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There's something we hate about purchasing a piece of furniture from a place like Ikea knowing plenty of other people have jotted it down on their meatball-stained "To Buy" sheets as well. It isn't personal in [...]

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We have serious envy of Hawaiian residents who work at small shops to make just enough money for a place and spend the rest of their days surfing. Paradise (except we'd miss our gadgets). However, even [...]

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We would have a hard time relying on one means of transportation. We need our car for standard travel, we need our bike for stuff nearby and we need our skateboard for, well, fun. You [...]

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Two things that consumed most of our youth are skateboards and big, fat pieces of chalk.  The skateboard was obvious - we rode it because we were boys and we enjoyed skinned knees and asking, [...]

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Normally we wouldn't want anything between us and our drink.  Bottle openers should be simple and not as confusing as watching Donnie Darko for the first time.  There's some middle ground though when the bottle opener in [...]

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We’re not trying to sound lazy or anything but what's stopped us from using a skateboard as a main form of transportation is the low speed and constant workout.  Also, we don’t want to have one jacked [...]

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There’s something wrong about buying a surfboard from someone who doesn’t surf, it’s like buying diet pills from someone who looks like they haven’t seen the inside of a gym in a decade.  When you [...]

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If you ever learned how to snowboard, you understand the withdrawl symptoms that are all too common come the off season. If you're not willing to shell out ridiculous amounts for airfare (and the obscene [...]

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With age comes wisdom. We'll also be the first people to admit that it brings a fair of exhaustion with it. We might not be able to run a five minute mile, roundhouse kick like [...]

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WARNING: If you’re a drunk, this is definitely NOT the love seat for you. Mainly because as you move around on The Chair Special Love Seat it moves along with you. We’re not talking like it has [...]

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As guys we pride ourselves in not being easily deterred from our goals.  If that goal at any point in our life was to learn to skateboard, we’d leave a trail of broken boards in [...]

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If you want something done right, do it yourself. Or Makr it yourself in this case. Why rock some old dude's "custom designed" skateboard when you can get a blank canvas and create it yourself? [...]

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One of the most memorable things about Back to the Future 2, besides those kick-ass Nikes, is Marty's hoverboard. The year, supposedly, is 2015. That means that according to Robert Zemekis and pop culture, we [...]

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Is danger your middle name? Do you enjoy adrenaline (and Red Bull) fueled action sports? Pummeling yourself until you perfect that new Quadruple-McTwist-Rib-ICBM 1472? Congratulations. But you're still not Shaun White or Kelly Slater. You [...]

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If you'd trade your living room for a half pipe any day then you might consider the less expensive and more practical route of replacing your chairs with skateboard decks. Tunto Skede Chair comes in [...]

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