The ABF Skate Shop Facebook page recently when I shared the U.S. I realize Navarrete’s Tigerlabs has little to do with skateboarding, but nevertheless the image is meaningful and powerful. And I thank you and he both for providing a positive, uplifting image of skateboarding that, I feel, is I wish Navarrete and his entrepreneurship center success.

Or Bernie Cuddy, a North Brunswick native who is busy growing his Dato Skateboards and Clothing into an international brand. Himself, he was shooting his skateboarding friends and their death defying moves. Or Califon’s Todd Laffler, whose Laffler Photography is oneof the premier wedding photographers in the Tri-State area. Like, for example, New Brunswick skater Ian Haliday, who now runs the nationally renowned Coffee Slingers Roasters in Oklahoma City with his girlfriend. Magazine article when he said “ is about getting on the board and feeling that exhilaration, the speed and control business same.”Īnd Alva and I are not alone, as many of ABF’s old skateboarding customers now run successful, creative businesses of their own. Perhaps skateboarding legend Tony Alva put it best in a 2006 Entrepreneur Being able to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds when almost everyone is against you. I have always felt that there is a strong relationship between the creative, solitary nature of skateboarding and the successful entrepreneur. Surfing has left me with a few reef cuts, bruises etc but nothing. (I closed ABF in 1999 to pursue other interests.) Injury wise, skateboarding has provided me with a list of injuries as long as my arm. I learned a great deal about small business, entrepreneurship, and most of all, PASSION, during that time - traits that serve me well today. Shop came to dominate the Central Jersey skateboarding scene. at the front of my mother’s florist in North Brunswick in 1988 when I was 13 years old. As someone who both skateboards and started a business as a teenager, this image - and the inclusion of words like “Innovation” and “High Energy” with it - were particularly appealing to me. This board's 8-ply maple wood deck measures 40 inches long and 10.5 inches wide, offering excellent space for sure footing and enough room for both larger and smaller riders. 1 at his newly launched Tigerlabs entrepreneurship center. The Kryptonics 40-Inch Pin-Fishtail Longboard Complete Skateboard is a great choice for any new or experienced longboarder who is serious about the sport. I was delighted to see Burt Navarrete pictured on a skateboard on the cover of the March 6 edition of U.S.

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