Could interning save rollerblading

[NHRB]

Show of hands how many people have interned

And I imagine that working within the rollerblading industry is worse than interning already, at least at my last one I got free dinner and taken for a meal and drinks each week.

But listening to AJ's VX history lesson I can't help but think that if he had an intern at the office and hired an office manager he could go on the road all he liked and still get all that shit done by phone.

Plus I'm guessing a whole load of kids would be happy to go and do it?

Personally I think fester could do with a few interns, perhaps their new "sponsored for life" team

[Metric Fuck-Ton]

I've always wondered if I could get a job somewhere in the rolling industry without knowing anyone and just submitting an application. I have a theater degree from UCLA if that means anything. I can also edit. Oh to dream.

[wujcik]

no.

why?

the companies don't care about us, thus they would not hire us as interns. They would hire brainwashed uni students... well maybe based on that thought they may hire a few be-fags.

[NHRB]

They don't have to hire rollerbladers, perhaps someone fresh out of business school might help, someone that will carry on working when Christ Farmer walks in the office and doesn't get a boner and start leaking stuff on Be-Mag on their lunch break

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

get an internship at xjsado.....run the company within a month....

[wujcik]

From what I have experienced in my career, 90% of people with bachelor degrees are totally fucking useless. The strange thing to me is people with master degrees tend to be on point. People with PhDs tend to be a little out of touch BUT know everything there is to know about their field.

Will interns help our sport? FUCK NO.

So, the question is, "what do we need on the business end of our sport?"
the answer: real people. No bullshit trend cunts. No "pro" faces. We need real people that totally believe in their product to the point that they are willing to sacrifice everything. This is why Kato's original remedyz were so fucking brilliant. He lived in china for six months to make sure the factory got shit right. When the shops refused to sell his product because the wholesale price was too high, he sold the skates out of the trunk of his car.

There is some story about the powerslide guy selling shit out of his trunk but that was year old shit. He didn't run the company from his car.


IMO one of the problems is the shops. If they can't make 50-70%, they won't put the product on the shelf. Why do you think ADAPT is direct to customer only? Because if the shops sold them they would cost $500 US.

On the other side is the consumer. THIS IS NOT WOODPUSHING! Our equipment is way more complicated than a pice of wood with sand cast "trucks". Look at BMX for example. Park bikes for the serious riders are somewhere around $1,000. An argument can be made that their bikes last more than five years but outsiders tend to leave out the cost of constantly replacing tubes, tires, brake pads, bent forks, paying for rim alignment, etc... Many serious bikers have told me that they spend about $700 a year on maintenance alone, never mind the years they need new frames.



We can have it three ways. The first is the cheap. Buy cults every four months and be happy. I did this for years and loved it, unfortunately living where I do now the cheap cult option is out of the question. Cults are only good for a MAX of five months. (nimh and SSM too)

Our second option is buy more solid boots (throne/genesys) and replace parts. This option tends to cost a bit more than the first.

The third really hasn't come around yet. The Carbon and Lights should have been a minimum one year boots but due to the fact the conference and roces have chosen to take the cheap route these boots ate total crap and only last three months.







This leaves us as consumers where we are: either we are smart or we get scammed by the most recent marketing.

IN OUR SPORT TODAY CRBON FIBER BOOTS DO NOT EXIST. shit is a scam. The"carbon" boots are really fiberglass with a cosmetic carbon layer on top. Most auto carbon fiber producers use a cosmetic top layer with stronger, less attractive but stronger carbon layers under.. Companies in our industry today are doing the same but they are using fiberglass instead of more expensive carbon fiber as a base.


WAHHHH: BAD OFF TRACK LOGICZ!!!!!!


I had to save.

Back on track. Interns will give us the same crap. In the first four years of uni you are basically taught that profit is the most important thing in the world. Standard brainwashing to boost the confidence of the drones so that they never take classes that actually cost money to plan. A BA/S from a state school is exactly the same as a BA/S from harvard. Truth be told, many harvard teachers moonlight at UMASS to get a tax deduction from teaching at a state funded school. People wonder why they spend four years in uni and don't get a job. The reason is BA students learn what high school should teach.

Bottom line: The last thing we need is more high school grads thinking that they know how to make aggressive inline skates. What we need is true innovators that can make useful and innovative products.

[ift]

I was really interested in interning with a skate company for my summer between high school and undergrad. I e-mailed every address I could find in Daily Bread, and the only reply I got was from Azikiwee. He said he didn't do interns because when you don't pay someone to work, you can't expect them to do anything useful. We e-mailed back and forth a little, and I think he realized I had it together a little more than one might worry about with an e-mail from a random blader, and he offered I could come and help out with Able for a few months starting in September, but I was starting school in September.

Somehow three of my fuckup friends moved out to Cali for two of them to take the position, and I think they packed some shirts into boxes once and might have gotten to live in his garage for a month or something. They came home when they got sick of living with tweaker blader fuckups, and one of the blader fuckups ended up moving back to Tampa with them for a few months before wearing out his welcome at my friend's Dad's apartment.

[Brant]

Rollerblading deserves to die bunch of wining little bitches fuck off

[DcharSSS]

you really think aj is going to pay some fool to run vx when he's on the road? we have computers that can reach the internet from almost anywhere these companies don't have big office buildings, i would guess small warehouses
GET REAL
why do we need more than enjoyment for doing what we like to do
do hammers yo

[ift]

you really think aj is going to pay some fool to run vx when he's on the road?

blah blah

do hammers yo

Interns often don't get paid. Kinda like people that work in the skate industry already...




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With all your talk about 'do hammers'... you skate? Post something.

[Chow]

Nick your correct they need someone, but more a point of contact in each distrubution point. Working with companys is alot easier when you are speaking to someone in the same country. Its long waiting on time zones, for i.e when Alex Pimm ran USD/Ucon in the UK things worked alot smoother or when Stew Game ran Razors UK.

[StriderKC]

words words words words

tl;dr gtfo

[wil747]

From what I have experienced in my career, 90% of people with bachelor degrees are totally fucking useless. The strange thing to me is people with master degrees tend to be on point.

I have two degrees. My sister has two degrees. My brother in-law has a MBA. He only got it because he couldn't find a job straight out of uni...

[Red Rider]

Is this a serious question? Isn't that what most pros are doing now?

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

be an intern for razors......get bro raped in the ball pit

[bobgross]

JH should hold a lecture before the tradeshow next BCSD and teach other companies how to run themselves.
Based on what we can see of the way AM and Trust operate, he's doing it right.

Great image, great customer service, and (in Trust's case) a product that people actually wanted, without any extra shit they didn't want.

[drrty byl]

You'd probably be better off making money elsewhere and starting your own aggressive inline skating company. Prepare to lose what you invest.

[wil747]

You'd probably be better off making money elsewhere and starting your own aggressive inline skating company. Prepare to lose what you invest.

this....