Tom wasn’t feeling it, so they went to the ramp, and to a party after that. Tom Penny, Rune Glifberg, and Team manager Steve Black were headed to Encinitas so that Rune could film something on the YMCA vert ramp, and they checked out the rail at San Dieguito High School on the way.
Tom Penny got some of the best tricks in the video after partying It used classic music by artists such as James Brown and David Bowie without a licensing agreement making it virtually impossible to ever be rereleased. Etnies was the first shoe brand to make a skate videoĮtnies released High 5 in 1995, a 14-minute promo with parts from Marc Johnson, Eric Koston, Jamie Thomas, Peter Smolik, and a legendary Tom Penny section to round things out. Many of the Etnies shoes worn in the early 90’s in videos by top pros were hand brushed and sprayed with Lysol to remove mold, and shipped to team riders like Rodney Mullen, Daewon Song, and Richard Mulder without shoeboxes.Ħ. Many of your favorite pros could have skated in moldy shoesĪlmost the whole first shipment of Etnies “Rap” model shoes became moldy when moisture got into the shipping container. That sounds rad,’ but as soon as the idea would travel one layer up the pipeline to the non-skate crew, they’re like fuck that. Etnies attempted to do a collab with Nike & Adidasĭon Brown, marketing for Sole Technology claims, “Yeah I hit them up… It’s funny whenever I talked to the Nike SB skate side of things they’re all like, ‘Fuck yeah! Let’s do a collab. Some religious skateshops were hesitant to stock it because they thought he could be affiliated with the devil as Natas spelled backwards spells Satan. Some skateshops were scared to carry Natas’ Etnies shoeĮtnies created the first pro-model skate shoe, the NATAS. Although the shoe has become the butt of jokes, it created opportunity for Etnies to further expand and invest in things like the Etnies skatepark, STI lab, traveling, videos, etc.ģ. The Callicut is the best selling Etnies model of all timeĭuring the 2000s, X-Games, Tony Hawk, and stars like Avril Lavigne helped push the Callicut into the mainstream. Another brand with a similar name, Etonic footwear felt the name was too close and sent a cease and desist letter so they changed it to Etnies. The brand was initially called Etnics, inspired by the idea of an ethnic tribe since skaters were traveling the world looking for places to skate.