Posts Tagged ‘action sports’

Kick, push, kick push,….coast….

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Hello Hello!!
It is week 4 of this internship and it is flying by. There have been a lot of things to do but it’s totally worth it! I can’t get over how much I have learned so far! I’m still pretty stoked about being an intern! Over the past couple of weeks, I have been doing a lot of PR work for BambooSK8!  We are given goals or commitments to reach per week and let me tell ya, it’s an eye opener! I’m learning to manage my time better and that “the devil is in the details.”   Yet in still, it’s awesome!  I love that I get to spread the word about these products to everyone I see, call and email.  Lately, I’ve been contacting different festivals, eco events and magazines that BambooSK8 can be a part of. Time to represent!! 

Oh! how could I forget the Greenwashed Music Ritual? Curious huh? Well…

The Green Washed Ritual II digital music compilation features 10 amazing artists from around the world who have kindly donated one song each to promote sustainability.  For every purchase on the BambooSK8 website, you will receive via email an access code for all 10 songs upon completion of the shopping cart purchase.  As a bonus, you will also get the 20 songs from the first GWR compilation.  Pretty stellar, right?!?!  I mean, who doesn’t like music?

Show some love for these awesome bands by letting your friends know who you are listening to and purchase the bands music!!

With everything going on, I did steal some time to skate a bit….

      to do some luging? 

 

and sing “With or Without You” by U2 to a lady at work….note the pen microphone! LOL

  She was diggin it!!!

I think overall all of us interns are developing strategies to meet our goals and represent for BambooSK8 in the way should! And we will!! It’ll be really cool to see what the next couple of weeks will bring and what I will learn from this company, my mentors and from the other interns! I’m expecting the best in every situation.

By the way, you want to do your good deed for the day?

“Like” us on FB:   www.facebook.com/BambooSk8

Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/#!/BambooSK8

Check out the Greenwashed music Ritual:    www.bamboosk8.com/misc/music.php

And last but certainly not  least, buy a bamboo board! Save a tree. Skate green!

Thanks in Advance!!

      ~T

 

 

 

 

 

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Hello Bamboo!

Friday, January 20th, 2012

It’s been quite a ride for me to get to where I am with BambooSk8 today. So I guess I’ll begin with where it all started. I was born and raised in a suburb of Connecticut about an hour outside of New York City. I continued on to Penn State University where I had a great college experience. After college, I followed what I thought was the expected path and took the 1st high paying job I was offered without really giving much thought to what I really wanted to do with my life.  After 18 months working back in Connecticut with a well known insurance company spending most of my days in a cubicle managing multiple Excel spreadsheets, I decided I had enough. So I quit my job and moved to South Lake Tahoe, CA in December of 2010. I spent the winter working for Heavenly Mountain Resort and snowboarding just about every day. Life was good, but as spring came and the snow melted I knew it wouldn’t last. But what I did realize was that I wanted to work around something that I was passionate about. For me, that was snowboarding, or really anything in the Action Sports Industry. So when I moved in with some old college buddies in San Diego this past July, I got an awesome internship with an upcoming snowboarding magazine called SBX Magazine. I learned a lot about marketing and worked with some really great people. However, I knew that working in the Action Sports Industry was difficult to break into. I just didn’t have enough connections or experience. So I got a job valet parking to pay the bills here in SD while I refocused on my search for a more traditional career. But I did still frequently peruse Malakye (the job listing site for action sports), which is where I found the opening with BambooSk8. So here I am today, trying to give another shot at following my passions by working with BambooSk8!

 

PS. Attached are a couple photos from my winter in Lake Tahoe, there is one that might give you an idea about how much it dumped last winter!

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How is it already week 6?!?!

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

They weren’t lying when they said time flies when you’re having fun! These last few weeks have been a crazy experience, one I wouldn’t change for anything. These last few weeks have been a crash course in everything that I DIDN’T study in college. After spending four years immersed in environmental studies and sciences, the PR world feels like a completely different planet. I finally am starting to feel confident with everything that I am taking on and I hope that I will only be able to learn and experience more in my time here at BambooSK8.

Several weeks ago, at the Rerip Surf Contest in Cardiff by the Sea, my girlfriend Katie purchased a 42″ Double Kick Tsunami deck from our booth. She has grown up longboarding the hills of Oregon and was hesitant to give up her Sector 9 ways, but she loved what the boards stood for so she took a chance. Since then a day rarely passes that she doesn’t ride her bamboo board, whether its to lacrosse practice or just to class. She still attends the University of Redlands and has noticed that her board has been getting a lot of attention around campus these days.  People have asked questions about it and she has stepped up as a spokesperson, of sorts, in Redlands.

Each new rider that chooses bamboo over maple is becoming an advocate for our decks, taking on the responsibility to share their knowledge, their expereinces and their love for bamboo!!

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Hi Internet!

Friday, September 16th, 2011

I’m Kyle Kasulis,
I hail all the way from northern Virginia right outside of Washington DC. I started surfing, skating, and snowboarding at a young age and that passion for board sports has never left me. After completing college at Virginia Tech, the drive to be more involved in the action sports industry brought me out west to BambooSK8.

This week has been busy but fun so far! On Monday the interns headed to Point Loma Nazarene University for their annual Green Fest. We had an opportunity to spread the word about BambooSK8 and sold some decks. Another event that BambooSK8 will be attending is The Cardiff Surf Classic & Rerip Green Fest. We did a fun segment promoting the event on San Diego 6 this morning. A few of us tarp surfed while Mark Olson, the operations manager, talked about the boards we offer.

Getting ready to go on air...

The Cardiff event should be a fun this weekend, and I’m stoked to check it out!

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A letter from former intern class 2 – Kelly Loft

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

March 14, 2011

Dear Fellow Ambitious Bamboo-Loving Interns,

Welcome to the world of Action Sports and Bamboo! If you are reading this it means you have decided to join a great team and an awesome opportunity for your future career. Nothing can be more important these days then getting a step ahead, congrats to you for taking that step!

I guess I should start out by introducing myself. My name is Kelly Loft; I was part of the Second Class of Interns. After my graduation from the program (which you will all do J), I then went on to be hired on as Project Lead to help run the Third Class Program. After my fantastic time with BambooSK8 and Bamboo Buddy, I took a year off to finish school. I then received another internship at Sole Technology, just a little place you might have heard of. I enjoyed my time there and then moved back up to LA where I now do Media Planning for Infiniti Automotive. You can say I have been involved in a lot!

Okay, so I am sure you are wondering why I am writing this. Why do you care about me or my work history? The answer would be is, I have been in your shoes asking the same questions, wondering the same thing about the program and it’s potential. I wanted to reach out to you to shed some light on questions you may have been asking. Most importantly, how does this internship stack up to the others?

First and foremost you are lucky to work with some of the most amazing people in the industry. Learn all you can from them! This internship is special because you get hands on, everyday experience with people who know the industry well. My time at Sole Tech, although fun and exciting, was never a hands on experience like BambooSK8. Of course at Sole I saw the people that were the big decision makers of the company, but never had a chance to hear their side, their story and most of all work directly under and for them. By being in such a close proximity to the Wyatt, Geoff and Mark gives you great advantage. Secondly, take time to get as involved in you can. Try to touch at least one part of a project every day. When you’re working for a bigger well known company you do not get to do the sort of tasks that you do at Bamboo. I was a spreadsheet master at Sole Tech! I am sure that you will be spending some time working on those sorts of remedial tasks at Bamboo, but I mean that was my job at Sole, ALL DAY! At Bamboo I was doing the busy office work but, I was also planning ASR, going to trade shows, creating client relationships and becoming a solid brand ambassador. I learned much more with my time at Bamboo and so will you.

I was in your shoes, sometimes wondering if I was making the right decision by investing my time with the internship you have taken on. Now sitting here I can tell you, it was worth it. I made great lifelong friends, participated hands on with  people who know how the industry works and was able to take many things away with me that have landed me in the job I am today. Be proud and don’t give up! Please feel free to reach out with any questions to me that you have! My door is always open for fellow Bamboo lovers. Have an awesome time!

