MACHO TECH: TOY MACHINE BUILT A BOARD BECAUSE CORDANO KEPT DESTROYING THEM
Cordano Russell doesn’t just skate hard — he straight-up murders skateboards. Back before he was officially on Toy Machine, he was hanging around team manager Mike Sinclair and snapping one, sometimes two decks a day. Most people would’ve just laughed it off. Sinclair didn’t. He called up one of the only people who might actually solve the problem: Professor Schmitt—the dude who probably built half the skateboards you’ve ever ridden.
🔬 THE SCIENCE EXPERIMENT NO ONE ASKED FOR, BUT EVERYONE NEEDED
Schmitt and Cordano went full lab rat mode. They tried:
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Different wood thicknesses
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Weird glues
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Epoxy madness
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Tweaked ply counts
They got boards to last... almost two days. Cordano kept breaking them.
Then someone said “what about hemp?” Not in a stoner way, but in a “this could maybe stop Cordano from turning decks into splinters” way.
Turns out, hemp + wood was onto something. First they tried it on the bottom of the deck—nope. Cordano chewed right through it. Then they flipped it to the top. That plus 7 plies of maple and normal wood glue (epoxy was a bust, too brittle) got them where they needed to be: a board that could keep up with a guy who treats every rail like it owes him money.
💥 ED TEMPLETON SAYS “MACHO TECH,” AND THAT WAS THAT
Cordano’s nickname is Macho, so when Ed Templeton heard what the crew was building, he just slapped the name Macho Tech on it and walked away. Because when a board survives Cordano Russell, you don’t overthink the branding.
THIS ISN’T A GIMMICK. IT’S A BOARD THAT SURVIVED CORDANO RUSSELL.
Hemp top ply. 7-ply maple core. Built from too many broken decks and too many slammed shoulders. Macho Tech isn’t for everyone — it’s for skaters who skate until their trucks spark red and their shins get wrecked from missed lock-ins.
Or, you know, people who just don’t want to blow through decks every other day.
