Read the Sponsorship article in Transworld Snowboarding

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scottkovtun

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everyone should take a look at this...its the truth!!!!! one day the industry will be like skateboarding

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Mike Hunt. Enough said.
 
Whats skateboarding? IS it like skiing, but only on one board, and instead of on snow on concrete? I heard there was a new Xtreme sport out.

What is the colour of a mirror?
 
Could someone post the important bits from it? I don't have access to the mag. Well, I probably do, but I'm too lazy to go to a store.

 
I wrote typed this whole thing out off the page cause I'm a nice guy. I'm not even sure if this is what yorr talking about. Anyway.

5 Reasons You Don't want to be Sposnsored

Snowboarding is hectic - companies are cutting off the old dogs and huntin' for kids on the come-up. For some jacked-ass reason, everyone thinks they deserve to be sponsored. It's ingrained in the gene that makes people want to snowboard. But from the frontlines of the industry, we can tell you - with a nod and knuckle bump - it's not all it's cracked up to be. The following five reasons are just the beginning of why:

1. You'll never get the board you want. You'll be forced to ride a board that's too wide, too long, too short, or just plain ugly. The worst part - you'll have to pretend to like it. If word gets back to your sponsor you've been talking shit about product, it will be a quick end to a short career. You may argue, 'Well I'm sponsored, I can just get new stuff, right?' Wrong! On the bottom rung of the sponsorship ladder - where most people spend their entire careers - you'll be lucky to get one package a year from the local rep. And thats after getting past their voicemail barricade.

2. Outside of AOL chatrooms, people dont really think you're cool because you're spnsored. The only people who will be impressed are little kids - everyone else has found easier ways to get free stuff than selling their soul. But if your game is trying to keep pace with fourteen year olds, keep ripping bro - you're bound to blow up.

3. Once people find out you're sponsored, everyone will ask you to give them free stuff. Most likely you wont even get enough stuff for yourself, much less to hook up broke friends. When you only getting nine pairs of googles a year, few things are more annoying than a friend nagging you for new lenses.

4. It's not much of a career. Your tenure as a sponsored rider has about the same lifespan as an MTV sitcom ( The Osbornes not included). Injuries, bad attitudes, and falling behind the trends are all grounds for dismissal. When you done, your net earnings will probably total 300 dollars - for that third palce finnish in the local boarder cross race. Snowboarding also cuts into the time when you should be learning life skills - and you fing yourself at a dead-end ski bum job forever (only you wont care about ski bumming anymore).

5. Doing contests and shooting photos is not as fun as actually snowboarding. Regardless, you'll be expected to one or the other of these painstakingly useless activities everyday. What you once thought of as one of the best and funnest things ever - shredding - will become as stale as your old boot liners. Like a boring nine-to-five drone, you'll come to loath it all. You'll be, as they say, over it.

The Angry Interns, Transworld Sept 02.

That took me a long time so you better appreciate it.

_DECAfilm
 
the guys that wrote that are just pissed they didn't get sponsored for snowboarding, so they tried to stay in the industry some how even if it means writing, just like all the sucky people take up photography, such as myself.

Wasted State Represent!!

I like my boots like my women, rear entry.
 
'2. Outside of AOL chatrooms, people dont really think you're cool because you're spnsored. The only people who will be impressed are little kids - everyone else has found easier ways to get free stuff than selling their soul. But if your game is trying to keep pace with fourteen year olds, keep ripping bro - you're bound to blow up.'

hahaha thats great.

 
I dunno about that, some of that sounds like bullshit. I know a guy who's friend is getting the Public Enemy for free from his sponsorship by K2. But if they do just give you a pair of skis / board and you can't change, that would suck. Say if I were a pro (haha) and I was sponsored by Line, I would really want to ride Motherships when I like shorter skis.

But anyways, that's the snowboarding industry, not the skiing industry.

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~ Steve Xs2 (Get Hyped!)

~ I [heart] the Line 1260
 
well relate this to the skiing industry. minus the board part... unless you struct some lucky deal there are always obligations which hinder your ability to truely ski how you want to. Referring to skateboarding...companies give their riders over a hundred decks a year....the riders are the basis for successful income...well its really hard to compare sports but i'm just saying that lots of sponsorships out there are retarded..peace

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Mike Hunt. Enough said.
 
dude they are exactly the same. If anything the snowboard industry is more advanced. Unless you pro enough to have your own promodel your gonna be eating shit. Its true. Jon Eaves is my next door neighbour and he is always unhappy with most of his shit. LINE riders make shit all. The companies to small. Salomon, Dynastar, Rossi and maybe one or two other companies can actually afford to pay their riders. But even look at dynastar, they couldn't pay candide enought to stay, and candides contract is for 100,000 for like 4 years or something. Thats less than a teacher makes a year. Its way more worth it to find something that makes money super fast or make friends in the ski marketing industry then you get stuff for cheap.

 
ski for fun

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Proud Leader Of OA-a group for those addicted to oakley products.
 
i once knew a guy that knew a guys brothers' friends that was sponsored

Mr Mahre: well how bout jeffthomas.com?

SchwagM: thats the gayest site
 
sponsors suck ass they bitch at u constantly promise u shit and never give it to you and in the end they expect u to kiss their ass and be happy. fuck dat it times we stood up to this shit. and say fuck u to the gay companies and surrport the cool ones. thats why I'm starting my own company so I can decide wat I want to do and when I wanna do. The companys gonna be called ulta-matum were gonna make sick clothes for partying chillan and skiing with a sick up and coming team. watch out for the team video which will be realeased in like a year or so should be dope. if we wanna change this shit we need to surrport rider companys. like armada and ulta-matum not gay companys like line and rossi and salomon who treat there athletes like shit. it's fucked being sponsored but who says we can't change that.??????????' I wish I could get sponsored for being lazy smokin pounds off weed and fukin women all day that would rule'

 
dude, for some reason they don't like it if you spend all your time and money getting high and drunk. yea i know, it baffles me too - but hey, that's the way the world works.

