{"id":14705,"date":"2010-03-12T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2010-03-12T23:17:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T07:17:32","slug":"spots-rob-meronek-gets-down-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14705","title":{"rendered":"SPoT&#8217;s Rob Meronek Gets Down To Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1461_lg_spot_rob.jpg.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/1461_lg_spot_rob.jpg.jpg','popup','width=349,height=349,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\/2010\/03\/1461_lg_spot_rob.jpg-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1461 Lg Spot Rob.Jpg\" \/><\/a>On the eve of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spotlightskateboarding.com\/spotlight\/event.aspx?EventID=21\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Tampa Pro<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>contest<strong> <\/strong>writer<strong> Colin Bane<\/strong> interviews <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateparkoftampa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skate Park of Tampa&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Rob Meronek<\/strong> and gets a look into the contest business that <strong>Meronek<\/strong>, <strong>Ryan Clements<\/strong>, and <strong>Brian Schaefer<\/strong> have stumbled into with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spotlightskateboarding.com\/spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">SPoTlight Productions<\/a><\/strong>. Rob hints at their work for <strong>Rob Dyrdek&#8217;s <\/strong>upcoming<strong> Street League<\/strong> and discusses why their partnership with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nike.com\/nikesnowboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nike<\/a><\/strong> works so well. It&#8217;s all up on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop-eat-surf.com\/news-item\/1461\/spot-s-meronek-on-tampa-pro\" target=\"_blank\">Shop-Eat-Surf.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For one thing I know everyone we&#8217;ve ever dealt with at Nike is a skateboarder and is right on our level. From a regular skate rat kid perspective the things they&#8217;ve done right are backing skateboarding, making great shoes, and getting a great team. . . .But behind the scenes what they did right in the industry was to get a great staff that&#8217;s on it, bring in some actual skateboarders and then, you know, actually listen to them, let them have the reins. <strong>Nick Halkias<\/strong> over there is great to work with. We grew up skating with him and he used to work at the skatepark. The team manager, <strong>Hunter Muraira<\/strong>, actually skates, which is more than a lot of TM&#8217;s can say. He can&#8217;t kickflip very well, but he can skate. <strong>Kevin Imamura<\/strong> too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more, so click the link to read the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop-eat-surf.com\/news-item\/1461\/spot-s-meronek-on-tampa-pro\" target=\"_blank\">Shop Eat Surf<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the 2010 Tampa Pro contest writer Colin Bane interviews Skate Park of Tampa&#8217;s Rob Meronek and gets a look into the contest business that Meronek, Ryan Clements, and Brian Schaefer have stumbled into with SPoTlight Productions. Rob hints at their work for Rob Dyrdek&#8217;s upcoming Street League and discusses why their [&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":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14720,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions\/14720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}