Goodbye Powell Skateboards ❤️

So, for the past two years, I've been riding nothing but paddle boards. And yesterday, I sent a message to Deville. And in that message, I let him know that uh I will no longer be riding paddle boards. Um so, a lot of my decision came because, bro, I'm 32. I'm going to be 33 um in a couple weeks. So, I don't know how to describe this. I know a lot of uh older people are going to say you're young, but I just feel like where I stood inside the team, which I wasn't a part of the team and rightfully so. I I did not show up every session. I wasn't um really contributing as much as I wish I could have or I I don't know how well these things play. So, um, it's just a lot of thinking that I'm doing right now as I'm trying to describe this. So, I'm going to probably be all over the place, scattered around trying to, uh, put all this together. But my reasoning is I just didn't feel like there was going to be a future for me for um, riding pow boards in terms of like uh, just being flow two years. Um, I don't I I never really uh had a conversation maybe about like what my future looks like within the brand. And I'm very much a person that wants to just do things. I want to be active. I want to be like uh I want to know what's happening. And I know that Pal's working on a video right now. Uh so I definitely wasn't filming for a video. I've like been doing my own thing. Uh so that doesn't help at all. Um, I'm basically here to let you know that just I let I sent a message and just I I just kept it real with myself. Um, I do have goals like I I I want to get a pro board for uh a board company whether it was POW or any other skateboard company. So, just within my goals, I didn't see that happening with PAL. So I want to kept like kept I want to keep it as real with myself as much as the brand and before I like skate with them for another one year, another two years and then it's like I've been on like flow for 5 years. I just didn't want to feel like defeated and like I'm just re like just accepting like yo it's probably not going to happen. uh we got to make uh new decisions and I gotta just think what's next. So basically, yeah. Um what's next? We're going to find out. Um should we make a sponsor me? Probably. Um so I'm just as confused on my journey moving forward as much as you're watching this video trying to understand what I'm even saying. But I will say, dude, Powell is so [ __ ] sick. Like, dude, the whole team is dope. Uh the the boards are so sick. Like, imagine getting a flight deck as your pro board. That would have been dope. But I guess what you can see from this is like I couldn't do it, so I quit. And it sucks to see it that way that I quit on one of my goals. And I'm not really a big fan of quitting. So, it's just one of those that I I Damn. It's just one of those goals that you just kind of have to accept. It's like like imagine if your birthday is February 29th and you only could celebrate your birthday every so often. It's like, dude, what are you like? Like like uh that made no sense. But I just thought about that. But yeah, a lot of butts in here. Um we'll see where we head, man. I just wanted to update y'all. Uh, I've been doing a lot more live streaming my sessions, and I'm going to be live streaming a lot of my tricks moving forward, like hard tricks that I would film for video parts. I recently landed uh the Varof Flip Primo on a rail, and I'm going to be working on a longer one, too. So, that's not the final product. I just wanted to put it out there because I just felt like I had to uh after I'll just explain it all later in another video. But yeah, thank you everyone for watching. Um, and let's see where we go. We don't know what's happening. Um, should I just buy boards and test them out and see what I like? What's There's like a whole endless world out there. So, once again, thank you to Deville. Thank you to PAL, everyone at PAL and the team. Everyone there is amazing and welcoming. Um, just let's get it. Thank you everyone for watching and I'll see you on the next video. Signing out.