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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: --Vibetek-- on August 12, 2007, 03:31:38 PM
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I saved by mowing lawns and looking after the neighborhood lady's cats.
A blank deck that was the shape of a Psycho Stick (I covered the bottom with a big Vision Street Wear sticker)
Fluro green Street Sucker Trucks (cheap Australian Tracker copies)
Black Alva Wheels from the bargain bin
Green griptape (to match the trucks)
Rails with the finger cut out's in them
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fuck i dont know what deck it was spray painted completely gray.
ventures. painted gray.
wal mart wheels with some shit bearings.
all for 30$.
Bought it from a fat ass down the street.
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i saw the other kids rolling around and thought it was amazing that you could make a skateboard flip without using your hands.
so with the money i got from my birthday and went out to a shop and bought a jason dill AWS deck with venture trucks, AWS wheels, and some black panthers or something
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anybody remember cream skateboards or something like that? I'm pretty sure it had a Campbell's soup can on it.
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my first board was
mike mcgill powell-perelta
indys
oj's
and some bearings
i found it in an alley way and waited a couple of days until i took it
the first board i bought though
bucky lasek birdhoues
indys
51mm reynolds spitfire wheels
lucky bearings
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(http://artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_Pics/bh_falconegg.jpg)
I couldn't find an image for them, but the clear green 55mm wheels that corresponded with this deck
(http://artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_Pics/flip_TomPenny-LoveShroom2002.jpg)
(http://www.kabsurf.com/images/GK6-4.25SI.jpg)
(http://www.lowpriceskates.com/ProductImages/bearings/Bones_Swiss.jpg)
And I got into it (sadly) because me and my friends were playing THPS all the time, and wed walk around like 'It'd be so cool if someone did _______ on __________'. My friend got a deck right before christmas and so did I.
He quit three months later.
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my first board was a santa cruz rob roskopp I got at a second hand sports store.
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walmart, on sale for $20, starwars hollographic setup, young luke anakin solo.
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christmas 2002 i think
darkstar kenreich deck
kreper glow in the dark trucks
pig wheels
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Shuvit Blank
Indys
Some shitty used wheels...
Once I started skating a lot my parents supported me more and I got a nice complete...
Plan B "Rodney Mullen" Deck
Grind Kings (Hahaha)
Some Birdhouse Wheels...
I used to really dig Willy Santos.
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Haha, you really like that bold button, huh man?
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Saw some neighborhood kids skating and thought it looked like fun.
So for christmas i got a Blind ronnie creager deck with Ventures and spitfires.
Damn, that was about 7 years ago now.
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my first board that i sat and rode around on was from kmart in like 3rd grade. but when i actually started skating in middle school i had some kind of blank with hot pink griptape on top. haha. my first pro model was a ryan smith.
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Mike Smith - Madrid. maybe that's why i do so many smithgrinds on tranny.
early 80's.
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Extreme Pro Board, from Canadian Tire.
The entire deck was wrapped in some thin plastic, and I though it was there to protect your board.
I had plastic on my griptape and the bottom of my board for like 4 months, until some guy at a skateshop told me...
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Bradlees "Alf" skateboard. It was rad.
(http://www.nintendorks.com/chris/archives/alf.jpg)
Remember Alf? Cute little, cat eating, fucker.
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did you know cotton got Alf stoned?
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i had a dukes board i got from this shitty depatment store or something, but my first actual legit set up was
habitat o connor because it had an amazing shape
the trucks wheels and bearings from that dukes boards
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Traded a skimboard I found somewhere for a cheap ass board and that christmas I got a Element Natas Kaupas collegiate series board with Indy's and 55mm Spitfire Demon Dog wheels. Black Panther bearings and Jessup grip. 8 years ago.
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When I was growing up our next door neighbors had a pool and I kind of had a crush on their daughter, so I used to hang out over there all the time to swim and chill with her. This was like 1984-85, and I was 10 or 11. They had a skinny old yellow 70’s banana board, and I used to ride it all the time, I’d try and jump it off their porch and stuff, I had no concept of what an ollie or any other tricks were back then. Then they gave the board to me, and I started cruising around on it through the streets of my neighborhood.
The next year, 1986, my best friend got a Vision Psycho Stick and Powell’s Future Primitive video, and we were really hyped on skating. So for my birthday that year (21 years ago tomorrow) I got my first legit set up- A Powell Peralta Caballero mini deck with red grip, G&S trucks, and white Powell ratbones wheels. This was my first pro deck-
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a133/phillysk8ter/Cab-1stboard.jpg)
I’ve been hooked ever since, for over 20 years now. I’ll roll until I die.
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My first board was some garbage Variflex from like Sports Authority. The graphic was a can that said "Chubbys Chicken Chili". I thought I was the shit because I had metal axles while the rest of my friends had the shitty plastic trucks that came with Nash boards.
My first real board was a Toy Machine Ed Templeton deck. I can't remember for sure what the trucks were but I think they were Tracker. The wheels escape me too but I'm pretty sure they were Toy Machine, I had a Shorty's hardware kit. It's funny the, day I got that board I went to straight to my friend Jim's house and we skated in front of his house for like three hours. I was 12. When I started skating again like six months ago, I did the same exact thing. It's been nine years and nothing has changed about me at all.
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Saved, saved, saved (raking lawns, shoveling driveways); bought a Per Welinder street shape deck.
Saved, saved, saved...meanwhile my friend had a whole setup but a busted deck. So we put my deck on his trucks/wheels and had "joint custody" for a while. Finally got my Tracker ultra-lights and bought a used set of Hosoi rockets of my friend Jeremy.
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Some used AWS(I think) slick.
Then I bought a new blind deck with indys, reds and spitfires. I ground those trucks into oblivion.
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about 2 years ago
donny barly-birdhouse (bargin bin)
some royals
shop wheels
some bones reds i think
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Blue banana board, my brother and I would lay on our stomach on it superman style and the other would push. Back and forth on the sidewalk. That stopped when I was pushing him, it hit a rock and he slid on his face. Then saved money to buy a Variflex Hi-tail from Toys R Us. So awesome!!! First good board was Mark Gonzales Vision, the one with the face, black with Ventures and OJ 2's. Totally Awesome!!! Plus a Lance Mountain primitives running t-shirt.
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My very first one was a board my friend gave to me:
An old birdhouse that had been in the rain for months I'm guessing
Completely rusted trucks, bearings, hardware, etc.
Flatspotted wheels
Then, my stepdad bought me a board from Roses the next day
My first real board was a World Industries complete (they were out of Zero boards, HAHA). I bought that with report card and Christmas money....
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my grandma would go to sams club every weekend, and id wonder off into the sports department and would chill there for like an hour or until she was done.
there i saw silver surfer boards, there was always one out of the packaging and i would just roll on it and what not. after about four months of this my grandma bought it for me.
sometime later i got a shop setup. the only thing on it that wasnt basic was the ventures which would have been gullwings, but they ran out of gullwings, thank god.
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My brother had an 80s Nash board that we would butt board down our driveway with. I wanted my own so my parents got me a Toys R Us one that was a modern shape. I wanted the 80s pig style board but they didn't have it. I was bummed yet stoked, but that was first skateboard.
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I saw my friend ollie over a board and I was so psyched.
I went online and found a zero board with an american flag theme... then proceded to get american flag grind king trucks, with the wheels to match the deck... Zero bearings as well.
Slap would have hated me as a child.
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put a set up together out of scraps from my homies van
-dynasty 8"
-slipped indys
-like 60mm wheels
-5 pieces of hardware.
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around 85, bought a powell peralta cab 2 with ventures and rat bones from a neighbor for 40 bucks.
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dude, my setup was so jacked. shared it with my younger brother so there was hella strife around learning tricks, but when i got kickflips first and he had nothin but a bag of shuvits the setup carried into my name and he started playing a gang of counterstrike.
i was rocking a blind 'car crash' deck with gullwing (fuck yea gullwing nigga) trucks some blind noose wheels that were around 54s or 56s and i think fkd abec 3s.
bottom line, shit was a slumper. my scraper bitch, the first 5050 i ever did on that thing was the most liberating feeling in the world. funny to look back and see how far ive come.
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Learnt to push/roll-around on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fish-board. Some years later, saw some dudes skating around my town, bought the 1996 Sidewalk Surfer Photo Issue, and then later a second hand Alien Workshop "Vote Pro Clone" off some dude who was a friend of a friend and wanted money to buy weed. No brand trucks, and some old-ass wheels, probably skated down to about a 33mm.
The sad thing is, all my set-ups for the year following would be much worse.
Um, Girl Rudy Johnson, Krux, and Green Birdhouse wheels anyone?! My first full pro set-up, was a pretty random mix...
First board was a gem though.
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I had a hand me down workshop I got from my cousin, but when it comes to my first bought, I am man enough to admit I had a world industries, the one with the devil man original symbol thing except it was all chrome, grind kings and ed templeton spit fires. Kids are dumb.
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enjoi louie barletta, used tensors, used blue spitfires, reds
it was the one with a doodle of an elephant, i still have half of it in my room.
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first board was a black white and red piece of junk from kmart that had plastic red trucks. got it for xmas in...shit....1984? loooooong time ago
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My first board was a Valterra King Cobra. I used to go down hills screaming "King Cobraaaaa" on that bad boy. Shit was rad. I was six.
I got my first real board in 1989. It was a:
SMA Natas Blacktop
Gullwing Pheonixs
72 mm Yellow G-Bones
Risers, Rails and a Tail Bone
It looked like a monster truck. But you could fit four fingers under the tail, which was all that mattered if you wanted to ollie like Natas.
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world industries TNT II deck
black and blue fury trucks
56mm ghetto child wheels
speed metal mike V signature bearings
shop hardware/grip
kastel bertino shoes
man, i sucked......
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i found one in front of my house one day and just started skating it was some wal-mart shit but still it was free
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love these type of threads
i used to bmx as a kid and the main bmx mag in the uk started to run skating around 85 so a friend and i got some crappy 70s plastic boards and then in 86 some cheap brank 10x30 completes. my first pro board was a brand-x dave crabb with thunders and schmitt stix street saws
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i remember my dad suprised me by brining a shop complete home from work one day. i took little notice of it and left it out front. it was stolen.
then the next christmas i got a world industries deck with blue speed demons and silver royals.
my dad had also built me a quarterpipe for christmas so when he asked me to go get the newspaper i was astonished to find a 4 foot high quarterpipe in my driveway. the rest of the day was devoted to learning kickturns and riding up the ramp as high as possible to fakie.
at the time that qp seemed so big. i wish i still had it
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The first board I had was a really shitty beat up blank, stripped everything hunk of junk that my friend gave to me. I used to practise ollies on flat at the side of the highway when i was hitchiking. Eventually there just became a posse of us and when I had enough money to buy a new one, my very first brand new skateboard, it was an Element Bill pepper baseball series and some Thunders.
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i got a board as a birthday present when i was maybe 9 or something, i believe the brand was called hawaii. i didn't really start skating back then, though. i got my first 'real' board a few years later as a christmas present in 96, it was atm click board with trackers and some random wheels.
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the very first board i had was a blue plastic board with red wheels. it was super generic but my cousin gave it to me when i was like 7 or 8(maybe 83?). i rode it for 2 days before i slipped out and it flew into traffic. then i got a valterra board with a dragon graphic on it from toys-r-us. i think it was shortly after seeing back to the future. when i killed that one, i skated my neighbors variflex until i finally got my first real set up which was a lance mountain, gullwing trucks, german bearings and a set of OJII's.
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First Board- Nash Ninja Board, later upgraded it with some shitty slipped Trackers.
First real setup
ATM Click team board - CCS sadly
Krux trucks - I bought off a metal head that lived down the street
42mm powell wheels, used hardware and fkd bearings - kicked down from my bros that got me started
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Tommy Gurrero when I was 7. Got it for Christmas. I just wanted one cause my older brother skated.
My first board when I really started skating was a Real.
49mm Stereo wheels (and I got made fun of the whole time I had them cause they were so "big")
Indys
Most stoked 12 year of on the block.
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When I was 15 I bought a Dukes board off my friend's sister, because every time I went over I wanted to skate it.
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This Dave young guy down the road in my suburb sold me some whale-tailed Santa Cruz deck. The graphic was all shredded off and the tail was already razor'd. I remember putting, upon his recommendation, some kind of rivets in the tail to make it last longer. It came with Powell Roller Bones (the one-sided ones) and some plastic-baseplated Tracker Ultra-Lites, GMB bearings, and the grip was stripped so I added a fresh sheet, which helped me to learn ollies in my garage while it was still snowing out.
Dave Young was kind of a Pat Brennan clone. He dressed straight out of Powell Video Eight. He also had one of those Old Ghosts, "I like chicks with big tits" shirts. Lots of long-sleeved Ts with shorts. When he sold me my setup he still had a fresh one from the year before—the Frankie Hill bulldog model, with G&S trucks (with the cylindrical hangars, they were sick!) some Cockroach 56s, and, of course, Bridgebolts.
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a mini logo deck,bones reds,spitfire wheels,destructo trucks,and who knows what kind of hardware and grip
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holy shit. i kew the first time i posted here. now i dont.
i think it was a batman board from some cheapo store in medellin. china birch, plastic wheels, you know the deal.
first real board. beer city blank, ventures, birdhouse bearings, atm wheels. i use to love that board. then i threw it into the long island sound on my first trip to the states.
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Took a trip to San Diego to visit some relatives, drove past the Ocean Beach skatepark, and was instantly amazed. When I got back home, I just went to the local "X-streme Sports" store, bought a mini logo, I was like 10.
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I bought a completely mashed World industries board for $5 off some kid back in grade 8, my friend stole a skateboard from a movie theater so he sold me the monster trucks and wheels for $10, he bought a gram and smoked it with me. aaah, memories...
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variflex back in the day... like fourth grade. it had fishies on it. purchased at sport chalet
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the first board i ever rode was the rock that danny way beat that gay guy to death with
it was pretty good
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besides the zellers board, it was a super skinny ass toy machine wish thunders and flip slims
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First real setup and the only new complete I ever bought, cca. September 1994:
Madrid waxwood deck
Some strange trucks called the Avengers or something, the compulsive liar who worked at the shop said they were Santa Cruz trucks (this same guy told me they just received the freshest H-street boards.....in 1996.)
Fun crew 42 mm wheels
Got the money from my parents, they were probably stoked I was into something besides video games.
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flip andy scott
trackers
blank 58mm
and some quikies
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bored one day, me and my buddy who lived across the street found a nash in his basement and started pushing it around on the street or whatever. we shared that until the plastic trucks broke. i saved for a bit and begged for my parents to lend me the last bit of money for a complete and got a world board with grindkings(duh, theyre the lightest, therefore best), proabably world colored wheels and generic everything else.
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Did I answer already? Or was this a previous thread here?
Pink Splash Veriflex from Target or somewhere.
First board from a shop:
Purple JFA with paisley graphics, blue Ventures, Blue Sims wheels. X-mas present. Had it for years. Don't remember what board I learned to ollie on, but that's when I consider my skating begining.
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i started late in the game at 16 and my first board was a neighborhood with b-52's and these really shitty wheels called 'ghosts' i don't even think they were urethane. it's still in the garage at my cousins house.
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Very first board: a cheap complete from Zellers with "QUAKE" written on the bottom. Lied to my grandmother and told her my
mom sad it was ok for me to get it.
First "Pro" Board: Alien Workshop Rob Drydek with Egyptian symbols on it, Indys, Channel One Cat Eyes wheels 41mm and black. Got it for Christmas. Well actually i got a Koston Super Cock board but my mom was not so cool with the graphic, seeing as i was about 12.
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my first real board was a peter smolik shorty's with some indys and ghetto child wheels and these god awful halo bearings.
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My first board was a terrible Mongoose board from Toys 'R' Us. My first "real" deck was a Habitat Kerry Getz Frog deck. It was a 7.5 and it was too small for me, but that was a pretty decent deck.
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First board was a Variflex Ramp Rat that I got for Christmas.
First real board was a Powell & Peralta Tony Hawk Street with Indy's, Mini Rats wheels, and German Sealed bearings - It was $150, so I paid for part of it, and then the rest was my birthday present from my dad. I loved that board so much I tried to sleep with it the first night I had it:
(http://webzoom.freewebs.com/vaskateboards/Boards/Powell%20Peralta%20-%20Tony%20Hawk%20-%20Street.jpg)
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Friday June 29th 1996
saved my money from working in the snack bar at a flea market
santa cruz team deck black and yellow, with a spark plug on it
gold grind kings (i was 13)
some bearings..
consolidated 52 ml wheels
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93 or 94 a friend left a shitty variflex "old school" board at my house and i rode aorund on it a lot.
after a friend and i saw gleaming the cube on cable we knew what was up.
we all bought $50 completes from target and followed a baggy jean sporting wearing art hellemen around the neighborhood.
my first real board was an imitation of his set up
New deal - neal hendrix
Ventures
48 mm spitfires
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I was riding a borrowed New School deck (with the 8 ball on it) but then my old man hooked it up for my 14th birthday.
