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Skate Talks #5 | Tom Hyser

Tom Hyser is a product designer, Marketing manager and team manager of Rollerblade Inline Skates Brand.

In this Skate Talk you'll get to know a bit more about the man behind
brands like K2 skates, Skatepile, Fiziks frames, Epoch frames AND Rollerblade .


Hope you enjoy the 107 minute talk with one of the most influential skating individuals in 2017.


WHATS UP TOM HYSER ? SKATE TALK EPISODE #5

01:25 - rollerblading or inline skating?
02:05 - Who´s Tom Hyser? For how long have you been skating?
08:30 - How did you got into K2 Skates ? K2 Fatty´s ?
11:19 - getting payed 5K per month to skate at 22
17:50 - How did Skatepile started and why it ended
19:41 - FIZIKS frames problem
24:50 - What happened to Epoch Frames?
27:50 - Ford or Rollerblade?
30:20 - Rollerblade First Big Wheels UFS frames
31:05 - Your first opportunity to make an hard boot skate
33:00 - Skate brands trying something new. 
34:50 - blank WARLOCK concept skate
37:20 - Richie Eisler 125 skates idea made by ROCES
38:50 - "If we keep fighting instead of supporting each other.." 
40:55 - What do you think of the whole big wheel thing???
43:45 - Did k2 had Roller Skates?
47:45 - Tim Robot from backjack project tour with VANS
49:20 - They avoid skating when they get famous
50:33 - Some aggressive skaters should be doing freeskate promo videos
52:05 - Just look at it as someone who doesn't skate
55:14 - Greg Mirzoyan
57:56 - I wanted to modify Sven frames for FISE
59:19 - Skaters need to understand why rollerblade lost their BEST TEAM.
1:02:22 - Andy Kruse was on a whole different level of creativity
1:04:10 - what do you think of skate competitions?
1:05:02 - what do you think about Winterclash?
1:06:20 - Pro with the a Bad attitude
1:10:10 - You can be a really good skater without challenging life
1:12:35 - Is there any skater getting payed 1500 US dollars Right now?
1:14:00 - When is skating coming back, and what do we need to do for that to happen?
1:21:07 - the FIRS Skating Marathon World Championships.
1:23:50 - Rollerblade Team
1:26:50 - A Big Group of cool dudes used to make fun of David Sizemore
1:27:30 - David Sizemore on VALO
1:29:00 - New Rollerblade Skates?
1:35:26 - Rollerblade 2017 Video Projects
1:36:40 - What happened with Matthias Ogger ?
1:40:30 - Who was the best skater you ever worked with?
1:42:20 - What is your favourite skate product on the market right now?



SKATE TALKS #5 // WHATS UP TOM HYSER?

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