fallen footwear
fallen footwear and deathwish skateboards celebrate the release of the slash ii collaboration shoe .
for the fallen fans who may need a little help with their footwear .
fallen footwear on instagram :
it is with a thankful & humble heart that i announce that spring 2016 will be fallen footwear' s last season. i would like to thank the past…
a fallen revival could be reminiscent of és footwear’s temporary hiatus from late 2011 to early 2014. the concept of low - cost, quality footwear marketed to skateboarders is similar to that of state footwear, founded earlier this year .
after a couple of months after laying fallen footwear to rest, jamie thomas may be considering reviving the brand .
currently, the fallen footwear account hosts two photos. the only other post hints more towards starting a new footwear brand. how much of the remaining fallen infrastructure thomas plans to utilize, including teamriders, logos, and footwear designs remains to be seen - but what do you think ?
it came to our attention today that jamie thomas has decided to terminate fallen footwear. this is a sad thing .
since cole left, fallen went down that’s true, yet he haven’t say shit about fallen, that’s lame .
we will keep you updated on the coming fallen footwear collections. here you have some nice product detail images to make you really hungry…
it is with a thankful & humble heart that i announce that spring 2016 will be fallen footwear’s last season. i would like to thank the past and present fallen team, employees, distributors, and retailers .
fallen footwear puts your personal style and skateboarding skills into the stratosphere. the trademark fallen combination of socal style and skateboard tradition is included with each pair we sell here at skate america. if you’re performing a caballerial, kickflip, frontside air or other skateboarding trick, fallen footwear is the clear - cut choice for the perfect fit, pro - grade performance and poise under pressure .
the legendary lineup at fallen footwear includes many shoes you’ve noticed at world - class competitions and others commonly seen at your neighborhood stomping grounds. from the always ready patriot to the low - profile roach, from the mid - cut d. o. a. to fallen’s one of a kind forte 2 – beginners, veterans and championship contenders all love fallen footwear for the same reasons you do. comfort. fit. quality. super cool colorways. and much more. best of all, you can find the best shoes from fallen footwear right here at skate america! we offer an unbeatable price matching program, and should your fallen footwear order exceed $ 100, the shipping costs are on us .
the times they are a changin’. news broke out on instagram yesterday that fallen footwear was officially over after a solid 13 years. peep the message from jamie thomas :
to speak with a skate america representative about our fallen footwear products, or to find out about what shoes we’ll be offering soon, call our skateboarding team at 805. 823. 8140. you can also chat with an apparel representative on the skate america contact page. we’ll be happy to answer all your questions about fallen footwear shoes, or any other product you’re looking for !
check out all of the new shoes from fallen in their spring' 16 catalog .
christian estrada is the latest edition to the fallen team in spain. enjoy the ride .
fallen footwear’s founder jamie thomas took to instagram today, announcing that the spring 2016 season (out now) will be the last. we wanted to thank jamie and the fallen footwear team for their generosity to vegan skate blog and making some amazing skateboard shoes. though jamie hasn’t been vegan for a long time now, he made a commitment to always make a vegan model available; in synthetics rather then just canvas too !
fallen men' s slash 2 skateboard shoe, black / mint, 8. 5 m us
thomas initially founded fallen footwear in 2004 and persevered twelve years before calling it quits this past april. the brand’s legacy includes two full - length videos, ride the sky (2008) and the road less traveled (2013) .
from colorways to purpose, rawls' wide range is easy to see in this collection of footwear he' s designed with c1rca .
guaranteed 99% of the people who commented “i love fallen” haven’t had one of their shoes in a decade .
before fallen you were riding circa during it’s heyday. you must have had one of the biggest shoes in skateboarding. how much were you making back then from circa footwear and what led you to walk away from that money and start fallen? [ laughs ] i don’t like to talk about money, but it was more than i ever could’ve imagined; that’s how i started black box .
the vibe was a fancy slim cupsole! the signature tommy sandoval colorway was vegan - suede. another great fallen model .
regardless of whether you pushed your rig in fallen footwear or not, the fact that a legendary skateboarder has had to close his shoe business down, is not only sad to hear, but paints a dark picture of exactly what is wrong within the skate industry in 2016 .