Thank you,

Kelly Loft

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ASR is coming!!!

Friday, August 28th, 2009

BambooSK8 is coming to ASR this year with all new and improved 100% and 70% bamboo short decks, along with our New 100% bamboo Longboards in three different shapes and sizes!  If you get a chance to come to ASR this year, held at the San Diego Convention Center, come check us out in the ASEC Green Room, a section dedicated to sustainable companies in the action sports industry.  Hope to see you there!!!!

Skate Green,

Mark O.

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June 18, 2009 intern class 3 graduation – Bamboosk8

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

On June 18th, we all met up (owners, interns, family members, etc.) at the El Callejon restaurant in Encinitas off the PCH; a delicious mexican restaurant who was recommended by our Office manager Laurie.  This was the final celebration of our 3rd graduating class of interns at bamboosk8, although unfortunately 3 of the interns couldn’t make it and 3 others never graduated.  We were very fortunate to have Chad, the owner of malakye.com come out and celebrate with us, as well talk to the interns about what he is seeing in the job market.  After having dinner, Geoff spoke to the interns about “value” which he accomplished by demonstrating who would still want a $100 bill after it was crumpled and stepped on – it’s still $100 and so are we as human beings, no matter what our circumstances – we’ve all been down, stepped on, etc.  but we have to recognize our value and increase it.  Next, Geoff gave Kevin (krystie’s boyfriend from Germany) the $100 bill and a plaque thanking him for his help with  some packaging of our decks.  Then, Ron and Wyatt spoke about each intern giving personal stories of the value we found with each intern, as well as handing each a plaque recogning:

 ”most likely to succeed” – Greg

“class clown” – Mark D

“best photography” – Jamie

“most creative” – Kystie

“most persistent” – Mark O

“most improved” – Brittany

“most congenial” – Monica

“most dilligent” – Monique

Most importantly for Geoff was giving a plaque to his lovely girlfriend Catherine – “the woman behind the man”.

We then followed the evening with a final thank you from Mark and then photos, hugs and autographs.  This group will definitely be missed and we are confident that they will do well in life in their future roles in action sports and hopefully skateboarding.  No matter what, they will always be a part of the bamboo family.

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Reflection

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I’ve either been actively skateboarding, BMXing, aggressive inline skating, body boarding, or snowboarding since I was 5 years old. Action sports have always played a major role in my personal life and recently I have made the decision to make it part of my professional life as well.

I was at the midpoint of my MBA program and I thought it would be a good idea to start getting some contacts within the industry, especially since I did not have any prior professional experience within the action sports arena. I was already pretty busy with another real estate internship, school and other side projects so I wasn’t really sure how I was going to fit in an additional job into my schedule. I came across the BambooSK8 job posting on Malakye and I thought it was almost too good to be true. They offered experience that I needed within the action sports industry and they only required interns to come into the office once a week. So, I submitted my resume, interviewed with Geoff, and my first day was the following week.

Within the first few sessions, Geoff had each of us interns set goals for ourselves in regards to what we would like to achieve for the company and what we would like to attain on a personal level. He encouraged us to work together and help one another to accomplish their goals. He also put forth an additional effort to tailor responsibilities in a way that would set us up for success. Since I didn’t have any prior action sports industry experience, one of my goals was to learn as much as possible about the intricacies of the industry. Geoff did a tremendous job at showing me the ins and outs of the industry and how I need to position myself if I want to be a successful player.

I have to admit, this internship is definitely atypical when compared to my previous internships. First of all, I come from mostly a corporate background and now being able to wear shorts and a tshirt into work is the most epic thing ever. Being able to come in at 10a.m. is probably just as awesome. Secondly, Geoff Koboldt, the President, gave me the opportunity to really be involved in many of the inner workings of the business and be a part of decisions that directly affect the livelihood of their company. For a President of a company to show that level of trust and respect for an intern is definitely uncommon.

The journey over the past 3 months has been amazing. The time intensity was higher than what I had originally anticipated and only coming into the office once a week quickly turned into working from home on a daily basis. There were several sleepless nights and long weekends but I must say that it has definitely been worthwhile.

KT

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