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Lob_Rocker
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 16:29
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http://www.hoboskateco.com/
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Sleepy
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 16:41
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Awesome..
taking money from skateboarding and giving it to Hobo's
why didn't I think of that...
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blkprjkt43
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 16:42 - Edited by: blkprjkt43
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california girls skateboards?
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carterjfa
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 16:43
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Bumfights shoulda had a skate team...
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Sleepy
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 16:51
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looks like they have room on the team for ya' Christian...
Don't call it a comeback!
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blkprjkt43
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 16:55
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Fuck dude, my hobo days are behind me, I'm too slow to hop boxcars nowadays...
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hamrocker
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 17:01
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They have a super sick team.
http://www.hoboskateco.com/team-hobo.html
Am Rider, am Rider, Pro Rider ,Pro Rider...oooooh mysterious.
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blkprjkt43
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 17:06 - Edited by: blkprjkt43
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Am Rider and Pro Rider are brothers, their sisters are Whale, Rump, Pale, and Easy. Total little league skate family. Uncle Low makers 'em do pushups and windsprints.
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oldmanarmy
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 17:33
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From the AZ Republic.. I wish I could of somehow found the picture that the paper posted up of one of the hobo owners....designer jeans, hobo shirt, designer cap a little bit tilted, cool-guy shades and standing on top of the deck acting like he is doing a 50-50 grind.
The guy is in his 30's, does not skate, but claims in the article he's still a skateboarder at heart... RAD!
"Like a freestyle skater poised at the edge of a half-pipe, Hobo Skate Co. founders Jared Hancock and Chad Swensen were fearless when they launched their skateboard company five months ago.
"With the power of social media right now, it's never been a better time to leverage a company," said Swensen, despite the no-spend trend among consumers.
Scottsdale-based Hobo Skate Co. has harnessed the power of social media such as Facebook and MySpace not only for marketing but also for feedback from their fans on their skateboard and T-shirt designs. More than 6,000 people joined Hobo's Facebook page in the first month, many through a T-shirt giveaway promotion.
And now the company is set to ride another pop-culture wave when it teams with "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer to sell merchandise based on her sci-fi thriller "The Host."
Hancock of Cave Creek and Swensen of Scottsdale both have 14-year-old sons who are friends and skateboard enthusiasts. The dads met and realized they're still skateboarders at heart.
"We talked about skating, and then about how you end up doing things that are not tied to your passion," said Hancock, who grew up surfing and skateboarding in Honolulu. He was working as an insurance sales rep and relaxing after work on a half-pipe he built in his back yard. Swensen, a Utah native who is a skier and skater, told him, "Let's start a skate company."
Hancock jumped at the chance. Swensen had started two technology companies and knew what he was doing.
Before they even had a name for their company, the two knew their venture would be tied to helping homeless people. Swensen came up with the Hobo name as a tie-in.
They started the Hobo Foundation simultaneously with the business. They will give a portion of their profits, when they get some, to the foundation, which will partner with local charities that benefit the homeless. The two briefly considered whether "hobo" might be considered politically incorrect, but they decided the term fit their mission and would appeal to the young people in their target customer base. The company motto is "We share the same streets."
The charity aspect was a key draw for Meyer, Hancock said. Meyer, who also lives in Cave Creek and is a family friend of Hancock's, invited him to design a one-of-a-kind skateboard for a cancer-charity auction she was hosting in the spring. The deck sold for $1,500, and she was so impressed that she approached the two men about partnering on a line of gear.
"She knew that by doing that deck for the charity event, people saw Hobo as a company tied to a social cause," Hancock said.
Her three sons were also an influence. Meyer's phenomenally successful "Twilight" books are about the romance between Edward, a vampire, and Bella, a human, and fueled an obsessive following among tween and teen girls. "The Host" is about alien parasites who take over humans - more appealing to the skater crowd. Hobo shirts and decks feature images of the alien.
Hancock and Swensen said that Meyer is involved in the design process, and, in fact, wanted to tweak one of the designs at the last minute, delaying the debut of the "Host" merchandise until next week.
It will be available online at first and then in major retailers.
Hobo sells skateboard decks, which are made in Arizona, as well as T-shirts and hats, and will offer shoes and a full apparel line in 2010. Hancock and Swensen see the company competing with brands Hurley and Quiksilver in stores including PacSun and Tilly's.
Hobo solicits general product and design feedback from its Facebook and MySpace fans, and eventually will post renderings of specific designs for comment and suggestions.
One of Hobo's Facebook fans is Collin Lacy, 17, of Mesa, a senior at Red Mountain High School who usually rides long skateboards.
"I got my shirt through their promotion, and I was stoked," he said. "I hadn't shortboarded in a while and being a part of a group like this got me inspired to start again."
Lacy was sold on the charity angle as well.
"It made me think that they weren't just trying to use the skateboarding community to make cash. They wanted to help us, and everyone else out there," he said.
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Sumdumsurfer
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 17:46
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"Bumfights shoulda had a skate team..."
