It was great hanging out with the RB guys at blades. I haven't been doing anything skate related ('cept shirt designs, of course) for a while and it was cool to be around my old shop spot, reuniting with old friends and making new ones. I finally got to chat with Rob G. who is one of my absolute favorite skaters! I asked him what the hell was going through his mind when he did his Fiziks Masters of Delusion section (showed below), and he gave me some cool insight as to what he was going through while trying to bang out this section in less than a month with no car or camera. Truly a testament to what skating can be if you think outside the box a bit.
I spoke to Tom Hyser (Skatepile.com\RB lead skate designer) as well about the fall of Fiziks frames (my favorite frames) and he basically explained it just wasn't financially feasible anymore (most of you should know about this already). They had changed the company responsible for building the parts and though they were told it would just be a month of downtime it ended up being around 8 months! As well the skating industry is not big enough to charge skaters 100+ bucks for a frame (though the frame lasted really long and had swappable/replaceable parts). All in all I still miss Fiziks, and it would be cool if it were resurrected at some point so more skaters could check it out and hopefully love 'em like I did. Much props to Tom
Getting some shirts made tomorrow!! I'll put some pics up when I get back and you guys can check 'em out!
Peace
T out
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