vandall interview

mojo · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 8:41 pm Post subject: vandall interview

has anyone else read the interview with vandall? schmaltz get's a bump from him, and according to randy also had a hand in board design. you can find it on companywake.com

wakemitch · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject:

mojo, erich is building all the vandall and nicola boards for company wake. thats why they use urethane rails and other schmaltz features.

burn · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject:

so i guess the new series from integ is gunna take longer?

wakemitch · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject:

burn0n3@420, who knows, but hopefully not. more vandall boards will sell vs integrity skates probably.
all i know is that I cant wait to get a 2010 TNT

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

I am sure that Mutiny and Integrity will not take a backseat to Company.

burn · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 9:51 pm Post subject:

miller, hope so. Neutral

Steven M · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject:

looked through the company site and couldnt find it. link?

mojo · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 10:31 pm Post subject:

well i knew they were pressing them, but i didn't know the design part. does erich have a patent on the sidewalls b/c if not anyone can use them. i dunno if it has run out, but everyone who has been making towers has had to pay a licensing fee to correct craft for years.

http://wakeboardingmag.com/features/2009/11/23/the-interview-randall-harris/

wakemitch · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject:

mojo, he doesnt have a patent on the sidewalls, but I highly doubt any other manufacturer would spend the time and money making them. i guess you have to use dry ice and do it by hand, im not really sure how it works.

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

I wonder who is building Ricky Gonzales boards, since he left Gator to start up PHALANX?

The wakeboards look pretty sick & they seem to have good pop.

http://www.phalanxwake.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/img_0849.mov

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

A few more pics...

wakemitch · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject:

Grouch, those Phalanx boards look like they are made at a snowboard manufacturer at least by the way the rails are. they look good though

EJazzle · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject:

ES has been helping company for a while now.

http://www.alliancewake.com/wake/nicola-butler-2010-company-pro-model-breakdown/

i heard ES is doing some stuff with snowboards too.

mojo · Posted: Nov 25, 2009 11:54 pm Post subject:

it will take a long time for me to get along with phalanx. first of all hyperlite's sub VI had phalanx construction. and ricky never had good luck w/ any of his sponsors so it makes me wonder about him as a rider and his promotion of his sponsors. don't get me wrong, when i was younger i thought he was the man and he definitely goes huge always and can do pete 5's and moby 5's, but i'm unsure. also, why is schmaltz spreading himself so thin with integ, mutiny, company, and possibly snowboards? to me the company thing makes alot of sense, mutiny doesn't really, and snow boards just seems down right wacky. we are already 26 days behind when he said the new sight would probably be up. i think i'm going to order a deck just to see how long it takes to get it.

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

mojo,

Probably why he started up his own company???

WSR Represent Laughing

mojo · Posted: Nov 26, 2009 12:04 am Post subject:

oh, and SSR(south side riders) all the way. leave that west coast crap on the west coast. this aint the rap industry. how does cali have something like an 11 billion $ deficit w/ all their movie stars paying taxes and stuff? oh that's right, illegals draining the economy

Grouch · Kickflip Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 3146 City: The OC

mojo,

Illegals so true & the actors don't pay their taxes...their all owe the IRS (Cage, Snipes, Etc...)

mojo · Posted: Nov 26, 2009 12:11 am Post subject:

ya i saw that. nic cage is a moron. his dad's brother is francis ford copala. you'd think he would be smarter. i bet he got paid about 20 mil for nat. treasure 1 and 2 combined and he can't come up with 6 to give the irs? IMO, there should be a tax on celebs. i.e. if you get 5 mil per movie you need to get taxed hardcore on that along with regular taxes. especially since hollywood basically only puts out doody films these days back to the thread, vandall is the only rider i like from cali. maybe cordell. im not trying to be a erk. there is no ssr and i think the whole coast to coast jive is and always has been dumb.

Evan71 · Posted: Nov 26, 2009 12:15 am Post subject:

it trips me out everytime i see photos of them at the place i ride on the daily, just cause i know it so well and seeing my friends house in the backround of a magazine ad is nuts.

othe news, i heard phalanax is part of gator

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

Erich might be "spreading himself thin" but at least he's doing what he loves for a living. If he limited himself to just integrity and mutiny, I don't know that ends would be able to meet. Add in the fact that erich has deep roots in wakeboarding and has a lot of knowledge and experience with board design, so he's able to bring something better to wakeboarding in the process.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure ride snowboards has been using the urethane sidewall design feature longer than erich...but on the flip side, I think it was something he wanted to do but knew it wasn't really feasible at the time because nobody would spend that kind of money on a wakeskate.

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