after months of uncertainty, it' s sadly official – fallen footwear is no more. jamie thomas took to instagram this morning to confirm that the once great brand was to be discontinued following the current season, leaving behind over a decade of quality videos, team riders and products .
trasher magazine recently interviewed tommy sandoval. since he is riding for fallen and zero skateboards we thought it would be of interest for you…
our dear friend and founder of fallen and zero skateboards has given an interview to trasher magazine last year that is worth reading. here…
on april 11, 2016, jamie thomas announced on facebook, instagram and its homepage that fallen was disbanding operations. [ 4 ]
hailing from alabama comes the founding father of zero skateboards & fallen footwear, jamie thomas, a. k. a. ‘the chief. as an original pioneer of groundbreaking street gnar on the board, jamie continues to push himself to progress while balancing both family & business; while still enjoying skateboarding daily .
in a recent instagram post to the semi - rebooted fallen footwear account, the captioned question above was posed and garnered over 6k + likes along with a number of comments that are continuing to be generated. with an overwhelming majority voting in favor of the move, we wanted to hear your thoughts on the potential relaunch .
rather than waiver from this mission, we are choosing to bow out. i encourage everyone to support authentic skate footwear brands as we wish them all the absolute best .
over the years, what’s the craziest fallen fan you’ve ever encountered or the craziest thing you’ve seen someone do for fallen? i’ve seen a lot of tattoos, which is always flattering but feels bizarre. my hope in creating fallen was that it would feel more like a board brand and people could have loyalty for the mission, which is not all that common for footwear brands. i think it worked in the early years really well because of where my career was at coupled with cole’s and the rest of the team. but over time, the team dynamic changed and spirit of the brand seemed to not matter as much .
fallen' s ride the sky video is one of the best of all time, so we' re leaving that right here for everyone to enjoy .
what' s next for fallen? 2013 will be over before we know it, and we' d like to tour and do demos throughout 2014 .
it’s frustrating to see another skater owned brand fold. paraphrasing jamie, rather then compromise the values of fallen, they are simply going to close up shop .
this shoe works for casual and for when you need to add just a little bit of class to your outfit. it works with black pants or jeans and does match best with shirts that are simple without extreme colors or patterns. this was the
gateway
shoe to get my spouse to upgrade his footwear to more adult styles and looks. i definitely recommend for others needing to convince someone in their life that footwear should grow up as we do! as with all fallen shoes, the quality matches the price and the look is simple and modern .
as of january 2015, the fallen pro riders were jamie thomas, tommy sandoval, brian
slash
hansen, dane burman, jon dickson and tony cervantes .
how much does fallen folding personally have an impact on you? do you plan on skating much longer into your 40s as a professional skateboarder? do you still have video parts in you? i’ve been fighting an uphill battle with fallen for years. all the time with the pressure that if i don’t work around the clock and do everything possible fallen may not make it, so as hard as it was to make the calls on monday, it’s a relief that i can finally moving forward with my life .
javier suarez is the newest addition to the fallen spanish squad. his confidence on the skateboard is what will make him stay in the game for a while. a true ripper .
while most footwear is meant simply for general public consumption, sometimes a designer is charged with working with a pro athlete to develop his signature shoe. the liberty was the product of collaboration between rawls and pro skateboarder jamie thomas .
there’s no telling what’s next for the skate shoe industry, or what’s left for the riders and employees that fallen used to support. as things get sorted out, we obviously hope to see everyone land on their feet, but in the meantime we reached out to the chief for a post - mortem on fallen and for his predictions on what the future holds .
fallen and deathwish combined forces for a new colorway of the slash ii shoe. so in celebration they decided to have a skate session with pizza and beer at the baker boys park .
fallen was known for their shoes, flannel, hoodies, t - shirts, snapbacks, book bags, jeans / shorts, and skateboarding videos. the more popular shoes are ,
the clipper
,
the patriot
,
the rival
,
trooper
and the
forte
. at its peak, fallen had 17 models in over 50 colors .
how do you want fallen to be remembered in skateboarding? what are you most proud of? i want fallen to be remembered as a brand for the underdogs, the die hard skate rats. i don’t feel like now is the time to be proud. i’m extremely thankful for all of the experiences and good times i had with the team and the employees through the years .
