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bamboo is as a material is pretty dense and so if you make if you make plywood out of bamboo you have a pretty heavy product it's strong but it's but it's heavy the structure of our our bamboo skateboard is to use multiple layers of woven mats of bamboo which is really I'm not aware of anybody else trying to do that I think what helped me transition into skateboards merely is just the shape of a skateboard has a kind of a bowl like concave shape and as I learn different ways to work bamboo more like using basket making techniques instead of woodworking techniques you could get any kind of shape you want so I you know I was at some how the skateboard shape just seemed to to invited the material if the bamboo bike product has been successful as it has that means that there's people here building bikes and then if you can feed new products into it say the skateboard or furniture or just you know other things that we can that we can follow up that just be more jobs for for the area and that's what I think Greensboro and Hale County need the most of missed more jobs the socio economic climate in Hill County has been pretty consistent for the last 20 or 30 years about 25 percent of the population lives below poverty and about 30 percent of seniors live below poverty I think the catfish industry has probably been the biggest employer and is that kind of dwindled away people that are on disability are still able to work or people that are out of work could work so instead of leaving to go to jobs as we're creating jobs people can stay in their community where they were born and raised and work I think local bamboo skateboards can be really exciting we have a skateboard park here there are a lot of kids that skateboarding and I think anytime you can make a local product using local craft skills pretty exciting to keep jobs like that in the new you you while skating home one night feeling like king of the road a crack sight on city left me epicly later it's time I thought to take my first love one step beyond and make functional headlights for skateboards and now my team of misled you can put a fully flared product that allows you to jump off a building go wild in the streets and basically just skate more hi my name is drew page i'm the founder of shred lights I've been skateboarding for 15 years and I hit my fair share of cracks while skating home one night I hit a particularly vicious crack took a brutal slam and stole my 12 pack of textbooks all over the pavement once I regained consciousness I was skating home and a car came from behind me and headlights illuminated my pack right then I saw the light and I realized the need for headlights on skateboards you my name is Eric brookmire and I'm a co-founder and CTO at red lights without a car my skateboard is my transportation I looked into other solutions but nothing actually lit up the area in front of me or allowed me to maintain the functionality my skateboard my name is Sam Gordon and I'm the CMO of shred lights our patent-pending design allows for easy installation and it is removable so you only have the lights on your board when you need them before show lights I was only able to pack this one but now I can't pick feedback on the first version is given a subjective change and now shrug lights are second to none this is capable not the other guys have you ever heard someone say that under goal is pretty sweet yeah right so let's do this let's prevent this tragedy leave no man down we can now rise and shine suffer the joy get tricks or die trying kids in America jump on there hi I'm Kyle Miller I'm the lead engineer here at red lights with the design finalized and the manufacturer on hold all we need is your help to bring red lights to skateboarders everywhere now let's stop this is a nice day or I'm the first customer red lights I was just blown away by the idea of skating at night because I don't even get the time together I'm here today anymore I'm constantly working and 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