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here we re again,
straight out of ice cold southern Germany. I suppose thats the second blog of class 9. What’s going on with you guys, is Collin the only one able to write?
Anyway, it has been a long long time since I wrote something down here. I apologize but its also been a busy busy time and its getting worse and worse; thats how live is if you are close to graduation.
Ok, that doesn’t mean I can’t take a timeout and head to southern hemispheres to catch some waves, which I’m am actually going to do in exactly 10 days. Nicaragua here I come; let’s hope I can somehow get one of the boards we fetched form the boarder control last week in my luggage to show those guys how to get from point A to B eco-friendly and smooth.
Yes you got that right, the first 15 bamboo boards touched the German territory and 3 of them already got their new owner, and guess what, the love them ( ” its amazing, I get every single tre-flip”)
We’ll thats the mojo of Dr. Bamboo.
We are looking forward to get rest onto trucks asap and then, logically get a couple over. Fortunately I get backup form my buddy Manu, who is actually a pretty sick skater and knows the local scene like no one else and has no bachelor thesis to write
Guys, I’ll hit you up again pretty soon but I gotta bounce
I have a couple of pics as well but right now my mac and y Canon don’t like each other. She often does that, she’s kinda bitchy.
I’ll post you the pics asap
Cheers

Uli

Ok everybody, this is my last mandatory Blog and I guess it might be relatively short.

I just wanted to say good bye and thanks for the great time here. I met great people, especially those who I worked with.

It was a really cool time, lots of fun but also a lot of work, but now it Holiday time

I wish you all a good future and I’m realy looking forward to see you guys again.

Have a good time

Uli

who would have guessed, today is a busy @ the bamboo HQ

beside dealing with our main tasks ( like me for instance: Europe) we are preparing for the Weekend, which entirely booked out with all the skate events: Maloof money Cup and the Us Open

they are going to be great, that’s for sure, although I won’t be around. But 4 days off and visiting my friends in San Francisco sounds good to me as well. Then we have two times the Warped Tour in our schedule for next week. Thanks very much guys for taking me to the one in San Diego, you make a childhood dream come true

We also faced a new girlie board design line today, created by Jen, I named the edition “Sissy 29″( check the pictures, maybe Girl skateboards should reconsider their designs

We are also considering a cooperation with Svarowski for this particular product line. The lead slogan might be the AndrewG quote: “Go Pink, or go home”

last but not least, during all this being- busy- mentality which rules our day, we had time for the more important things in life, like for instance….

Jess

or her birthday to be more precisely:

happy birthday little lady

honestly?

Well, I try to. As you guys might now I’m German, and although the view you guys have about Germans( eins zwei, eins zwei and so on) I have to admit that you are more or less right. For instance, Germany I the only country I’ve ever been where you are moaned at you if you are one minute too late. Seriously? One minute?Yes! 8 o’clock is 8 o’clock and not 8:01. But thank god there are other Germans as well and I am happy that I am one of those:)

But anyway, If you followed our class 7 blog history you might have realized that I am likely to bullshit around, but not in this blog; I least I will try:)

First of all I have 3 reasons to write this blog.

The first is personal: Goodbye Pope( you might know him as Jeffrey from Intern class 6). This guy left sunny Oceanside this Wednesday which made us having a great party the day before until I guess 5 am. You can’t imagine how silent it was in the office the next day:)

he left us to work on some small Island, I just know it in the Atlantic ocean on the coast of New Hamster. Anyway, Pope, hope you have fun over there, but not as much as here so you regret leaving us:) Have a good time, see you in a couple of years for an awesome surf session; being in the water is really not half as fun without you.

Second reason: today I stumbled over the Blog entry of MarkD about his recent project “Vertical Gardens”,

Check it out its a great idea in my eyes

http://www.verticalearthgardens.com

Third Issue: In week 12 we are encouraged to write a bit about the internship here and our experiences so far.

