Ad in the Jan Freeskier

eheath

eheath

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Um, TJ Schiller in a Paul Mitchell ad? Three words: What the fuck? Sure, money is good, and sure hair has to be cool i guess, but fucking seriously, paul mitchell?? espicaly "express style" with a caption that says: "Its a good style with less energy. Which gives you more time to do the things you really want to do-like practice your 540 truck-drivers, TJ style" All i have to say to that is: What the fuck? Am i the only one who thinks this is really fucking stupid, or am i just over reacting? Because when i saw this ad for the first time, i nearly shit my pants.
 
^^um Paul Mitchell sponsors more "x-treme" sporting events than you would believe, the dude may look funny but he is down with oumping money into some cool sports...next to red bull, there is probably no one as involved with creating youth action sporting events

so simma down and lighten up, money is good
 
I haven't seen this yet but The 540 truck driver thing sounds ridiculous, although Paul Mitchell does sponsor the Freeski tour
 
^ i don't think its stupid. As a matter of fact i think you should drive your ass to the nearest salon and buy some Paul Mitchell Hair products. Skiers don't get paid much, so when one can get an ad, i'm suee they take it. And Paul Mitchell has been helping skiing since the beginning. Bump and Jumps.. yeah, big contest, televised, gives skiers money.... Not sounding so bad does it?
 
Fuck, forgot about that shit, yeah i guess they do support skiing alot, well its good to know, i guess i was over reacting. But i still thing the truck-drive 540 thing is little weird.
 
if hes makin $ more power to him. but yeah.. that doesnt exactly make sense/ make me wanna buy paul mitchelle products.
 
companies sponsor events for many reasons...and brand recognition is just one of them

With paul mitchell, the founder is actually into our sport and supports it, I doubt he gets back what he puts into it, many corporate spoonsors ever do. But without their vision and $$$$ it would be a very boring winter
 
last i heard beach volleyball wasn't extreme. unless they found some graboids and put them in there that would be sweet. but money is money and paul mitchell makes some nice hair shit. i would take a sponsorship by them anyday
 
paul mitchell sponsors robbie knievel- which is pretty extrem- fat middle aged white man jumping over all sorts of crap on a dirt bike outside your nearest wannabe destination, casino, restaurant, car dealer etc.

paul mitchell is a cool guy, even though he looks like an italian fag.

so whatever let skiers be in his ads - like someone said not tons of ski endorsement income available compared to major league sports.
 
So of course you had to bring it back just to say that right? If u didnt fucking like it then you shouldnt have posted in it.
 
i haven't even gotten the issue yet... but good for TJ, if he can make the money, i bet he takes it where he can get it. Its probably a really good deal
 
Though an ad like this quite well fits the definition of "sold out" I think that's thw wrong way to look at it.

We spend so much time worrying if everything is sold out when we should be looking at "sold out" as progressing forwards. The only way to keep our sport going strong is through corporate sponsorship. When you're a normal atlete playing basketball or golf or something, if you get a hair product sponsorship it's why you got into it in the first place.

If skiers are going to keep skiing as they get older and have more responsibilities they are going to need to make money. Everyone needs money to live, and if we can just collectively giggle at people with hair product sponsors, but be stoked that they're going to keep skiing as they grow up, I say more power to it.

It's an extremely narrow view to keep the "sold out" crusade going on. In my mind living with the phrase "sold out" as the worst thing possible, we're all dooming ourselves to an eternity of teenage angst where mommy and daddy have to pay the bills.

If companies could accept sponsorship of this nature, without the entire youth of skiing exploding at them, our sport would get thousands of times better than it is.

Imagine how hard it is to run something and be looking for sponsorship, and the guys who would actually have real money to give you have to turn down because they're not cool enough.

Why are we so concerned about being cool anyways?
 
go doug!!

doesn't paul mitchel sponsor the x-games quals?

kinda like saying "fuck garnier" for sponoring the wssf
 
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