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Geoff.
Posts: 2378 - Karma: 12
im just curious are any of you sponsored? i know people will say that there overrated and you should snowboard for fun which is true but im just curious if any of you are. oh yeah and if you are by who
Aug 25 2006 11:50PM
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akerbacker
Posts: 2827 - Karma: 8
no i'm not. well, i'm sponsered by a crochet hat company but that doesn't really count. memoire headwear. the site is in my sig.
Aug 26 2006 2:38PM
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icecoastn
Posts: 524 - Karma: 15
nope... ive only competed like... once though. and ive never pursued it at all either.
Aug 27 2006 12:53PM
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Redstar
Posts: 1698 - Karma: 9
Meh, sponsorship is overrated. It can ruin snowboarding for you, Scott Wittlake, for example. (this isnt just in snowboarding) THe pressure to perform, compete, make a sick video part every year, it gets stressful
Aug 27 2006 10:58PM
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Geoff.
Posts: 2378 - Karma: 12
i hear what your sain. im not really lookin to get sponsored cuz i suck, just curious if anyone was.
Aug 27 2006 11:13PM
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gnustreetfool
Posts: 2595 - Karma: 51
i know -curry- is
Aug 28 2006 11:22AM
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cracko
Posts: 2904 - Karma: 12
^ his video is pretty dirty.
and competing can be fun once in a while i usually ride better in comps for some reason but id never want to do it more than once a year. i just like to go for personal satisfaction.
Aug 28 2006 9:15PM
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gnustreetfool
Posts: 2595 - Karma: 51
i have been in three comps. 2 usasa and a local rail jam the best i did was second in one usasa. idk why but i ride so much better in comps.
Aug 28 2006 9:41PM
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Geoff.
Posts: 2378 - Karma: 12
i like comps once in a while cuase i like ridng with other kids and i usualy push myself at comps. a lot of the times when i ride its with my parents (im 14 and the mountains are a while away)so its fun to chill with kids with the same interests
Aug 28 2006 9:44PM
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Redstar
Posts: 1698 - Karma: 9
Riding in comps is sick, you push yourself, and others push you, as well as the pressure helps some (not all) people perform better.
Aug 28 2006 10:24PM
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PiNKY_headwear
Posts: 188 - Karma: 11
comps are really fun, you get to meet a lot of people and sometimes there's free stuff and redbull :-)

my 'sponsors': monster energy, fuel clothing, jaybay, and PiNKY headwear
Aug 29 2006 9:58AM
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akerbacker
Posts: 2827 - Karma: 8
ya i like comps. sometimes chill, but sometimes crazy and bad
Aug 29 2006 10:39AM
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Redstar
Posts: 1698 - Karma: 9
I have a Pinky headband :) hahaha, that shit's dope.
Aug 30 2006 12:11AM
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sn0wbl0w
Posts: 1104 - Karma: 10
nope not yet
Aug 30 2006 1:56PM
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WeeLilMen
Posts: 318 - Karma: 10
if u could choose ur sponsors who would they be?
Aug 30 2006 4:19PM
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Geoff.
Posts: 2378 - Karma: 12
probs grenade, rome, dc/vans,technine,sessions, and whatever mountain im at.
Aug 30 2006 6:45PM
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PiNKY_headwear
Posts: 188 - Karma: 11
i think it would be sweet to be sponsored by a sushi place
Aug 30 2006 11:02PM
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icecoastn
Posts: 524 - Karma: 15
technine and forum... or burton... since they have everything and the resources to hook up all of their riders... 32 for boots
Aug 31 2006 12:33AM
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sn0wbl0w
Posts: 1104 - Karma: 10
if i could choose it would be burton or electric
Aug 31 2006 2:54PM
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akerbacker
Posts: 2827 - Karma: 8
fukin oakley and probably like burton or forum
Aug 31 2006 6:35PM
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cracko
Posts: 2904 - Karma: 12
if you were sponsored by burton youd get anon for free so an oakley sponsorship would be kinda pointless.
Aug 31 2006 8:19PM
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Redstar
Posts: 1698 - Karma: 9
Get on Burton and you're set for life. THey make everything (or own a company that does) Burton, Anon, ANalog, Gravis, Red, etc etc.

