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Street plant skateboards?

ChrisChris
edited January 2015 in Powell-Peralta®
Ok, stop me if you've heard this before. Mike V has moved on from elephant skateboards and has started, yet another, new company. Which makes me ask the obvious question. .. when is Mike coming back to PP?
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  • ppk187ppk187
    Hahahaha, that's what I thought! Reading the street plant mission statement was like déjà vu
  • brigade_billbrigade_bill
    street plant is a clothing brand
  • ppk187ppk187
    He's gonna do boards under that brand now too he's said
  • brigade_billbrigade_bill
    edited January 2015
    lol i think he sold the rights to elephant anyway to select dist
  • ppk187ppk187
    If you check out his facebook (doc's favorite), he went off on a street plant mission statement a week or so back about having complete control of his vision/company, and how he'll never again be controlled, yadda yadda... In the comments, I think it was, he mentioned doing boards
  • ppk187ppk187
    I like Vallely but dayum man, lol
  • SK8ERSK8ER
    I heard that Jason Adams is the boss at Elephant now and that Mike handed over the marketing and distributing to Select.
  • brigade_billbrigade_bill
    yea
  • mudslingerskatesmudslingerskates
    As soon as elephant went to select you knew something was up. Its just business at this point, let select handle everything and take a little cut.
  • brigade_billbrigade_bill
    yep
  • ppk187ppk187
    Let them handle it, collect a check, then bitch about control
  • brigade_billbrigade_bill
    looks like svitak is dropping 1031 to ride for vallely
  • Dr freedomDr freedom
    whores dont change underwear as much as this guy changes companies
  • mudslingerskatesmudslingerskates
    I'm surprised svitak stuck with the beer city deal for that long, he had a tiny run for a minute but that's it.

    This whole starting a new company called faceplant has me confused. From the first impression a couple months back it seemed played and I'm thinking is he going to reissue some of the same tired ass decks with another logo on them.

    I think vallely thinks he's Evel Knievel and is jumping a shark
  • WakeInFrightWakeInFright
    The fonz did that as well i believe lol
  • brigade_billbrigade_bill
    mike v pp return this fall ;)
  • brigade_billbrigade_bill
    "INFORMATION RELEASE 002

    Contact Person: Mike Vallely

    Re: KRISTIAN SVITAK
    Street Plant Battalion / Ground Assault Division Skater

    Kristian
    Svitak is the newest member of the Street Plant Battalion Skateboard
    Team, although he is no stranger to the sport itself. His name continues
    to be passed around the skateboard grapevine as being one of the most
    dedicated skaters anywhere.

    Mike Vallely, president of the Long
    Beach based Street Plant skateboard company says of the not-so-young
    skater, Simply put, Kristian is one of the most passionate skaters
    around. He seems to have stayed true to his own personal style of
    skating and maintained his own personal approach. He is simply one of my
    all-time favorite skateboarders!

    Vallely recently returned from
    San Diego where he had dinner with Svitak and agreed to put him on the
    team. Emily Vallely, vice-president of Street Plant says, Kristian is
    like my big brother. I remember touring through France and Switzerland
    with him in 2000 and us getting car sick together.

    The Street
    Plant skateboard company will be releasing a new signature model Svitak
    skateboard, resplendent with his busted-ass-grill staring into the
    future of skateboarding. With T-shirts and stickers and skateboards all
    helping to spread Svitak's name through the land, it would seem that he
    is about to become a household word."
  • ChrisChris
    Street Plant Battalion, interesting name. Kind of pays "tribute" to another skate team.
  • ChrisChris
    Street Plant Battalion, interesting name. Kind of pays "tribute" to another skate team.
  • bonerboner
    .........Doesn't have the same ring as....THE BONES BRIGADE"..........l have full respect for Mike V, but this seems a little like Mike taking the same path as Stacey........without any nod towards him either....... 
  • mudslingerskatesmudslingerskates
    Just read that this deck will be reissued by streetplant

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  • CastpolymerCastpolymer
    Great skater, bad businessman.
  • PtownPtown
    I like vallely never a dull moment and don't take shit from anyone just my 2 cents
  • SK8ERSK8ER
    edited January 2015
    Mike is still a part of Elephant, they just released some new decks and he has several new shapes and graphics. Maybe streetplantbrand is going to be a way for him to reissue his decks.
  • SK8ERSK8ER
    Ptown, I agree, he is a great skater and keeps the skate community going either with drama or cool new products.
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