed this huge super SRS response to what Al said, and then I was like AHHHHHH FUCK IT, CLOSE WINDOW. :lol:

Yea, I contemplated doing the same as I was writing it.... just in a downer kinda mood today I guess haha.

[remzcore]

Umm Iain mcleod has had a " pro" skate by deshi, are those not grounds for being pro??

[_doesitmatter_]

ok heres some proof that companies waste time and money giving out skates to shops or kids who dont deserve them.


there was a skate shop here when i first moved here called blade-n-skate.
it was run by an older asian lady who had no idea what she was doing.
around the time that the shima 4's and stockwells were coming out she was told by sunshine that she would get a "shop flow spot" which meant she could pick a kid to ride flow for her shop and that kid would get a free pair of razors when new boots were released. so instead of going to the three or four kids here who were really good at the time( and trust me there were a few kids here who were fucking good even for now) she goes and starts giving the skates they sent to some little yuppy brat who hadnt even been skating very long. this kid starts going around telling everyone he rides for razors and hes am for razors and then quits and starts doing coke at like all crazy at sixteen. even a little while after the shop closed they were still sending her skates which she was selling on fucking ebay.

now.....if they had done even a little bit of checking in they would have known that giving her/her shop a free pair of skates EVERY time they released a pair was a total waste.

im sure this is the case with a large majority of these deals they work out with shop owners.

even with all this throwing skates around like whatever....i worked at a shop in san diego and we tried to help some kids out in a jam and we get in trouble and get put on fucking suspension with a distributor where we cant get anymore products.....straight up bullshit. they can be charitable to the point of wasting money when it makes them kinda look good but we cant help out some kids who just wanna skate?

end rant/

[_doesitmatter_]

Umm Iain mcleod has had a " pro" skate by deshi, are those not grounds for being pro??


i think he means currently pro for a company.

[Kevin Lubovich]

^ That's bullshit. Thre are definantly people who should not be flow. People just comin into the game where style only counts.. People who have shown their skill and blade really hard deserve it. Like Broskow people talk shit about him,but look at what he has done in his career. We know he is the shit. Also I know people who get flow skates from dif companies don't rock them and sell them. That's so lamne. My friend got a apair from Remz and tried to sell them for full price so he could buy the same pair in his size and got kicked off the team. WTF!

[Crazy Tom]

There was a shop here that gave their son the Razors flow spot. He was 10 and not good at skating.

[Kevin Lubovich]

I remember my friend Paul and his family owned Rollin Chicago and he got the Remz flow spot. He definantly deserved though dude is so buck. Then he stopped gettin free skates to try Valos... I think they moved the whole Nimh AM team to pro.

[lim]

Dustin Halleran! He deserved a pro boot from somebody.

[_doesitmatter_]

Dustin Halleran! He deserved a pro boot from somebody.


this!!


has walt austin ever had a skate? i dont think he has but i think he should.

[SoSure]

has walt austin ever had a skate? i dont think he has but i think he should.

I think he got disrespected by USD with one of those Roller Warehouse exclusive spare part pro models.

[al dolega]

has walt austin ever had a skate? i dont think he has but i think he should.

I think he got disrespected by USD with one of those Roller Warehouse exclusive spare part pro models.

Yup, Halleran too.

[Ozzie Sandoval]

has walt austin ever had a skate? i dont think he has but i think he should.

I think he got disrespected by USD with one of those Roller Warehouse exclusive spare part pro models.

Yup, Halleran too.

This!

Also...
Iain Mcleod, as many of you know I hang out with often, we always talk and drink and shoot photos. He is such an awesome nice funny guy, We've had a couple serious conversations where things were looking good for him, and at other times doubting himself and the "scene" or were it was going or so, made me kinda sad. But all in all, I'm glad something changed for him and he decided not to go into the other route we discussed.

[DanBLI]

suicide

[chowsa]

Should be pro.

[ercaderk]

RobG needs a pro skate. Too bad Rollerblade sucks.

are you trying to say there wont be one?

because there probably will be.

Probably is a shitty answer. And rollerblade still sucks.

[Hady]

unfortunately not everyone gets a pro boot tht deserves it. halleran and austin got shitty excuse for pro boots from rw. i think walts was a classic throne which from what i remember he always rode psirus and usf thrones. does halleran even skate anymore?

[daniel.farmer]

I remember my friend Paul and his family owned Rollin Chicago and he got the Remz flow spot. He definantly deserved though dude is so buck. Then he stopped gettin free skates to try Valos... I think they moved the whole Nimh AM team to pro.

I just saw that John Bolino has signed up for the Winterclash PRO 2010 in Berlin. As far as i understand, the only way you can compete in the PRO, is when you are PRO for a boot company. So because of that, the NIMH am´s; Montre, Joey and John are all pro´s for NIMH ???

[xGREENxCLOVERx]

Any mention of Ross Anthony yet?