mellissa wakeskate

renk-dbr · Faceplant Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

is this board ripping of an skateboard graphic?

Catalyst · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 736 City: Kelowna

more inspired...

renk-dbr · Faceplant Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

[quote="Catalyst"]more inspired...[/quote]

what?

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

i think that the bottom graphic may be an homage to melissa's first skate due to the fact that there are also trucks on the board (hence making it a look more like the bottom of a skateboard than of a graphic). the original graphic came out in the 80s. melissa was born in the early 80s.

i dunno. the dates sorta line up, and i know melissa skates so i guess its possible? i highly doubt LF was trying to pass those graphics off as original.

renk-dbr · Faceplant Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

integrity640 · Kickflip Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 2866 City: Ocala

renk-dbr WOW Shocked

soy escuala · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 2248

exact same thing

tahoe · Posted: Jan 24, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject:

i think its last years...

bigpimpinalberta · Frontside 180 Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 291 City: P-town

renk-dbr, props on ur mad hunter skills. shows how "original" LF was with this skate

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

No offense, but I think you guys are off the mark on this one. no one is ripping off design; rather, LF is paying Homage to a classic old-school skate design.

Burton snowboards did it one year where they made the Jim Rippey pro-model graphic similar to the famous Natas Kaupas panther graphic (see below).

Snowboarder Travis Parker did the same thing when he copied Chad muska's famous design (see below).

I would have done the same thing.... My first skate deck was the Vision Phycho stick. I would love to pay homage to that classic design.

integrity640 · Kickflip Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 2866 City: Ocala

jonnyUTAH the pink one with the dude on it looks like the hyperlite premier

stompin9s · Posted: Jan 24, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

heres a pic of the ride dh...i forget what skate deck it resembles tho? esnow??

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

gator's.

Kay-Kay · Posted: Jan 24, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

is electricsnow a computer cuz there is no way that a human could or should know that much about the skate, snow, wake, and surf industry.

BillyOLDS · Posted: Jan 24, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject:

oooh ooioh i know the answer for this one!

she is a human droid

myers · Frontside 180 Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 283 City: VENICE

why is she getting a pro model in the first place??? Smash

NaRC-P rider · Posted: Jan 24, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject:

i know really, they have like philip basino, aaron reed, steve schoenhals, kyle walton, kyle hyams, and out of all of them... melissa marquardt gets the pro model.

parky · Kickflip Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 3193

Its not what you guys think.....

in 2004.... Melissa was the only womens rider on the LF team that wakeskated and was getting some exposure for it.... that Air Nautuique ad for example...

I think LF thought that it would be a good idea to take a skate and put a pro womens riders name on it to give girls that ride a board they might want to ride....

its just like how we want to ride what our favorite pro's ride.... chicks that skate look up to chicks that skate (megan, melissa, stef etc.) .... so LF was just trying to appeal to what girls want!...

even im considering riding that Maven/Melissa Control Skate... pink is so punk Laughing

stompin9s · Posted: Jan 24, 2006 11:37 pm Post subject:

Kay-Kay, headhuntermx4, myers, haha noticed how i called it...
i really do wanna marry secret-mystery snowboard/wakeskate chick tho.

deepcove · Posted: Jan 25, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: