Hyperlite

PhishBait · Faceplant Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 28 City: Beantown

It's understandable if you don't like their boards: everybody has their own personal preference. They support the sport too and just because theyre a big company doesn't make them evil. They started up small like the other companies as a tiny division of a ski company and people liked what they were doing, and thats how they got here. So I was just wondering, what do people really have against Hype?

eighteenvisions · Ollie Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 94

probably the same reason a lot of skaters dont like birdhouse. because its what all the little kids and "posers" get for their very first board. its "mainsteam", not underground.

personally i dont think people can relate to hyperlite like they can to a company like cassette. cassette was started by a wakeskater, someone we can all relate to. its also a company that only makes wakeskates, like kampus, 484, etc. since hyperlite started their wakeskate line after cassette, its hard not to see it as more of a financial move.

but at least they do their own thing with their boards. i cant say the same for a lot of other companies out there.

PhishBait · Faceplant Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 28 City: Beantown

Good call, but most of the kids arent starting their own companies and haven't been wakeskating from the start. I haven't, and if it weren't for ads from the bigger companies i wouldn't have found out for even longer. Wakeskating evolved from wakeboarding, and you can't hide from that.

gorath112 · Posted: Jun 03, 2004 8:27 pm Post subject:

eighteenvisions, you have your story backwards, hyperlite created one of the first wakeskates, which was back then called a waterskate, thomas horrell (owner and founder of cassette) used to be a professional wakeboarder for liquid force, he then decide to make wakeskates under the liquid force name and called them "liquid force cassettes" so when people say hyperlite know nothin about creating wakeskates they should think twice, even though they may not be the best design, and the prettiest color, it had to start somewhere, look at what the first wakeboard looked like and, then think about your last comment

eighteenvisions · Ollie Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 94

hyperlite started their wakeskate line after cassette, is that not true? i know the whole deal with thomas and lf, and linear. LF distributed their boards, but the company was cassette. i never said hyperlite didnt know what they are doing, i just said i relate to cassette better.
PhishBait, yeah i know what you mean about ads, i was just saying why i think most people dont like hype, its not my opinion.
gorath112, your comment really had not argument considering i didnt put down hype, i just answered the original question on what i think people might have against them.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 03, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

gorath112, uh I think you need to get your story straight. There was never "liquid force cassettes". Thomas and Cassette had a distribution deal with liquid force. Thomas started cassette and needed help getting it into peoples hands, liquid force was that help. Liquid forces first wakeskate was called the sponge, And hypes firsts decks were grom boards with a foam top, Which is similer to what they do now......

gorath112 · Posted: Jun 03, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject:

you just said they are out to make money, because it was a financial move, the company was cassette but if you look in any old Overtons catalogs they call them liquid force cassettes, because they have the LF logo on the add, but i guess that is just false advertising but i do a gree they may seem corporate but the their riders and riding speak for themselves

Morphine · Backside 180 Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 1207 City: 706omg

Old Overton's? You can go to their website and there's a Cassette 3D Concave skate under the LF category in Wakeboards. It also happens to be the one I'm getting even though it's cheap.

hpdvs · Frontside 180 Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 288 City: Dallas

Not to prove anyone wrong or right but Thomas made his first skate and called it a Militia, then it was Cassette under Liquid Force, now Cassette under Thomas's ownership.
Link:
http://wakeskate.com/Catalog.asp?CatalogID=610&CompanyID=38&CategoryID=19

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

just because overtons does something it doesnt mean its 100% correct.

looks like we are in need of some history lessons. where the hell is electricsnow? Laughing

hpdvs · Frontside 180 Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 288 City: Dallas

Read my above post, i'm pretty sure it's electricsnow correct.

hpdvs · Frontside 180 Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 288 City: Dallas

The link isn't working, but go to wakeskate.com, boards, cassette, 99(i think), prototype.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 03, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 03, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject:

This is the first board by Cassette as a company. Thomas used to ride a cut down wakeboard with early cassette graphics

hpdvs · Frontside 180 Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 288 City: Dallas

I meant Cassette under Thomas's full ownership, ie distribution, etc..

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 03, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject:

full ownership has nothing to do with distribution. And I'm pretty sure that he has always had financial help

hpdvs · Frontside 180 Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 288 City: Dallas

Sorry about the confusion, I was just sorta going along with some guess regarding the financial, etc... issue's.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 03, 2004 11:31 pm Post subject:

word man, no worries

Schmaltz · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 721 City: San Jose

Actually that deck the "malitia" is a Mutiny proto with Thomas' wakeboard graphic Just before he started Cassette.

xboard32x · Posted: Jun 04, 2004 2:28 am Post subject:

i am sure Schmaltz, is right because...He owened mutiny. From the topic above Hyperlite.

eighteenvisions, 484 makes many different things than just wakeskates. Look at krown wakeboards. XL owns them and they make skateboards to tennis rackets. Its all bout who will help you out w/ the company you are starting.

Hyperlite knows what they are doing. They might not have the "best" wakeskaters on the team. and you are right about birdhouse and the "poser" too. Cassette is pretty mainstream also tho.