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Tangent.. Skating has been in a recession for the last 2 or 3 years. It's just that skating is so big now that we don't notice it as much. Skating has always had an 8 year cycle, just like yo-yo's. The industry feels the pinch much sooner than the general skating community.
Hahahaaaaa... Nice one Drew.
I'll see your Round the World with my Rock the cradle Laz.
yeah... i know what you're saying, of course its pretty obvious that we're in a skate recession.. but i think the hardest hasn't hit yet... and shopwise it'll be the shops that have the right intentions that will be able to stick around and support skating when everyone else doesn't find it profitable to do so... sucks that PSC is downsizing as they have been a pretty big part of the melb skate scene.. especially OG PSC...yo yo's... good stuff.. just saw guiness book of records on tv, some guy did like 30 different yo yo tricks in one minute!
yo tangent, just thought i'd grab your attention here.
i was jack that got you to ring him on monday about ride the sky tickets. i've got two tickets spare to the 8:15 screening tomorrow night, was there anyone who you weren't able to give tickets to that you could?
Sadly, i think its a combination of factors. The cost of running a business in Australia is very expensive, with rent, staff, promotion of your business etc leaving very little left, compared to the online stores which need none of these things.
In the long term skateboard shops will survive, but most likely in a different way. Lower rent areas instead of shopping centres will perhaps be the future, with a combination of less staff and less range of products.
Please remember when you buy a skateboard from anywhere other than a skateboard shop you are then taking the profit out of skateboarding and giving it to bikes or surfing, who in the long term like to take the money from us but certainly dont reinvest it in skateboarding.
I can round the world...rock the cradle....ride the bike...walk the dog....and some other one where I flick it out and it does shit and comes back.
I am pretty good with a yo-yo.
I'll lend you my Airwalk yo-yo Laz. It might give you some Andy Mack power of illusion.
maybe if the person who's in charge of choosing stock could actually pick good shit that skateboarders would want to buy, not heinous looking shit (refer to psc hornsby store)
hey jack,
thanks for hitting me up, i think everyone's sweet for the 8:15 showing, everyone just wants to get into the first showing.. haha still got a few for the 8:15 showing that i'll bring with me incase i run into anyone that needs a ticket outside. so looking forward to the fallen vid!
when i went back to my place in japan i found a drawer with like my old coca cola yoyo in it too! and one of those trick ones too... man funny how you go through your phases like yo yos and shit where you're obsessed... thank god i never 'phased out' of skating like so many of my friends did...
Michael Mulhall
16:30 11/Sep
Tangent.. Skating has been in a recession for the last 2 or 3 years. It's just that skating is so big now that we don't notice it as much. Skating has always had an 8 year cycle, just like yo-yo's. The industry feels the pinch much sooner than the general skating community.
If skating's getting bigger then how can it be in a recession...
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PSC downsize?
Michael Mulhall 16:30 11/Sep/08
Tangent.. Skating has been in a recession for the last 2 or 3 years. It's just that skating is so big now that we don't notice it as much. Skating has always had an 8 year cycle, just like yo-yo's. The industry feels the pinch much sooner than the general skating community.
Michael Mulhall 16:39 11/Sep/08
Hahahaaaaa... Nice one Drew.
I'll see your Round the World with my Rock the cradle Laz.
tangent 16:53 11/Sep/08
yeah... i know what you're saying, of course its pretty obvious that we're in a skate recession.. but i think the hardest hasn't hit yet... and shopwise it'll be the shops that have the right intentions that will be able to stick around and support skating when everyone else doesn't find it profitable to do so... sucks that PSC is downsizing as they have been a pretty big part of the melb skate scene.. especially OG PSC...yo yo's... good stuff.. just saw guiness book of records on tv, some guy did like 30 different yo yo tricks in one minute!
insurance 16:58 11/Sep/08
yo tangent, just thought i'd grab your attention here.
i was jack that got you to ring him on monday about ride the sky tickets. i've got two tickets spare to the 8:15 screening tomorrow night, was there anyone who you weren't able to give tickets to that you could?
darkside 17:04 11/Sep/08
Sadly, i think its a combination of factors. The cost of running a business in Australia is very expensive, with rent, staff, promotion of your business etc leaving very little left, compared to the online stores which need none of these things.
In the long term skateboard shops will survive, but most likely in a different way. Lower rent areas instead of shopping centres will perhaps be the future, with a combination of less staff and less range of products.
Please remember when you buy a skateboard from anywhere other than a skateboard shop you are then taking the profit out of skateboarding and giving it to bikes or surfing, who in the long term like to take the money from us but certainly dont reinvest it in skateboarding.
Lazlo_Panaflex 17:10 11/Sep/08
I can round the world...rock the cradle....ride the bike...walk the dog....and some other one where I flick it out and it does shit and comes back.
I am pretty good with a yo-yo.
Michael Mulhall 17:21 11/Sep/08
I'll lend you my Airwalk yo-yo Laz. It might give you some Andy Mack power of illusion.
Tristan' 18:52 11/Sep/08
maybe if the person who's in charge of choosing stock could actually pick good shit that skateboarders would want to buy, not heinous looking shit (refer to psc hornsby store)
tangent 20:47 11/Sep/08
hey jack,
thanks for hitting me up, i think everyone's sweet for the 8:15 showing, everyone just wants to get into the first showing.. haha still got a few for the 8:15 showing that i'll bring with me incase i run into anyone that needs a ticket outside. so looking forward to the fallen vid!
when i went back to my place in japan i found a drawer with like my old coca cola yoyo in it too! and one of those trick ones too... man funny how you go through your phases like yo yos and shit where you're obsessed... thank god i never 'phased out' of skating like so many of my friends did...
Tommay 10:56 12/Sep/08
Michael Mulhall
16:30 11/Sep
Tangent.. Skating has been in a recession for the last 2 or 3 years. It's just that skating is so big now that we don't notice it as much. Skating has always had an 8 year cycle, just like yo-yo's. The industry feels the pinch much sooner than the general skating community.
If skating's getting bigger then how can it be in a recession...
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