Question Mark: Justin Schulte
Words: Rob Brink The Skateboard Mag February 2009
The day before our interview, 22-year-old Justin Schulte missed his connecting flight from Dallas TX to Newark, NJ by about 30 seconds and was preparing for a night of less-than-comfortable sleep on an airport floor.
“I watched my plane leave, dude!” Justin says, “And all because I had to go and buy a Whopper.”
“Is that a typical Schulte circumstance?” I asked.
“Yeah, I’m pretty much the last-minute guy. ‘Oh no worries, the plane’s not gonna leave without me.’ Then I get to the front and they’re like, ‘You’re Justin Schulte right? We paged you four times.’ But somehow I foreshadowed myself blowing it. I had a feeling that something wasn’t gonna pan out right, so I didn’t check a bag in. I just carried on my bag with the skate.”
Festivus: Downtown Showdown '08
Words: Rob Brink The Skateboard Mag February 2009
It’s virtually impossible to be surrounded by a few hundred of your friends in a Hollywood replica of downtown Manhattan, with Slayer’s "Angel of Death" playing at mind-shearing volumes while Jon Ponts kamikazes himself twenty-something feet across a pentagram-shaped monstrosity of a skateboarding obstacle named the “Five Points of Pure Evil” and not have a good time. Im-fucking-possible.
Festivus: Goofy Vs. regular 2008
Words: Rob Brink The Skateboard Mag February 2009
Winning is played. Seriously. Throughout all of history, people just want to win shit. Free stuff, games, wars, bets, the affection of another person or many people, skateboarding contests. Wanting to win just starts trouble and drama and usually results in mental anguish or a loss of income and pride. So, in an unprecedented new marketing strategy that will soon resonate and be imitated throughout the entire industry, The Skateboard Mag decided to lose this year’s GvR on purpose. Keep an eye on your inboxes for the big press release next week.
It's nice to be able to speak/post freely about my friend Jose riding for etnies now. Waiting for the formal announcements and ads are hard sometimes, especially when you are sitting on tons of cool photos and video and most people know the scoop already.
Anyway, we did an interview the other night for his "Welcome to the team" deal. Part one of three is live. I like it.
My head's been spinning lately. The end of the year is always insane. I always think I have it under control and then all hell breaks loose. Interviews in the works include Jose Rojo, Danny Garcia, Omar Salazar and JT Aultz.
Maybe you don't care... but that's my excuse for the lack of updates.
What many people don't know, or often seem to forget about the skateboarding industry, is that sometimes, everyone stops giving a shit about the politics of who they work or ride for and just decide to go have fun... together... kinda like when you go skateboarding with your friends, right? In recent times, it's something I particularly admire The Berrics for achieving.
The holiday party that etnies threw last night, for any adidas employee willing to come, was a pretty damn good time. Nike dudes showed up, adidas dudes showed up, Burnside dudes showed up, big media dudes like Yahoo! and CNBC showed up, cute ladies showed up and dressed like elves for us, Santa showed up, regular people with no idea what was going on showed up... it was well worth the there-and-back-in-24-hours trip up to Portland.
Santa totally killing it.
No one ever said this was a family site. I'd "read more" if I were you... that is, unless you are under 18... then you should go read a different part of this site.
Some of my super-amazing, often-imitated-but-never-duplicated am blog team are down at Tampa Am right now. Due to poor travel planning, unfortunately, I'm not. Good luck David,Figgy, Johan and Jimmy!
Aside from this, here's three other reasons Leo is one of the sickest dudes:
1. Cricket: Why did you run into the Maloofs at that contest?
Because they were dressed all jacked. They were walking across the street course while people where skating, and I was trying a trick while they were walking. I figured, “Why wait for them to move? They’re rich, they could pay for it.” I think I hurt myself more than I hurt them, though. It wasn’t even the Maloofs; it...
