TPM Episode 242: Tom Hyser, Skate Visionary, Entrepreneur, Marketer

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Tom Hyser was born into the quad culture of the rinks around Atlanta and went from rink rat to skate rat. His family's move to the Midwest was life-changing when he first discovered inline skating. Tom is an original X Gamer, a product visionary whose designs have sold millions of units, an internet pioneer, and through it all he’s lived the struggle of being an inline skater. On the show, we talk about the love of skate, the hate received for it, and everything in between.

Tom Hyser Show Notes:

4:00: Covid travel, skateboarding, and Wisconsin

17:00: Jamie Thomas, skateboard hate, and incidents

18:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast

Dragon: Their glasses FLOAT, use the code Powell15 to save 15 %

10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone

21:45: The decline of inline, growing up outside of Atlanta, roller skating, and wrestling year-round

26:00: Getting sponsored, high school, qualifying for the pro tour, and college

33:00: Hoax 2, blowing his knee at the first X Games, and going in house at K2

41:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports:

Alpine Vans: Upgrade your adventure, Upgrade your life

Rollerblade: Find out all about the award-winning Skate to Ski program

43:45: The Fatty, crazy opportunities, no rules, going to Korea and recalls

51:00: The end of K2, Skatepile, Fiziks, and the scary future

61:00: Rollerblade and business is booming

65:00: Inappropriate Questions with Andy Kruse

Transcript

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0:00.0	Have a seat on your porcelain throne.
0:02.3	It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement.
0:13.5	Welcome to the Powell Movement.
0:16.9	I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week my kid finally went back to school full-time for the first time in like 18 months.
0:24.5	How crazy is that shit? What that means for him are masks and active shooter drills. You know in session, I'm still working from home, just like before the pandemic.
0:40.7	But right now, it's almost like I'm in panic mode.
0:43.5	I came back from vacation with a shit ton of work to do to get back ahead of the game.
0:48.0	So a few days ago, on Wednesday, I interviewed Tom Heiser, a legendary skate innovator, a pro skater, marketer, entrepreneur, shop
0:56.1	guy. Tom has done everything, so it's fitting that he's the last inline interview for a while
1:00.9	on the show. The stress for Tom's interview is timing. I'm the guy who's always early and always ahead of the
1:06.7	game. But with Tom, if he were to flake or got sick or anything, I'd be screwed.
1:11.6	And it's going to be like that for a few weeks for me. And then I'll have stacked enough
1:15.6	interviews where I'll be able to relax again. But good thing for me and you is that Tom never
1:21.1	flakes, and he's pretty wise and entertaining, which makes for a great show. Before we get into it,
1:26.4	I need to thank OG new school
1:28.4	skier Josh Lubbock for sending me some more of his Nima vitamins. I'm not sure what's in them.
1:33.9	Actually, I am. There's a list of everything in the fantastic packaging that it comes in,
1:38.4	but I don't really worry about what's in them. I just take them. And I know that I have more
1:42.2	energy than I've ever had in my life.
1:46.5	And when I don't take them, I can feel a difference.
1:48.2	So thank you very much, Josh.
1:52.3	I also want to thank you for coming back each week and ask you to follow me on Instagram at the Powell Movement.
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