Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate

The Profiles:

• SFO Snowboarding
• The Treehouse
• Action Sports
• Hills and Rails
• Backside Snowboards
• NOTB
• Martini Skate and Snow
• Damage Boardshop
• Boards N Motion
• Stevens Pass Snowboard Shop
• Sliders
• Totally Board
• Hanger 94
• East of Maui Boardshop
• Darkside
• Tactics
• Red Sky Surf & Snow
• Pinewski’s Ski and Board Shop
• Axis
• World Boards
• Underground Snowboards
• The Source
• Ski Pro, Inc.
• Satellite Boardshop
• Fat-Trax
• The Faction
• Casualties
• The BoardRoom
• Pitcrew

Tactics Profile

Give us a quick run-down of your shop and its history.
Tactics is committed to building a company that can give back to our community and help intelligently conserve, protect, and restore the earth`s biodiversity and natural processes. As part of this goal, Tactics is proud to be a member of 1% For The Planet, which means we give at least 1% of net sales to nonprofit organizations that are engaged in efforts to reduce our negative environmental impact and work toward restoring the health of our planet. In the words of David Brower, we believe "There is no business to be done on a dead planet."

What is it about your shop that keeps the local shreds coming back to get all their gear?
Our goal is to be a model of environmentally sustainable and socially responsible company. Tactics sells gear to be used outside and when we’re not in the shop, we’re out surfing a local Oregon break, skating the streets of Eugene, or trekking through the backcountry in search of unspoiled powder. Other times the journey starts in the easy chair for the mechanical ride up Bachelor, Willamette, Hoodoo, Hood, or maybe Whistler or Baker if we can get away. Whatever the trip, the experience is one in which we seek fresh air and a connection to the elements one can never get inside a building. We believe that this privilege carries an obligation to help ensure that our children share the same experience. We also believe that it is important to help those less fortunate gain access to the outdoor locations so many of us take for granted.

What is it about your shop that sets it apart?
We started slanging goods out of a garage 10 years ago and we don’t forget where we came from.

What’s your current set up?
We try and mix it up the artifact 1985 was a shop favorite for sure.

Crazy customers make for good stories, got any really good ones from the past season?
Bum fights across the street at the dumpsters are usually pretty entertaining.

Any up and coming shop riders to keep an eye on?
JJ Thomas and Forrest Shearer are always up to great things, Sam Driver(Scammy D) once his leg is back to good, Tyler Osland is always throwing down and Jesse Lederer if he doesn’t get any more concussions.

What are your off-seasons like in the shop?
Off season? Don’t know what that is.

“Will you guys sponsor me?” “Do you have any free stickers?” which one do you hear most often?
Stickers. We make the kids work for them for sure. Take out the trash, do pushups, race around the parking lot on longboards w/out pushing, something to that effect.

What’s been your all time favorite sticker?
Thrasher’s “prevent this tragedy” sticker.

What’s the piece of Rome gear you guys get asked about most often?
SDS x Consolidated Drunk boot…that I still regret not picking up.

Describe your local’s run, hot lap or secret pow stash.
It’s definitely a secret, maybe Captain Wet Rat will take you on the sled if you’re worthy.

Do you get out on the hill enough to make you happy?
Probably not, but, we’re always happy when we’re on the hill!

Any celebrity or pseudo-celebrity sightings ever happen in the shop?
Jenna Jameson was at the dairy mart down the street…that’s about it.

Visit them online at: www.tactics.com