Drago Endorses: A World Without CEOs
Apparently, there is a big controversy going on in the skateboarding world right now over blank decks. If you don’t know, blank decks are skateboards that shops or small companies make which don’t have any graphis on the bottom. Blanks cost slightly less to make, but the real savings are in the design and marketing areas. Blanks cost less to the end consumer and are bought by people who like skateboarding more than they like looking cool.
Unbelievably, the big companies who make the heavily designed and marketed boards are casting themselves as victims in this situation, saying that blank boards hurt their sales and will eventually ruin skateboarding. They are saying that if pros can’t sell boards, they will not be able to have teams and then they can’t make videos, etc. etc. They’ve even made a website about it, A World Without Pros. One of the people who is supporting this campaign is Tony Hawk, who has got to be a millionaire several times over by now. He probably wipes his ass with the money he makes off of his pro model boards. It’s like Jay-Z getting mad at cd bootlegging or something.
We think that whole thing is completely ridiculous. Back when we used to skateboard, we just bought whichever board was the widest. We always had size 13 feet, so fuck a graphic, we need that 8.5 inch. (That’s what she said)
In response to this BS, some guy has made A World Without CEOs to expose some of the myths about board making and graphics designing and all that. It’s almost an exact copy of the Pros website, which is awesome. Go look at it and school yourself on some skateboard politics.
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