liquid force cassette wakeskate?

bjr · Posted: Apr 04, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject: liquid force cassette wakeskate?

http://www.bartswatersports.com/catalog/Wakeskates/Liquid_Force_Cassette_Wakeskates/index.asp

i dont get it

dietwater5 · Posted: Apr 04, 2006 11:27 pm Post subject:

ya i dont get it either, the frog skiing ya dont understand Rolling Eyes

lol

Schimkat · Posted: Apr 04, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject:

Cassette was a part of, or was partnered with, LF a while ago I think...

am I right?

dietwater5 · Posted: Apr 04, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject:

ya from what ive heard

Jeff_Knox · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 712 City: J-ville

my first deck was a cassette... but it was owned by lf and even has the liquid force written real small on the bottom... but that was like 02... i doubt they are sellin 02 boards...

Slyder · Posted: Apr 05, 2006 12:06 am Post subject:

Haha, itr's funny to see how Cassette has changed. Thomas originally started it as the Liquid Force wakeskate line. It was still called Cassette but it wan't it's own entity. I can't remeber the year, maybe ElectricSnow can help with it, but he decided to try and start on his own, carrying his own designs, shapes, and distribution. Thus the Cassette we know and love now was born. I had a wakeskate back in the day, it was the Yelloiw (i think 40") Liquid Force Cassette skate, wish I hadn't gotte rid of it now.

mario c. · Guest

yeah. i had the big 45" green l/f boombox. it's like they didn't call the company cassette, they called the wakeskates cassette. sorry if that doesn't make sense????

mikeskatesonwater · Guest

yeah all the way to 03

Rob · Posted: Apr 05, 2006 1:00 am Post subject:

Liquid Force had a model in 1999 called "The Sponge" (which was the very first wakeskate I rode back in the day!) It had traction pads and no pop what so ever but most people who rode wakeskates at the time, thought it was a killer board because it was kinda soft and you wouldn't get hurt if it hit your shins.

Cassette started with the first wooden wakeskate year 2000 with the "Cassette 41" (and later on the "Cassette 45") Great pop and better control (because of the wood and the griptape top) Most people I know were kinda scared because all of a sudden you could actually hurt yourself wakeskating... (imagine that...)

If I remember correctly those boards where distributed by Liquid Force as a side project. Thomas was also a part of the LF team back in the day and appeared in some LF ads together with Shane, Necrason and even Emily Copeland!!!! (I think, at the time, he wanted to find a way to distribute his own boards in the future which he also later did a.k.a Linear Distribution/Cassette Wakeskates) Probably a smart move by Thomas to use LF 's channels and corporate thinking. I think LF had the Cassette distribution until 2002 and that Linear took form in '03 (but I might be mistaken on that specific year.)

Slyder, the yellow one was probably Cassette Series 41" from '01. (I rode the same model at the time...)

(correct me if I'm wrong, electricsnow. Wink

)

h0nkey46 · Posted: Apr 05, 2006 1:02 am Post subject:

dietwater5, ur pic is scarin me dude

hammer49 · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 646 City: longwood

oh man, the foam top 40" was my first wakekskate. Oh the memories....

Raven · Posted: Apr 05, 2006 2:57 am Post subject:

Good talk Rob!

David Legler · Posted: Apr 05, 2006 4:22 am Post subject:

yea cassette just used LF for production/distribution and that was it i reckon.....or maybe just production...?

Greg T · Skeezer Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 2448 City: ohio

defiantly distribution

LF advertised for cassette too. And I believe they mentioned they help design the boards.

it was a weird relationship

dietwater5 · Posted: Apr 05, 2006 4:31 am Post subject:

kinda like gay men?

cfxomega · Frontside 180 Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 466

i don't think there has been one ounce of truth in this entire thread...i'm going back into hibernation
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masi · Posted: Apr 05, 2006 4:50 am Post subject:

the hole thing is that until 2003. liquid force owned cassette until there was a pattent issue with thomas and aaron grace from what i hear.

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

thomas always owned cassette.

Dave Barousse · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 5

Basically it is a shop that doesn't know their product. They just know they have to have them to be cool.

You can read the whole story about Cassette and Liquid Force here:

http://www.wakeskating.com/showarticle.php?a=308

Rob · Posted: Apr 05, 2006 9:15 am Post subject:

cfxomega, please let us know the real truth so we can sleep at night.....