Gino Ianucchi 101. It had buildings on it.
Indys
Spitfires
Such a sick setup. I passed it on to my little brother later, he ripped it too.
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Learnt to push/roll-around on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fish-board. Some years later, saw some dudes skating around my town, bought the 1996 Sidewalk Surfer Photo Issue, and then later a second hand Alien Workshop "Vote Pro Clone" off some dude who was a friend of a friend and wanted money to buy weed. No brand trucks, and some old-ass wheels, probably skated down to about a 33mm.
Wow, that was my very first pro deck too. It was also a second-hand board. I had been saving it in my parents' basement for years, but they finally threw it out.
http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/aos_pg_results.asp?cat_search=z&comp_search=59&skate_search=z&artist_search=z&pagesize=15&page=9 (http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/aos_pg_results.asp?cat_search=z&comp_search=59&skate_search=z&artist_search=z&pagesize=15&page=9)
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hmmm, birdhouse hubbas and swiss.. dont remember the rest.
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93 or 94 a friend left a shitty variflex "old school" board at my house and i rode aorund on it a lot.
after a friend and i saw gleaming the cube on cable we knew what was up.
we all bought $50 completes from target and followed a baggy jean sporting wearing art hellemen around the neighborhood.
my first real board was an imitation of his set up
New deal - neal hendrix
Ventures
48 mm spitfires
didnt you have a creature before that even?
my first board was some nash board borrowed from a friend's older brother, but didnt get serious about learning technical maneuvers until a Josh Beagle Foundation Mr. Men deck. indys. some 48mm wheels.
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Element 8
Destructo trucks
Spitfire 55's
Lucky abec 3's
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it was a long long time between my first board and and my first decent board.
The first board i skated was my uncles board that he skated in the 70's. he lived on a farm in the middle of freaking nowhere so he made his board himself out of a plank of wood and using roller skates as trucks. it survived in a shed corner until the mid 90's when i came along and figured out how to tic tac.
the first board i owned i bought from target. it was 1996 but it was still a classic 80's fishtail. it was a $20 piece of shit. i could swear it was an inch thick, had plastic trucks, plastic wheels and bearings that would have rolled better if they were made of rust. it was little more than a toy.
a few months later a friend bought a modern shaped board and i followed suit. so for christmas that year my parents bought me a 'modern' board from a sports store but it was still a piece of shit. it was strange, instead of grip tape the makers of this board had spread glue on the top and sprinkled black sand over it. it still gripped but it was the strangest fucking thing. I learnt tiny ollies on that board and cracked my head good and proper the first time i manned up and tried to land a pop shuvit.
when i finally had some money and bought a proper, decent, well made board from a legit skate shop it was a Time deck (a long dead australian board company), grind king trucks, blank wheels and cheap bearings. i dont know why i chose the board i did because it was an awkward, narrow and very pointy board. but hey it had pop and i could finally get those ollies higher than a curb.
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A friend's neighbor had in his garage a PsychoStick with pink grip (standard?), Gullwings, OJ Slimeballs, and an absurdly constructed huge jump ramp that we would either use as a quarterpipe or get towed in on BMX pipes and early grab off of. Kind of a weird way for a bunch of kids to start skating in 2001, but there ya go.
Within a few months, the whole skate crew had procured actual set ups of their own, mine was the Element with the four element icons, Venture Lows, Element wheels that I still have and are fully coned, generic everything else. After riding that all summer I tried a departure with a big, heavy Antihero standard logo, Indys, and 56mm Spitfires and I've never really gone back.
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stone cold steve austin k-mart board,
first real board was a world industries with ventures, can't remember the rest.
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My two little homies had boards first, then one of them got a new one and gave me his hot pink Variflex with Ratfink on the bottom. I think that was in 86 or 87. I spent hours pushing around my garage and learning to ollie that thing over this bag of cement. I rode it for a couple years before I got my first popsicle stick. I don't remember what kind it was, but I do remember spray-painting it black and then using this silver paint pen to cover it in skulls.
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I cant believe i found a pic of it.
Santa cruz team deck with a spark plug on it.
52 mil consolidated daredevil wheels
grind kings with gold bsseplates.
i was 13, i didnt know any better.
(http://s17.postimage.org/q02rxp8m7/images_CA0_YZTQR.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
upload images (http://postimage.org/)
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i wish walmart would rerelease this graphic!
(http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/255490_3381072721924_620339198_n.jpg)
for my first few years of skateboarding i was riding walmart decks with random parts these dudes from a skatepark called wickedgrind gave after skating there for months on walmart setups. I eventually was fed up with having to spend 12$ out of my 20$ allowance to buy a board from walmart everyother only to keep the deck and trash the rest and convinced my parents to get me this (so called unbreakable) libtech deck from the xgames park, the day it opened
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first legit one, Foundation whippersnappers.
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I got Venture trucks and some Think wheels as a present when I was 13 turning 14, and an already-ruined Creature. Waterlogged, razor tail, the works. It was still awesome though. First board I bought after that was a Bill Pepper Element from that Manimal series. 7.5. Which made sense because I was definitely still under 5 feet tall at that point.
Did anybody else have a problem with breaking kingpins on their first few boards before they had enough sense to loosen the trucks a little bit?
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First board was a Toys R Us or Target special that I got after asking for a skateboard for Christmas. It was a pancake flat fishtail with a cheetah or leopard head on the graphic. The leopard was roaring to let the world know that I meant business. It had orange wheels with bearings that made forward momentum seem like a gift from the gods. It was like the thing was braking on hills. I thought it was the coolest shit on the planet but in reality it was pretty much junk. I remember a rich kid friend getting a real setup and everyone was blown away that it was actually fun to push, rolled fast, and turned. Unfortunately, the little shit was greedy with it and wouldn't let anybody touch it (including himself) because he didn't want his neon green grip tape getting dirty and he was really smug about having the worlds greatest setup. Dude probably has a blog dedicated to his Audi/BMW these days.
The first trick that I learned on my aggro leopard board was digging these fat grub worms out of the ground, laying on my board and and watching my wheels roll over them and blast guts all over the place. It didn't take long for Karma to intervene and one of them blasted shit all over my face and put and end to that one. Needless to say, it took awhile for me plug into the collective consciousness of skating.
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Did chores around the house until my mom was down to grab a complete. Had a world board with some destructo's and spits. No idea on anything I'm surprised some people can remember so precisely what their entire setup was.
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First board was a joe cool, as in snoopy, that I got for my birthday when I was like 6 or something. The bearings were so terrible you literally couldn't ride unless you were pushing. Thinking back maybe they had the wheels on too tight.
A few years later I asked for a real skate board. My mom correctly didn't think I needed a real board and took me to K-mart and got me a veriflex. I wanted the one with snakes and skulls and stuff but my mom made me get the one with a lion on it. My friends who had legit powells and santa cruzs clowned me, but the veriflex actually worked alright.
My first legit board and the one I learned ollies and stuff on was a Scott Conklin Alien Workshop with some weird claymation looking thing on it. It was a slick. I don't remember my first trucks or wheels. It's funny I don't really remember any other early boards just that one.
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Element 8
Destructo trucks
Spitfire 55's
Lucky abec 3's
bam graphic from ccs?
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i had a pink plastic bomber first, then this was my first legit deck
(http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/6060/img3523u.jpg)
sold it to a kid from my school when i needed money to buy the next deck, wish i still had it.
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I had a shitty target deck first, but my first real board was a used birdhouse tony hawk the one with like the skeleton of a hawk that I believe he rides in this 1. I bought it from my neighbor for like 40 bucks when I was 8.
(http://www.4-skateboards.com/skateboards/images/falcon3.jpg)
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Early 90s Ninja Turtles old school i got when i was a kid.
First actual shop purchased board was
101 three eyed cat deck
venture lows
tiny spitfires
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first board was a dragonball z board from like wal mart
next and first real board was an element with destructos, black 52.5 spitfire charred remains, shitty black panther bearings and for some reason i bought riser pads.
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im pretty sure my first setup was
-an old skatelab board my friend gave me
-all white ventures
-all black spitfires i think they were like 60 mm
-and random bearings from my friends
i think my whole setup was from different friends
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World industry complete. skated that for like a year,then got a santa cruz screaming hand deck with thunders and spitfires. Best board ever!
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(http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/6060/img3523u.jpg)
You just reminded me i had this in a spare bedroom. the shape of stereo decks was awesome
(http://i45.tinypic.com/2wf379k.jpg)
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I DSC (Dominion Skate Company) board I bought off some kid.
I spray painted it neon green and put a big Thrasher sticker on the bottom.
My first real one was a Hosoi Street Mini with Gullwing trucks and Hosoi Rockets Wheels.
Hot stuff in 1987.
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My big brother's old 101 gino board that he never skated.
Some indy's from a guy at the shop blank blue no brand wheels
That's really all I remember I had that 2 year old deck for about another year before buying a real
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My brother got me some Birdhouse board and eventually sold it/ gave it to someone else. Then around 10th grade I got myself a Girl board. Think it was a koston pro model.
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The first board i got when i started skating was they toy machine original turtle buy that my borther had jacked from somebody. then he gave it away when my cousin broke his board,
Few months later after mom realized it was a little more than the flavor of the week, i got my first real board.
Santa Cruz "Skateboarding is not a crime" deck (cause you know, you're in 8th grade. PUNK RAWK!)
Silver Ventures
Blank white wheels
Zero Black widows bearing (i thought the coffin case was rad)
World Industries Hellraisers risers (they said "hell" I HAD to get em)
pig skewers hardware.
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Early 90s Ninja Turtles old school i got when i was a kid.
First actual shop purchased board was
101 three eyed cat deck
venture lows
tiny spitfires
Yeah! I had one too, did it have plastic yellow grind bars and tail skidder (or whatever that shit on old school boards is called)?
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Fred Gall Alien Workshop
xmas 1994
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My first board was this Status mini deck, with invader trucks and blank wheels. The graphic of the board was the one matching these wheels:
(http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/st/status-team-wheels.jpg)
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A Foundation mini. The graphic was like a blue dog. Some grind kings of course and all over print fire Spitfire wheels.
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My mom found an old Zorlac deck at a garage sale and hooked me up. It had an early 90s shape (I started skating in 2000).
That got stolen after a few weeks and I was given an XGAMES complete as a replacement until I eventually got an ELEMENT team deck with the four quadrants/element graphic.
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(http://ak.buy.com/PI/0/500/200878839.jpg)
(http://www.angelfire.com/vt/TeamShorty/ghetto1.jpg)
with some shorty's silverados hardware, black panther bearings, and indy trucks. I loved fulfill the dream as a kid watched that shit everyday after school.
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A Bam Element board first, I skated by back trucks the wrong way round for a period haha, then this Flip Penny board:
(http://image12.bizrate-images.com/resize?sq=160&uid=703548574)
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I can't find the board but it was a girl board that said Eric Koston all over it and some letter were red forming the girl logo. I was pretty stoked on it.
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(http://ak.buy.com/PI/0/500/200878839.jpg)
(http://www.angelfire.com/vt/TeamShorty/ghetto1.jpg)
with some shorty's silverados hardware, black panther bearings, and indy trucks. I loved fulfill the dream as a kid watched that shit everyday after school.
I want that deck.
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DNA Jason Maxwell complete with unit trucks and accel wheels. lasted a whole year before i bought a new deck (element jake rupp)
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This with a slick bottom and sandpaper duct taped to the top as grip tape, was rocking grind king trucks as well.
(http://www.kineticskateboarding.com/product_photos/large/xl_xl_alienworkshopspectrumlogolgdeck_copy1.jpg)
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(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_Pics/zero_Thomas_SmithMedium_1999.jpg)
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-Plastic Banana board with a cobra on it in probably 1990.
-Then a Nash board in 1991.
-Anyone remember Counterfeit skateboards? You chose a package from a magazine ad. Got one of those in 1993 maybe. That was my first quasi-real board.
-First real brand name board was an Acme in 1994. I can't find a photo but it had chains inside the logo.
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My first board was a hand me down G&S Blender from my brother. He took it back shortly after when he broke the board he was riding.
After complaining about him taking it back to no end, they shut me up with a Variflex complete. I thought it was awesome until my brother kindly informed me Variflex sucked.
My first real board that was all my own was a Powell and Peralta team deck with Gullwing shadow IIs and toxic wheels.
My first popcicle was an Acme gunfire slick with Venture feather lights that had the og green bushings.
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ccs deck ti lite trucks idk wheels and shit and d 3s
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ccs deck ti lite trucks idk wheels and shit and d 3s
Holy shit! Ti Lite! Might have been the worst trucks ever. I remember when we were probably around 11 or 12 years old my friend did half a heelflip, he landed on the board upside down and the kingpin just broke (shattered, rattled?) in half and his foot didn't even touch the truck.
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(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_Pics/pp_cabb_FullSize_botwht.jpg)
second hand, a friend gave it to me, i had a holysport batman before ;D
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I really didn't think it would be so hard to find old graphics online.
My first board was a Blind with a bumble bee doing a karate kick on it. If anyone knows how to find a picture of it, that would be really sick.
Then I had a Think, the old logo all over collage one, and it was a slick.
Then a Kris Markovich Element, the mathematics one. It was yellow and had fractions and equations all over it.
No idea about trucks and wheels at the time, but for some reason I always really believed the Black Cat ads. I was definitely riding those.
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I really didn't think it would be so hard to find old graphics online.
My first board was a Blind with a bumble bee doing a karate kick on it. If anyone knows how to find a picture of it, that would be really sick.
Then I had a Think, the old logo all over collage one, and it was a slick.
Then a Kris Markovich Element, the mathematics one. It was yellow and had fractions and equations all over it.
No idea about trucks and wheels at the time, but for some reason I always really believed the Black Cat ads. I was definitely riding those.
that one ?
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_pics/blind_HenrySanchez_June1994.jpg)
henry sanchez 1994
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Had a Vision old school board as a kid, but I wouldnt say I was really skating then.
Then I got a Stereo Chris Pastras (with slick!)
Thunder
And the smallest orange Spitfires i could find...
My first set up when I took it a bit more seriously was
Plan B Ronnie Bertino
Thunder
Spitfire wheels. (a bit bigger this time)
Could not find pictures of any of them...
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My very first board was a deck with only nose and tail, no concave. The graphic was a galaxy, and the trucks were plastic and the wheels and bearings allowed me to roll 10 feet with a half can of wd40 lubing the bearings. I got it for Christmas, and my parents have a picture of me doing a stationary manual in the living room, biggest grin on my face ever captured in a photo.
I had alot of random boards from kmart after that one, especially x-games brand ones. I remember I was at a friend's party and we went to the school down the road and rolled off curbs and manualed sidewalk blocks. I learned how to ollie really good that day, I still remember the feeling, exact moment and spot on the sidewalk I blasted my first knee high ollie.
After that I was hooked, and my parents ended up realizing it wasn't just a phase. I got a hook-ups deck with a nurse checking her own heart rate in red/black: blue phantoms, girl bearings and hook-ups wheels.
I have a picture up of that first set up, chilling on my shelf with all my other skateboarding paraphernalia.
Good topic, we all get pretty nostalgic and detailed. Shows how much we all really love this plank.
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that one ?
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_pics/blind_HenrySanchez_June1994.jpg)
henry sanchez 1994
No, I wish it was, though. That's way cooler than the deck I had. I started skating at the tail end of 1999, so its in that era. It just had a big bumblebee doing a karate kick, maybe onto a target? Its hard to remember. It wasn't anyones model, just a generic Blind board.
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i had two hand me downs both got stolen..
a jeremy klein bomberman board with b-52 trucks
and a matt rodriguez stereo, wish i still had both
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It was a blind josh kasper "dodo skull" deck, with orion trucks and some soft ass mini logo wheels. I remember that day in the skateshop like it was yesterday.
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Shuvit Blank
Shuvit blanks were some of the best decks I ever skated, always had trouble finding them outside of Ocean Beach SD though.
First board was an Alva, Fred Smith punk size with Indys and Rat Bones. Also had a Cab dragon board circa 1980 with 85a Powell Peralta wheels, rad old cruiser..
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Still have mine. 1988.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VISION-JINX-MINI-SKATEBOARD-DECK-NEW-PLASTIC-/00/s/MTAyNFg3Njg=/$(KGrHqUOKooE5j8Zw+jHBOgqJhZeVQ~~60_57.JPG)
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i was really surprised at how much asian porn turned up when i image searched this
(http://www.skateboardsandfreestuff.com/SHORTYS%20SMOLIK%20BANDANA.jpg)
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This bad boy
(http://www.statesideskates.co.uk/images/products/392/152//d15dbb02-e8c6-4cd3-b15c-04a3b673992c.GIF)
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A Dominion Skate Company Big Foot board
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darkstar board
grindking trucks
darkstar wheels
I was a lame kid
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1988 - holiday to Florida, went from a beat up Turbo II (upgraded to pacer trucks and Yo-Yo's)
To this bad boy
(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1309/img0878fh.jpg)
With Gullwing Streetshadows (plastic baseplates), SC Big Balls and every bit of plastic I could get put on it (in matching hot pink)
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My first skateboard was a a toy-store skateboard a friend gave me. The shape of trucks and board was similar to decent boards and the bearings were fast unlike most toy store boards. However when i started doing stairs it cracked all the way from nose to tail so when i was landing tricks i suffered from wheel-bite. Then my first proper board was an Omar Hassan Black Label pro Model that i cant find on the internet. It had a killer bee and it had the words silent rapid and fatal. Or something like that
Damn i found it here this site is good http://www.artofskateboarding.com (http://www.artofskateboarding.com)
(http://artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_Pics/blklbl_hassan_nosebleed2000.jpg)
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QtXzWGRwoss/TT1GwpPUCrI/AAAAAAAACzc/3EhO6D1_8b8/s400/sgi%2Bgrisham.jpg)
This board (not mine sadly) Eric Grisham Sure Grip, it came complete with Sure Grip trucks and wheels, I had rails, tail and nose guard, coppers and a thing called the bird aka lapper that attached to your back truck and helped you get up curbs before most people could ollie.
