Interview - Skate Talk with Adapt Brand - Olga Bouwhuis and Pieter Wijnant

Wed, May 24, 2017
Interview - Skate Talk with Adapt Brand - Olga Bouwhuis and Pieter Wijnant

Olga Bouwhuis and Pieter Wijnant are the owners of Adapt brand. Adapt is a inline skating brand handmade in Holland. Hope you enjoy this 66 minute talk with the two owners of this unique brand who wants to reduce the number of skates sold and improve the quality of their customers.

Interview - Skate Talk with Adapt Brand - Olga Bouwhuis and Pieter Wijnant

Content

  • 01:25 - it all started as a love story.
  • 05:33 - freestyle blading, rollerblading or inline skating?
  • 07:53 - traded Belgium for Holland.
  • 08:05 - End of Forward Freestyle
  • 10:40 - “I was encouraged by my mom to skip school and skate if the weather was good.”
  • 12:30 - Called Olga and told her about a Dream to make a skate and had a name..
  • 17:20 - we are 2 handshakes away from every other skater.
  • 20:06 - Lino and Pieter were speed skaters.
  • 21:22 - rollerblade twister boot
  • 23:00 - 4 screws frame mounting system
  • 28:55 - New adapt secret skate project
  • 30:02 - Adapt goal.
  • 30:20 - making skates more expensive
  • 32:53 - Adapts for slalom
  • 35:25 - How Lino plans his days
  • 36:52 - Olga’s main role
  • 39:10 - I’m a full time chef
  • 41:20 - Adapt Team video
  • 45:10 - Mike Lilly and actual Adapt Team
  • 48:10 - Fake but funny advertise break
  • 58:30 - Randy spizer and Louie Zamora had Adapt Skates.
  • 59:37 - Nick Labarre
  • 1:00:44 - Julian Bah
  • 1:03:27 - New Hyper Skates vegan
  • 1:05:12 - should we make a geeky part 2 or not?
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