is sector 9 cool

**cheezewiz** · 02-15-2010 06:08 PM

i am new to longboarding and silverfish, but have been totally hooked. Since i can't go surfing or snowboarding, this is my time for making good turns. i started on an arbor but quickly learned that there were better boards out there. after seeing some of the loaded videos i wanted to try one so bad. once my buddy got one i tried it and didn't want to give it back. so i saved up and bought a vanguard with some orangatangs and randles. I love that board so much i might marry it. i know that it is not a board for crazy downhill racing, but i carve hard, pump hard, and slide hard.

anyhow, my question is... i heard that louis polloni left loaded for sector nine. why would he leave a kick ass company with good product and good skaters? is he selling out or is sector nine a cool company. from what i have seen and heard sector nine is a step down from loaded. sector nine seems to be just following the industry that they started. they have not come up with anything evolutionary like companies such as landyachts, rayne, randel, abec 11 or loaded. they started the industry but now just follow. this is all i know from what i have found from looking #### up on the net. someone tell me different

wiz

**Big Dev** · 02-15-2010 06:10 PM

in b4 lock

**cheezewiz** · 02-15-2010 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by Big Dev

in b4 lock

what does "in B4 lock" mean

**lollygag** · 02-15-2010 06:15 PM

lolllllllllllllllllll

**rosewood thief** · 02-15-2010 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by cheezewiz

i am new to longboarding and silverfish, but have been totally hooked. Since i can't go surfing or snowboarding, this is my time for making good turns. i started on an arbor but quickly learned that there were better boards out there. after seeing some of the loaded videos i wanted to try one so bad. once my buddy got one i tried it and didn't want to give it back. so i saved up and bought a vanguard with some orangatangs and randles. I love that board so much i might marry it.

anyhow, my question is... i heard that louis polloni left loaded for sector nine. why would he leave a kick ass company with good product and good skaters? is he selling out or is sector nine a cool company. from what i have seen and heard sector nine is a step down from loaded

wiz

Is this a question or just drunken posting?

**cheezewiz** · 02-15-2010 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by rosewood thief

Is this a question or just drunken posting?

not drunk yet. i don't think sector nine is that cool. i think it is the generic board that people get cause they don't know any better. but when heard louis was leaving loaded for sector nine i was blown away. why leave a company that supports shredding for a company that is for beginners

**Fortune** · 02-15-2010 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by cheezewiz

i am new to longboarding and silverfish, but have been totally hooked. Since i can't go surfing or snowboarding, this is my time for making good turns. i started on an arbor but quickly learned that there were better boards out there. after seeing some of the loaded videos i wanted to try one so bad. once my buddy got one i tried it and didn't want to give it back. so i saved up and bought a vanguard with some orangatangs and randles. I love that board so much i might marry it.

anyhow, my question is... i heard that louis polloni left loaded for sector nine. why would he leave a kick ass company with good product and good skaters? is he selling out or is sector nine a cool company. from what i have seen and heard sector nine is a step down from loaded

wiz

S9 is also a kick ass company with good products and good skaters. They're no worse than Loaded.

I heard that Pilloni had a fight with someone from Loaded/on the Loaded team or something like that. And I also heard that they gave him a nice contract (1.15m for 5 years, little over 200k per year).

All stuff I've heard, I have no clue if it's true or not.

not drunk yet. i don't think sector nine is that cool. i think it is the generic board that people get cause they don't know any better. but when heard louis was leaving loaded for sector nine i was blown away. why leave a company that supports shredding for a company that is for beginners

S9 is no more a beginner company than Loaded is, and they "support shredding" just as much as Loaded.

**LANDYACHTZ4theWIN** · 02-15-2010 06:22 PM

ahh another kid sucked in by the powers of the loaded media crew. poor misguided souls.

**B_Dubya_B** · 02-15-2010 06:24 PM

/inbeforethreadisnotonlylockedbutremovedfromexistan ceaspertheotherthreadsaboutthis

**cheezewiz** · 02-15-2010 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by fortune

s9 is also a kick ass company with good products and good skaters. They're no worse than loaded.

