http://www.skateboardworks.com/2006/07/03/consolidated-says-%e2%80%9cdont-do-it%e2%80%9d-to-nike/ Skateboarding since like forever Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:19:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.skateboardworks.com/2006/07/03/consolidated-says-%e2%80%9cdont-do-it%e2%80%9d-to-nike/#comment-20 nik jones Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:22:57 +0000 http://www.allthatscool.com/skateboardworks/wordpress/?p=68#comment-20 does nike have the right to sell skate shoes? yes. do i have the right to inform every young skater in my town about how nike gives nothing back to the skate community and encourage them to give their money to companies that give something back? unfortunatly for nike, yes. i also tell them about nike bailing on skateboarding to focus on their international soccer market instead of trying to help us fix the legal problems inherent with skateboarding at the time(no public skateparks, poor liability laws forced cities to criminalize skateboarding on all public property, skating on private property got you arrested, it left no legal places to skate). does nike have the right to sell skate shoes? yes. do i have the right to inform every young skater in my town about how nike gives nothing back to the skate community and encourage them to give their money to companies that give something back? unfortunatly for nike, yes. i also tell them about nike bailing on skateboarding to focus on their international soccer market instead of trying to help us fix the legal problems inherent with skateboarding at the time(no public skateparks, poor liability laws forced cities to criminalize skateboarding on all public property, skating on private property got you arrested, it left no legal places to skate).

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