I got this set up in the fall of 84 or 85 I can't remember I am fucking old ha ha
(http://skateandannoy.com/features/ebay/2007/ebay051/images-big/gibson355.jpg)
This board has a lapper aka the bird on it. I also had this skate board later on, a John "Tex" Gibson Alva pro model!!
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my first board was a mini ninja turtles fish shape when i was a young tike just rolling down the driveway. my first real setup was this jamie thomas bullrider http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/aos_pg_detail.asp?prod_id=2688 (http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/aos_pg_detail.asp?prod_id=2688) with i think spitfires and not sure what trucks. my older cousin picked it all out and i got it as a gift from my grandma so shit was legit. the first complete i got to choose myself was an alien workshop i think it was the green middle one on this picture (http://www.radcollector.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Pendleton_5.jpg) with mercury trucks and 56mm darkstar wheels haha.
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first was the typical shitty target board, fish shape with daffy duck on the bottom, plastic trucks and wheels blah blah. I was little so i just buttboarded pretty much, then got the hang of rolling around. Years later, my parents got me a maple complete from a sports store again, but this one at least had metal trucks and urethane wheels, and bearings that would roll. Rode that thing until both tails were like 3 inches and everything was broken pretty much, and my folks got me an element with destructo trucks and element wheels for my birthday. I was psyched, haha.
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I inherited the spray painted neon orange stolen special from my older brother
my first real bored was an a.v.e workshop deck with tensors and workshop wheels from blades boards and skates i laugh at the thought of that place now but when i first walked in to get my board my mind was blown
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This. I was 11 years old, and decided to get this instead of a custom setup from the only real shop in town. I sure was stupid.
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my friend's dad actually found a box of girl decks on the side of the road when i was prob in fifth grade, just getting interested in skating. i live in wilmington nc and the biggest east coast distributor (easternskatesupply) has always been here, so i assume this is where they were coming from.
my friends dad who has no interest in skating whatsoever, decided to keep the decks and only allow his son one of the 25 decks he found, and just stored the rest in the garage, and wouldnt even let us see them (some fucking people). later that year on my birthday i guess my friends parents didnt wanna buy me a gift, so they gave me one of the girl decks, which was a yellow rick howard with a giant sketchy girl logo covering the bottom.
skated that until the tail razored out and eventually got the original muska shortys, the red one where hes sittin down next to the boom box.... good times
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My very first board was a Nash Z-2 my parents got me for my birthday when I was in third grade. Then the next year for my birthday they brought to a local roller skating rink whose shop also carried legit "pro" boards. I decided on a Powell Peralta Skull and Sword with Gullwing Super Pro III trucks and Bullet church glass wheels. That board ruled my life for the next year until I got my next deck, Santa Cruz Roskopp Face II.
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1989 alva jeff hartsell
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_Pics/alv_hartsell_yinyang.jpg)
gullwing trucks
(http://socalskateshop.com/images/products/thumb_23279_Gullwing_Pro3_Truck_FTN.jpg)
krypto slammer wheels
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WllMdSWUP_c/T4uXo6BQ8ZI/AAAAAAAAEEU/GUuLUlXli_0/s400/kryptonics_slammer.JPG)
and a bunch of plastic
(http://www.fototime.com/%7B21247944-7583-4868-B0DA-0D92BA38637F%7D/picture.JPG)
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My first board was the Jason Lee American Icons graphic from Blind, one Thunder truck, one Venture truck, and a set of OJ II's.
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Maybe some of you know whos pro model this were : Vision old school board, blank except for a red and black face/monster thing in the middle of the board. Searched for it for ages..
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Maybe some of you know whos pro model this were : Vision old school board, blank except for a red and black face/monster thing in the middle of the board. Searched for it for ages..
Was it this board??
(http://www.skatesonhaight.com//v/vspfiles/photos/VSLR-2T.jpg)
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(http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0715/as_skate_disposable11_576.jpg)
Or maybe the one with the skull in the middle??
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some fake ass board with plastic trucks.
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my friend's dad actually found a box of girl decks on the side of the road when i was prob in fifth grade, just getting interested in skating. i live in wilmington nc and the biggest east coast distributor (easternskatesupply) has always been here, so i assume this is where they were coming from.
my friends dad who has no interest in skating whatsoever, decided to keep the decks and only allow his son one of the 25 decks he found, and just stored the rest in the garage, and wouldnt even let us see them (some fucking people). later that year on my birthday i guess my friends parents didnt wanna buy me a gift, so they gave me one of the girl decks, which was a yellow rick howard with a giant sketchy girl logo covering the bottom.
skated that until the tail razored out and eventually got the original muska shortys, the red one where hes sittin down next to the boom box.... good times
fuck you just reminded me i think the first board i ever picked myself was the orange muska with orange pig wheels and i dont even remember what trucks haha.
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vision mini gator in silver
yes i'm an old fart
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Rhythm skateboard, with a cop being beat or something like that. Cannot find the graphic online, but it was pretty rad.
Indies
And some random wheels that I cannot remember.
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my first real board was a 7.4" neighborhood deck with grossly mismatched wide ass tracker b-52 trucks with tiny ass black ghost wheels that were inexplicably popular at the time. they were pretty much plastic.
it was the graffiti deck, but the writing was yellow:
(http://skately.com/img/library/print/medium/neighborhood-skateboards-summer-95-products-1995.jpg)
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(http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0715/as_skate_disposable11_576.jpg)
Or maybe the one with the skull in the middle??
No unfortunately... Cant for the life of me remember who's pro model it was, none of the names i have read ring a bell...
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I had such a little kids/new comers set up as my first board.
World Industries Flameboy vs Wet Willy v3 at like 7.63 I believe
Pair of Grind Kings because of the whole kingpin thing
Black Spitfire's
Black Panther Bearings
and Black Magic grip, cut so you could see the sweet World Logo on the top of the deck
and eventually the whole thing was shelacked in stickers
also with some sweet ass Grey/Blue DC Syntaxs which I still have hanging from my ceiling, rode those down so much the insole is where the outsole should be in some places.
After riding my friends boards I met later on I scrapped most of that and got the 1st Smolik Shortys deck and some Indy 7s ( I miss the shit out of them 7's)
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Pacer Transplant! From fucking Millets of all places!
(http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/1862/pacertransplant.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/pacertransplant.jpg/)
Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)
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My first board was a Nash that had a constellation on it that looked like a cat and said "catatonic" across it. I was hyped on it because it was the only board in the toy store that had rails and a tail and nose guard. I actually learned a bunch of tricks on it.
My first real skateboard is pretty classic in a lot of senses.
The deck was a Powell skull and sword slick
The graphic looked like this, but it had a new school shape and a slick bottom:
(http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/b/0/0/c6/5/AAAAC4E5Z14AAAAAAMZWmg.jpg?v=1272611644000)
I had thunder t-4 trucks, and tiny ccs blank 42.5 mm wheels.
I was one of like 6 people who saw skateboarding turn into a 2 mph 2 inch high circus flip fest and said "I want to do that!"
I saved the deck for a while, then gave it to a younger neighbor down the street so he could start skating too, but his mom wouldn't let him, so he ended up just drawing all over the deck and never even using it. I'm sure they just threw it away at some point. Bummer really.
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First real board - spring 2001
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_Pics/aw_Dill_Chickenwire_2001.jpg)
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Several shitty banana boards with open bearings first, than a variflex deck with shattered glass graphics on the bottom.
First pro deck was this bad boy:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/$(KGrHqYOKkIE1q2cgf!-BNd+g7lHVw~~_35.JPG)
My memory is hazy, but I think it came with Trackers, Powell Cross Bones and standard big ass risers. I remember my mom giving me the go-ahead to order it from one of the companies in the back of Thrasher at the time (Skully Brothers or California Cheap Skates) and the chick I was speaking to talking me into getting this deck, as opposed to an H Street or something else I wanted at the time. I remember being epically bummed that the nose was small. Mine had that sick Alva style sunburst. I totally didn't appreciate it at the time. Thankfully, now that I'm a grown ass man, I can purchase my childhood from an online NOS seller and display it on my wall.
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MY first board was a mike mo...i dont know what company it was but i love mike mo and his skateboard looked really cool. it got all scratched tho so im hoping to get a new mike mo for my birthday.
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an aesthetic deck with a race car on it, ventures and spitfires
Came home on my birthday and it was laying in my bed. Best birthday ever.
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got it from a garage sale. old school board with coppers and tail block
the graphic was a devils face or something like that and my mom spray painted over it.
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exactly this same stain as well.
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Blind Gideon choi koreapor
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Wet willy vs flame boy World Industries, grind king trucks, and blank white wheels
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A few early great ones...
(http://www.neuronskates.com/images/Decks/SC_JKWorldSilver_S.jpg)
(http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/1108993283984040_1.jpg)
(http://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/k5mvx.zyvh6/v/vspfiles/photos/11111312-37882-2T.jpg)
(http://worthopedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumbnails2/1/0311/08/1_68d8aae5e62ec7ecc8d4680e026ce8dd.jpg)
(http://www.neuronskates.com/images/GuyGrand/GG_NatasPanther3_S.jpg)
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Me and two friends ordered some boards from a CCS catalog in 1995. I got a Workshop Spectrum and it was a slick. This weird sports store that was open for about one summer in the tiny town I grew up in was for some reason selling trucks and wheels. I bought these Indy's that had a weird golden orange finish to them. I guess they were pretty old because the holes in the base plates didn't match up to the ones in the deck. I eventually drilled new holes but the first day I set up the board I was riding with two bolts on each truck. So messed up. Mad Circle Ed Devera 44mm.
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First thing resembling a skateboard was a Snoopy "Joe Cool" freestyle shape from Kmart in '88. Then I saved up my Kool-Aid points and sent away for a big fat board the next summer.
First genuine board was in '92: an Alien Workshop Duane Pitre slick, 41mm Clone wheels and Tracker trucks with a loose axle (didn't know any better).
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(http://cf.mp-cdn.net/f7/00/9c6d9039b9d0bf45452ec2dfbbf5.jpg)
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corey obrien santa cruz with gullwing street shadows and g bones wheels.
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besides an old schmitt stix my dad gave to me, my first real board I ever owned was
Birdhouse Falcon 3
Destructo Trucks
Spitfire Big Head
Shortys Silverados
Black Panther abec 7
Black Magic
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with some bullet wheels and off brand trucks,
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(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1220/907168043_7cae6669e0.jpg)
Zorlac Abrook Ghoul
Indy's
Slimeballs
25 years ago, fuck I'm old
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haha, oh man, looking at these posts from 07 is taking me back a bit. I remember focusing my slap account in the Rowan County Public Library the day I heard the librarian call a little girl a nigger.
Reading about Kastel shoes and ghetto child wheels. Fuck! 2001 or something, eh? Anyone else have the shorty's t shirt that read "fuck you" when folded up? Or the skate tool herb pipe? What about the ejaculator wheels?
My first board was a slick variflex that I traded this puerto rican kid, Marky who I thought skated beautifully, like artful ballet but doing 540 pivots and shit like that, a set of red urethane roller skate wheels for. The deck graphic was an alligator crawling out of a sewer. Had some jacked roller skate type brick trucks and some fat yellow, see through urethane wheels.
I had a powell mini logo in between but the first real set up I scored was for my 13th birthday.
Paul Zuanich Think deck- yellow green background with two cartoon girls wearing a red and blue dress, bent over with a fart cloud coming from under their dresses, reading THINK in the center
Thunder trucks
Ghetto Child Wheels
Black Panther bearings
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(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b385/executivebanana/IMG_0714_zpsibtkwo8g.jpg)
Super old thread bump!
I recently broke my collarbone and was posted up at my parents house for a week or two. My mom has about ten thousand photos she's sorting through right now, so I was digging through them with her and we came across this picture of my first set up. Beyond stoked to have found this photo. Christmas '96. I had a few different hand me downs from my older brother and various neighborhood kids before this, but this was my first personal/brand new complete.
Zoo York - Robbie Gangemi/Futura collab
Thunder Trucks
Spitfire Wheels
Black Panther Bearings
Shorty's Silverados
I would pay a small fortune to own that deck.
Long shot, but if anyone is holding...
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If I remember correctly I had Indy's, and Powell Ratbone wheels that were like 85 duro and some cell block risers maybe ... wish I still had that for the wall!
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/633/Bb82NB.jpg)
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first skateshop deck:
tower 7.5 deck - it was decent. but i have never seen that company anywhere else and cant find any infos on it haha
rellik trucks in black/silver - they sucked. the kingpin constantly broke, they kingpin clearance was way too low and they werent turning
rellik blank wheels - normal blank wheels that wore down way too fast and unevenly, partly due to the rough surfaces we were riding on
after that i switched to grind king, and city stars.
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a mongoose from walmart when i was 12. learned to kickflip on it then got a blind complete from fast forward, i believe it was a corey sheppard's pro model.
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(http://skateandannoy.com/z-ebaywatch/2012/ebay117/images/image020.gif)
Santa Cruz Psychotic. Indys and Sims wheels. 1986.
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Think Matt Pailes with some Krux and (still searching) some Rick Howard Girl wheels? All I remember is they had NY Knicks colors and logo but it said Howard instead of Knicks.
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The Ninja skateboard Ronnie Creager has here:
(http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/pp195/Willie_D7/image_zps7q255bxv.png)
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(http://www.junkiemonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/muska-deck.jpg)
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Was a tough decision but a few kids on the block already had Nash "Executioner"s and I didn't wan't to be the dreaded P word (poser). I rode the shit out of it, was very proud of myself for wearing out the skid plate and coning the wheels. Who remembers Bike Factory in Bel/Red, WA? I begged to go there and spent all day flipping through decks before settling on a Schmitt Stix Grosso mini. Good memories.
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h287/gdchase/Variflex/100_5604.jpg)
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(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_Pics/aw_SocialPhobia2002.jpg)
7.75 alien deck
grind kings (g6s i think)
ricta 55mm templetons
reflex bearings
the bearings were so bad that i broke 3 of them the first week and my dad had to keep taking me back to the skate shop to get replacements. the guy there gave me a free set of quickies after the third one blew out.
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(http://s14.postimg.org/yygab7roh/image.png)
Tracker 6 tracks
3 guys wheels
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Maybe some of you know whos pro model this were : Vision old school board, blank except for a red and black face/monster thing in the middle of the board. Searched for it for ages..
Sounds like this:
(http://www.oldghosts.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/grigley_mask_grey.jpg)
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Element Tony Tave Board
Huck Trucks
Blank Black wheels
Generic trucks and hardware
Purple Griptape
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February 23, 1987, bought this from the Bikefactory in Honolulu with money I saved from delivering newspapers and the other half from christmas money. White Powell mini ribs, independent trucks, white Hosoi rockets, NMB bearings, cellblock 2 in front/cellblock 3 riser in back, and copers.
(http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h469/unkoboy/003-1.jpg)
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I think my first board was some shitty Wal-Mart plank with a cobra on it or something. But my first real setup was pretty fucking goofy. I went to the local shop, because people at my park told me ordering stuff online was lame. I was completely clueless with what was what in skateboarding, so the guys at shop pretty much talked me into buying the product they couldn't move. "Oh you're not sure what trucks to get? these Royal trucks are sooo good. They're the best ones we sell."
I walked out of the shop with this:
-8.0 Plan B logo deck
-Royal trucks
-Revolution wheels
-Rush bearings
Man, I thought I had the sickest setup in town.
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(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x74/beerminda/P1000506.jpg)
Third from the left but it didn't say valentine. I always thought the graphic was so sick. My Dads buddy gave it to me when I was young. Pretty much the exact same setup, maybe a narrower conical wheel and with a tail guard. I gave it to my best friend, he still has it. Maybe I should get it back...
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Mall shop complete:
Element Kenny Hughes Deck
Destructo Trucks
Spitfire Wheels
Bones Reds
First real skate shoe:
eS Koston II
Not an all in all bad first setup, if I may say so.
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(http://i.imgur.com/4ZrLpv8.jpg)
Yerp.
Madrid Xteamrider
Underground trucks
Madrid Fly wheels
Purchased from Skates on Main in Green Bay, Wisconsin circa 1986.
