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Greetings from SF

Friday, January 25th, 2013

My name is Andrew and I’m a part of Intern Class 15 here at Bamboo Skateboards. I’m super pumped to be a part of this program. I only started working here last week and I can already tell this isn’t your run-of-the-mill internship. Rather than running errands, or doing the same menial tasks over and over, they had us hit the ground running. It’s refreshing (and to be honest, a little scary) to be given so much responsibility right from the get-go. The program feels a lot more like a graduate-level class than an internship, which is pretty cool. I’m hoping I can learn as much as possible about marketing and the action sports industry over these next few months.

When I’m not working on this internship, I work as a sailing instructor in the Bay Area. While it’s a pretty sweet gig, I’m not looking to make a career out of it. I’ve already reached the ceiling of what’s possible in that realm and I’m looking to obtain a job which I find more rewarding. I’ve always had a passion for action sports and that’s what drew me to Bamboo Skateboards in the first place. Hopefully, I can turn the skills and knowledge I learn here into a full time job within the action sports industry.

In my free time you can usually find me outdoors. I love skiing and snowboarding, surfing, and I even try to skate a little from time to time. Other activities I enjoy are camping, hiking, cooking, playing music and exploring San Francisco. Anyway, that’s enough about me as I have plenty to do getting ready for our team’s first Skype call and finishing all of this week assignments.

I’ll update you each week on what’s going on during my internship and hopefully I can share some triumphs, struggles and lessons I learn along the way.

Catch you next week!

-Andrew

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All Day The Bamboo Way!!!!

Friday, April 13th, 2012

One word…Wow!! This has been an amazing experience!! I literally have never worked so hard, and have never had so much fun with work.

I look back at the previous months and think what have I been doing? Attending events contributing to awesome causes, going out skateboarding promoting bamboo, talking to people about bamboo online, brainstorming new marketing campaigns and ways to reach more people, going to shops talking to peeps about bamboo…it has been awesome. I don’t want it to end

I had a blast at the EcoFest at CSU San Bernardino this last week. There was some really cool vendors and music. Got to talk to a lot of people about bamboo skateboards and skateboarding and sustainability in general. Always fun going to a cool event for a cool cause!!

This program really makes you push yourself to the limit. It gives you the chance to prove your abilities and skills and really make some cool stuff happen! It’s all on you, yet you have a ton of support from your team and your mentors.

Can’t think of a better way to have spent my time than skateboarding and representing an awesome company with an awesome mission with awesome people!!

Tags: bamboo, bamboo skateboards, bamboosk8, eco, ecofest, internship, longboards, panda, san francisco, skateboarding, skateboards, sustainability
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BambooSk8 All Day!!

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Wow, its the end of week 12. We had a pretty gnarly final this week that I felt good about then realized I was one of the only people to get a different answer :/ I felt very productive this week, our hookit and twitter numbers went up more than any time this internship so far. I’m busting my ass for the remainder of this internship to bring the most results possible.

I’m excited about attending the EcoFest at CSU San Bernardino on April 6th representing BambooSk8 and getting some panda skateboarding footage this next week.

This program has been a fun ride, that I don’t want to end. It has pushed me to get out and skate more and talk more with the skate community. As well as getting me to push myself beyond what I believed I was capable of accomplishing. I got a concrete wave party to attend in the middle of April. Fun stuff. Let the good times roll.

BambooSk8 – where the grass is greener and you skate on it!!!

Fort Miley, San Francisco, Ca pictures:

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Show your boo some love

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Youth Uprising Skate Plaza East Oakland. Gotta love that sticker slap baby!

So far I have been learning a great deal about taking ownership, I feel like I was too used to everything being laid out for me in work and in school and in this program, you need to step up and make it happen. This is an important attitude to have in life in general, you have to go out and seek and find whatever you’re after relentlessly.

Daly City Sullivan Ave. Park

Town Park - West Oakland

Leadership is what holds everything together. Our leaders have presented us with challenging tasks, opportunities for experience, great feedback, great ideas, and guidance. By taking ownership of our tasks and by leading and working with each other, we have all been more driven for success and driven to collaborate and push each other to help reach our goals.

Josh East Oakland Park (Click link to play video)

Tags: bamboo, bamboo skateboards, bamboosk8, daly city, east oakland, longboards, san francisco, skateboarding, skateboards, sullivan ave skatepark, town park, west oakland, youth uprising
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Skate the Bamboo!!!!

Friday, January 20th, 2012

When I found this opportunity at BambooSk8, I had recently graduated from college in San Francisco. I took a couple months after college to relax, get my resume together, take a little trip to Florida, and a cruise to Alaska. Once I got some vaca out of the way, I started to get into the swing of things, sending out endless resumes for all kinds of jobs, getting a response very rarely of a phone interview and no return call. I started to think more and more about what kind of company I really wanted to work for and how I can make it happen.

My first thoughts were that I needed to gain valuable experience no matter what, so I focused a lot on internship opportunities. I realized I’d like to work for a company that is socially responsible, or who has a greater cause. Or I’d like to work with a company related to my interests in skateboarding or plants. BambooSk8 was everything I was looking for in one opportunity.

I really started skateboarding when I was about 11 years old, and like Pringles chips, once I popped I couldn’t stop, hehe. Ever since then I’ve been hooked and have continued to go out and have fun skateboarding, especially being in the bay area hitting up fresh spots I didn’t grow up skating.

My interest in plants came from a project I did for fun for my parents, completely redoing their landscape and irrigation. I turned planters of dirt and rot into tropical succulent lush beautiful planters of life. I planted fruit trees, vegetables, herbs, flowers, ferns, succulents, pretty much everything I could get my hands on. Definitely some bamboo, 4 different varieties!!

When I began the internship, I realized it wasn’t all running through fields of bamboo with wind in my face jumping on my board shredding bamboo half pipes. Although, I did also realize that this is going to be an intense program that has the potential to greatly enhance my professional development and help steer me in the right direction towards finding a career path I can walk down with a smile on my face. Also, that it’s up to me to make the most of this great opportunity.

So far, we have been getting used to some of the tools we are going to be using to promote BambooSk8 and to interact with skateboarders. We’ve also been learning all about BambooSk8 and what makes it a great company. We’ve been working a great deal on our own professional development: learning our weaknesses, our goals, and how we can improve our interviewing skills. We’ve done a lot of collaboration between interns and mentors, contributing ideas and sharing lessons, and started to become acquainted with one another.

M future goals are to take what I learn in this internship and to move on to gaining more experience relative to tasks I excelled in during the internship. I want to narrow down a more specific career path and have more specific goals. Once I have my focused path, I will bust my ass to become the best at what I do. I’m looking at the next 14 weeks with the highest hopes and a hungry, determined spirit. Much thanks to everyone at BambooSk8!!

The video links at the bottom of this post (Berkeley, Bobby longboarding) may be glitchy or take a while to load, especially the longboarding one because it’s longer, and don’t view it full screen, sorry bout that.