{"id":2643,"date":"2008-11-21T08:17:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2008-11-21T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:35:46","slug":"blankety-blank-snowboard-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2643","title":{"rendered":"Blankety Blank Snowboard Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/logo.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/logo.png','popup','width=308,height=100,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"64\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Logo\" \/><\/a>We all know how well it worked in the skate market so now snowboarders <strong>Brandon Bybee<\/strong>, <strong>Rob Foy<\/strong>, <strong>Jason Murphy<\/strong>, and <strong>Benson Miller<\/strong> are bringing blanks to snowboarding with a new anti-brand called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blanksnowboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blank Snowboards<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are on a mission to take snowboarding back from corporate America by making snowboarding affordable without compromising the quality. We were there before snowboarding became what it is today: mainstream, unaffordable, and all about the hype. We want to give back to the sport that has given us so many memories, friendships, and great \u201csick\u201d days by providing the best product at the correct price. We have found that by cutting out all the unnecessary costs (ie: retailers, graphics, and high-paid riders) we can provide the best decks in the industry for \u00bd the price of any comparable board. We are about the sport not the hype. We are the traditionalists not the trend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never quite seen retailers called out as &#8220;unnecessary costs&#8221; before, but it makes sense. And getting a snowboard for less than 200 bucks does make paying $500 to ride a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ridesnowboards.com\/boards\/board.asp?ProductID=13\" target=\"_blank\">logo emblazoned billboard<\/a><\/strong> seem kind of foolish. Wonder if the major snowboard labels will band together and pressure <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Business<\/a><\/strong> into creating a special advertorial supplement next fall to help educate the market about how blank snowboards are killing the entire industry?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blanksnowboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blank Snowboards<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespectrum.com\/article\/20081120\/LIFESTYLE05\/811200345\" target=\"_blank\">The Spectrum<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how well it worked in the skate market so now snowboarders Brandon Bybee, Rob Foy, Jason Murphy, and Benson Miller are bringing blanks to snowboarding with a new anti-brand called Blank Snowboards. We are on a mission to take snowboarding back from corporate America by making snowboarding affordable without compromising the quality. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}