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This was my first board.
Got in at Harrods in London when I was 6 years old in 94. After I saw some guy riding down the street on a proper board with small wheels and a rug on his shoulders I knew I had to have a skateboard. Thanks random guy.
(http://i.imgur.com/1Xml3R9.jpg)
I still have it in storage somewhere. It's probably going to be my only wallhanger.
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BILLABONG STORE NYC
element board (metallic silver graffiti one)
element bam grip
destructo trucks(set up backwards)
element wheels
that shit was crazy
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Maybe some of you know whos pro model this were : Vision old school board, blank except for a red and black face/monster thing in the middle of the board. Searched for it for ages..
(http://www.oldghosts.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/grigley_mask_grey.jpg)
I had that Grigley deck!
My first "real" skateboard was this Lester Kasai (w/ Tracker Ultralights, Slimeballs, and German bearings)
(http://tailtap.com/images/deck_tracker_lestergrey.jpg)
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My first board was garbage, it was a Dominion Warlord. It was some department store piece of shit that didn't roll.
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(http://www.junkiemonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/muska-deck.jpg)
Same deck
Destroyer trucks
Mini logo Wheels
Mini logo Bearings
With 11 years Tony hawk's pro skater influence was too high in 1999
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First board was a Wal-Mart board with flames and plastic wheels. I asked my mom to buy me a Tony Hawk game and she said "You don't even ride a real one, why do you want a video game?" So she bought me that instead. My first "real" set-up was an orange ATM board, almost a blank with a small logo near the tail, some Hollywood wheels and Destructo trucks. I still have the trucks/wheels laying around somewhere.
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Graduated from my friend's dad's 70's number to a Variflex Street Lite complete.
The world changed forever.
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Bump. I wanna find one of these. Still have it but it’s beyond fucked.
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_pics/bh_HeathKirchart_13Gator1998.jpg)
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black dipper zero skull board
maroon ventures
spitfire classics
reds
TAIL DEVIL
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7.5 mini logo it was blue, and I put a bones reds sticker right in the middle of it. I instantly regretted that.
Grind King trucks. I went to the local snowboard/skate shop and the snowboarder working there told me I wouldn't hang up when doing 50-50s because of the lower king pin. I had no idea what a 50-50 was at the time but I lied and told him I did a ton of 50-50s to try and sound cool and ended up with Grind Kings to save face, my hangars fell off regularly. I still have the set sitting on a shelf right by my desk practically unscathed.
These generic black wheels that felt chalky.
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black dipper zero skull board
maroon ventures
spitfire classics
reds
TAIL DEVIL
That birdhouse was a hand me down. First board that was all mine was this
(http://www.fortytwoshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/zero-3-skulls-with-blood-deck-white-7-75.jpg)
Fury trucks
Reds
ccs blank wheels
Lucky risers
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My first deck was a 7.5 acme slick with the image comics character Glory on the bottom. I don’t remember anything about the trucks or wheels. I bought it off a kid in high school.
I’ve never been able to find a pic of the deck.
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(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_pics/valterra_team_highroller1987cutout2_bot.jpg)
Followed by
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_Pics/zorlac_metalica1_1997.jpg)
Followed by
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b9/31/ae/b931ae12ad23f3d307d5f59d7752b1d8.jpg)
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As a lover of anime and skateboarding this was my first board back in like 01 was this gundam wing skateboard
http://r.ebay.com/sT6uel
A few popped up on eBay. Would love a wall hanger but It’s a little more then I want to pay for.
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shiddy board then a roskopp face with black thunders and blue crossbones 90a.
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https://guideimg.alibaba.com/images/shop/76/09/05/5/santa-cruz-rob-roskopp-face-deck-green-9-5_4118905.jpg
60 mm Slimeball wheels and probably Indy’s although trucks never really registered for me back then. Came with rails, nose bone and tail skid. Christmas present 1988. Got it from CCS in a Thrasher mag. Still have a soft spot for Santa Cruz to this day.
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A Madrid slick that I got from Capt Lou himself on Warner and Springdale! Before I could complete it, we moved to Phoenix, so it took a bit to slap some blue-based grind kings black panthers on it.
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Got this for my 11th birthday! I count it as my first because before having it I was skating shitty walmart boards.
(https://i.imgur.com/TGRM6K8.jpg)
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Got this for my 11th birthday! I count it as my first because before having it I was skating shitty walmart boards.
(https://i.imgur.com/TGRM6K8.jpg)
^^greatest player of all time
my first legit setup was:
- maple (jerry hsu)
- independent trucks
- bullet wheels
Over the years i've tried to find that board on the internet and haven't been able to even find a picture of it. Any pal know some kind of maple skateboards graphic archive?
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Lance Mountain Future Primitive in black and gold
Indy 169's
OJII Teamriders 60mm
NMB bearings
Shit was tight.
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Blank
Independents
Spitfires
Lucky bearings
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first board was from my stepbrother, wallmart spiderman 3D grafic. Shit was whack
After that I got an Almost Cooper Wilt 7'75 with low thunders, don't remember the wheels
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(http://i67.tinypic.com/2l8b32a.jpg)
2002 except the bottom was black, not a stained layer
with indy's, spitfires, reds. not bad for a 12 year old
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(http://www.junkiemonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/muska-deck.jpg)
Same deck
Destroyer trucks
Mini logo Wheels
Mini logo Bearings
With 11 years Tony hawk's pro skater influence was too high in 1999
My first board was the same deck just with an orange bottom instead of red
Thunder Trucks
Mini Logo Wheels
Reds
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my first board was a cheap walmart complete them a voltage complete but my real good setup was a World Industries chad fernandez with a tensors truck ghetto child wheels and world industries tnt bearing
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I was 8 and had a friend who would let me ride his extra board around. Lived in the valley so it was an IG shop board, ventures. 50mm wheels.
I learned how to Ollie on that then really wanted my own board. Christmas of 1998, my parents asked me what I wanted. I gave the super detailed list based on an old Transworld skate mag and a CCS mag:
Blind 7.75
Ricta 52mm
Independent trucks
Black magic grip
Reds bearings
And for some odd reason requested a pack of stickers to put on the board.
Christmas morning, I wake up to a card saying “we’re going to 5 points skate shop in ventura tomorrow for you to pick out your first skateboard”.
My family was pretty broke and after the shop put the board together, a bill for over $150 came. My dad looked down, looked at me then broke out his checkbook. Could definitely tell it hurt his pocket but he knew how much that meant to me.
I fell asleep with that board in my bed for probably a month straight.
Side note, anyone growing up with a broke family do weird shit like fall asleep with your new sneakers on?
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Shop Board
Venture Trucks
i want to say zero wheels, because from what i remember they had skulls on them
bones reds
but my first actual brand board was this one
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/Deck_pics/aws_dill_sos2004.jpg)
it had this weird new wave thing. which i, still to this day, don't understand
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my avatar
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First board was a Variflex Ramp Rat II.
My first legit board was an Alien Workshop Duane Pitre slick 7.5x31.5 (one of the paper mache guys), 43.5mm Clone wheels, Venture trucks, Qik bearings, shorty’s hardware, and Black Magic grip.
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(https://guideimg.alibaba.com/images/shop/85/10/29/5/vintage-90s-green-hook-ups-original-logo-skateboard-anime-manga-t-shirt-size-m_991655.JPG)
I looked everywhere and can't find a photo of the deck, but it was just all black with this Hook-Ups logo. When I went to the skate shop with my Dad, it was between that one and a World Industries, and for Christmas I woke up to the Hook-Ups board. Good call Dad.
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My first board was a Variflex Twisted. The trucks were a mess and it turned really hard by itself.
(https://i.imgur.com/4Xrr6Mu.jpg)
Then I got a JFA. I was probably 11 or 12 by then. I had no idea what JFA was...I just liked the shape of the board and the paisleys in the letters.
(https://i.imgur.com/4asf4ue.jpg?1)
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(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_pics/scarecrow_doriantucker_rockyhorror1997bot.jpg)
I never looked this up before, kinda surprised I remember enough to find it. I think I was 10
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(http://skatedaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/powell_reissue_02.jpg)
But in silver.
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Mine was a black and lime green ZERO that said eat me on the back. It was in the same series as the school sucks graphic in pink and black, but I cant find it anywhere.
It got stolen.
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Cab (Ban This) deck
Tracker trucks
SC Slimeballs
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My first board was a plastic banana board back in like '75-76. Around '76-77, there was a skatepark built in my hometown. They had a skateboard Little League type competition going on. By that point, I had a G&S Fibreflex with Bennet trucks and Road Rider 4's. Those were the days.
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First used:
Jinx Mini
Unbranded trucks?
Black Sims wheels? Rock hard
3 years and 4 used boards later,
My first new set up:
Bod Boyle Stained glass Natty
Blue G&S trucks
bullet 66s
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I think the first board i got was some weird maui and sons board my mum got me. Second was a weird thrashed blank deck i found sitting next to a trash can. I picked it up, skated home and learnt most my start out tricks on that thing, bless it.
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My first board was a World Industries complete, which I got for Christmas in 2002. I think I still have one of the trucks or wheels in a box somewhere at my parents' house.
(http://artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_pics/wi_team_battle2000wood2000bot.jpg)
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first board
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d6/20/1f/d6201fe1adb9c1959f9f91e10220db14.jpg)
first actual board though was a used anti-hero deck with indys and 56mm spitfires that were already yellow. got it for $1 from a kid who told me he stole it just for fun
after the guilt was too hard i traded i forgot what to a kid who gave me a chris pastras stereo deck from when it was dying down the first time. the graphic was a boxing scene
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first boards were department store shitfucks, then my neighbour who worked security at a dump dropped off some fuckin beat up pos zero deck with fracture trucks/wheels/bearings. first proper complete was a rollersnakes deck, tensors, fucking 58mm heathen wheels and generic bearings - speaks volumes about how much tensors dont turn considering i was rocking 58mm fucking wheels on tensor lo sliders and didnt get wheelbite.
the next year i got an almost complete that was a cooper wilt double impact, tensor magnesium sliders, whatever wheels and bearings dwindle bundled with it and that was great using it for the first time for approximately 5 minutes until i slipped out 5050ing a curb, it got ran over by a bus and i went home in tears.
after that i watched fully flared for the first time and went out and bought a girl koston deck, some red royal trucks, piss yellow supercrystal rictas and reds. probably the last time i ever bought a full new complete at one time.
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I had an Ozi deck with cockroach wheels passed down when I was 4
Than a tony hallem variflex complete that's when I got my first 1/4 pipe about 7
When I was 8 I saved up and got a lance mountain mini model with the crest trackers and cockroach wheels or x bones I use to swap them
In my older brothers group of friends u were a kook if u didn't have
Nachi bearings..
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My first board was a World Industries complete, which I got for Christmas in 2002. I think I still have one of the trucks or wheels in a box somewhere at my parents' house.
(http://artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_pics/wi_team_battle2000wood2000bot.jpg)
I feel like alot of peoples first boards were world industries haha
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On the left is my first board. So stoked I still have it. On the right is Tony’s actual board. He did one of those giveaways on Instagram where he posted the location, and I happened to be working a few blocks away. I ran out of the store I was working in and explained to my manager that I was going to get Tony Hawk’s board hahaha. The 10 year old in me was so hyped. I will never let go of either of these.
(http://i64.tinypic.com/2h6xcm9.jpg)
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I was 14. It was an 7 6/8 acme deck (with an angry comic book figure on it), red orion trucks, skf bearings, 52mm girl wheels, jessup grip.
Anyone else ever skate an acme board? The wood was really good and they were a bit cheaper than the better known brands. I skated quite a few until they went out of business.
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Wish i could remember the exact graphic.
World mini board (what my neighbors told me) flameboy graphic. Wish I still had her sitting around.
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a used bootleg Gonz vision board
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zorlac deck (twin shape, pushead graphic.)
tracker b2 trucks
nicotine wheels 54mm
it was all the discount items at a snowboard shop.
my grandma hooked it up! bmx was 400 and skate was 85. duh.
looking back it was the coolest moment ever.
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A super narrow plastic deck bought for $2.50 from a garage sale in the neighborhood. I promptly pointed it down the steepest hill we had and ate shit. Next was a Nash Executioner from Toys R Us. That was a solid set up.
Somehow I think if Nash still exists they could come out with some nostalgia/throw back stuff and do okay. That was so many people's first set up. Maybe sell it at somewhere like Urban Outfitters.
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Got an XGames Christmas complete.
Then I saved up and bought this Tony Hawk Birdhouse deck I was hyped on from the original THPS.
Had to drill new holes in the XGames trucks to make 'em fit. Then I got some Ventures for my birthday. No idea how I finally ended up with a legit full setup, but it took some time. My parents weren't eager to spend a bunch of money on it.
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I had an Ozi deck with cockroach wheels passed down when I was 4
Than a tony hallem variflex complete that's when I got my first 1/4 pipe about 7
When I was 8 I saved up and got a lance mountain mini model with the crest trackers and cockroach wheels or x bones I use to swap them
In my older brothers group of friends u were a kook if u didn't have
Nachi bearings..
hahaha, this post brings back my childhood in a big way. Cockroach wheels were the shit, I found a vintage pair of them in Tokyo once and was contemplating paying $150 for them. I know the Tony Hallem, you're talking about, still burnt into my brain. Do you remember Bonzer skateboards out of Manly? Those things were the bomb!
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My first board was this loaner spondgebob toys r us complete when I was 12 years old. Rolled around that for a week and fell in love. Watched my first skate videos I don’t remember which ones, probably 411vm around 2002. Watching and studying what skating was I noticed how real boards where shaped differently than my board. Mine was flat plank with kicks and I never seen a board with concave before. My parents were kind enough to buy me a $20 X games complete from Target. It actually had concave and I was hyped. I was so into skating that I destroyed that board in a week. They bought me another one and skated that for a while. Bought my first skate video which was Girl Yeah Right. I finally convinced my parents that I really am into skateboarding and wanted to invest into something better. I closest skate shop from me at the time was a Yellow Rat Bastard and they carried all the big brands at the time. I remember looking at Element Bam/ Tosh Element Fiberlam boards, flip Ali bloulala decks, almost sheckler decks. I settled on a Girl Yeah Right 7.5 white background with green letters. Black magic grip tape I have never seen grip so sparkly with a blueish hue. Venture lows and Spitfire Bigheads.
Also got a pair of All white on white Jeremy Wray v4 as my first skate shoe
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_pics/girl_team_yeahright2003.jpg)
(http://skately.com/img/library/shoes/large/adio-shoes-wray-v4-white-grey.jpg)
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I had an Ozi deck with cockroach wheels passed down when I was 4
Than a tony hallem variflex complete that's when I got my first 1/4 pipe about 7
When I was 8 I saved up and got a lance mountain mini model with the crest trackers and cockroach wheels or x bones I use to swap them
In my older brothers group of friends u were a kook if u didn't have
Nachi bearings..
yeah I certainly do.. I grew up around there so yeah
150 bucks shit man that's crazy.. I had two older brothers that got into skating a bit but I fucking loved it I was six years younger and if they didn't skate their set ups for a week or two I was taking their shit apart and taking it it. Man when I was about 8 or nine I had about three or 4 different set ups on the go depending on who I thought was cool that day
I rember in year 4 I had these all at once
Black label lucero Indys and micro roaches .. (so cool Gordo our local ripper was sponsored by cockroach and hooked us up when they came out)
World mike v mini with trackers and roaches
vision vex cave with trackers and blue cockroaches
And my middle brother decided to get back into it when he was about 15
He got the cleanest set up Chris miller (with the dog but new shape) w indys and x bones
His interest lasted about two weeks and that fucker was stripped and rebirthed
I pulled it a part and spread the hardware around so he couldn't be bothered to get his complete
I was a good lil brother but anything skate related of my brothers was in my possession in no time
Hey sausage u ever skate Mosman high or middle harbour primary??
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yeah I certainly do.. I grew up around there so yeah
150 bucks shit man that's crazy..
I rember in year 4 I had these all at once
Black label lucero Indys and micro roaches .. (so cool Gordo our local ripper was sponsored by cockroach and hooked us up when they came out)
World mike v mini with trackers and roaches
vision vex cave with trackers and blue cockroaches
And my middle brother decided to get back into it when he was about 15
He got the cleanest set up Chris miller (with the dog but new shape) w indys and x bones
Hey sausage u ever skate Mosman high or middle harbour primary??
that's what you pay for that retro shit, I never actually pulled the trigger on them though!
4 setups when you were that young must have been crazy, I had that mike V board, is the one he just reissued?
I know (of) Gordo too, he made 'plebs' right? He was a fucking rad skater. I think I even fund his youtube channel recently.
I did skate Mosman high, not too frequently but I did have some great sessions there back in the day. North Sydney on the weekends was my absolute fav spot though, for year we'd skate that place and it was an absolute ghost town. Yeah, Chatswood and the city were good but fuck I loved North Sydney!!!
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yeah I certainly do.. I grew up around there so yeah
150 bucks shit man that's crazy..