the rambler was the first shoe we skate reviewed from fallen. the upper was a durable synthetic suede. super light, and very fun to skate. i’d love to find another pair .
rawls' heart may be in skateboarding, but he' s designed a wide variety of footwear that rides the spectrum from soccer shoes and snowboard boots to casual and women' s shoes. his collection of sketches for macbeth shows off his range in style .
if an investor came along and wanted to revamp fallen or buy the name, would you let it live on through someone else’s control like a world industries? in my eyes, that would be the worse case scenario .
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well unlike dvs, fillament, state, the current es, circa, vox, osiris and globe they actually had a marketable image. all those companies are bland as hell, and like it or not fallen had a demographic .
as the skateboarding landscape continues to radically change, we can' t stress enough the importance of supporting core skateboarding brands – and especially core footwear brands. emerica, lakai, etnies and others are battling on, but they won' t be around for much longer without the support of skateboarders everywhere .
think about emerica, state, lakai, fillament, es, etnies, dvs, c1rca, vox, huf, osiris, supra, globe, and diamond and tell me how fallen could possibly be different enough from any of those brands .
you founded fallen as raw 100% skateboarding, that kind of hesh / handrail style skater that was down to get super broke off and put it all on the line. do you think that type of clothing style and skater is a dying breed? do you think that was a contributing factor to fallen declining in sales? yeah, to some degree. i think skateboarding is becoming more about creativity and style because everyone can do everything. there’s needs to be something to make brands or skateboarders stand out amongst all the stuff that is coming at us. i think that fact had the least to do with the decline of fallen, because other brands are facing the same challenges we’ve faced, it all just happens at different times .
where does that leave you now for a shoe sponsor? would you ride for adidas, nike, cons or vans? i have nothing lined up, i’m just gonna keep wearing fallen’s and try to not think about it for a bit. i have quite a few projects i’m working on that i’m excited about, so i’m just gonna focus on those. also, i haven’t really been paid for the time i’ve invested in fallen for about 3 - 4 years, so there’s not a lost salary i need to make up for .
ten years have passed since the first fallen shoe hit the stores. what has changed in the shoe business since then? well, our shoes have gotten a lot less puffy, but our mission is still the same: we focus on making shoes strictly for skateboarding .
in 2008, fallen released a skate video titled
ride the sky
. the video features billy marks, brian hansen, chris cole, gilbert crockett, james hardy, jamie thomas, josh harmony, matt bennett, tommy sandoval, and tony cervantes. [ 6 ]
did you get some ownership when adio footwear started too? nah, adio was owned by k2, which bought planet earth. k2 made skis and rollerblades and even though chris miller was running the show, it was always felt a little weird cause at the end of the day your future was in the hands of a ski / rollerblade company .
if they made a whole line of shoes at the same level as the capitol or the more recent doa model then maybe they would stand a chance. not sure the whole nike / adidas in skateboarding debate really needs to be involved. fallen just made too many bad shoes .
i left circa because we were supposed to launch a new sister footwear brand based on the momentum of my line, but they had some massive issues with their snowboard brands, which put them in a serious cash crunch. they quickly canned the new brand and they weren’t able to pay me for about 3 or 4 months. as that balance started to stack up, they didn’t know if or when they be able to pull out of it and pay me, so the longer it lasted, the sketchier it got. going to dc to start fallen didn’t seem risky at all, you can feel it when the time’s right .
if you' ve been in a skate shop or a skatepark in the past decade, you' ve seen rawls' work. he' s designed successful shoes for duffs, fallen and dc shoes, to name a few. his history as a skateboarder has played a key role in his success as a designer .
