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2007 2007 ASR with OMA – By Mike Furst: Posted 8-26-07<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2007 ASR with OMA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Old Man Army<\/a> crew decided to take off for a weekend to go down to San Diego to see what all of the hoopla was about at the ASR show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also wanted to see a few of the people that we deal with in the industry who would be there as well as to see what new stuff people were doing in the industry. The only other thing on the agenda was to get a couple of pictures of the kooky skateboard gadgets for the Skate and Annoy crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

We touched ground in San Diego early Friday morning and headed over to the convention center. We still needed to get passes to get inside the place as it\u2019s pretty much locked down like San Quentin at sunset. I called my contact (John at Rebel Skates<\/a>) who was going to hook us up with passes to get inside. John was running late to we headed for some breakfast before he arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We meet up with the Rebel crew, grabbed our passes and headed inside. Upon entering, you get the feeling like ASR is just one big place for jabbing your jaw: basically a social engagement for extreme sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a product called the, “Yo Baby\u201d (second and third pictures) and they were trying to make it all extreme.\u00a0 Even better is that the crew from yo baby had the genious idea to make spinners for your skateboard wheels.\u00a0Kind of like spinners for your car rims but for skating. You just get the sense right away that the crew\u00a0 from yo baby is down for the skate scene and really not trying to make money off of some skate gimmick. But they assured me sine I was wearing a buyers badge that these things were flying off of the shelves. Who’s shelves…I don’t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chinese Skateboards!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Have to just love this poster…its soo extreme… Yo Baby, killing the market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The big fish in the skate industry are all soft goods companies that have managed to attach their claws to skateboarding. Most of these places like Volcom and such have these huge walls where you aren\u2019t allowed in unless you have an appointment set up and are willing to drop tons of cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first booths that we stopped at was the \u201cYo Baby\u201d booth. Right off the bat, the owner of the company comes over to pitch his product to us like a sleazy car salesman. I\u2019m standing there trying not to laugh my ass off in this guys face. My partner Brian is just going crazy snapping tons of pictures. Of course I had to stand on the stupid gadget and get a picture with my, \u201cI don\u2019t skate\u2026I\u2019m just a kook\u201d tee shirt. The final thing this guy says to us\u2026\u201dwhy so many pictures?\u201d Brian turns to him and tells him that we are just getting tons of pictures of all of the crappy skateboard gadgets. His jaw hit the floor as he knew he wasn\u2019t making a sale from us and said, \u201cOhhhhhhh\u2026okay, I see.\u201d One more final picture was taken of the Yo Baby poster showing just how extreme it is\u2026 Also, yeah! bbyheads<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up on the kooky skate gadgets was a company from China with some sort of roller skate looking thing. Some poor kid was trying them out and it looked like he already had damaged some low hanging fruit trying them out. I wasn\u2019t about to give these things a go\u2026and so we bailed. We ended up leaving to go surfing up the coast at sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Might beTyler Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yeah! bbyheads!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Somewhere there\u2019s a patent from the 1920\u2019s for this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Early next morning we hoped onto the train and headed back into the city. We wanted to get over to the Washington Street park before all of the crowds hit. We arrived, paid our donation and then hit it up. WS is a pretty burley park and it will set you back to beginner\u2019s level very fast. I ended up getting a few good shots of Brian hitting up the kidney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I look over and see Jimmy the Greek strolling into the park and then he proceeded to kill it. Just as we were about to leave, some big older guy comes walking up to us to say that he was grilling hotdogs in the back of the park and for us to go help ourselves. Just then I noticed that the guy grilling the dogs was none other then Skip Engblom of SMA<\/a> fame. We had did an interview with Skip<\/a> some time ago so it was really cool to have meet him and rapped for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That looks fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Washington Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Just as we were about to leave and make the trek back to the train station, Jimmy asked us if we wanted to hitch a ride with him back to ASR\u2026so we did. We ended our trip catching a ride with John from Rebel back to Encinetas and had some dinner with him. John has to be one of the coolest guys in the skate business\u2026even if he does listen to 80\u2019s rock and new wave in his car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Mike Furst – Old Man Army<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007 2007 ASR with OMA – By Mike Furst: Posted 8-26-07<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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