Darryl Hunt

who's fuckin' idea was it to have a chicken cross the road anyways?

and have you ever wondered what a garaff is thinking? i know i have.
 
mogul boy, i would hate to be sponsored by your company, cause you are a dumbass

'rodeo = flair

flair = rodeo

rodeo = backflip 180

backflip 180 = flair

flair = backflip 180

rodeo 180 = backflip 360'

*thefinnishdumb

Yea I want cheezy poofs
 
I always hate to bring up bad karma on the newschoolers forum because i know plenty of people have already squeezed the hell out of these topics in previous discussions...just thought maybe some of you less informed riders who strive for sponsorship might want to take a look at the true story. Well i'm out...

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Mike Hunt. Enough said.
 
I just wanted to say that free stuff are cool; responsabilities sucks

President of the crazed posting brother of NS.com

I'm feeling greeaaaattt!!!!

 
ya that article is also very applicable in skiing this year. Sponsors have a TON of strings attached so be very carefull when you get yourself involved and don't sign anything with out reading it all the way through.

 
ha, its right. Word kovtun

In The Haze - by NS Media, to turn heads, releasing september
 
9 pairs of goggles a year would be nice

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Proud Leader Of OA-a group for those addicted to oakley products.
 
wow you all missed the point of that article. And have fun living off of 9 pairs of goggles

 
truth about sponsorship.

If one company will sponsor you, chances are good that other companies are ready to offer the same deal, so you dont always get the board you dont want, but i agree somtimes you have to settle.

Yes, reps do suck, and people ALWAYS try to score free shit when you dont even get enough for yourself. As for the you dont get a million pairs, that is correct, howver, incomplete. When you are sponsored, you are often required to meet certain quotas. For example, if you place top 5 in 75% of your competitions they will give you another pair of skis, and if your lucy, they will throw in their one step down from the top binding, and since you only wanted the other pair for jibbing, they ship a blemish pair out.

And then your luckey! You see guys like Jon and Tanner, and see it looking like they destroy their skis on urban stuff, those are the one extra pair they got for jibbing. They too are a blemish pair. Now yes, they do have access to more equipment, but it is on a need basis.

For the most part, sponsors will give you as little as it takes for you to stick with them. They really dont like you that much.

other than that i think the article was right on!

SKIBUM 4 EVER

Spinks

'I step into another level when i smoke that herb, style is everything, gotta be mooth.' -Tanner Hall
 
9 pairs of goggles for pro snowboarding isnt enough? No wonder my goggles were stolen by a snowboarder last year. And they were good goggles too...

 
Alright, you tools really missed the point on the nine pairs of googles thing. First it's an exaggeration, an attemp at humour. Second there implying that you may be getting googles, but you need more that some extra pairs of googles to live off of.

_DECAfilm
 
dude, if i got 9 pairs of goggles i would just keep two and sell teh rest to like little 8 year old snowboarders and tell them that i was a pro and i would sign them and give them and say that i was giving them a 15 dollar discount too. or i would just sell them, or give them away to my friends.

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Powder to the People

 
woah this thread is old

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-Dave O'Neill

Representing the famed terrain of Ohio and New York
 
ya this thread is old...but anyway, it isnt as glamorus as it seems, but it is better than they say it is. I was on the Spyder House Team last year, and i got the newest shit, and i wasnt even totally sponsored. and about the skis thing, you have two choices, either get sponsored by a ski company you like, or get sponsore bay a shop and decide which skis you want, dont get sponsored by Elan just to get sponsored...its better to just go get better skis cheaper. Yea, sponsorship is decent...meh...just dont get Elan...

'save the trees, wipe your ass with an owl!'

'how many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?.......10, 1 to do it, 9 to say that they can do that.'
 
yea...i would love to have 9 pairs of googles...i have used my same oakleys for 2 years...if i had 9 pairs i would give atleast 3 away to my buds...

'save the trees, wipe your ass with an owl!'

'how many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?.......10, 1 to do it, 9 to say that they can do that.'
 
i dont have to worry about any of this because im not gonna get sponsored ever, unless the begin to sponsor people to suck at skiing, in which case, i'll be leading that movement.

Joel
 
theres definately some good points to this article, i think its trying to say if your soul purpose for skiing is to get sponsored then you've probably got problems and shouldn't be doing it in the first place, We definately need sponsored riders, but i bet most of the pros out there right now just were skiing for fun without thinking about sponsorship before they became pros, and it probably is true that a lot of the riders lower end of a companies sponsored riders don't get to much because its very easy for them to find replacements if that rider wants more money or is complaining

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'what the bloody fuck was that?'-Some english guy on seeing my friend do a 720

Pat

Cannon Mafia Productions
 
(Off subject) Last year I was with a friend who was snowboarding and he was getting air off of this little lip so he asked to clear me, so I lay on the jump and that fucking rat lands on my fucking head with his board and wrecks my oakleys.

And then Trogdor smote the Kerreck, and all was laid to burnination.

TROGDOR THE BURNINATOR!
 
my snoboarder buddy has a rep sponsership but they actully take care of him.... lucky basterd.

Officially Unable To Spell

MidWest Is The Shit

Fuck The Ghetto

 
^ good to know...while we are off topic i busted oakley too bailing off a jump and my fist went through em...sucky

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you should have seen the load i busted after the 40 days. i could have filled up a water bottle with it - publicenemy1023 (classy eh)

 
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