I rember in year 4 I had these all at once
Black label lucero Indys and micro roaches .. (so cool Gordo our local ripper was sponsored by cockroach and hooked us up when they came out)
World mike v mini with trackers and roaches
vision vex cave with trackers and blue cockroaches
And my middle brother decided to get back into it when he was about 15
He got the cleanest set up Chris miller (with the dog but new shape) w indys and x bones
Hey sausage u ever skate Mosman high or middle harbour primary??
that's what you pay for that retro shit, I never actually pulled the trigger on them though!
4 setups when you were that young must have been crazy, I had that mike V board, is the one he just reissued?
I know (of) Gordo too, he made 'plebs' right? He was a fucking rad skater. I think I even fund his youtube channel recently.
I did skate Mosman high, not too frequently but I did have some great sessions there back in the day. North Sydney on the weekends was my absolute fav spot though, for year we'd skate that place and it was an absolute ghost town. Yeah, Chatswood and the city were good but fuck I loved North Sydney!!!
Was Plebs the video where someone licked a turd and rolled it over in the credits?
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habitat fred gall charley harper collab, ruckus trucks, spitfire classics. all from 06
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yeah I certainly do.. I grew up around there so yeah
150 bucks shit man that's crazy..
I rember in year 4 I had these all at once
Black label lucero Indys and micro roaches .. (so cool Gordo our local ripper was sponsored by cockroach and hooked us up when they came out)
World mike v mini with trackers and roaches
vision vex cave with trackers and blue cockroaches
And my middle brother decided to get back into it when he was about 15
He got the cleanest set up Chris miller (with the dog but new shape) w indys and x bones
Hey sausage u ever skate Mosman high or middle harbour primary??
that's what you pay for that retro shit, I never actually pulled the trigger on them though!
4 setups when you were that young must have been crazy, I had that mike V board, is the one he just reissued?
I know (of) Gordo too, he made 'plebs' right? He was a fucking rad skater. I think I even fund his youtube channel recently.
I did skate Mosman high, not too frequently but I did have some great sessions there back in the day. North Sydney on the weekends was my absolute fav spot though, for year we'd skate that place and it was an absolute ghost town. Yeah, Chatswood and the city were good but fuck I loved North Sydney!!!
of course! $20 bucks mate!
Having said that, me and my crew lived on a steady diet of that video.
I think that's Gordo's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCctFGdOwXZ-QheZTkfPO90g
were you a mosman high local?
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Vision Grigley 1987. Just got the reissue and it's like an ironingboard. Sick graphic though
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June 2000.
Local shop (Exo Shop in Quebec) Warrior Series 7.75
Indy Stage 8's
Don't remember what kind of bearings... most likely Reds or Speed Demons.
55mm Spitfires.
Duffs Imperials.
Thanks mom.
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Ordered right out of CCS...
Willy Santos "Weasel" Board - 7.88"
Grind Kings
53mm spitfires
Pretty sure i just got quickies bearings and shorty's in there too
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Bringing an oldish one up
First board was some red sears board with painted sand grip and 40mm wheels.
First real board was a Christmas complete from the local, now defunct, skate shop called cloudbreak.
Element generic 7.75(it was blue)
Tensor self lubricating trucks that I wanna say the baseplate was blue/raw metal.
Pig wheels
Random bearings and hardware
Can’t forget the Steve Caballaro pro series helmet complete with all his stickers haha.
Wish I still had the board for nostalgia
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Actually I was never sure what brand my first deck was, green veneer with a small logo next to the back truck it
was a silhouette of a girls head with long black hair and devil horns, no writing apart from '1994' below the graphic.. seen shuvit use a similair logo, but mine did not have any mentioning of a brand.. anyone know what it could have been?
anyway, that deck,know it was 7.5, thunder trucks with black bushing and new deal wheels 42mm.
Got it in Sweden back in the mid 90s, was not even from a skate shop.. it was a toy store that had a skate section with like 5-6 decks, thunder trucks, and black or white new deal wheels. That was all the options and it worked fucking perfect!
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from Blades in 2000.
speed demon abec five bearings
world industries wheels 55mm
Independent trucks
world industries deck
graphic looked like this https://i0.wp.com/www.surefiresponsoring.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Untitled-3.png?resize=300%2C125
still skate the trucks
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from Blades in 2000.
speed demon abec five bearings
world industries wheels 55mm
Independent trucks
world industries deck
graphic looked like this https://i0.wp.com/www.surefiresponsoring.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Untitled-3.png?resize=300%2C125
still skate the trucks
actually had one or two penny decks from yard sales before the World set-up. one made of wood that gave me bad splinters on my hand
another yard sale set-up before the World deck: a single-tail Vision Gator deck with rails, risers, blue grip tape, big soft pink wheels, and Venture trucks with old school truck holes
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From my local 2006
Standard red and black Baker deck
Indy Highs
56mm blue head spitfires
Reds Bearings
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Jersey Devil ~8.25.
Independent stage 7
Hookups 57mm wheels
Bought from Switch in Newark, DE in 1996. If anyone knows anything about the Jersey Devil board, that info would rule. Barely remember anything about the graphic, but it was white with maybe a blue silhouette of a demon.
Before that had been skating a Variflex Jack the Ripper board that I had borrowed from a neighbor.
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Mike Vallely World Industries Barnyard for Christmas 1990.
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1998, chad muska set up. Got it all from CC's over the phone.
Basically this with ghetto child wheels.
(http://skately.com/img/library/print/large/shortys-hardware-whats-under-muskas-hood-1999.jpg)
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the full rodney kit from CCS
enjoi sinner deck
tensors with the orange sliders
darkstar wheels
speed demons bearings
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Element feather light I think it was like 7.5
Grind king trucks
Element wheels
Lucky bearings risers and bolts
Black magic grip.
My mom ordered by phone from a ccs catalog ha
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i was lucky, cool skate shop dude put together my first board of this:
-chocolate mike york city series 7.75(wish i would have known what i had and kept it mint) with jessup grip
-silver venture trucks
-mini logo wheels and bearings
he especially told me to never buy any board brand that isn't chocolate, girl, alien workshop or 23
actual first skateboard was some cheap ass toy board with plastic trucks made by or at least licensed from powell peralta and came with the classic cab dragon design.
i still have both those decks. the cab one is missing the tail tho.
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Mike Vallely World Industries Barnyard
tight
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Started riding my older brothers Willy Santos Birdhouse until christmas of that same year he got a Zero complete. Wish i saved it, zero deck, NJ skateshop NJ cut outline griptape, zero wheels and ventures. Life changing.
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Had a world industries complete I got at a yard sale then hand me down parts from kids at the local shop
First proper complete:
Justin Strubing Santa Cruz 7.75
Royal trucks (chocolate colab)
HiFi wheels
Ninja bearings (absolute garbage)
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this would've been early 2001 right before reynold's left for baker
birdhouse reynolds deck
grind kings
darkstar wheels (saw the promo after downloading rodney vs daewon on kazaa)
if anyone is selling this deck dm me
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fjIAAOSwi3xcPK3m/s-l225.jpg)
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Had some Wal-Mart setups for a while. I do remember my first actual setup though.
The classic element deck
Tensor trucks
Black widow bearings in the coffin which I still have.
Pig wheels
Shortys hardware
Black Magic Griptape
Because I was only 10 years old, an older guy in the neighborhood managed to scam me out of it.
Fuck you Sam.
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My first board was a Shorty's with grind king trucks and unknown wheels (cant remember).
Sick board tbh, I wish I saved it.
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The first board I remember riding was a banana board that was in my family's garage. I have no idea where it came from. I wanted a proper set up all through 8th grade. My friend got a G&S Billy Ruff and I was bummed because that was the board I had picked out too. I didn't wanna get the same thing that he already had. Over the summer, I went to the local and picked out a black dip Sims Kevin Staab mini.
It had Tracker Six Tracks and I don't know the wheels anymore, if I ever did. I do know that they were each a different color neon. I also bought every possible piece of plastic you could for it -- rails, nosebone, tailbone, copers -- all of which were a different color neon. Each part of the top grip was also a different color neon and the top graphic was left showing. The shop owner saw me coming a mile away and let me keep adding to it. It was a total fucking dork mobile.
The shit was so expensive (way more that the $99 mail order completes I had been eyeing) that I had to put it on lay away and save money from my paper route. By the time I picked it up, the summer was over and I had a growth spurt to 6 feet. Good thing I picked out a mini!
(https://i.imgur.com/HfZeqSTl.jpg)
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1989 - some weird single kick from K-mart. It was blue and had some skulls and shit on it. I soon upgraded to another K-mart board that strangely had Vision graphics with no vision logo.
My first “real” skateboard was some shitty no-name complete from a surfshop. All of this was before high school. When I started high school I got an Alien Workshop with a slick bottom.
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after a couple Kmart boards I got an enjoi on tensors and autobahn wheels from blades, which was the first skateshop in Manhattan that came up when you googled. fucked up that someone would give a kid tensors
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Summer of '86, when I finally caught the bug after all my friends started skating because all the cooler older brothers were doing it, I mistakenly got this because mom & dad didn't want to invest $100 in a solid setup:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lhaP0kYsu5M/UCrU9KZnT9I/AAAAAAAAGbA/hLkmakf131w/s1600/Nash+Executioner+1.JPG)
When they realized I was actually going to skate every day and that I wasn't going to stop after a week, the first non-shit board 3 months later was this:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/7d/9d/aa7d9d77350bf80b693e13bc428d0257.jpg)
I still laugh at how I initially got a setup with 99a Slimeballs that had my slipping all over the driveway, so dad took 'em back and convinced the bike shop guy to swap them out for some 92s for me. Which for some reason I traded out for some huge fucking beer-can sized Kryptonics that were so soft, you could squeeze them and feel tons of give on the outer edges. Good times.
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Flameboy I got from Play It Again Sports back in 2009. Mowed a bunch of lawns and did odd jobs to buy it. In hindsight I should've gone for the Almost board but it was $108 and the WI was $80 and I wanted a board so bad. Plus the guys from the local shop had moved one town over to the skatepark and I didn't know them yet. Only complaint I had about it was how soft the wheels are, but I still have one of them in the garage.
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(http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mGi1ElnBWTzZJbmlpzceVWg.jpg)
Silver Tony Hawk (2)
Indy Stage 5 159s
Rat Bones 97a Black
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My first was an 8.38 Zero, the original American Zero with yellow background and red stars. Man, I miss that thing. I got it around '99 or '00 bought it from a friend from school that "couldn't skate anymore". Whatever the fuck that meant.
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Element muska 8.0
thunder hi's -
ricta's the shitty clear blue ones (crystals?)
reds
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A Spider-Man board from Wal-Mart. I was the only skater in my family, and had no exposure to it prior. My mom did the best she could for me.
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Nash sawblade or whatever from toys r us
Then a dynasty team model 8 for my first real board. Asian kid gets an Asian board. Kien lieu rules.
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Purple G&S Blender Coffee Break in 1986 (13yoa) with not sure trucks and wheels. Older dudes told me "how rad Neil Blender was", but I had no clue then.
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First one was a K-mart board with no concave, bubble tail guard (which I ground down to nothing) and plastic wheels that eventually shattered one winter while rolling off a picnic table.
My brother and I got a replacements that spring, we went to Freewheelin’ I Calgary, and I dreamed of getting a Per Weilender street, but they didn’t have one in, so I got the closest shape I could; a black Sword and Skull, orange grip, rat bones, rails, nose bone, tail guard, and Indy 169s.
And I still have the deck and trucks
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(http://www.antiroest-vintagedesign.nl/files/catalog/products/large/antiroest-skateboard-midonn-11547.jpg)
A plastic midonn complete
Edit: This was in the fall of 88 I think. I learned to ollie up a curb with this one. In 1990 I got my first legit complete
(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0783/2957/products/Vision_GroholskiSkeletonMini_BD0V43_Olive_Bot_1024x1024.jpg?v=1509569435)
In the summer of 92 I got the following one (vision vern team deck), which had a legit nose. I learned varial flips, kick flips and heelflips with this one
(http://www.skatenoize.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/vision.jpg)
Then in 94 I got my first popsickle board
(http://www.cheapskates.co.nz/productimages/25796.jpg_390_390_ffffffff.png)
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tower skateboards 7.5 (was that even a brand?)
rellik trucks with black hanger, silver baseplate (crap and again, was that even a brand?)
rellik blank wheels 50 somewhat milimeters (crap and again, was that even a brand?)
rellik hardware (can't really fuck up screws but was that even a brand?)
lucky bearings (they were kinda ok)
jessup griptap black (as solid back then as it is now)
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my first boards were shitty asda (walmart) or other store boards. after that my neighbour who worked security at some dump came back with a 7.5 zero and fracture trucks/wheels/bearings (07/08). rode the shit out of that then got a rollersnakes complete with a rollersnakes deck, tensors and heathen wheels (09). after that i got some almost impact complete (2010) which got ran over by a bus the first time using it, after that i had some weird girl koston, royals and ricta (around 2011) and i think that was the last time i had a full complete setup.
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(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiq0DRK798URG741_irfEhz9iSVRiZF9B10y-z-8BQBftqMLbgyQ)
Equipped with:
- Fury trucks
- Flip HKD bearings
- Enjoi wheels
*sigh*
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my dad found a beat up complete in an alley in the eastside. some green 9.75" shape with the graphic sanded off, some "action" trucks and some 60mm "hyper" wheels. didn't turn all that great but i would ride it along the bike trail into town. i didn't like the hard wheels so my next board was a west 49 longboard unfortunately, i was young and foolish.
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First board was some surf shop complete.
First real board was...
Chico Brenes chocolate board. It had a bullfighter on it. Was sick. If anyone has, hook me up.
These red venture trucks
Bones reds.
Some aussie wheel company.
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A red fish tail board with a palm tree on the bottom. plastic wheels and trucks. all I remember is tic taccing and nose stalling curbs on it. no idea what make or if it was just a walmart special, but i was stoked.
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My first deck was a Blind that knocked off the ripper graphic from powell with grind king trucks, mini logo wheels, and lucky's bearings(which all exploded). Seriously, Lucky's were the worst, if a 90 pound seventh grader is wrecking them I couldnt imagine an adult. I did find my deck in my parents basement not too long ago. if you look close you can see a china bones sticker which is what Reds were originally called.
(https://i.imgur.com/bfK356Nh.jpg)
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A single kick Nash with the sawblades cut out the grip tape.
My first true board was a 60/40 Ron Chatman slick
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F*ck i'm so old that i forgot. Don't know if Gator Mini, H-Street Way or Powell Lance Salto Boy, probably with some Tracker Trucks and T-Bones Wheels
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7.5 Jeremy Wray Element Board
Blue Krux Trucks
Reds Bearing
Blue Softies, I think OJ's
(https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/192162683/IMG_3014.JPG?auto=format&fit=max&h=1000&w=1000)
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Some Bo Lang design and cheap wood. Rode that shit for 6 months.
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DSC Bigfoot. Dominion Skate Company.
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Either a Beer City blank or DGKalis
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Technically it was a plastic 70s Variflex, would actually be really cool to have now. But when I really started skating it was a Toys R Us complete with an american flag cobra for the graphic. I upgraded later to a Real mini.
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first ever was a complete from decathlon. wasn't that bad to be honest. then i got a blind complete. my first board that i've assembled myself was a plan b p-rod, rasta ventures, bones party pack 100s and some random hardware.
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First board was a pink Dragon on skulls Nash Executioner, Creature made a legit rip-off my neighbors board. First legit board was a Jeff Kendal Halloween pumpkin with graffiti, shortly thereafter I got a Lance Mountain coat of arms deck in silver.
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First board period was a Roller Derby from Toy R Us that had a fly with a...fly skull? It was fiberglass and had some weird molded into the deck grip tape.
My first real board was one I got about a year later- Powell Mike McGill with silver Gullwings, red Crossbone wheels, and pink and green grip tape.
They recently reissued that deck in the same color and shape I had, but it's $100 and I am not sure I want to be that nostalgic.
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Steve Saiz Dreamcatcher
Blue Gullwing Sidewinder trucks
Ratbones
German bearings
Good times
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The first I remember was a Nash Snake Rattle and Roll board. My first "real" board was the Chris Livingston Led Zeppelin H Street deck
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Valterra, with like a dragon on it. 8)
Then I got serious and got a used rob roskopp with a crazy grip tape design and razor tail.
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Three part answer:
First ever was a hand-me-down Schmitt Stix Sawblade 2 with clear grip. Then I went to a shop, which was an all day event just to get there (Hogtown in Toronto) and got coerced into buying an Iron Cross Art Godoy from the sale boxes...didn't know who the Godoys were, didn't know it was a whale tail vert board that was garbage for street skating just thought the graphic was cool. When I razortailed that into oblivion I got my first full price deck and picked out Ed Templeton's first New Deal deck ("woof cat" in yellow with the cat in purple) and was in heaven.
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Right out of a holiday 2000 CCS
Alien Workshop revelation deck
Indy’s
Alien Workshop 53mm wheels
Speed Metal bearings
Shortys Hardware
Those were the days..
