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Saturday, April 28th, 2012

This experience has been INTENSE yet I have had the time of my life!! I have met more truly amazing people in the last few months than ever in my life. I have never been to so many events supporting good causes and my eyes have been opened about living a more sustainable life.

I have learned very valuable lessons about productivity and managing time and tasks. Without this internship, I feel that I would have been quite unprepared to take on a career. Now I feel confident in my value and what I can offer a future employer.

Our GRIND FOR LIFE benefit last night was awesome. We had a lot of support from sponsors and a lot of people who showed up and supported the cause. I am very happy that I had the opportunity to be involved with helping people with cancer.

Overall, this internship has helped me grow to become a more motivated individual. It has provided me with excellent experience in marketing, sales, pr, events, finance, project management, and customer support. I am very thankful to the whole bamboo crew for offering me such a great opportunity and will continue to show my support into the future.

Tags: bamboo, earth day, Grind for Life, internship, longboards, SD, SF, skateboards
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All Day The Bamboo Way!!!!

Friday, April 13th, 2012

One word…Wow!! This has been an amazing experience!! I literally have never worked so hard, and have never had so much fun with work.

I look back at the previous months and think what have I been doing? Attending events contributing to awesome causes, going out skateboarding promoting bamboo, talking to people about bamboo online, brainstorming new marketing campaigns and ways to reach more people, going to shops talking to peeps about bamboo…it has been awesome. I don’t want it to end

I had a blast at the EcoFest at CSU San Bernardino this last week. There was some really cool vendors and music. Got to talk to a lot of people about bamboo skateboards and skateboarding and sustainability in general. Always fun going to a cool event for a cool cause!!

This program really makes you push yourself to the limit. It gives you the chance to prove your abilities and skills and really make some cool stuff happen! It’s all on you, yet you have a ton of support from your team and your mentors.

Can’t think of a better way to have spent my time than skateboarding and representing an awesome company with an awesome mission with awesome people!!

Tags: bamboo, bamboo skateboards, bamboosk8, eco, ecofest, internship, longboards, panda, san francisco, skateboarding, skateboards, sustainability
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BambooSk8 All Day!!

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Wow, its the end of week 12. We had a pretty gnarly final this week that I felt good about then realized I was one of the only people to get a different answer :/ I felt very productive this week, our hookit and twitter numbers went up more than any time this internship so far. I’m busting my ass for the remainder of this internship to bring the most results possible.

I’m excited about attending the EcoFest at CSU San Bernardino on April 6th representing BambooSk8 and getting some panda skateboarding footage this next week.

This program has been a fun ride, that I don’t want to end. It has pushed me to get out and skate more and talk more with the skate community. As well as getting me to push myself beyond what I believed I was capable of accomplishing. I got a concrete wave party to attend in the middle of April. Fun stuff. Let the good times roll.

BambooSk8 – where the grass is greener and you skate on it!!!

Fort Miley, San Francisco, Ca pictures:

Tags: bamboo, bamboo skateboards, bamboosk8, concrete wave, ecofest, fort miley, san francisco, skateboard, skateboarding, sustainability
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Efficiency Is Key

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

It’s easy to think “oh yeah I have to be efficient, no problem.” Although, when you are hit with a bunch of tasks to tackle, it’s not always as easy as it seems.

Red peppers in my self sustaining vegetable garden in South Cali

Luckily, we have a sweet system set up to monitor our efficiency and help us manage our workload. The timesheet has been a challenge to stick to and it has been difficult to figure out how to make improvements but it has been a big help.

Super Sweet 100 Cherry Tomatoes

We had an awesome time at Clash at Clairemont 6. Despite the bad weather, a ton of people came out to support Grind For Life.

The Clash

This program has been a blast and a big challenge for me to learn how to bring results and develop professionally. I look forward to every second of the rest of it.

Tags: bamboo, bamboo sk8, bamboo skateboards, bamboosk8, Clash at Clairemont, eco-friendly, green, intern, internship, longboards, shred, sk8, skate, skateboard, skateboarding, skateboards, sustainability, sustainable
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2 months down! 2 to go!

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

At the halfway point in the internship, I feel like I have learned so much already and I am very excited about the next 2 months. At the beginning, I had a lot of room for personal and professional growth and I feel like every week I have experienced consistent improvement.

I don’t have only one good thing to say about only one intern because I feel very positively about the entire team. I feel like every single person has contributed a ton of valuable input to our team and I feel lucky to have had the chance to interact with them all.

Richmond Skate Plaza

So far the internship has been both fun and intense. It has pushed me to get out to new spots to skate and interact more with my fellow skateboard people. It has also pushed me out of my comfort zone and made me push myself to the limit. I have learned to take more ownership for my actions and to be more assertive.

One roadblock I’m facing is pushing myself more on sales. Also, 2 out of 3 of the marketing teams I’m on have not been reaching their goals so we really need to push to come up with great ideas and lead the team to success.

Best halloween costume ever!

The big bamboo bosses have been giving me great insight into how to best utilize various forms of online marketing and sales. We’ve also just received a great lesson on finance that opened my eyes to the world of ordering skateboards.

So far this program has been one of the best experiences in my life!