I'd want Technine, Grenade, Volcom, Neff, and Dragon
Aug 31 2006 9:20PM
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PiNKY_headwear
Posts: 188 - Karma: 11
cracko....that's not true. anon's a seperate entity.

Aug 31 2006 11:06PM
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icecoastn
Posts: 524 - Karma: 15
yeah but hes not saying you get the sponsorship, just the free swag... which is truth.
Sep 1 2006 1:43AM
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cracko
Posts: 2904 - Karma: 12
right^. i know a guy whos sponsored by burton. and he gets tons of free everything owned by burton.
Sep 1 2006 9:58AM
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Alexander_Keith
Posts: 3204 - Karma: 25
Im calling shenanigans, I want video proof of your supposed awesomeness
Sep 1 2006 6:14PM
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Geoff.
Posts: 2378 - Karma: 12
hahah im not sponsored by them. someone a couple posts up said who would u want to be sponsored by. haha i tink im gonna work on grabbed threes before looking to get sponsored
Sep 1 2006 6:56PM
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PiNKY_headwear
Posts: 188 - Karma: 11
whoops. my bad.

i just realized in my other post that it sounds like i want to be sponsored by monster, etc. but i am sponsored by them.

my fantasy sponsors: burton, volcom or nikita for streetwear, nixon, vans=if only they did just a footwear sponsorship, nature valley=if they did sponsorships.
Sep 2 2006 1:02AM
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Alexander_Keith
Posts: 3204 - Karma: 25
haha, alright my bad
Sep 2 2006 7:53PM
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-Schmitty-
Posts: 414 - Karma: 11
forum=burton now
Sep 8 2006 10:16PM
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akerbacker
Posts: 2827 - Karma: 8
ya there differnet, i could still be sponsered by oakley
Sep 8 2006 10:32PM
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icecoastn
Posts: 524 - Karma: 15
no forum=owned by burton, just like volvo is owned by ford, or powerade is owned by coke.
Sep 13 2006 11:36AM
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Geoff.
Posts: 2378 - Karma: 12
wow i never knew that. interesting
Sep 13 2006 2:35PM
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-Schmitty-
Posts: 414 - Karma: 11
forum has all of burtons technology now
so basicly is better tahn burton but still = to them
Sep 14 2006 8:21PM
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icecoastn
Posts: 524 - Karma: 15
why would it make them better than burton?
Sep 14 2006 8:38PM
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-Schmitty-
Posts: 414 - Karma: 11
burton bindings didnt have that great of fine tunability and forum bindings did so add more fine tunning to burton bindings and thats the new forum bindings
Sep 15 2006 6:40AM
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DopeSauce
Posts: 1677 - Karma: 26
I knew a dude who was sponsored by burton and he still had heapsa fun, was like only 13 and got moved over to Oregon or Utah from New Zealand... he had never even ridden a mountain before he was sponsored, just this indoor park.
Sep 22 2006 4:00AM
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=Worf=
Posts: 2468 - Karma: 25
no i think paying retail prices for equipment is overrated. i havent paid retail since like 92. i rode for a few different compnies through out highschool. only once inmy entire carrer was did i have requirements to meet, and i dropped that sponser as soon as the requirements were laided out

i guess it does matter at what level we are talkking about, but at the bottom end when you are just getting free and cheep shit there is not much downside
Oct 6 2006 10:41PM
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akerbacker
Posts: 2827 - Karma: 8
ya sponsership can be really sick at a sort of low level where u just get free stuff and don't really have to get magazine pics and shit like that.
Oct 9 2006 7:55PM
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GnarBurger
Posts: 3215 - Karma: 43
^ yeah small sponserships are pretty good
Oct 16 2006 8:54AM
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zemke
Posts: 842 - Karma: 70
i spanced on capita flow
Oct 17 2006 11:40PM
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=Worf=
Posts: 2468 - Karma: 25
i still represent my local shop and get grea thookups through it, i get everthing at cost or cheeper.
Oct 24 2006 1:09PM
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