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I had a Steve Caballero dragon board with red grip that my dad tried to grip with scissors.
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(https://img.skatewarehouse.com/watermark/rs.php?path=ZEBD85DK-1.jpg&nw=435)
This was my first board, 8.5 because I had done research beforehand and figured a larger board would be more stable to learn on in the beginning.
Apparently they still make this deck. Can't say that for a lot of boards/graphics in general.
Also had Tensor trucks with the plastic baseplate, plus Spitfire 55mms with the multiball graphic, Speed Demons bearings, and Shorty's Silverados for hardware. Jessup grip I think. I was a fan of Zero, Shorty's, and Dwindle brands in the beginning so I wanted a mix of all worlds.
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Birdhouse, Tony, Falcon 3. Stole it out of my brothers car to just to ride around on and look at it. That graphic was so cool. Eventually learned how to ollie on it and than the kid who owned it stole it back in what felt like the same week.
First board of my own was the three skull zero deck, black with white skulls and the blood drip. Bought from Skate America, mid 2000s, I know we had dial up at the time.
First board I ever bought at a shop was the mystery virgin mary deck think it was an adrian lopez model.
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Powell slick (SST, I think it was called)
Gullwing Shadow
Powell wheels
No idea what bearings
Bought from what I think was an ice skating shop. Remember putting it together on Christmas day, tracing the shape of the deck on the grip, then cutting it with scissors.
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Somehow, before I even knew anything about skating, my parents found their way to the local skate shop (Blazers in Greenville, SC), and got me an element board with wheels, trucks, and bearings that I don't remember. I skated that thing until the nose and tail were only a couple splintered inches long.
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(https://img.skatewarehouse.com/watermark/rs.php?path=ZEBD85DK-1.jpg&nw=435)
This was my first board, 8.5 because I had done research beforehand and figured a larger board would be more stable to learn on in the beginning.
Apparently they still make this deck. Can't say that for a lot of boards/graphics in general.
Also had Tensor trucks with the plastic baseplate, plus Spitfire 55mms with the multiball graphic, Speed Demons bearings, and Shorty's Silverados for hardware. Jessup grip I think. I was a fan of Zero, Shorty's, and Dwindle brands in the beginning so I wanted a mix of all worlds.
They were 8.25 back then in the early to mid 2000's, I remember because my brother had two or three of them back then and they seemed HUGE. The red colored Zero bold was 7.625 or 7.75, blue bold was 8.0, and black bold was 8.25
Man, Tensors on that thing though? Did they even make Tensors over 7.75 back then?? I think my brother rocked Indy 139's because that's the biggest he could find.
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(https://img.skatewarehouse.com/watermark/rs.php?path=ZEBD85DK-1.jpg&nw=435)
This was my first board, 8.5 because I had done research beforehand and figured a larger board would be more stable to learn on in the beginning.
Apparently they still make this deck. Can't say that for a lot of boards/graphics in general.
Also had Tensor trucks with the plastic baseplate, plus Spitfire 55mms with the multiball graphic, Speed Demons bearings, and Shorty's Silverados for hardware. Jessup grip I think. I was a fan of Zero, Shorty's, and Dwindle brands in the beginning so I wanted a mix of all worlds.
They were 8.25 back then in the early to mid 2000's, I remember because my brother had two or three of them back then and they seemed HUGE. The red colored Zero bold was 7.625 or 7.75, blue bold was 8.0, and black bold was 8.25
Man, Tensors on that thing though? Did they even make Tensors over 7.75 back then?? I think my brother rocked Indy 139's because that's the biggest he could find.
Pretty sure it was 8.5. I could be wrong, though. This was the summer of 2000. I don't remember the trucks being too small for the board. I mean, I got it from a good shop and they would've insisted I switch up the trucks if the setup was too kooky. Hm.
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Almost 8,125
Tensor trucks
almost wheels lol
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Habitat terratone 2 series
Blue royal trucks
Habitat wheels
Reds .
This was 2001? So maybe the second or third season of habitats existence.
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I bought a completely mashed World industries board for $5 off some kid back in grade 8, my friend stole a skateboard from a movie theater so he sold me the monster trucks and wheels for $10, he bought a gram and smoked it with me. aaah, memories...
what part of Canada are you from?
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My first skateboard was a blue Zorlac Gargoyle with hot pink grip tape, Tracker trucks and orange Slime Balls. That thing was shit hot. Got it for Christmas in 1987.
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A very beat up Concrete Jungle (not sure of graphic) with green slime balls & Indy blue anodized stage V (i think) I got it in 1988. My dad bought all the plastic for it so it could last longer.
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Like a few others on here this was probably my very first board, (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WjEAAOSwoydWk6Zl/s-l300.jpg)
but, the first legit board I ever had was (https://scene7.zumiez.com/is/image/zumiez/pdp_hero/Alien-Workshop-Believe-7.62%26quot%3B--Skateboard-Deck-_195640-0007-front.jpg)
(even though I think the color way way a little different)
Grind King Trucks
Alien Workshop Wheels
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My first skateboard was a Bam Heartogram skate deck, it had sick Kreeper trucks, and Jeff Tatum pro wheels. I got it from a girl I was vaping with at the Gathering. Turns out we were both at Bam’s Bowl party too. It’s covered in Faygo now but it’s still frickin sweet.
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Saved my money all summer. Ended up with
Powell Mini Logo 7.8
Venture 5.0 low
Point Blank 52mm Wheels
Shortys silverados
some Black Panther Bearings
Was the happiest kid in autumn 2000.
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Valterra, with like a dragon on it. 8)
Then I got serious and got a used rob roskopp with a crazy grip tape design and razor tail.
On my local fb marketplace rn is a Valterra ‘rad-isaurus’ deck for 30 lol. The dinosaurs got a Hawaiian tee on and is ripping through the jungle?
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Older dude up the street passed down to me a World deck that was pretty beat down, so no graphic. Indys that were about ground through to the axle, and some kind of 40mm wheels.
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8.0 Blue Mini-Logo deck
40mm Spitfires
8.0 Ventures
White grip
Reds
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santa cruz- chet thomas - PIT graphic 7.75 slick
indy trucks
spitfire- cardiel live wire 48mm wheels
1994 was a strange year....
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SMA Tim Brauch everslick (almost exactly like the one in the pic). Used complete for $50.
Then I bought an ATM Gonz once I decided that was too big (but not after I trimmed the rails of the SMA a bit).
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I think it was a slick. The wheels matched. I don’t remember trucks. Pretty sure hardware and bearings were luckies.
(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_Pics/wi_beatflameboy1998.jpg)
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i was hijacking my brothers willy santos birdhouse deck while he wasnt around... had ventures and spitfire wheels.... he caught on and hooked me up with a christmas complete from NJ skateshop. It was a zero board with spitfires, ventures and NJ skateshop state outline grip. Literal life changing gift.
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I had a Nash 1994 board with these really shitty misshaped trucks and really crappy wheels. I remember rolling down the street and the wheel completely crumbling and falling apart.
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also all around just love this thread. hooking kids up with their first completes at the shop im leaving will be the only thing i miss about working in a retail environment.
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Walmart piece of shit.
First real skateboard was a Birdhouse Tony Hawk Falcon 3, which is honestly still my favorite graphic of all time to this day.
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I was 5 years old when my mom bought me some cheap supermarket complete. Trucks and wheels was plastic and bottom of deck was picture of tiger, sick graphics tho!
Thanks momsey<3
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World industries water boy complete. Rode that till the nose and tail were like 3 inches long. I cannot for the life of me remember my boards or gear of any kind in between then and high school. I remember I had a popwar with tensors and cored Rictas at the start of high school.
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(https://i.ibb.co/qJNpQ7b/s-l1600.jpg)
My first 'real' board. At least I thought it was. My brother and I sold our iguana at a garage sale to buy 2 of these.
First real real board was a zoo york w/ tensors and probably spitfires. Came assembled from CCS and I coudn't figure out why it felt like it was forcing me to turn in a circle all the time. Took a few weeks before a neighbor kid told me the trucks were on backwards.
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Ray Barbee ragdoll board for my birthday at age 11. Trucks and wheels pieced together second hand. Beat up indys and I don't remember what the wheels were. clear grip tape and rib bones.
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(https://i.ibb.co/qJNpQ7b/s-l1600.jpg)
My first 'real' board. At least I thought it was. My brother and I sold our iguana at a garage sale to buy 2 of these.
First real real board was a zoo york w/ tensors and probably spitfires. Came assembled from CCS and I coudn't figure out why it felt like it was forcing me to turn in a circle all the time. Took a few weeks before a neighbor kid told me the trucks were on backwards.
Lol. You sold your iguana at a garage sale?
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a foundation, don't remember the model, i remember a pretty offensive illustration of a mexican with a beer...
grind kings
titus wheels
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i had some generic board from copeland’s. all i remember about it is that it had some green color scheme and i slapped a phat spitfire big head sticker right in the center.
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(https://i.ibb.co/qJNpQ7b/s-l1600.jpg)
My first 'real' board. At least I thought it was. My brother and I sold our iguana at a garage sale to buy 2 of these.
First real real board was a zoo york w/ tensors and probably spitfires. Came assembled from CCS and I coudn't figure out why it felt like it was forcing me to turn in a circle all the time. Took a few weeks before a neighbor kid told me the trucks were on backwards.
Lol. You sold your iguana at a garage sale?
Haha yeah. $50 for Spike + his glass tank & heating light.
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Blind scouts of America. Not the one with the kid getting a badge for tying the chick up, just the blind scout's logo. Gullwing trucks, lucky bearings, and blind wheels. It was a pre put together complete and looking back it was a shitty setup but it stoked the fire
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I remember looking through CCS Mail-order catalogs as a grom and wanting either an Alien Workshop board (think Don Pendleton art) or a World Industries everything with their cartoon dynamic duo. Awhile later I got an had me down AWS deck from my cousin.
(https://socalskateshop.com/images/products/thumb_100138_Alien-Workshop-Joey-Guevara-Triad-Icon-Deck-B.jpg)
It was the Rob Dyrdek version of this, pre Rob & Big and Ridiculousness. I remember it being an 8.0 in an age when those were rare with gross black wheels. I eventually spent money on some random replacement parts since I was a young fool. I eventually gave it to a friend that wanted to get into skating but never really did.
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Alien Dyrdek 8" (hand me down from a family friend, dunno the graphic it was gone when I got it)
Ventures
Shop wheels that I still have to this day from Cal Surf in Minneapolis
Jessup probably
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Santa bought me one of those completes from the skateshop were the deck is thicker
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Xmas 98 a Solex complete with the face of a tiger. (pretty much a Walmart board)
Then my first "real" complete was
World Industries with slick, graphic was a bikini she devil.
Monkey Grip, I believe it was MJ one.
Red Monkey Nuts
Orion (ew)
Some used af Pig Wheels that an older kid sold me for a super high price.
Abec 1 shitty bearings.
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(https://i.ibb.co/qJNpQ7b/s-l1600.jpg)
My first 'real' board. At least I thought it was. My brother and I sold our iguana at a garage sale to buy 2 of these.
First real real board was a zoo york w/ tensors and probably spitfires. Came assembled from CCS and I coudn't figure out why it felt like it was forcing me to turn in a circle all the time. Took a few weeks before a neighbor kid told me the trucks were on backwards.
Lol. You sold your iguana at a garage sale?
Haha yeah. $50 for Spike + his glass tank & heating light.
Holy shit that's hilarious
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NASH Executioner hot pink. 1st pro board was a hand me down Santa Cruz Jeff Kendall Jack O' Lantern with Indy 169's and Slimeballs with cell block risers. The board was a total sharktooth, but it was my first Pro board. http://santacruzlongboardskateboard.com/2018/09/vintage-original-80s-jeff-kendall-santa-cruz-pumpkin-man-skateboard-deck-only/ (http://santacruzlongboardskateboard.com/2018/09/vintage-original-80s-jeff-kendall-santa-cruz-pumpkin-man-skateboard-deck-only/)
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Some cheap Walmart board until Christmas 98’, got a world industries complete. Came with some cheap ass trucks, but had bones bearings and bones wheels I think.
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I can't find any photo of it or mention of it anywhere but it was a Toy Machine turtle boy deck making fun of Leonardo DiCaprio when the Titanic movie just came out. The deck was called "Retardo DiCrapio" in the CCS catalog.
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a costco kamikaze. yeah, i'm old!
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it was fake 80's shape board with rails and all
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a costco kamikaze. yeah, i'm old!
(https://www.standupzone.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=15358.0;attach=19943;image)
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yeah but with all the protection.
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first board I skated was my brothers variflex. my first board was some Wal-Mart 8 ball board. My first real skateboard was a Maple CCS Christmas complete with ventures, pig wheels, black panther bearings, and lucky's risers.
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holy shit this is embarrassing. so my first REAL board was a Dave Mayhew A-Team deck. part of this conspiracy theory series. it was an 8x32 with an absurd amount of concave. i remember my friends thinking my board was massive. then i found an Ed Templeton Toy board that might have been 8.25? oh! and my A-Team had hand me down Grind Kings and god knows what wheels and bearings. the first time i was able to afford a full christmas morning deck was when i got some financial aid in college. i got an Alien Workshop with Indys and Spitfire Classics.
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Vision Ripper , tracker trucks, Sims Wheels
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Plastic banana board from my grandma in like 1983. Then my uncle gave me a fiberglass (?) one. My first pro board was SC Natas, the one with the panther. G&S trucks, bullet 66 wheels. I’ve always rode big wheels since. I think that was 88 or 89.
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My personal one was unfortunately thrown in the trash without my consent, but this is exactly what it was.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/a6/a7/0fa6a7fef60d8825b38400f1e6473868.jpg)
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G & S Bill Tocco octopus city, neon green gullwings and blue rat bones, i still have it at my moms house, think i got it in the ccs mailorder in summer 1988
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santa cruz 8' flame logo
venture lows
think wheels
lucky bearings
flame grip
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a costco kamikaze. yeah, i'm old!
Ha, right there w you man, i posted my first real setup but my first first board was a variflex blue ninja, it did the job but wow it was a piece of shit
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Damn, I've been thinking about this for a few days and still cannot remember. My memory sucks though so go figure.
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One those Ninja maypop joints from the state fair. Traded that piece for a Nash Nightmare and got Jeff Kendall or Natas couple months later for Xmas.
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Dang, my first was a piece of wood my dad screwed onto some roller skate wheels or something around 1988/89. Then I got one of those super wide toy store/department store kind of ones that said “The wall” on it with a brick wall graphic. First real board was a Powell peralta deck which I think had the skull and sword on it, but I accidentally got a long board because I didn’t know any better.
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(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_pics/shortys_Team2001.jpg)
Christmas complete with independent trucks and ghetto child wheels. Thanks mom
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Man my cousin was so good, thank god he was an influence on me. I remember looking through a ccs with my parents and him talking with us on the phone helping us figure it out. It took like two weeks to finally come in lol. I was so scared to skate though I didn’t try hard. Not for like another year. Not until my friends got into skating too did I start to learn. I remember ollieing over a piece of wood on the foundation of some houses they were building with my best friend at the time.
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world industries mini complete.
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I have tried skateboarding at least once, and now I decide to do it more. However, I don’t own a skateboard, so I plan to get one. Renewing my skills to skateboarding at more than a century old. This Beleev board is the best overall board (https://www.concretewavemagazine.com/what-size-skateboard-should-i-get)value to kick around in, period. Its well made with quality parts and makes this a no brainer purchase. Superior skid deck and graphics make this a contender with the high end boards. Serious wheels are smooth and are home on the street as well as parks. ;)
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(http://www.artofskateboarding.com/pg/Deck_pics/shortys_Team2001.jpg)
Christmas complete with independent trucks and ghetto child wheels. Thanks mom
Damn you were the cool kid weren’t you?
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My first skateboard was one of these Batman toy skateboards from 1989 that was my older sister's:
(https://images1.vinted.net/t/01_01df0_ge78qp8g2i9x3DxTfqBrRab9/f800/1593624177.jpeg?s=175e37c3174e9b8847312e977aee31dcd0377901)
My first real skateboard, a Birdhouse - Heath Kirchart from 97 or something:
(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/273502658282_/90%E2%80%99s-Birdhouse-Heath-Kirchart-Skateboard-Deck-Berrics-Rare.jpg)
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some giant wide cruiser piece of shit from a garage sale when i was probably 9. didnt even have grip and was too loose to stand on for a beginner. 30 seconds on the driveway im over it. then a nash complete from toys r us for a few months until my old man was convinced i wanna do more than tictac around so we go to some random half surf shop midtown. blind reaper with the bandana. gk camos. for some reason i had to get birdhouse wheels because of the game i guess. memorable wonderful day. my old man came through that day for sure
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I had a Veriflex Draggin' Dragon board that my Aunt got me for my birthday.
Years later I got a 5boro Bronx board, it was blue and like all-over graffiti cartoon people. I also picked out blue spitfire and...oof...blue Titan Lite trucks. They were really cheap, but that was the last time I ever had colored trucks or wheels.
