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JonnyGiger JonnyGiger

‘But still we (revive) do get a lot of hate for not being

true skaters. I mean who’s taking the right to define

that anyway?.’

At what point where you offered a pro deck with Revive?
Any idea why people liked the Tre flip darkeside video so much?
2016 when I finished my street part.
Darkslide is always an a�rac�ng name for a video �tle. Tre flip does well too. Maybe it
the combina�on of the two. But it’s hard to tell why a video got in the favor of the
Would you have turned pro without Revive?
YouTube algorithm.
Not for a major brand. Maybe for a small brand, maybe not, who knows?

If you have to choose between one social media pla�orm, which will it be?
To be honest I am not a big fan of the Revive graphics but your ‘Jonny Giger The
Instagram or Youtube?
Swiss’ board nails it for me. How much input do you have in graphics and board
Youtube for many reasons. In these modern �mes the world is just moving too fast
shape?
and instagram accelerates even more. It happens a lot that tricks don’t get the
Revive always has some kind of theme, so they just ask like: „yo jonny what’s your
recogni�on they deserve, on instagram they just vanish a�er a day or two and it’s
favourite video game or animal?“. Couple weeks later I receive the graphic and they
hard to find them. On youtube you have a search engine at least, which allows you to
always ask if I’m ok with it. Thanks for the kind words on the Swiss and yes I know not
go back. Btw remember the name of the person who sw bs flipped wallenberg?(it’s dj
everybody digs the graphics but I love them. We never talked about the shape
gaudin) I mean it’s a sw bs flip wallenberg, every street skater should probably have a
because I honestly don’t have any sugges�ons to improve. For me Revive has the
poster of dj in his room for that but there’s so many skaters out there killing it on a
perfect shapes.
daily and �me just moves a li�le too fast, we forget things.

From what I learned during my research is hat Revive manufactures their boards in
Is there anything you want to do be�er going forward?
the US by Pen’s Wood in Pennsylvania. Not many board companies do this as the
I’m constantly trying to learn and improve in whatever aspect of life and become a
major ones go to China or Mexico. So it is more surprising how cheap the boards are
be�er person. I learn so many new things every day. Playing piano takes up a lot of
going for ($40-50). Under ridingboards.com they say Revive can offer boards so
�me but it’s just my fav instrument. I also started to work on my English vocabulary
cheaply as they design their own products, run their own marke�ng on Youtube,
and it got so much be�er. There are so many other things I wanna learn that it’s hard
sell online to customers directly and have no pro riders. The last point does not
to pick haha. I never get bored.
make sense. You guys are a pro rider. Right?

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