I just can say its still great and as I focused myself I have to admit that I really gained lots of important experiences so far. First of all, my English language skills have improved dramatically. Additionally I feel like my work skills and my ability to get more things done in a shorter amount of time really increased. The whole working environment here supports my personal development like I never would have guessed and the best thing is, entirely without any lack of fun. It is simply great to see how our effort we have put in this company pays off. At this point, thank you guys for getting to know you and supporting my personal development. Due to this internship I am looking forward to go back to university for another year, just to learn thing which would have been useful to know while I am here, so now I am indeed looking forward to sit in the auditory again.

I wish you all a great weekend

cheers

Uli

… something happened somewhere, but thats not what this post is going to be about. Not such a long time ago there happened something as well and it happened in the Pacific Beach Surf Shop.

THE OCTOBOMB LAUNCH PARTY

Actually it was last Thursday when we finally aired our new board and experienced that all the blood, sweat and tears we’ve put in through the last weeks finally paid off in an breathtaking result; I sometimes like to exaggerate:) but no lie it was definitely a great party. Bull Taco filled our stomaches with great tasting tacos and served the hottest sauce I’ve ever consumed( thats no exaggeration, this stuff was really hot). We danced to the tunes of Boomsnap, Seth Petersen and Whit’s Band and got culturally enriched by Jess and her fiddle. We had so much stuff for the raffle and the silent auction, for instance a surfboard and of course our new designed Octobomb shirts, we couldn’t get rid of all this stuff. Not too bad, now I have some surfwax savings:)

But anyway, when we started at 7 pm I was a bit concerned because there weren’t that many people, but it turned out that Jen is a genius promoter. Just a bit later the shop was packed and we had crazy skate sessions going on outside, and everybody loved our board; which is simply awesome by the way.  So what can I say, it was a great party, thanks everybody, you all did a great job and thanks everybody who was there celebrating with us. If you haven’t been there, you better be sad now because you definitely missed a great party.

We even  had fake mustaches for everyone; Yes, damn right, FAKE MUSTACHES for everyone and for free.

So as you can see you definitely missed a rad party, check those pictures and find even more on our facebook. Here is also a video from the guys from PB Surf Shop and check the Octobomb Skate video on our sk8 blog, its sick.

PB Octobomb video

have fun with all the media stuff and have a great day

cheers

Uli

Finally, it’s done
the video about the Almabtrieb 2010 downhill championship aired!
check it out , looks like a pretty cool weekend
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Hello everybody and a happy new week,

mondays are allways, hmmm…..well……. let’s say they are. So anyway, this monday design queen Dana came in with a bunch of boxes containing a new load of T- shirts. Now we got the bamboo logo shirt in so many different colors as you can see on the pics. Furthermore, I got a shot of a rare situation: Mark being really busy( just kidding, he got injured on a soccer game.) We also have now crocodiles living close to the office, so watch your steps. And I’ve been searching a bit in our past and found this awesome picture of buddy Bob B. holding one of ours. This week will be pretty intense, we got a lot of stuff to do for thursday, where we finally are going to launch or new Octobomb board. You should definitely come over to PB surf shop, it gonna be an awesome evening and it is freeee!!!!! So hopefully see you there.

By the way,I had a severe personal change in my mind last week As a strongly convinced street skater( unfortunately more or less retired because of my knees:( I never was really into longboards, but cruzing through Oceanside on our 46″ Pintail is so fun, so I’m now considering about taking one with me to Mexico after this intern. I just have to figure out how to manage all my luggage. Through the last week there was the “Almabtrieb” Event going on close to where I am from, check the video, the track is pretty sick.

