Dino1,

I think I matured sure, I was only like 19 years old or so when I first got in there, but I believe most of that is an illusion that even you are falling victim to this day. You are using BA's arguments against me whenever I said anything that made sense on there or put him on the spot.. He would resort to saying that I did nothing but collect samples, or some other bullshit.. and most likely you and others would defend him and give me hell.

Its actually disappointing to me that you were there for so many years and instead of looking back and saying wow u know that guy was right with all the shit he used to say.. U remember me as someone immature who collected samples. Thats what I mean about the power of BA's control back than.. even now people can't see the forest for its trees.. They only care when THEY get screwed over. They don't see anything else or what the guy did to others, they only get concerned what he does to them. In life sometimes the way someone handles other people or situations is how he is going to handle you. BA probably gave free units to the big mouths of the forum so they would have his back.

About the lace sample collecting.. I had a good reason to want to get a hold of different laces. . And I personally believe that I played a big part in getting the SFS launched. I was trying to hunt down the thin laces and make it public.. and that is exactly what i did.. When I found ultralace got all their thin super fine swiss laces and example system and awesome bleach job.. I posted pictures made it public.. Got threatened to be taken off the forum..BA was swearing up and down that the thin laces weren't any good... Jeff from coolpiece was saying there wasn't enough room to make good knots.. They were dead against it,


but guess what.. I got about 100 emails from people interested. I learned that the factories had a much thinner lace that they didn't want to use because it used to break more often in the manufacturing process. But when ultralace put pressure and generated interest.. Guess what happened.. BA launched the super fine swiss lace a short time after. Than who launched it? Coolpiece. Coincidence? Its like the people back then were in their own world and didn't know or care wtf was going on.

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I want to say also... After BA launched the SFS and could say he had something no one else had at the time etc.. I think that really sparked him on a quest to be unique and find different materials.. after that launch.. he continued trying to find new stuff to introduce.. and that forum changed a lot.. hed release new laces or tapes glues, materials.. and A LOT of people became sample junkies... because they finally realized there was better stuff out there than the piece of shit "new 18" lace that made ur head look like u had a bunch of huge pink threads running across it.

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Dino you can reach me at.

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