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the lifecycle in skate for the majority should be short, mean something extraordinary, and go away leaving you wanting more. that said, fallen’s run made a huge impact during its greatest era, and just like es, should be remembered for what and who it influenced to come after rather than trying to kick start something again & again .
finally, there is a comment to be made in relation to the advances of feminist thought. there is a fine line between critiquing oppression and reinforcing it. turner’s somewhat polemic response to beard’s article reinforces precisely the male domination she seems to be arguing against – surely we are moving away from a time when women are bullied into what they should or shouldn’t wear, or, more precisely, what they should feel or say about their footwear choices .
anyway – the point here is that fallen had been around for 13 fucking years. i personally never owned a pair, but there were people that did. i can’t name anyone specifically (to avoid defamation litigation) but there were definitely tons of skatepark heroes that loved those shoes. honestly i seriously couldn’t tell you why. but they did. and that’s important .
companies like fallen represented a time when we weren’t so in tune or maybe didn’t really care about fashion – and fashion certainly did not give a fuck about skateboarding. so to see a company like this go away, even though many of us may have been too cool for them, is actually pretty sad. ya know – like losing a part of the culture .
in the mid -' 90s, destiny called, and rawls was approached by a burgeoning footwear company, kastel, that was looking to launch its line with a young pro .
they called me and asked me if i wanted a signature shoe and to represent their brand ,
he says .
it sounded like an offer that was too good to pass up, so i took it, and that opportunity gave me the chance to design my signature shoe .
where does this leave your team riders now? hopefully they can end up in good homes, even though it seems there’s too many talented pro skaters and not enough footwear spots for skaters at the moment. yeah, it’s not a rad situation for any of us, myself included. when facing heavy shit like this, team riders and employees have always weighed the heaviest on me, but eventually you have to face the reality that you can’t continue to look out for everyone, it sucks .
how do you feel about tommy sandoval’s post on instagram about the whole situation? i love tommy and i love his passion for what he holds true. i don’t want to play the victim or blame anyone for what happens in my life. i learned a long time ago that life is tough and it’s not always fair; i know there are a lot of factors for the decline of fallen .
rather than listening to what beard has to say about her shoes, turner appears to have fallen into the trap of assuming that to talk about shoes at all is to dumb down or to reduce ourselves to objects subject to the male gaze. in this respect turner’s tirade has done more to reinforce the stereotype of women that talk about shoes as mindless dupes and hapless victims of patriarchal oppression than mary’s original article did .
why did billy marks leave fallen, and will he be in the video? it seemed that billy and the brand grew apart, and over time there was less and less of a connection and it started to affect our ability to sell his products and justify his salary. so we didn' t re - sign him earlier this year, and he quit. he went on two of the trips, but he will not be in the video .
is it true that you still have an ownership stake in circa? yeah, as crazy as that is; when i left to start fallen my stock was fully vested and they weren’t in the position to buy me out, so it’s just been there chillin. i always hoped they’d sell, but it’s been a rollercoaster for them since muska and i left. hopefully, they pull it off though and a few bucks will fall from the sky some day .
jamie thomas, the brand’s head honcho, has given his entire life to skateboarding. he created brands that left a strong legacy in the history books, building and supporting teams that have pushed skateboarding forwards, taking a leap of faith into everything he has done with solid commitment. it’s a real shame to see any skater owned shoe brand close after 13 years of hard graft, but that’s sadly today’s news, fallen’s spring 2016 shoe run will be the last .
carnaby street: perhaps london’s most famous shoe - shopping location. filmed during a lunch hour this seven and a half minute video observes the shoes of those passing through the popular location. the sheer diversity of styles, the sounds the shoes make and the ways in which people walk in them allude to the very special and significant relationship between footwear and identity. who are these people? what do they do? where are they from? where are they going and where have they been? – all questions that pass through one’s mind when spending time really looking at the shoes people wear whilst going about their everyday lives .
you signed off “skate or die” at the end of your fallen press release. if you couldn’t skate, or didn’t own any brands anymore, would you consider killing yourself? probably! [ laughs ] nah, i would further devote myself to my family and even if i wasn’t skating i’d be replaying the times when i was skating in my head. i am a lifer and skateboarding is what i know and love. that was a message to those who are feasting on skateboarding, but don’t skate .
if you grew up skating in the late 90s and early 00s, you remember when jamie thomas was * the * guy. you could play him in thps, zero felt like one of the biggest board brands in the world, and anyone that knew anything about skateboarding would always mention the leap of faith. as the years went by he took a step back from the limelight, but behind the scenes he was relentless, starting black box distribution and growing mystery, threat, insight, and, of course, fallen .