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Show your boo some love

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Youth Uprising Skate Plaza East Oakland. Gotta love that sticker slap baby!

So far I have been learning a great deal about taking ownership, I feel like I was too used to everything being laid out for me in work and in school and in this program, you need to step up and make it happen. This is an important attitude to have in life in general, you have to go out and seek and find whatever you’re after relentlessly.

Daly City Sullivan Ave. Park

Town Park - West Oakland

Leadership is what holds everything together. Our leaders have presented us with challenging tasks, opportunities for experience, great feedback, great ideas, and guidance. By taking ownership of our tasks and by leading and working with each other, we have all been more driven for success and driven to collaborate and push each other to help reach our goals.

Josh East Oakland Park (Click link to play video)

Tags: bamboo, bamboo skateboards, bamboosk8, daly city, east oakland, longboards, san francisco, skateboarding, skateboards, sullivan ave skatepark, town park, west oakland, youth uprising
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It’s All About The Boo!!

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

I can’t believe it’s already the end of week 4. Time has been flying by. It sure has been fun and at the same time, intense. They mentioned in the ad for the internship that it would be intense and that what part of what drew me to this opportunity. It has been really testing my skills and abilities. It has drawn me out of my shell and got me to interact with people more, out skating, even just out in the city, and has inspired more confidence in myself.

Collaborating with all the other interns has been an awesome experience. Working together has been a blessing and a challenge. The interns have provided great insight and great tools to contribute to efficiency and results. It’s been really hard getting us all together but people have been flexible and worked with their schedules for the best of the group.

We’ve had great weekly discussions. We received a great deal of information and insight into business strategy and bamboosk8’s strategy that has helped immensely to understand what bamboosk8 is all about.

I’ve been adjusting to working with new social media tools and new ways to use social media tools I’ve already worked with. I’ve had problems managing my time efficiently and I have addressed these issues by paying more attention to every task I work on and how long it’s taking me. I’ve also took advantage of having a timesheet with priorities laid out so that I have direction in my activities and know when I spend too much time on a task.

The big bosses have provided great feedback and constructive criticism. Mark has really helped me with how to address interview questions and with great insight into value added activities. They all have been great motivators, they radiant positive energy that is contagious and inspiring.

Overall, this is been the most intense, most amazing experience so far. I already feel that I have achieved much personal and professional growth and am looking brightly at the future 3 months.

It’s all about the bamboo!!

Alameda Skatepark

The street signs in my neighborhood are made with skateboards!! ha

Alameda skatepark (SF in the background)

West Oakland (Town Park)

Another West Oakland (Town Park)

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Skate the Bamboo!!!!

Friday, January 20th, 2012

When I found this opportunity at BambooSk8, I had recently graduated from college in San Francisco. I took a couple months after college to relax, get my resume together, take a little trip to Florida, and a cruise to Alaska. Once I got some vaca out of the way, I started to get into the swing of things, sending out endless resumes for all kinds of jobs, getting a response very rarely of a phone interview and no return call. I started to think more and more about what kind of company I really wanted to work for and how I can make it happen.

My first thoughts were that I needed to gain valuable experience no matter what, so I focused a lot on internship opportunities. I realized I’d like to work for a company that is socially responsible, or who has a greater cause. Or I’d like to work with a company related to my interests in skateboarding or plants. BambooSk8 was everything I was looking for in one opportunity.

I really started skateboarding when I was about 11 years old, and like Pringles chips, once I popped I couldn’t stop, hehe. Ever since then I’ve been hooked and have continued to go out and have fun skateboarding, especially being in the bay area hitting up fresh spots I didn’t grow up skating.

My interest in plants came from a project I did for fun for my parents, completely redoing their landscape and irrigation. I turned planters of dirt and rot into tropical succulent lush beautiful planters of life. I planted fruit trees, vegetables, herbs, flowers, ferns, succulents, pretty much everything I could get my hands on. Definitely some bamboo, 4 different varieties!!

When I began the internship, I realized it wasn’t all running through fields of bamboo with wind in my face jumping on my board shredding bamboo half pipes. Although, I did also realize that this is going to be an intense program that has the potential to greatly enhance my professional development and help steer me in the right direction towards finding a career path I can walk down with a smile on my face. Also, that it’s up to me to make the most of this great opportunity.

So far, we have been getting used to some of the tools we are going to be using to promote BambooSk8 and to interact with skateboarders. We’ve also been learning all about BambooSk8 and what makes it a great company. We’ve been working a great deal on our own professional development: learning our weaknesses, our goals, and how we can improve our interviewing skills. We’ve done a lot of collaboration between interns and mentors, contributing ideas and sharing lessons, and started to become acquainted with one another.

M future goals are to take what I learn in this internship and to move on to gaining more experience relative to tasks I excelled in during the internship. I want to narrow down a more specific career path and have more specific goals. Once I have my focused path, I will bust my ass to become the best at what I do. I’m looking at the next 14 weeks with the highest hopes and a hungry, determined spirit. Much thanks to everyone at BambooSk8!!

The video links at the bottom of this post (Berkeley, Bobby longboarding) may be glitchy or take a while to load, especially the longboarding one because it’s longer, and don’t view it full screen, sorry bout that.