Any MMA fans in Thrasher?

[4count]

elastic and bailgun i respect your opinions. Wasn't that long ago that skaters faced the same type of stigmatism you guys seem to be giving MMA. I speak from a bit of experience as I was a skater in my youth but that was a long time ago.. haha. back in the day of Christian Hasoi, bones brigade, etc... anyway I think if you did a little research on MMA you would find that there is a high level of respect and sportsmanship with the people involved... After all its roots are in Martial Arts.

[elastic back]

hosoi and all of the bones brigade are all still skating (not sure if tommy guerrero is though). hosoi had thrashers last cover actually. how come you aren't?

i don't doubt that there is respect and sportsmanship between people in mma, but at the end of the day they are still hurting each other for others' pleasure. kinda primitive to me. people look down on the romans for that. what is the difference? other than the dying thing...

[ze RJM]

I"m with Bowser on this...I can hang out at a buddy's pad and drink beer on a snowy night
and watch 3 hours of all out brawling, and I can definitely see some dudes coming out
sporting RVCA or Volcom gear......but I'm just curious as to what they can wear/act like,
before my popser alarm goes off and I stand up and go "that guy doesn't skate, WTF!"
But anyhow, I don't really see anything wrong with it...gotta pay the bills

[bailgun]

so if an athlete that excels in two sports he should not cross market? ever here of Bo Jackson?

bo jackson never wore his baseball glove while playing football.

plus...

that is your problem...skateboarding isn't a sport.
skateboarding is skateboarding.
disagree with me and you're wrong.

and

stigmatism

that isn't a real word, dude.

[4count]

hosoi and all of the bones brigade are all still skating (not sure if tommy guerrero is though). hosoi had thrashers last cover actually. how come you aren't?

i don't doubt that there is respect and sportsmanship between people in mma, but at the end of the day they are still hurting each other for others' pleasure. kinda primitive to me. people look down on the romans for that. what is the difference? other than the dying thing...

You know I just saw this documentary on Hasoi the other week and saw that.... was really cool. I actually had a chance to skate around with him for an afternoon when I lived in Spain... around 87-88? i believe... He was really cool but i thought it was strange how he actually just hung with us at the skate park and around Madrid... then i saw the documentary and it all kinda came together. You know I wish I did still skate it was some of the best times of my life. I rode freestyle bikes too... mostly halfpipe and quarter pipes we built in peoples backyards. Im 37 now and have kids if that answers your question... but i can still do some basic stuff and it gets a kick out of all the young kids in the neighborhood. I actually still have my Haro Master still hangin in the garage...lol.

Listen fellas I appreciate all the feed back even the bad ones... can't win them all but i can promise you if you met any of the guys in our stable you would see right away that they are class acts;)
and for bailgun... touche' but you knew what i meant. you seem angry bro you should try a jujitsu class or something to let out that aggression

[Hefeweizen]

Chris Leiben was a shredder, too. I can see the parallels between fighting and skating, maybe not fighting as a sport. What I'm trying to say is that in my home town we got into tons of fights with the fuckin' gangsters and the jocks and even the goth fucks all the time. I can see a skateboarder becoming a fighter, i mean we do have a high tolerance for pain.
If they want to make a living kicking the shit out of each other then more power to 'em. I'm sure a ton of people feel the same way about skateboarding.
I think MMA is kickass.

[el ogrehound 3000]

Pretty much.

- Skateboarding has it's fair share of jocks too (Sheckler, Andy Mac, etc.).

- I don't think MMA is that heavy on the competition side, it's more like trying to push yourself.  Kinda-sorta like skating.

- Sure winning the belt or Triple Crown is nice, but it's not the entire reason you're there.

- It's a helluvalot better than WWF fake bullshit.

[/rambling]

[elastic back]

- It's a helluvalot better than WWF fake bullshit.

dude, i just saw some show on tv about hulk hogan and about cried when he admitted that wrestling is not real! that is like saying that BlahBlah is a fake account. take it back!

[el ogrehound 3000]

First Santa, then Jesus, now Hogan....sick sick world.

[Thee Gnartical Adventure]

i do know one skateboarder that go into mixed martial arts.

tom knox?

[bailgun]

i've got no beef with MMA, i just don't like it when anything that isn't skateboarding tries to somehow tie itself to skateboarding.

depending on your viewpoint, i guess that either makes me an elitist or a purist.

[The Westwood]

Chris Leiben was a shredder, too.

This guy was just suspended for taking steroids for a fight in which he still lost.

[The Westwood]

i guess that makes me a purist

and that's not a bad thing

[4count]

good stuff fellas I think everyone has valid points... We thought we saw a potential to expand awareness of skate brands and fight mma brands to a broader market because of certain similarities in the demographic and this forum has served as a nice little focus group for us to see if there is anything worth pursuing.... I still think there is... By the way if anyone is intersted our bot Bart Palaszewski won his debut in the WEC on wednesday via KO in the 2nd round. He also was awarded the KO of the night award. Bart is the fighter/skater that asked us to check out this demo.

here is the link. http://www.suckerpunchent.com/fighter-news/bartimus-wins-by-ko-in-wec-debut/

By the way Bart is one of the funniest/ nicest guys in the biz...

Actually here is another link that describes his run in with some skater kids in San Fransisco on the famous lumbard street. http://www.suckerpunchent.com/blindside/the-suckerpunch-blindside-2/

[4count]

i've got no beef with MMA, i just don't like it when anything that isn't skateboarding tries to somehow tie itself to skateboarding.

depending on your viewpoint, i guess that either makes me an elitist or a purist.

Being a purist is fine... I feel the same way about backyard fighters who claim to be MMA fighters... hate it and they give us a bad name. I was never trying to tie anything to skateboarding bro... just trying to see if your audience had similar interests because one of our high level athletes suggested we look into it... and he happens to be very passionate about skating... Skateboarding is considered an "extreme sport" and so is MMA, just testing the waters and it seems that there are some fans of MMA in skating, just as there are fans of skating in MMA. Heck i see your brands all over the place when we are at a UFC event...