"Like a freestyle skater poised at the edge of a half-pipe, Hobo Skate Co. founders Jared Hancock and Chad Swensen were fearless when they launched their skateboard company five months ago."
Mmmkay, this paragraph is simply put... just not right on all counts. Read it a few times. Freestyle, poised, edge of a half-pipe, FEARLESS? FEARLESS.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thanks... I go pee now.
SKATE/SURF 4 LIFE!
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junior
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2009 23:54
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Bumfights shoulda had a skate team...
i'm actually in bumfights two... and a couple fights i filmed are in there too....
i'm not braggin i'm just suprissed anyone remembers bumfights
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infidel
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 00:04
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PISS OFF!
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blackplague
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 05:40
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Thats great!!!
Jason
www.myspace.com/blackplaguewheels
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Shamrock
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 19:11 - Edited by: Shamrock
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"Like a freestyle skater poised at the edge of a half-pipe, Hobo Skate Co. founders Jared Hancock and Chad Swensen were fearless when they launched their skateboard company five months ago.
Nice, welcome to our little world guys. I'm so happy to know that you're skaters at heart. Now go pound sand up your ass.
You ain't half the man your Mama was.
-S
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cswensen
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 20:32
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Thanks for the great PR. We been skating for over 25 years and we appreciate the support. :/
cswensen
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cswensen
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 20:33 - Edited by: cswensen
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"We share the same streets"
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MJamison
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 20:34
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 see you at pioria
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bucky
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2009 22:39
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"We share the same streets"
Homo say what?
Enjoy your 15 minutes...
SK8 TOUGH FSU!
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Lob_Rocker
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 05:25
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Thanks for the great PR. We been skating for over 25 years and we appreciate the support. :/
Obviously they have been doing web searches on their name or they would never have found this site.
I don't know.....They say they have been skating for 25 years, but if they really have been, do you think their site would look like that?
"Like a freestyle skater poised at the edge of a half-pipe, Hobo Skate Co. founders Jared Hancock and Chad Swensen were fearless when they launched their skateboard company five months ago.
I don't think a real skateboarder can come up with that silly text in his wildest dreams. I thought we killed off all those stupid freestyle skaters.
Never seen these dudes at any park. (I've been at it for almost 30 years and never quit-droppin my own name). I thought the wave of hangers-on ended at least 5 years ago.
I went on their contact page and asked them if the owners skate and said it takes way more than just money to make a legit board company.
They fired back with "What, you nervous about the new competition in town?" I guess they knew about me and they said, "No hard feelings". I also asked them if Danny Way let them use a photo of him on the site and did not get a response.
I explained skateboarders are protective of skateboarding and invited them to to an event with AZPX since we're both from Scottsdale. They were down.....we will see then. It they are true skateboarders like they say and want to start a label in town, I am all for it.
They also said their decks are fully manufactured in AZ which is highly unlikely. Maybe the heat transfers are applied in AZ.
I know I sound like a hater but this whole thing sounds like it was started for $, not skateboarding, which just bugs me.
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DomitianX
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 08:13
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Great, like we need *another* god damn skate company. The dudes that are doing it for the right reasons are having a hard enough time at it, now there is another douchebag in the mix sucking off the tit of skateboarding.
Fuck them.
Old School Skaters Online Skateshop
http://www.oldschoolskaters.net
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Lob_Rocker
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 08:19
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Cross-branding with the "Twilight" franchise is what skateboarding needs. I wonder if I ride one I will turn into a vampire?
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blkprjkt43
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 08:53
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"Like a freestyle skater poised at the edge of a half-pipe, Hobo Skate Co. founders Jared Hancock and Chad Swensen were fearless when they launched their skateboard company five months ago."
A fearless freestyler?
The gravy train in skateboarding derailed a while back. Still, there are a whole lot of potatoes floating around hoping to suck up the juice in the bottom of the barrel. It's amazing. I hope they poured enough of their life savings into this soon-to-be failure that they learn their lesson.
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chumply
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 10:51
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There is something inherently creepy about these 'dudes' co-opting homeless people as a 'brand'.
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junior
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 11:05
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There is something inherently creepy about these 'dudes' co-opting homeless people as a 'brand'.
they get the concept from the twilight book/movie...
vampires suck blood...
homoskates are the vampires of the az skate industry... $$
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Tsmoke
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 12:34
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"The Host" is about alien parasites who take over humans - more appealing to the skater crowd.
This struck me as kinda weird...
"life is what you make of it, and stoke is what seperates the people who truly live and the people who merely exist.....", Xena
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claywheels
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 13:09
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Hey, chicks dig vampires
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Brent212
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 13:32
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"Like a freestyle skater poised at the edge of a half-pipe..."
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bobcat
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 14:11
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brent - todd falcon is too good for this asshattery
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Brent212
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 14:20
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Probably, but that first picture's fucking funny.
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blkprjkt43
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# Posted: 21 Aug 2009 14:53
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Probably, but that first picture's fucking funny.
Damn straight Brent, the elusive primo slide roll-in, haven't seen one of those since Marlon Perkins died.
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