Wish you all a monday afternoon

cheers UliAlmabtrieb track 2010

tomorrow it happens again,
its more or less your birthday
227 years ago( if i didn’t count wrong) you finally sent the red skirts the first time home to their Queen. Ok, they remained in Canada, but who cares.
So happy happy birthday from Germany.
I promise I will celebrate you tomorrow as passionate as everybody else here and as passionate as my home country celebrates at the moment. Two times facing Argentina in the quarters, two times bye bye “Albiceleste”
so at this point :
DEUTSCHLAND DEUTSCHLAND DEUTSCHLAND !!!!!
We don’t celebrate our country’s birthday like you, we celebrate soccer, so a bit more infrequent and spontaneous, but it actually it turns out to be more or less the same.
So happy Independence Day everybody
have a nice weekend of celebration,

Good morning everybody,and happy GOSK8DAY by the way. I hope you will all have (or had so far; for my buddies at home) an awesome day on the boards which mean the world. Be prepared San Diego, the Bamboo Promo teams will roll over and crash the spots all 0ver the area. I really look forward to see all of you out there rollin’ n rockin’ your ass up (hope you’re happy know Whit). We did a pretty nice warm up on Saturday here in our HQ with barbeque, our awesome new Quarter and all our team riders and friends. It was a great day, except I hurt my ankle, which is better again by the way. At this point I would like to thank everybody out of the Bamboo crew for their effort on this day, especially our riders. You were really rockin’ this day and we have a few really nice shots we will put online as soon as possible. That’s all so far, have a nice day, go skate and see you soon.

 Cheers

Uli

Good morning everybody,

it’s around 9:30 in the morning, I am looking forward to a great day with my Mastershoplist and I am tired. So far the news. I have to admitt that I had an awesome time so far in Oceanside. We finaly found an apartment more or less dircetly on the OS beach and today is moving day, which indicates more or less indirectly that I have to leave Mark’s chouch; unfortunately, I guess it’s the most comfortable couch on the whole wide world.

 I’m realy looking forward for the next time, we have so many different project which are all really cool and I can’t wait for saturday when our selfmade obstacles, among others a quater pipe( yyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssss, a quater pipe!!!!!!!!) are ready, thanks to mostly Brian and Steve; We’ll have awesome sk8 breaks.

By the way, you should try to see Whit playing his guitar, he can even make Bob Dylan songs bearable for my ears, but he will get famous anyway because he now is the big buddy of O’Mally Jones( yeeeessssssssssssss, O’Mally Jones!!!!!)

Anyway, a few days ago I got a text ( or, better said a few) from Melissa, which made me a bit confused, she wrote:

Why is it so easy to reject a good person? (Yet we stay with someone who takes us thru hell?) Why is it so easy… For us to leave home? ( But so hard for us to come up out of our hole?) Why do we sleep in school? ( but stay awake through a 3 hour movie?) Why is it so hard… to talk about God?( But to talk about premarital sex?) Why are we so bored when we look at a Christian book?( But find it easy to read Zane?) Why …is it so easy to ignore a Godly forward? ( Yet we forward  the demeaning ones?) Why are Churches getting smaller? (But bars and clubs are expanding?) Why… Is it so easy to worship a celebrity? (But very difficult to worship God?) think about it, are you going to forward this? Or are you going to ignore it… cause you think you will get laughed at or not cool? The Lord said: If you deny Me in … in front of your friends, I will deny you in front of my Father

Well, Melissa, true words! I have to admit these are all good questions, but I honestly have better things to do than minding about such things, like fishing, playing bocha with the French or counting every single bamboo spear in Andrew”s warehouse. Anyway, sorry that I didn’t respond, Melissa, but who the hell are you again?

So, I wish you all a great day, I will now check out how far the quater is constructed yet

see you soon

Uli

So I’ve been recently imported from Munich, Germany to get to know how life is under the sun.  I’m now in my third day of the Bamboo internship. So far it has been a really cool time. While working up all the stuff I missed throughout the first weeks and coming up with new ideas steadily, they a spreading like bamboo plants .We somehow managed to test our products in frequent skating sessions in our top- secret Bamboo- Lab aka storage hall. The more I skate them the more I like this kind of decks. We do our best to get you all in favor of this amazing pop’in, super light boards and put an extra portion of fun and love in all of our decks, just for you. I’m pretty sure the next weeks will be a lot of work, but fun as well and I really can’t wait to get things packed on. Anyway, I’m looking forward for the first surfing session today, finally. I wish you all a great weekend, see you next week

Cheers