we’ve flowed this kid from minneapolis shoes for almost 3 years waiting for him to blossom, but when i called him on monday to break the news to him about fallen, his response was sinclair called me and asked me to ride for nike not to long ago, so i’ve been wearing them. i’m hyped he’s gonna be taken care of, but does nike need everyone that is good at skateboarding? this makes it impossible for authentic skate brands to nurture the next generation of talent, so our fates are eventually sealed by our bros that now work for nike .
can you tell us a little bit about the last 1 - 2 years with fallen? what were the major successes and hurdles in moving to dwindle and ultimately why you had to make this decision to kill it? we’ve spent the last 24 months revamping the brand; we solidified a relationship with a new factory in order to improve quality and we redesigned the whole line minus a few staples. we focused on those 2 things first because they were the biggest complaints people shared with dwindle. i also personally took the time to call as many accounts as possible to explain our plans to resuscitate the brand .
as skaters, we’ve all heard that these skater - born shoe companies have been hurting for a while, but it’s not until they really go out of business or finally call it quits that it hits you. regardless of if you were a fan or not, it’s always a bummer to see something that was once so loved die out, to watch employees and skaters get tossed out and back into the uncertainty of unemployment and the rough skate industry machine .
i feel like the successes were that the new designs were good and received well; but the hurdles were that the market is in a really interesting place and it seemed like no matter what we did, it was too little too late .
sales eventually shrank to the point where they were too small to meet the minimum order quantity requirements with the factory for fall 2016 production. when you’re at that point, you only have two options if you wanna continue. pay massive up - charges for the small quantities or make the minimum quantities the factory requires and flood the tj - maxx’s & costco’s of the world with the excess shoes .
we weighed everything out and it didn’t make sense to go further into negative numbers by paying the up - charges and the tj - maxx route is obviously just lame on all fronts .
so, we collectively decided we had reached the end and it was time to cut our losses .
we also found ourselves in a quickly changing climate with the corporate brands putting a lot of pressure on retailers to buy more, which meant they had to cut back on the smaller brands. some of our best accounts were also having a hard time keeping their doors open, so paying slowed down dramatically across the board, which started to impact our cash flow and marketing budget. we also lost cole, which obviously had an impact on the sales and the perception of the brand. basically the perfect storm of everything that could happen .
my mission now is to keep zero raw and combine dudes from the new generation with zero’s style in order to continue to reinvent the brand while staying true to it’s roots. it’s also easier to fight for your stake with a board brand, cause those massive corporations can’t or don’t want to get in skateboard trenches; there’s not enough margins .
that said, i have to acknowledge that the athletic brands continue to go out of their way to make it impossible for anyone without their resources to stay alive, which is really lame. they are cutting off the oxygen at the bottom by poaching flow riders and ams from core brands by offering them more even though they already have 50 ams and a 100 flow riders on the team. nike has a team manager at every level and now they’ve even hired mike sinclair who used to manage the dekline team as a talent scout because he’s plugged into the am contest network and has his ear to the street .
i thought circa was sold at some point already and people cashed out? has it always been the same owners since you started with them? nah, things got really rocky a few years ago and they pretty much closed shop, but i think the owner of the factory stepped in and took over in exchange of the debt and resurrected it .
the weird thing is, i think all of those brands you mentioned are undeniably solid besides the fact that at the top everything is about money; they make great stuff, have amazing teams, support industry events and they take care of their people. that said, i’m not sure i fit the mold for any of those brands though besides vans; they’ve always been a skate brand. vans has a massive team though with several dudes that share a similar history to mine. i have principals and beliefs about the brands i’d like to support, but that’s not my purpose for living. the trick is to balancing those beliefs while continuing to do what you love and take care of your family .
nike has been in skateboarding for over a decade. do you believe that they will stay here for a while or eventually leave? i don’t think they’ll leave anytime soon. even if things contract a lot, i feel that they’ll still find ways to make sense of being here; their roots are getting deeper by the day and skateboarding influences pop culture, so my theory is that they’d stick around to use skateboarding as a marketing tool to make their mass market business seem edgy and cool, which it undoubtedly does .
