Nice, I switched to Emericas from Vans a few years ago and I love them. I want to do a pulse check here though cause something has been on my mind. How do we as skateboarders/ as a culture feel about needless cruelty to animals? Please hear me out I went 20 some years of my life paying no mind to what I consumed and then I realized something I would never pay someone to kill a dog, skin them and make a shoe out of them. Cows, pigs and sheep etc have very similar sentience and experience as dogs and yet we pay people to forcibly impregnate them, confine them, mutilate them, and eventually slaughter them at a fraction of their lifespan (though I don't think that doing so at a later time is acceptable either except in genuine cases of euthanasia) I'm skating a pair of synthetic suede Pillars and I don't see any drawbacks. Even if these shoes I've got had half the skateable life of the animal skin suede version, would it be morally okay for me to pay someone to make shoes out of the flesh of an animal who was a unique individual. Who didn't want to die, and who had their own relationships, preferences and will to live? I know this sounds like a lot but I'm genuinely trying to examine how we as skateboarders and as human beings reconcile making commodities out of unique living sentient individuals... I know this can be an uncomfortable topic but I'm sincerely seeking a dialogue about this reality we are living in. Cheers, Colton
they better be paying jamie thomas for his FCKN shoe design from 1996 GD can the fckn industry have a original idea ever. watch bet they gunna re-release the marc johnson shoe with the M on the side fkcn jokes all of them
Rad one Nick. Glad to see you guys still smashing it. That includes you too Cates. Till the wheels fall off. Then bolt the fkrs back on and keep rolling.
@@NevilleBamshu23 I wanna say somewhere up in the Pacific northwest. I've seen it in a couple of skate documentaries over the years. I could be wrong though. It does look absolutely perfect though doesn't it
