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There are some products that are so beautifully designed you don't really need to know anything more about them than the materials they're constructed out of and the name on top of them. This skateboard [...]

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Surfing has always been a great lesson in earning your own rewards. You exert yourself paddling out and waiting until the right wave comes and then you enjoy it. The thing is, we don't always [...]

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The list of things we wouldn't buy from Makr Carry Goods is very short. The only reason there's even a list is because we already own one of their wallets in two colors and getting [...]

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Daniel Young Skateboards in Hawaii makes some of the best slabs of wood you will ever put your feet on. In order to take his business to the next level he needs some funding for [...]

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When they first rolled out the Segway scooter, we thought the idea was nice but the design left something to be desired. What was desired? Any trace of style whatsoever. Then the product was picked up by [...]

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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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