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Dirk Poor

Hold Fast

You don't name a thing when you get it. You name it when you finally understand what it means.

Dirk Poor in Scrap Alley
Dirk's board has never been one piece. It's two broken halves taped together down the middle, and it's been that way since he was small enough to be underfoot. This week the tape started to split.
Dirk Poor in Scrap Alley
He found a good deck out in the piles that same afternoon. Whole. Solid. No crack down the center. Better than his by every measure anybody could name.
Dirk Poor in Scrap Alley
He looked at it a long time. Then he picked his own board back up and walked past it.
Dirk Poor in Scrap Alley
He sat down and wrapped the seam tight with fresh tape, slow and careful, the way you handle something that isn't replaceable.
Dirk Poor in Scrap Alley
Then he wrote two words across the middle in his own crooked handwriting. HOLD FAST.
Dirk Poor in Scrap Alley
He'd been riding that board for years. It took him until now to know what to call it.

Some things aren't worth more because they're whole. They're worth more because of where they were joined, and because somebody decided not to let go.

One more run.

Built From Scrap. Worth More Than Gold.

Story frames are AI-generated from the studio's own physical prototype figures. All final Cheap Skaterz artwork is created by human artists.

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