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(https://i.ibb.co/stm930g/6808972-A-A5-B2-4-A11-9-EC4-B7248-FD65729.jpg) (https://ibb.co/stm930g)
Was a different brand but looked very similar to this.
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i have 3 boards that i’ve considered my “first.” the first skateboard i got that was actually mine was a flaming skull board from target that my friend devin had that i thought was so cool. i was so infatuated by it that before i got it, i would draw it all over my school work in 2nd grade. then my first real skateboard was a shop deck from the skateshop (park) that i ended up growing up at and learned everything from and is the reason i live where i live now. then my first pro deck was the jamie thomas graveyard board with crosses all over it. wish i could find a picture of it
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0605/3649/products/610_008_0637_1024x1024.jpg?v=1479771169 i found it
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First board was from Kmart green football shape with the three monkey see no evil hear no evil speak no evil but the two monkeys on the sides had their fingers in the centre monkeys ears. The grip tape went completely smooth then peeled off in about two weeks.
Then my first good board was an 8.25 shuvit with 7.5 tensor lows (the ones with the plastic bumper bars) and 59mm wheels. A ridiculous setup in 2000
Then first goog good board was the blue habitat wenning BW with destructos kristian svitak 56mm Accel wheels and Reese Forbes bearings that were crazy fast but fell apart the second time I skated it.
I rode all three setups until both nose and tail were less than an inch long and the wheels were barely bigger than bearings. Embarrassingly I wasn't a little kid riding completely wrecked setups I would of been 14-18
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Variflex
First real board Clause Grabke with the exploding clock probably tracker trucks and slime balls
Neon pink and green grip tape that was super coarse cut it into lots is smaller interlocking pieces.
Still remember how stoked I was doing my first Ollie on it
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Oh wow, The Batman board,
I am pretty sure i had the same board, same year.
I remember a really good trip to toys-r-us.
The first pro model i had was the setup the son of my fairy godmother had.
She gave it to me after he died in a motorbike accident.
It was a Reese Simpson Schmitt Stix deck a Tracker and a Gullwing, and Slimeballs.
The first newschool deck i had was a Platinum, cant remember the rest of the setup, prob. Indys
and close to 60mm wheels.
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World industries mini flame boy complete with world trucks and wheels. I just recently got it back. My neighbor found it at his parent's house. Believe we spray-painted the graphic..
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Had a spiderman skateboard from Walmart. It sat in the closet for months, but I felt bad that my mom doesn't money on it after my brother and I begged her to buy it. The rest of history from there.
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first was some shit xgames brand one from walmart.
first real complete was a blink ronnie creager golfer deck with ventures and spitfires. got it set up at the shop and i'm fairly certain it was done by tom asta weirdly enough
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Mine was a piece of wood with roller skate wheels screwed on that my dad made, then a big plastic thing from Toys r us or somewhere that said “The Wall” on it. This is like 1989/90 ish. My first real board was a Powell peralta deck in 90/91 with a Mike McGill graphic or something on it. I can’t remember which guy/graphic exactly but I remember being pissed because I got the wrong size (it was longer than most decks, maybe 33’ long) and it was hard to learn trucks on.
Edit: holy shit, I think I found it
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/AcIAAOSwdv9fcjao/s-l400.jpg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/SOZKtUx.jpg)
My family had one of these, so that was the first board I had to mess around on. It used to splinter so bad. The first board of my own was some DBZ one with Goku on it from Toys R Us. I got that ASAP after playing the THPS demo on that disk from Pizza Hut. First legit board was an Element deck with orange and yellow spitfire wheels and tensor trucks with the orange slide plates. I think I had multi color bolts, called Fruit Loops or something?
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green santa cruz flame dot logo with power ply, silver venture lows with purple bushings, lucky bearings, and think wheels probably 52. weird ass combo from the late 90's. I eventually put flame grip on it and skated it into the ground. great times
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(https://i.imgur.com/SOZKtUx.jpg)
My family had one of these, so that was the first board I had to mess around on. It used to splinter so bad. The first board of my own was some DBZ one with Goku on it from Toys R Us. I got that ASAP after playing the THPS demo on that disk from Pizza Hut. First legit board was an Element deck with orange and yellow spitfire wheels and tensor trucks with the orange slide plates. I think I had multi color bolts, called Fruit Loops or something?
Holy fucking shit! That was mine as well. Forgot about the 'Flyin Brian' part (memories are flooding back).
I was gonna say it was all blue with hard plasticy blue wheels and had some kind of a monster guy as a top graphic. No grip, just bumpy wood grain and trucks that didn't really turn.
I remember getting frustrated that I couldn't ollie, not realizing that it would have been nearly impossible. I also remember the moment when my brothers friend explained that you could loosen the trucks to turn with only a lean. I was beyond hyped, despite the fact that it still didn't work that well on that board. Honestly, it massively hampered my progress now that I think about it, but whatever.
Crazy.
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(https://i.ibb.co/Pjc8vd7/255-BABD2-A710-4157-BD4-D-8946-D9-F5-DC4-D.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Pjc8vd7)rip instagram pictures (https://500pxdownload.com/)
I was so stoked when my mom got me this. I had this same blue color, clear grip, Tracker Sixtracks and some Bones wheels. I can’t remember which wheels exactly unfortunately.
I thought I was hot shit.
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First complete was an Element Bam 7.75, a classic. Eventually upgraded the trucks, deck and wheels from the sale bin at a surf shop - Industrial trucks (Indy knockoff that honestly I never had an issue with) and a twisted 7.5 Almost deck. The wheels I wish I could find again, they were just cheap Alien workshop wheels but I remember them feeling very similar to Spitfires. Rode those til they were bearing covers.
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First complete was an Element Bam 7.75, a classic. Eventually upgraded the trucks, deck and wheels from the sale bin at a surf shop - Industrial trucks (Indy knockoff that honestly I never had an issue with) and a twisted 7.5 Almost deck. The wheels I wish I could find again, they were just cheap Alien workshop wheels but I remember them feeling very similar to Spitfires. Rode those til they were bearing covers.
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First complete was an Element Bam 7.75, a classic. Eventually upgraded the trucks, deck and wheels from the sale bin at a surf shop - Industrial trucks (Indy knockoff that honestly I never had an issue with) and a twisted 7.5 Almost deck. The wheels I wish I could find again, they were just cheap Alien workshop wheels but I remember them feeling very similar to Spitfires. Rode those til they were bearing covers.
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First complete was an Element Bam 7.75, a classic. Eventually upgraded the trucks, deck and wheels from the sale bin at a surf shop - Industrial trucks (Indy knockoff that honestly I never had an issue with) and a twisted 7.5 Almost deck. The wheels I wish I could find again, they were just cheap Alien workshop wheels but I remember them feeling very similar to Spitfires. Rode those til they were bearing covers.
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First complete was an Element Bam 7.75, a classic. Eventually upgraded the trucks, deck and wheels from the sale bin at a surf shop - Industrial trucks (Indy knockoff that honestly I never had an issue with) and a twisted 7.5 Almost deck. The wheels I wish I could find again, they were just cheap Alien workshop wheels but I remember them feeling very similar to Spitfires. Rode those til they were bearing covers.
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(https://cdn1.bbcode0.com/uploads/2021/8/29/8eecfe468ec48648d8626c61054e54a4-full.jpg)
With orion trucks black magic grip Powell halos bearings and i forget the wheels
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Zorlac or Status, but the first real skateboard I ever got on my own was a HUF silhouette graphic from a warped bin at Bills Wheels. It’s also the first time I ever saw someone stoned. He was sitting on a chair made of decks.
It was an eventful day.
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My brothers' hand me down yellow plastic banana boogie.
First store bought: Variflex Jack the Ripper
First shop bought: Powell Welinder Street w/ Boneite
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don't remember my first board (one of them was probably a Termite) but I definitely remember one of my first boards to get destroyed—a Think tag logo deck (maybe it had flames?) that got focused by my mom's car in our driveway.
He was sitting on a chair made of decks.
oh wow this brought back memories of the chair-made-of-decks that was at my local indoor spot (Eisenbergs RIP)
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First proper board was Zorlac Abrooks Ghoul, Indys and Slimeballs
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what was everyones 2nd proper bloard after really getting into it and skating the 1st to the point of not having a tail. mine was element or an aws. learned to ollie stairs on it with my bestie
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what was everyones 2nd proper bloard after really getting into it and skating the 1st to the point of not having a tail. mine was element or an aws. learned to ollie stairs on it with my bestie
Pretty sure this was my second deck. I was so excited to finally get one that I could skate and learn shit on
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a4/d4/a5/a4d4a5d8adc7dd0d56e8916c865b678c--vintage-skateboards-tony-hawk.jpg)
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element twigs mini w/ ventures and some weird alien workshop wheels
second board was a josh kalis w the same trucks and wheels (i figured out he was local)
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(https://i.imgur.com/EFCtf8n.png)
Basically one of these, only it had a red and blue pattern on the bottom.
The grip tape was awful, the bolt pattern was non standard so when I got a new deck I needed new trucks, the wheels were horrendous, the bearings barely let you roll after you stopped pushing.
I had some good times on that thing.
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My brother got me a complete for Christmas one year. It was a Zero deck with ventures and NJ Skateshop grip tape and black and pink wheels. Wish I kept it.
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Variflex
First real board Clause Grabke with the exploding clock probably tracker trucks and slime balls
Neon pink and green grip tape that was super coarse cut it into lots is smaller interlocking pieces.
Still remember how stoked I was doing my first Ollie on it
My buddy had that Claus board, I had the Roskopp face. Santa Cruz was so rad back then, they still have good wood
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(https://i.ibb.co/Pjc8vd7/255-BABD2-A710-4157-BD4-D-8946-D9-F5-DC4-D.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Pjc8vd7)rip instagram pictures (https://500pxdownload.com/)
I was so stoked when my mom got me this. I had this same blue color, clear grip, Tracker Sixtracks and some Bones wheels. I can’t remember which wheels exactly unfortunately.
I thought I was hot shit.
You were hot shit indeed
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(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/75/19/a1/7519a1e6679e6870dee5ad9307172d1d--ebay-shopping-skateboard.jpg) My older next door neighbor had one of these that I would try to push on all the time and fall. His mom wouldn’t let me ride it cause I was very young so I would push sitting down and occasionally try to stand and push. A green Muska rising son was the first board of my own.
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First actual board given to me was a very used World Industries deck that I never got to set up because I didn't have any parts for it. Shortly after, I got a $20 Dukes Skateboards complete from Big 5. This was around Spring 2001. It snapped as soon as I learned to Ollie.
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Had a Variflex board with hardly any nose, I remember it being so thick and heavy. I remember being at Goodwill with my mom when I spotted it and asked for it, she thought it was rad so it came home. There was actually the one I got and a ramp II at the store that day, I had to choose between the two.
The graphic was blue and I think it had a Bee with a basketball if I remember correctly... I've searched for a picture of it but have never had any luck. I grew up on a farm so I would take that thing out to a small concrete slap in one of the barns and try to ollie.
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I was at my local surf shop with my dad when I was like 6 years old. My dad just randomly asked if I wanted a skateboard so the girl behind the counter just picked out my stuff for me.
Zero Jamie Thomas deck
Indy’s
Spitfires and reds
I don’t know who that girl was but she hooked it up.
Shout out red dog surf shop in new Smyrna beach Florida.
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(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPyFhPtqKHjvbJSC92Epsgu6mSwyErrlMeBw&usqp=CAU)
Valterra Land Shark released in 1986, which I got for my fourth birthday that year. I mostly knee-boarded and sit-boarded on it until I got the confidence to ride standing up by the time I was about six. Not sure what a Valterra was doing on the wall of a toy store on Road 9 in Cairo in the mid 80s but there it was. Somehow skateboards were making it all the way to Egypt in the middle of the 80s skate boom. I nearly died of dysentery earlier that year so I was ready to butt-board hellride and get gnarly after terminal diarrhea almost put me in the sky
Respect
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Zorlac or Status, but the first real skateboard I ever got on my own was a HUF silhouette graphic from a warped bin at Bills Wheels. It’s also the first time I ever saw someone stoned. He was sitting on a chair made of decks.
It was an eventful day.
Santa Cruz is a hell of a drug
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I was at my local surf shop with my dad when I was like 6 years old. My dad just randomly asked if I wanted a skateboard so the girl behind the counter just picked out my stuff for me.
Zero Jamie Thomas deck
Indy’s
Spitfires and reds
I don’t know who that girl was but she hooked it up.
Shout out red dog surf shop in new Smyrna beach Florida.
Wild. That place is still there. Picked up some wax there like 3 weeks ago while me and the homies were hitting some parks out there
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Birdhouse department store complete when I first started seriously skating from my best friend, and then I bought a black ATM deck on a trip to New Brunswick. Started in '13.
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A Toys“R”Us board. I traded away my bike to the neighbor kid for it when I was 12. My mom beat my butt with the big wooden spoon for trading away my bike. It was a terrible board, the plastic trucks had cuts in the yoke so it would randomly fall apart. Ended up replacing the trucks with Royals. My dad got whipped up into a religious fervor one night and threw it away. Traded pokemon cards for skateboard parts at school and hide them in the woods out back.
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Liquid surf deck
Venture trucks
Dna wheels
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I grew up pretty poor. First actual complete I got was in high school. Plan B Sheckler lol I got so much shit for it since this was right when his show on MTV was out. Shoutout to my mom though she tried her best.
With that being said, if anyone has any leads on a black/gold Sheckler deck circa 2007-2008ish let me know. I would love to see it again I lost it years ago
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I had a shitty power rangers Walmart board a kid down the street gave me because he didn’t want it. Plastic neon green trucks and all. Skated it til it was dead. The bike shop my dad went to had a few boards on the wall and rails so I convinced him to get me a real one. It was a Jason Adams black label shaped board. No idea on the trucks or anything else but he helped me put two bright pink rails on it and I would ride on 50-50 the PVC pipe rail he helped me build for a year after that.
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My family had one of these, so that was the first board I had to mess around on. It used to splinter so bad. The first board of my own was some DBZ one with Goku on it from Toys R Us. I got that ASAP after playing the THPS demo on that disk from Pizza Hut. First legit board was an Element deck with orange and yellow spitfire wheels and tensor trucks with the orange slide plates. I think I had multi color bolts, called Fruit Loops or something?
Holy fucking shit! That was mine as well. Forgot about the 'Flyin Brian' part (memories are flooding back).
I was gonna say it was all blue with hard plasticy blue wheels and had some kind of a monster guy as a top graphic. No grip, just bumpy wood grain and trucks that didn't really turn.
I remember getting frustrated that I couldn't ollie, not realizing that it would have been nearly impossible. I also remember the moment when my brothers friend explained that you could loosen the trucks to turn with only a lean. I was beyond hyped, despite the fact that it still didn't work that well on that board. Honestly, it massively hampered my progress now that I think about it, but whatever.
Crazy.
Hahaha no way! That’s wild someone else had this piece of shit. I think ours had yellow wheels, and came with a white scooter handlebar with blue BMX grips. We took it off after taking the bar to the chest/gut too many times after hitting pebbles and going off crappy ramps.
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Maybe someone on here can help me but I've never seen image of the first board I ever skated. Had an old school fishtail shape and had a cartoony rendition of a wrestling ring and I think a guy jumping from the top rope onto a guy laying in the ring. I think it had plastic trucks. My brother got it years prior and it had been sitting in the garage for years before I decided to roll around on it.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT I FOUND A PIC OF IT
(https://d04f079dc8aedc3376d8-dbab9538b48241becab3b4fa05e9d42d.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/129244795_vintage-valterra-wrestling-rampage-skateboard-complete-.jpg)
After that one got destroyed a long while later(it was waterlogged before I even started skating), I got a toy machine board with a blue background and a devil (horned monster whatever it's called) silhouette, the only picture I ever saw of it was a Corey Duffel story of a picture of the first board he got flowed from Toy Machine. I didn't know anything about skateboards and it was a combined birthday and Christmas present. My mom was really worried about the price, so I ended up getting pretty much the cheapest of everything else. Orion trucks, Blind wheels and I think lucky bearings.
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Shortys xs, grind kings, black panthers, dooks short stack risers, spitfire big heads I copied everything my brother did at the time that’s why I never had a fake board also got some circa Jamie Thomas shoes.
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Started skating in 1990 but borrowed from a friend. Finally own 1 in early 1991, a single kick skateboard bought from Ngiu Kee Departmental Store. Black plastic trucks, fluorescent green wheels. August 1991, got a proper double kick skateboard, Tom Knox - Cop Killer with transparent griptape, Bridgebolt, Indy trucks and California Pro wheels with NMB bearings.
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was riding walmart completes or hand me downs until my mom took me to the skateshop the last day of 7th gradre and let me build a complete.
I picked out the Adrian Lopez Virgin Mary board
https://www.gfkbar.com/product-page/board-89 (https://www.gfkbar.com/product-page/board-89)
with the black and pink Bam Margera signature Destructo's
https://picclick.com/Destructo-Bam-Margera-Trucks-Purple-and-Pink-Discontinued-393373530922.html#&gid=1&pid=1 (https://picclick.com/Destructo-Bam-Margera-Trucks-Purple-and-Pink-Discontinued-393373530922.html#&gid=1&pid=1)
side note: was Mystery the first board brand to do the whole dipped board thing?