I heard that pilloni had a fight with someone from loaded/on the loaded team or something like that. And i also heard that they gave him a nice contract (1.15m for 5 years, little over 200k per year).

All stuff i've heard, i have no clue if it's true or not.

S9 is no more a beginner company than loaded is, and they "support shredding" just as much as loaded.

wow for that kind of money i would rollerblade with a banana hammock!!!

**McFly** · 02-15-2010 06:27 PM

s9 is cool. they make some of the best wheels in the market.

**rosewood thief** · 02-15-2010 06:27 PM

Sector 9>Loaded

In all aspects, IMO.

**dmackanic** · 02-15-2010 06:30 PM

[QUOTE=Fortune;1297975745]S9 is also a kick ass company with good products and good skaters. They're no worse than Loaded.

I heard that Pilloni had a fight with someone from Loaded/on the Loaded team or something like that. And I also heard that they gave him a nice contract (1.15m for 5 years, little over 200k per year).

All stuff I've heard, I have no clue if it's true or not.

Are you kidding me? There is not that much money in skateboarding. if he really makes that much good for him but i highly doubt it

**BigRyeguy** · 02-15-2010 06:31 PM

Sector 9 is SUPER COOL

**Manofsnazz** · 02-15-2010 06:35 PM

They may be available in every zumiez and putting some local shops out of business, but that's the only problem I "kinda" have with them. Unlike loaded, they have a variety of boards, some of which are pretty gnar. It's not the same scene as landyachtz or rayne, so most of their stuff isn't designed to rip down massive hills...but unlike loaded, some of sector 9's boards can do that. The bullet/kommie/sunset are all killer hill boards. Loaded is overpriced in my opinion, and has a following of people that think they're supporting an indy company. Boards like the vanguard are great for what they are, but not much else. Same goes for the dancer and the dervish. They're sorta one trick ponies if you ask me, medium free-riding and carving.

If having sick videos of pro riders is enough to define a company as cool, then yes, Loaded is the bees knees. But if it's about the ride and the feel, I'll take a sector 9 over a loaded any day.

My opinion, just ride your board and if someone gives you #### over it just kick 'em in the nards.

**CasterTown** · 02-15-2010 06:36 PM

**wizzle** · 02-15-2010 06:37 PM

more likely a 1.5 thousand over 5 years rather than million. I mean seriously, lets get real here.

There is that kind of money in regular skateboarding. There is next to no money in longboarding. People that go kind of fast on a skateboard and can do stand up slides are not worth anywhere near 1.5million. The industry is way to small.

**profaceboarder** · 02-15-2010 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by Fortune

S9 is also a kick ass company with good products and good skaters. They're no worse than Loaded.

I heard that Pilloni had a fight with someone from Loaded/on the Loaded team or something like that. And I also heard that they gave him a nice contract (1.15m for 5 years, little over 200k per year).

All stuff I've heard, I have no clue if it's true or not.

S9 is no more a beginner company than Loaded is, and they "support shredding" just as much as Loaded.

i ride a bomb hills sector nine and when i first started going out everyone dogged on my board and so i thought it was bottom of the barrel but all i needed was wheeels to match my style and now ill take it over a loaded any day and can still bomb with the best of them

**ZuMBLe** · 02-15-2010 06:47 PM

Sector 9 is cool in my book. I own loadeds, earthwings, bustins, and a few others. I recently got my first sector 9 and I'm very happy with it. The graphic is nice, the build seems solid and it feels great riding it. Sector 9 got a lot of people in to longboarding and I respect them for that.

**Fortune** · 02-15-2010 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by dmackanic

Are you kidding me? There is not that much money in skateboarding. if he really makes that much good for him but i highly doubt it

Yes there is most definitely that much money in skateboarding, especially when a company the size of S9 is concerned.

The figure seems a bit high to me too, I'm just stating what I heard.