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May 19th, 2008 at 11:43 am
stop it
May 19th, 2008 at 11:50 am
the soulplate looks a little weird…why is it so massive in front and on teh other hand so narrow in the backarea? Could really kick you out of balancing royales on ledges….
May 19th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
hoooooly crap that groove is sooooo deep you need a submarine to use it
May 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
awful …
May 19th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I think these skates could turn out good (not saying anything till i have tried them)… not saying they look nice but they are light weight and got big grooves and so what if they don’t look as good as razors or that but they might feel better so I wouldn’t care! I think its good they are bringing out new skates and new companies so stop leaving stupid comments like them ^^^ “awful…” and “stop it” its just gay!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
the front is only a little bigger than the back, doesnt really matter. but theyre still… ew? deep groove?
May 19th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hahaha that groove is ridicolous
Unless those soleplates are made of something indestructible you’ll have worn the groove down to the boot in a matter of weeks
May 19th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
best looking skates on the market at the moment by fare they will look so good on someone hahaha
May 19th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
pl.youtube.com/watch?v=um2Lxambevc&feature=related
May 19th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
” OliBenet Says:
hoooooly crap that groove is sooooo deep you need a submarine to use it”
Best comment ever!!!! =)
May 19th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
so lets all sing, we all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine….
May 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
^sim u fail
i think they look pretty wierd and yea the groove could be amazing or shit. just cuz they are the lightest isnt enough to win me over.
i agree tho its nice to see new companies making skates, props.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I agree with front flip on this one. That skate is gonna make a lot of new kids hate skating cause it sucks. the front sole is okay, the heel is too small and the groove is gonna kill someone and break within weeks. this looks like a job for better skate man. that company, like he said is just trying to take money out of our market.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
front sole part bigger than the back.
clearly not designed by a person who actually skates.
crap
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May 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Where do i get this bad boys ????? seriusly??
May 19th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
As i’ve said before, Stateside need a rollerblader working for them to design their skates!
May 19th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
@sanchez: tell me, how take money out of a non-money-market?
^^
May 19th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
easy. We are still a high money market. You may not think it. but rollerblading is still a high profit industry. Watch barely dead. It talks about how much this market makes. OVer 100 million. aggressive skating is a small part but in france every thursday or friday over 50000 bladers come out to skate. That’s huge marketing potential. 50000 times 200 bucks. it’s over 1.2 million right there. that’s in 1 location. Also they know that the aggressive side is super small compared to the rec/fitness side. How better than to make a shitty skate that pretty much guarantees people who use their skates will stop using them but only after they’ve bought a pair and by then the sale is too late, you’ve bought their skate and they’ve been paid to fuck us up even further.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
ahahahahahaha These look like cheap ass aggressive skates i could get at a sporting goods store.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:46 am
horrible design, most of the weight is in the back so you would tend to make the soul plates bigger in the back. yuck, thats all i can say =/
May 20th, 2008 at 1:26 am
UGLY!
May 20th, 2008 at 2:46 am
no comment haha
May 20th, 2008 at 4:09 am
um, dirty,
100 million is nothing. skateboarding is a 2 BILLION dollar a year industry.
UPS (the company that delivers your skates to you) did $47,547,000,000 in total revenue and profited $4,202,000,000 last year. This is only one company, think about how much the whole package delivery industry made. You clearly have no idea what big money is. It is not wise to talk about a subject such as business when you have no clue what you are saying.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:10 am
if those dont work its because a skateboarder made em’
May 20th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Let’s see. You’re talking about two different things dipshit. 2 years ago the national report for inline sales was around 17 million while skateboarding was at 11 million. let’s talk those numbers. the actual sports. not Fucking UPS you dipshit. It only takes 1 weak link to destroy a chain. 17 million by $200 per skate is 3.4 billion dollars a year. you dumb fuck. yes more boards are bought per year, cause they’re so easily broken, but never the less more skates are bought when a kids foot grows or he breaks his skates somehow. or simply cause a newer better model comes out. out of that aggressive may take up maybe 20-30 percent of the market. which still leaves us at about 50 million easily per year worth of sales dollars that I”m sure a skateboard company would love to get their hands on even if it’s just a little bit, considering that they’d be targeted towards first time users that number must grow way more than any of us realize.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
though UPS is a fortune 100 company, no skateboarding company is even on the fortune 500 list. which means that we must protect what we have even greater. I’m sorry for cursing at you but don’t ever think that I know nothing about business. I own three different companies outside of blading. and they’re all very successful. I know numbers and I know profit. I also know dangers when i see them. If a competitor is trying to sale something that is of low quality and at a cheaper price, solely cause the price is cheaper, he’ll take away up to half your sales, the other half know that your product is better. Once the half that left realize that the product they now have is shit, you’ll be lucky if 25 % of them come back to you while the other 25% are no longer interested in you or your product and have moved on. This company will do just that. Take maybe half of our sales in new skater profits while producing the shittiest skate ever made. with half of maybe 50 mil taken away leaving us only 25 mil. how do you think those companies are going to to with only a fair share profit margin of maybe 4 mil each skate company and dilute that down to the hardware and software companies. You’re looking at maybe a cash flow of only 3 mil to each company if there’s no other companies coming out, Oh and let’s not forget that Tom Hyser has been talking about his brand new skate coming out for a while now. This industry needs to make it impossible for any company that has any affiliation with skateboard sales to never get in. It’s too tempting to take away our profits and use it towards their needs.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:10 pm
quite possibly the ugliest skates ever manufactured ?
January 4th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
i got a pair of them 4 xmas they are brilliant