Hardgoods 23/24

[benjinyc]

The fish, malolo, and cheetah were boards he was a big part of having burton bring to market

[coleslawed]

the Cheetah was the most recent one, though. and that came out ten years ago now.

[G.D.]

Jamie’s method > Terje’s

Gotta go with the og (pre-Covid spiral) Muller method. Big fan of the euro style ones, aka Ferg's.

*This can lead down a very slippery slope/thread derailment

[kimchi]

The fish, malolo, and cheetah were boards he was a big part of having burton bring to market

Kind of proving the point that he hasn't been especially relevant in the recent past. Cheetah was intro'd in 2013 as a one-off, Fish and Malolo probably in 2005? Only the Fish has been in the line at any point in the past 5 years-- 10 if you ignore the Mystery Malolo and second Cheetah one-off in 2018 --and that board is unrecognizable from the first gen Fish.

I'm all for keeping legends employed if they're still in the thick of things like the Cummins, Jamie Lynn, or Guch, but between a fat paycheck, checking out to snowskate, and doubling down on at-best insensitive comments, I don't especially take issue with Terje getting the boot. And for all the old-head chatter (especially from the YES guys) about how Burton fucked up by letting him go... Terje still doesn't have a board sponsor. Bluntly he's probably not worth whatever price tag he's asking for.

[McK21]

Don't know what are the plans in Terje's life and I can't guess it, I follow him on Insta and he looks like having the same life he had before the drop, maybe a little less intense traveling, but he spent most part of last winter in Japan, as he had pointed out multiple times, working for the sponsors( Hovland and....?), even rejecting the invite form Rice for the Natural selection tour.....wich sounded strange to me, not the fact that he won't compete, but that he needed to point it out, like somebody who needs to apologize for not being able to do something, wich is not incorrect by any means, but weird to my eyes.

Anyways, as I was saying, to me looks like somebody that enjoy is life doing what he likes and living the life that I would live to, being in the outdoors as much as you want, doing activities and sport that you love, maybe he has enough money in his pocket to say no to sponsors that are really demanding in terms of time, who knows, I just know that when I think of him he reminds the words from a famous reggae singer: “Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

Talking about gear, when is name pops out looks like everybody thinks about the fish, Malolo and cheetah but I know he had a big influence in other gear, boots and bindings, but even working on the custom, like other pro did, but, to me, the most beautiful and particular board that he worked on was the t6/t7( I still have a beautiful t6 162, the one with the scratch from the cat on the base, maybe was 2016) with aluminium core, what a ride, really demanding board( in the length I chose, the 59 was the right fit for me, but when I tried the 62 I knew that I want it in my quiver, for life, and I'm still enjoying it at least one day Ina a season) but never tried a board that ride like that, seems like having his own life.
Always asked myself why they left that aluminium core, aluminium is actually one of if not the only material that comes from itself, it's the perfect example of the circle of recycling, instead of cutting more and more trees that requires a lot of energy and pollution( growing, sawing, transport, milling, glueing etc) looked like an interesting solution, maybe to expensive to produce it, or a license/patent problem?

[michaelangelo]

what the

[McK21]

Sorry, that's what happens when you write after a night of heavy drinking

[mmanza]

Is this the 23/24 Custom being carried in the first slide?

Hope so, that is a cool looking deck.

[Spenser]

the most beautiful and particular board that he worked on was the t6/t7( I still have a beautiful t6 162, the one with the scratch from the cat on the base, maybe was 2016)

You’re off by almost a decade on that one, the scratch graphic was 2008

[benjinyc]

The fish, malolo, and cheetah were boards he was a big part of having burton bring to market

Kind of proving the point that he hasn't been especially relevant in the recent past. Cheetah was intro'd in 2013 as a one-off, Fish and Malolo probably in 2005? Only the Fish has been in the line at any point in the past 5 years-- 10 if you ignore the Mystery Malolo and second Cheetah one-off in 2018 --and that board is unrecognizable from the first gen Fish.

fwiw, those were the boards I just named off the top of my head, I'd imagine he had a huge say in some other boards as well

totally anecdotal, but a few years ago when I was in Burlington, I met a few Burton factory workers, I asked a similar question to them why Terje was still on their team page, after a few beers, one of them said he's one of the few riders that has jake's ear on product development. If it wasn't for Terje's insistence, marketing+sales would have convinced Burton to only sell twin tip decks with playboy, GI-Joe, etc collabs. The margins for selling the decks Terje was pushing for weren't there.