The skateboarding industry as a whole has been downtrending and we have been affected by it there is this great video on YouTube called why rollerblading died it covers how roll bating is one of the fastest growing spots of all time in the ’90s only to fizzle out 10 years later
The name in the coffin was in 2005 when the X Games cancelled all rollerblading events and basically downgraded it from extreme sport to Fat this led to all the sponsorship dolls drying up and basically the industry collapsing in on itself that’s really cool Ricky I don’t really care about rollerblading talk
About skateboarding okay okay well if that happened to roller blading could that happen to Roller boarding skateboarding come fizzle out and die right right the barracks recently announced that they are moving out of their private skate park we have a big announcement everybody we’re moving we’re moving guys the skate park
Was a symbolic Cornerstone of the skateboarding industry where all the top pros come and try their best tricks in a controlled environment they didn’t announce the move was due to hard times but I can only speculate that the giant Warehouse in La isn’t that cheap and with the industry declining and
Inflation Rising moving out seems like more of a necessity to survive Andy shark from Revive skateboards also posted this video yester today where he explains a similar situation in a much less dramatic and ambiguous fashion I have some bummer news and I’m going to tell you things are changing here at
Revive skateboards in the shred quarters we’ve finally had to kind of lower overhead and we’ll be moving the distribution warehouse into this one if you’ve been watching for a long time you remember that this room used to have a skate park and our boards and stuff well
We’re going to go back to that times are tough and we’re scaling back and it’s affecting some of the lives here in our little uh shred quars family unfortunately we were having to drop some of our staff and um and that and that hurts that’s that’s really where I
Feel like a failure um but you know no one’s really in skateboarding to to be rich and famous Andy does go on to give a little bit more of an explanation as to why being involved in the skate industry this is something I’ve known for a little while
But I’ve never seen anyone really publicly discuss this during Co there was this huge surge of new skaters people were stuck at their houses boor with not a whole lot to do and they thought skateboarding was the perfect thing to fill in their time every company skateboard sales went crazy and
Everyone sold out of all their products that’s great right well what went on to happen is due to the nature of Co and a wood shortage that came from it no one was able to get any more skateboards despite ordering and ordering more after a while the world eventually did go back
To normal and people kind of got over skateboarding and didn’t really care about it anymore and then all these skateboarding brands were left with way too much stock and not enough sales and in a business this can create a lot of problems we also saw this with dwindle
Distribution for those of you that don’t know how distribution Works in skateboarding sometimes a company like dwindle will own a bunch of different brands in this case it’s these ones I’m just speculating but it seems like these factors caught up with them as well leading them to a point where they
Couldn’t pay their team Riders anymore as well as firing legendary former pro skater Bill whis who was an integral part of the operation hey everyone how are you my name is Bill whis I’ve been with dwindle distribution for 19 years and I just got a phone call uh letting
Me know I’ve been fired I wanted to start by saying thank you to all the amazing people I’ve had the opportunity to work with at dwindle over the years I can’t thank you enough and it’s been an absolute honor it was cool to see the skaters rally behind Bill and support
Him by quitting these Brands but it’s devastating to see these Legacy brands in skateboarding become this empty shell of what they once were overall it does seem like skateboarding is trending downward in popularity many people thought it being featured in the Olympics would maybe help it out but it
Kind of just came and went I personally think skateboarding is in Grain too heavily in our culture that it will ever fully die but I do feel like we are going through some kind of skate recession right now I want to play some of my favorite clips of me skating the
Barracks and the shred quarters but first I want to say skateboarding will always be a big part of my life regardless whether or not I’m making a living from it or despite what the industry is doing but I did want to give my condolences to these big companies
That have YouTube channels and their own private indoor skate parks if I was a part of a skate company YouTube channel that had a big Indo skate park I might be a little worried cut to the Montage [Applause] [Applause] Sh A I’m Ricky glaza I’m here in the beautiful Barrack we’re going to do a dream trick and we’re going to see if we can do a cool dark slide W I like What okay yep sounds good [Applause] [Applause] yeah yo hi what up Ricky got bar we got stuck with this camera right now yeah out here Logan for you happy birthday dog happy birthday happy birthday look this photograph
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