Spindeck gets the Legion Interview Treatment

Sausage rolls, Naked Butlering and Street Urchins...... yes it could only be an inteview with those scottish freestyle scamps from the Legion. After they were good enough to test the Spindeck out for us last year we decided to put our reputation on the line and open our hearts to the amenable crew from north of the border. You can read the full interview in all its gory detail on the Legion site here but to wet your appetite here are a few snippets...

We’re joined in the Legion office Green room today by Matt and Tom of Slam Technologies, Fore-fathers of the legendary Spin deck empire which is improving the lives of spin freaks all over the world…

Blimey guys. It’s a right tip in here. I can't believe you last entertained a lady, Miss Jenny Jones no less, in here! And what is this, oh my god, a half eaten sausage roll down the side of the sofa!!! I'm gonna go sit over there.

Don't flatter yourself, we booked a conference room at the Hilton for Miss Jones only the Jakey bastards end up in the office.

How many folk are on the team there at Spin Deck HQ? (not including the 20 orphaned street urchin’s who whittle the boards out of blocks of wood)

Excluding the urchins there are two of us at the helm, Matt and Tom although Mr T helps out now and again. He does all our welding and if we get a problem and no one else can solve it, he's the man.

Who does what? Is it all even-stevens or does one man crack the whip, Indiana Jones style, over your slaves?

Between us we design and engineer everything in-house and work with suppliers to get the component parts made to our pedantically high standards. Matt runs the factory side of the operation, keeping the big wheels turning and developing new prototypes with our suppliers. I handle all the marketing and promotional responsibilities, basically anything that requires coherent sentences stringing together.

Where do you get the spin decks manufactured?

Everything except the decks are made here in the UK. Unfortunately the UK doesn't have a domestic skate deck industry so we had to cross the channel to find a manufacturer. Kids take note, pay attention at school because modern languages are important later in life!

Do you use eco-friendly materials or is your carbon footprint challenging Godzilla in the shoe-size stakes?

Our aim has always to minimise our impact on the natural earth and we can do that because we are a small company with low overheads. Our skate decks come from sustainable forests and in all our design decisions we've taken the least carbon route, for example when we designed the Spindeck packaging our suppliers wanted us to use expanded polystyrene as an insert because it was about a tenth of the cost of cardboard. We stuck to our guns, kept the cardboard insert and at the same time pushed the boundaries of carton design by deploying a world first – a single-direction tooled twin-reverse fold in corrugated c-flute. There aren't many companies out there taking those kinds of risks you know!

Wow! deploying a world first – a single-direction tooled twin-reverse fold in corrugated c-flute. – Is that the line you’re using on the ladies?

No. They are always far more impressed with our knowledge of hydrodynamic equilibrium in high pressure thrust bearings and in particular the demonstration of lube film thickness dependability using Stribeck curves.