looking back do you think you got too greedy or went over your head starting so many companies? [ laughs ] i don’t think it was greed, but i’ll admit i was definitely overly ambitious. i never really cared about how much money anything made, i was just obsessed with progression. i guess i had to figure out my limits the hard way .
if you had a new skate shoe brand would you ever consider having forrest edwards being the “lead” pro? [ laughs ] forrest is an amazing skateboarder and a funny ass dude, but he’s not a leader .
i went skating yesterday for the first time since the news broke and everything felt better, i felt lighter. physically, i feel good; i have my ailments and have to stretch a lot in order to warm up, but i’m at my best when i’m working on a video part or a project, so i’m gonna keep that going till i can’t. i wanna be looking like willie nelson and still grinding rails [ laughs ] .
any highlight era or memories from the years? man, the early days were amazing because it all felt so fresh and new and there was nowhere to go but up. working on projects are always the best times for me; traveling with the team filming for ride the sky, those were great times. everything seemed so simple back then, no instagram or social media to worry about. just bros out skating pushing each other. filming for ‘road less traveled’ was amazing too, we got to go to a ton of amazing places, see stuff we never thought we’d see and make lifelong memories .
taken by: joey shigeo, chad foreman, matt price & daniel harold sturt .
people’s minds are the same in porn as they are in skating .
in 2014, when everything is a brand and the pro skaters themselves have more instagram followers than the biggest magazines and companies within skateboarding combined, the old rules don' t apply anymore .
the place i lived at was just gross, at one point i got all this fungus on my hands and feet .
whether you like the actual brand or not, we represent the idea that anyone (a nobody) can change things if they are willing to take action and make the necessary sacrifices .
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for being arguably the most technical skateboarder alive, daewon song is as humble and down to earth as it can get .
a tip of the cap to a great run. not the first, certainly won’t be the last to bow out. i can think of a laundry list of board, shoe and apparel brands that probably should .
i feel like we’re reaching a tipping point in skateboarding with the impact of sports brand shoes and instagram. i kinda hope it all just dies and becomes wack again. id go back to the days when you got called a faggot while rolling down the street in a heartbeat. also, skateboarding as a whole needs to stop forgetting to call posers posers. what the fuck is up with that? if you don’t push, rocking any thrasher gear should be punishable by death .
# truth it is the bible, but their clothes are over priced and fit like shit .
agreed, thrasher needs to stop using gildan… after one wash they turn into belly button shirts. the sweatshirts have super wide sleeves and are short and wide on the torso too… there is only so long i can air dry my shit. not sure how they can’t be bothered to fix this, go to costco and buy some kirklands to print your logo, not that difficult
pretty neat clothing brand jamie came out with maybe 08 / 09. super rad edits. nick boserio daniel lutheran some aus dudes names i cannot remember. i enjoyed the skate edits they produced. didn’t buy any clothing. vimeo has some of their edits. check it nice .
it’s an australian lifestyle / surf brand. was truly great until a few years ago, then a few people left on the art directional end. it’s not quite what it was .
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these are my favorite shoes. just might buy a pair of white and black shoes. ^ 0 ^
this is a short review, as i couldn' t really wear them. for me, i found these shoes very tight around my foot where my toes join my foot (my toe knuckles ?). too tight to push on with wearing them. my feet aren' t crazy wide, btw. the length was great though. over all, the quality seems high, great arch support, well made, sturdy .
my son loves it. he wears them all day and he is very very picky! he uses it to skate .
since the company hasn' t released good shoes since that
chris cole left time
i had ...
since the company hasn' t released good shoes since that
chris cole left time
i had no hope for them but the only shoe that has stayed constant in the stylish and comfortable board feel, is the fortes. if you skate you' ll obviously loose tread but if you' re trying to be hip these are the shoes .
a very nice skate shoe. sad to see them go. jamie thomas is a genius !
bought these as a christmas gift for my husband. he absolutely loves them! pefect fit and got here in time .
