PopWar Is Popular
- October 20th, 2009
- Posted in Sports
- By TomWalsh
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Author: TomWalsh (4 Articles)
I'm Tom. I grew up in Grandfalls-Windsor, NL. skateboarding since i was only 13, i was approched by Ian with the proposal to write an article about what's happening in the world in skateboarding.
Well, I’m not too sure how many people reading this are going to remember the “pop” war of the late 90′s. Mabye some people remember Shorty’s skateboards slogan “this shit’s got pop”. Apparently, the “pop” war has begun again.This time it’s between Flip skateboards and Alien Workshop. Flip claims to have “Spring loaded pop” and alien workshop’s new line of decks come fully equipped with “moon Pop”. I guess maybe I’ve just out-grown all the gimmicks in skateboarding. All boards are of the same basic construction. Are they really fooling anyone with the promise of “spring loaded pop”?
I don’t even think kids these days fall for that. The only way to get the attention of young skaters now is to sell the boards with “a free pair of your sister’s jeans and pink shoes”!!! Anyways, the point I’m trying to make is that skating shouldn’t be about the gimmicks it should be about the skateboarding. What ever happened to blank decks??? They’re the same shape and construction for half the price! that saves you about $40 you could spend on something better, like a pair of jeans that fit you!
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I’m not sure I understand what pop is suppose to be, besides a slogan. What exactly is the claim they are making of these boards that makes them somehow different from traditional ‘non-pop’ boards?
“Pop is supposed to be how “springy” the board is when you pop an ollie, which in turn apparently determines the height of said ollie.I personally think it’s a load of crap myself, the height of one’s trick shouldn’t be determined by the amount of “pop” a board has but more determined by their skateboarding and physical agility.
They really don’t sell blank decks anymore? I’m not a skater myself, but my brother is always at it. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him with a blank one.
“a free pair of your sister’s jeans and pink shoes”…hahaha. Gold!!!
Nu skaters look ridiculous. Neon…for fucks sake!
And yes…what ever happened to just regular blank decks!. Next thing ya know, they’ll have composite decks (patent pending) that’ll “pop” every time you ollie!!”
Personally, it’s SODA POP that always turned my crank.
Kids these days…
actually, they’re already making composite boards. one company has carbon fibre, lib tech has been making fibreglass boards for years, and blind recently came out with the “eternal life” deck, which has a layer of spacecraft aluminum in the middle.Sorry to burst your bubble drew….
Bollocks!…oh well.
Do those boards explode as easily as the composite hockey sticks….and are they as ludicrously priced!?!
the boards are surprisingly strong! i work part time at a skate shop and this dude came in with a lib-tech deck and wanted to change it for a different deck. apparently, the board had gotten run over and lost it’s “pop”, but it didn’t break. as for the price, they run for about $140 a deck!
I bought a Lib Tech deck when they first came out in 2001. They have pretty wild construction for skateboard. Where your typical deck is made from 7 plys of horizontally laminated maple, the Lib Tech decks are made from vertically laminated maple sandwiched between a layer of fibreglass and a layer of graphite, which are in turn sandwiched between two maple veneers with a slick base (yes, a slick!). I skated it for several years and it still had pop. I gave it to a kid I worked with last summer and he still skates it. Pretty awesome.
All the same, you can’t beat a mini-logo.