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Mike is stoked on talking to Jimmy Wilkins about how he’s good at flatground for Simple Magic and the new phone call recording function on the iPhone.
Templeton is stoked on Skate Bylines.
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I really liked Lakai and wore a lot of their shoes up until maybe 2010 or so when they went to nearly all vulc boat shoes. Even then I kept on wearing Manchester Selects for chilling. I'm still wearing Manchesters, but me buying a pair of shoes every year obviously didn't help much with their increasing debt. I think the overall legacy of Lakai is a positive one, but they had a bunch of swings and misses in the shoe design department.
Lakai did have a brief period when the Manchester was replaced by a very similar looking model called the Sheffield. It was the same shoe, but somehow a much better design. Nobody other than me will remember the Sheffield. The Mike Carroll reissues at the end of 2020 were good. They also had a trimmed down model called the Brighton in 2021 that was utterly terrible. I skated them a week and tossed 'em in the trash. They were that bad. Oh, well. We'll always have the Soca.
Biebel was on Expedition One when Lakai started up.
Harsh Euro Barge was a Girl video.
I have The Flare on DVD. I think it has Tony Hawk in it. Jon Sciano was sick. In looking over the soundtrack, none of it rings a bell, except for Sebo Walker skating to the Beastie Boys. If there's ever a night without basketball, I'll give it another viewing.
My Twitter and Facebook feeds are full of weird shoe brands. Somebody can probably make a proper skater owned shoe company work.
I'll need to check out the Real Street stuff, but I probably won't. ESPN doing that is such an off the wall thing at the moment that it seems interesting.
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