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chris cole and billy marks were a particular highlight – enjoy them in full quality here .
agreed. the shoes were clunky, fit was never quite spot on, they lacked durability and design was not a strong point. there’s a reason the company went under .
actually no, they had their shot. we need to support the other brands thats still out there
they had their chance to make a quality shoe. they sucked back then and i am sure they will suck now .
their run with jamie thomas / chris cole at the helm, is probably the pinnacle of the company’s existence? once that duo fell apart the company couldn’t bounce back or recreate something that carried the same weight. with that said, i would like jamie to focus on zero, cause this industry going to need an underdog soon enough, but also redirect some of his focus to a shoe company willing to integrate his ideas / creativity. i’m sure there’s a few out there that could use “the chief” right now! !
influence - wise you may be right about the company’s success when thomas & cole were on board, but i thought they put out some of their best products after chris cole left and they gave more diverse dudes pro shoes. look at shoes like the apache, coronado, captiol, & roach – all super different looking silhouettes that stand alone in a ultra - homogenized shoe market .
on a personal note, i’ve been skating the oiled suede spirit model for a bit now, and they’ve been some of the best shoes i’ve ever skated in (once i put a duracush insole in them). it’s a bummer that a shoe brand went under that was actually making good product, plain and simple. whether or not he starts something else up, jamie thomas deserves the best from an industry that he helped shape, no questions asked .
although i do agree w / mayor grimble that the later shoes were probably superior in design, the spirit & roach model’s were top tier .
soooo sad, ripped laces is dead... rip, guys i' ve been coming to this site since the inception of the og supra skytop 3' s... i guess it' s on to tactics
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though we didn’t review the kingston (another tommy sandoval shoe) i picked up a pair at dlx in sf and really enjoyed skating .
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generally, the skate scene has always looked after its own. those who have decided to move into the business have pretty much, worked together through the good times and the bad. dwindle distribution assisted thomas when black box dist came to an end but unfortunately that goodwill still could not stop the fate of what was announced today .
skateboarding’s independent standing in world business has always remained unique because generation after generation have fought for keeping skateboarding within skateboarding; fighting tooth and nail to keep skateboarding out of the clutches of billion dollar corporations…until now. their heavyweight influence is rapidly eating into the foundations that skateboarding was originally built upon, so it’s now up to you to try and reverse that trend by voting with your feet and supporting brands run by skateboarders – that’s if you care enough about where your scene came from .
remind yourself of the goodwill that skater owned companies stand for from this clip. the rest is in your hands. choose skateboarding or lose it completely .
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the end of any era in skateboarding is often romanticized, as we as a community (and ourselves at smltalk are fully guilty) love to reminisce on better times and submerge ourselves in nostalgia. so when companies that have been around for a long time go under (e. g. savier, es… 88? ?) – we feel like we’ve lost an important piece of our culture. we tend to blame ourselves and ask, “how could we let this happen? ” .
we fall into deep, dark depressions. we don’t talk to our families .
but when we come to our sense we realize that as the lion king taught us, there’s the mother fucking circle of life. everything comes to an end – sometimes things live a long and prosperous life, and other times they’re trampled by a bunch of fucking wildebeest .
am i saying that scar could be a symbolic representation of companies like nike / adidas / new balance? i don’t know. honestly i didn’t even expect to be talking about this movie - it just kind of happened. but wait – can we just reflect on how fucking awesome that opening scene is ?
you see folks – we’re in an era where everybody is cool. it’s pretty damn easy to fit in – you just have to figure out which typeset you want to follow, and go along with the few main rules that govern their particular clothing choice / trick choice pattern .
but to be honest the actual purpose of this article was to talk about how jamie thomas signs his letters .
this is a mystery (pun intended) that we’re still trying to solve. anyway - condolences to jamie and cheers to him for seriously backing a lot of companies that had a significant impact on skateboarding throughout the years and have given us tons of insane memories .
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fallen footwear was an american off brand skateboarding footwear and apparel brand founded by professional skateboarder jamie thomas in 2003 , after leaving circa . 
fallen footwear was an american off brand skateboarding footwear and apparel brand founded by professional skateboarder jamie thomas in 2003, after leaving circa.
fallen footwear was an american off brand skateboarding footwear and apparel brand founded by professional skateboarder jamie thomas in 2003, after leaving circa.