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First ever was a Variflex Ramp Rat my dad gave me
(https://images.offerup.com/fWKW5UcshGJecVBaTEnlEs6a8FY=/250x333/5148/514890bde53f4865be47ce05ee8cae6e.jpg)
Later on was a used PP Hawk deck we got at a local shop called Aggro, but I can't remember what trucks/wheels/etc was on it
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tRX3dGfeHnacYf6SyosIt0ITyGMwDZMS97M310kBNs7ycrpPLli6-4jWx2C_UivUtyykvOK1FMhaXJYIS1tNFYTVDhiIqaoqCtI3IhKA4nCtKRb6S387kh2VhmaC_gSbxRp9pvi-lhhQe68GgT6wfzCObeB6cFiqLRTQMZuxK5PmjE2n9iWjuRTjrpUlYG7EqG5kKQ)
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first board was a world flame boy and wet willy graphic ( no idea the trucks, wheels or bearings & it honestly probably had deck screws as hardware) it had been water logged and sitting in my neighbors basement for months, I had just watched jack ass 3 with all my friends and my role model was bam, I was 6, and had only ever watched mike vallely skate vids before this ( found bam through the burnside vid of him tailsliding the hip??? idk) (my mom somehow remembered vallaly from when she was dating a skater in highschool.... big ups mom) But I kept asking about the board to my neighbor if anyone was riding it or if I could borrow it and he would always say its his brothers and not to ever touch it (he was waay older than both of us and was into way too into music to skate) So, I stole it one day LOL, sprinted home as fast as a could to my dad and told him about how my nighbour said I could have the board and how I wanted to paint it black because I didnt like the bottom of it (lying through my teeth to have him help me pull this heist off) So he helps me paint it all black with a rattle can & put it back together..... well, doesnt my dumbass ride it to school the next day where my neighbour, and his older 8th grade brother (we were in 2nd grade i think??) are there waiting for me..... Got in trouble at school, beat up by them then in even more trouble for lying at home.. Parents grounded me for months after that, no skateboard ( my fresh black blank was returned to its actual owner) no morning cartoons and 7pm bedtime, a few months later though for my birthday, my parents did let me go the local shop (an hr/half to the next city) and pick a set up off the wall.... got myself a BAM creatures of the night (the purple one that is on his wall in his MTV cribs epie), rodney mullin signature tensor uber lights (with the slide plates 8) and some flip purple cored wheels... kinda worked out in the long run for myself
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golden skate wheels "GSW" Buddha Bears (no image available)
worst Abec 1 bearings ever - after 6 months i got REFLEX bearings which were fucking AMAZING
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http://youtu.be/8H2CGIetAT4
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Did you restore this?
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7.75 Element Complete, sucked balls and was tiny, but it did the job as a first board.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Vam344JQL._AC_SY355_.jpg)
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Kenny Hughes element deck. Pretty sure it was a complete from ccs
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(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/224342663815_/Deca-Skateboard-Daewon-Song-Deck-Hammerhead-Shark-Rare.jpg)
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0208/0114/products/crailstore-royal-trucks-classic-blue.jpg?v=1571264671)
(https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwioodTT4dXzAhXNn7MKHe83D8oYABAGGgJxbg&sig=AOD64_1NZP7JjpiORY5Ja9INqya2p_phcA&adurl&ctype=5&ved=2ahUKEwia7sfT4dXzAhUBT1MKHVodCMkQvhd6BAgBEE8)
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first ever was a decathlon board, after that i got a blind complete:
(https://images.the-house.com/blind-spray-paint-sktbrd-complete-eht-grn-11-zoom.jpg)
i was 11 years old, then my first real set up was a plan b p-rod deck:
(https://scene7.zumiez.com/is/image/zumiez/product_main_medium/Plan-B-P-Rod-Massive-8.0%22--Prolite-Skateboard-Deck-_184959-0007-front.jpg)
with rasta venture trucks:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51IjB5-i1DL._AC_SX425_.jpg)
and zero wheels:
(https://images.the-house.com/zero-skulls-with-blood-sktbrd-wheels-blk-14-zoom.jpg)
i got rasta bolts to match the trucks and kept the bearings from the blind board, was barely 12 when i assembled this shit, my mom cut the grip out for me, thanks mom
btw i had no idea about board sizes, so i moved from the 7.3 blind to a 8.0 plan b
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Very first proper one, '89 I think.
(https://i.imgur.com/O5uaY8X.jpg)
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I posted already but I didn't really count my very FIRST board, a piece of shit fiberglass GrenTec board my cousin gave me. I learned how to ride on that thing when I was about 7, but had to relearn to ride when I got my first modern board 7 years later.
I miraculously found a pic of the design, it was this 7.5" Black Label except with blue instead of yellow.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002J9STS/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_g_7NHXBARCGEES4JVMPC4Y
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Valterra purchased at Toys R Us (1989ish).
There is one for sale on ebay for $300 but I am not that nostalgic.
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zero skull board with the blood drip
glow in the dark bam destructo trucks
natural urethane rictas w a yellow core
reds
bam tape
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(https://i.ibb.co/NyrkTDR/7522160-E-0278-401-F-8556-6-E7-C8-DE4280-B.jpg) (https://ibb.co/sVCDWx7)
(https://i.ibb.co/kxVx6Jz/CA91-D5-EA-7-D36-4323-BFE7-4144-AC47-CC57.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nbqb8B4)
(https://i.ibb.co/ChbMx5t/3616-AD5-D-D707-4-EE7-853-B-D1110-E2-B4-EE1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/18rdHfn)
I somehow was able to get these back beginning of Covid.
This is my first wooden board. It’s a varaflex
The single truck is an Indy 4 I wish I had them both. I got these trucks passed down to me by one of the Marblehead punks. It had City Streets wheels which I think were made by the Tracker camp. Andy Roy’s first wheel too.
I had coppers and it had some crazy fast German bearings in it. Remember those? I always ride German bearings in the 80s and into the 90s I believe.
I don’t have my first pro graphic (rob roskopp purple face) anymore but I have these from around the same era (https://i.ibb.co/xSbwNnP/E579-FE0-A-AF93-4082-895-B-BA80-CBBDB4-B4.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Fb1cFQN)
(https://i.ibb.co/t3VRhgf/502-AC25-B-14-DE-42-A1-BBC7-BE29-A3-CA6-EC5.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4Jhkfzy)
(https://i.ibb.co/NmC6C9K/4969-B9-B8-FA2-F-4-AA5-AE46-C09-D0-AB5-E621.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wwgNgS4)
No one but us old folk know how hard it was to kickflip a riskopp face with Indy 4s and 60 something City Streets. Baby boards and bearing condoms wasn’t necessary at all tho. Now I have 10 pairs of old Indys old thunders old gk old ventures for 7.75 boards that are completely useless collecting dust. My nos indy 7s or 8s I guess I’m going to make a 2x4 board to cruise around on
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First board was the classic shitty $10 thing that cant roll
Eventually got a deca kids complete from a surf shop which wasnt that good either but a start
my first 'real' copmplete was a 7.75 zoo york standard logo
blind trucks hence my name haha they where red and black and around the kingpin was the grim reaper dudes head
element section 52mm wheels
reds bearings
element logo griptape
pig hardware
I also remember one christmas i got a world industries box that came with 2 decks 1 pair of trucks and wheels/bearings and a skate tool
anyone else remember that?
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Had a weird Renner complete (black and white logo at the bottom, then the middle to the top was woodstain).
It came with weird skull print trucks and their own wheels.
No pics of this setup, but I'm still surprised when I searched to see it's still a company that sells boards all these years later. Not even sure where they stock it, unless it's Sports Direct or some other sports or toy shops. Never seen any in the wild since '06 anyways.
Folks finally thought 'let's listen to 'im and get a tidy board from an actual skate shop'
So I kept the rest of the setup from the Renner complete, cause shit be expensive when you're a kid, then bought a Bootleg Mike Maldonado pro board from me local, 'cause it had dogs on it and dogs are cool.
I still have it, although scratched. If anyone has one in good nick so I can have it as a wall hanger, hit me up.
Only pic I could find of the Bootleg board online is here;
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Toy Machine bargain bin deck
A venture truck a friend gave me
A destructo truck a friend gave me
Shop wheels
Reds
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First board was the classic shitty $10 thing that cant roll
Eventually got a deca kids complete from a surf shop which wasnt that good either but a start
my first 'real' copmplete was a 7.75 zoo york standard logo
blind trucks hence my name haha they where red and black and around the kingpin was the grim reaper dudes head
element section 52mm wheels
reds bearings
element logo griptape
pig hardware
I also remember one christmas i got a world industries box that came with 2 decks 1 pair of trucks and wheels/bearings and a skate tool
anyone else remember that?
holy fuck, that's a legedary first setup. Id love to see a picture of that one new
Also. I got one of those world boxes, they were sold at walmart. They weren't good. I had already had a "real" board before then, but thought that box was a hell of deal. Little did I know that was just the first wave of brands making inferior department store products. it aslo came with 2 sets of wheels. 52s and 54s
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(https://i.ibb.co/nRbbwMH/Rare-Vintage-1980s-Ninja-Skateboard-Old-School-Retro.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nRbbwMH)
I got a piece of shit like above but it was white and had red wheels. Oddly even though it was toy store crap I was hooked so spent ages saving up for a proper set up.
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Dont have it in my possesion anymore but its this girl complete
(https://whscdn.warehouseskateboards.com/images/products/hi-res/1CGIRMALSHK7750.jpg)
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Dont have it in my possesion anymore but its this girl complete
(https://whscdn.warehouseskateboards.com/images/products/hi-res/1CGIRMALSHK7750.jpg)
huh i didn't know they did a repro of this graphic with Malto's name
more familiar with the early 2000s Mariano model
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Sorry for the quality..
(https://i.imgur.com/gT0dUvk.jpg)
I still have the Pete Eldridge counterpart to it.
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Actual 1st skateboard? Can’t remember. 1st legit skateboard? Oh yeah! I can remember it like yesterday and I’m old. Birthday complete. Tony Hawk VCJ hawk skull on the iron cross. Purple back ground graphics. Red trackers (I know, but they were a thing back then) and red Bullet wheels. Fluorescent orange and yellow two tone grip with “lightening” razored into it. Peak 80’s for sure. Damn I still wish I had that thing!
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my first real skateboard i can remember was a Chocolate, either a team graphic or for some reason i think maybe kenny anderson? I’ve been trying for so long to find it or remember more about it but it had to be in 2003 or 04.. if theres a directory for this kind of thing i’d really appreciate a look at it
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u all have to be lying, i had some shit active complete, it did have balck and gold koston trucks though and I got bones wheels for it, the deck was some zebra print grey and black though active shop deck, pretty sick
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Sorry for the quality..
(https://i.imgur.com/gT0dUvk.jpg)
I still have the Pete Eldridge counterpart to it.
Dope first board
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First board I ever had was a shitty Variflex board that I snapped the trucks on learning to ollie.
First real board was a Muska Silhouette deck, Indy trucks, Spitfire Bigheads, Black Panther Bearings, Black Magic grip and Silverados Allen hardware.
I still have the deck although I trashed it as a kid and spray painted it up.
I also somehow still have that same set of Silverados and the nylock still works, literally using em on my main setup.
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vision ripper
tracker trucks
sims wheels
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my first real skateboard i can remember was a Chocolate, either a team graphic or for some reason i think maybe kenny anderson? I’ve been trying for so long to find it or remember more about it but it had to be in 2003 or 04.. if theres a directory for this kind of thing i’d really appreciate a look at it
artofskateboarding.com
they don't have everything, but it might help
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I wish I still had it but my first skateboard was a Hosoi hammerhead with the nose cut off. It has mismatched Indy and tracker trucks and green and pink wheels with green and pink griptape that was applied in little squares all over the top. I paid $20 for it from a kid in my neighborhood who was actually a huge asshole and it took forever to save up for it. I quickly abandoned skateboarding because the kids in my neighborhood would kick my ass when I would try to learn and constantly call me a poser even though I was trying to learn. I didn’t start skating again until the early nineties when all these neighborhood kids quit. Glad I picked it back up because it’s given me a lot.
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for the old school guys, 1990 or older: What was your first "Popsicle" shape skateboard?
Did you switch to popsicle right away, or did you wait a bit?
How long did it take after that Vallely Animal Farm board before there were a lot of options for them?
I was talking to my friend and he said we didnt even get it at the shop here in Canada lol he had to wait a bit longer before he got a popsicle shape but couldnt seem to remember what his first one was.
It seems like by 91 most of the old school shapes were kinda phasing out from what i can tell. Seems like during Rubbish Heap they were still on the Old School Board but by Video Days they were bit more Popsicle shaped and at least had proper noses. maybe not until like Plan B era the shapes got more symmetrical looking and rounded
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Started skating in 1987 because my big brother skated.
First deck was a Nash that I have zero recollection of the graphic. I think it was kind of a non-graphic, just the word NASH written in some "totally radical" font.
First real deck was 1988, I was 7 years old. It was an Alva Eddie Reategui deck, my dad swapped the trucks and wheels from my Nash deck onto it.
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/ad/26/25ad261750d03cff25205df41fee07d6--skateboards.jpg)
I skated from 1987 to 1989, I learned to ollie pretty good but didn't do much else. I was pretty young and more into toys and Nintendo than skating. In retrospect I'm pretty amazed that such a tiny person could pop that monstrous fucking deck and 60mm wheels into the air.
for the old school guys, 1990 or older: What was your first "Popsicle" shape skateboard?
Did you switch to popsicle right away, or did you wait a bit?
In 1993 I started up again, and some of my friends started too. We were in our rebellious preteen phase.
I got a complete Mike Vallely Powell, popsicle reissue of the classic elephant graphic.
Looked a lot like this...(no idea what size it was but probably like 7.5 given the era)
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0612/4457/1904/products/Vallely_Complete__77770_1613001129.jpg?v=1654521013)
Skated from age 12/13 (1993) until age 21 (2001ish).
I was getting into girls and cars and partying and shit, but I think I mostly quit because all my friends had quit.
The last day I skated I went out by myself, I was trying kick flip front boards on a flat bar. I cracked my deck (a Blind James Craig pro model) and didn't buy a new one for 17 years, when I bought a complete Baker Nuge deck with Thunder trucks and Bones STF.
So in a weird way, I have three "first decks".
I don't have any of them anymore, but oddly, I still have the Blind James Craig deck that I snapped in 2001.
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(https://i.ibb.co/ZH97Syp/Valterra2019-Deck.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PTk0MBv)
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First proper board was a h-street Danny Way Blackhole, neon yellow/greenish T-bones in 67mm/95 or 92a (dunno exactly- they were pretty soft) and those gullwing trucks with the plastic baseplate. I don’t remember, which rails I had, but I also had some rip grip
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First board was a WWF Toys R Us complete with The Rock on the bottom.
First Proper complete was a Purple Fibrelight Element Bam 7.75 deck, venture trucks, orange flip sidecut wheels and I think bone reds bearings.
Bought the entire set up from a mate round the corner for £30 who would jump hobbies every week. At the time I would be looking at gear constantly in the back of Sidewalk mags so knew it was a bargain. Still remember the excitement while explaining to my mum the savings if she bought it for me haha.
Still ride ventured to this day cause of that set up. Don't know if that's a positive or negative.
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(https://i.ibb.co/F8RRng0/Sonic.jpg)
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I had the original red muska. It was the cheapest deck I could find on ebay. It was around 40 or so. Independent trucks, pleasure tool bearings and element wheels. Dookies risers.
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for the old school guys, 1990 or older: What was your first "Popsicle" shape skateboard?
Did you switch to popsicle right away, or did you wait a bit?
How long did it take after that Vallely Animal Farm board before there were a lot of options for them?
I was talking to my friend and he said we didnt even get it at the shop here in Canada lol he had to wait a bit longer before he got a popsicle shape but couldnt seem to remember what his first one was.
It seems like by 91 most of the old school shapes were kinda phasing out from what i can tell. Seems like during Rubbish Heap they were still on the Old School Board but by Video Days they were bit more Popsicle shaped and at least had proper noses. maybe not until like Plan B era the shapes got more symmetrical looking and rounded
Yeah a Plan B Henry Sanchez was the first semi popsicle but my first actual popsicle was an Andy Howell Underworld Element slick. Fuckin looooved that board. Pressure flips and nose slides all day. Pressure flip era really made for some fucked tails.
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(https://img.ricardostatic.ch/t_1800x1350/pl/1126866854/0/1/)
Not this particular complete (I think a relative used the trucks as boat trailer rollers eventually), but a Malone, must've been 1987, Police Academy IV and all that. Still on that journey, even did the ultimate check and tried to quit, no luck so it must be pretty serious.
First "real" complete, I don't remember any details. First Christmas Complete maybe 2010s or something...
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First proper board was a h-street Danny Way Blackhole, neon yellow/greenish T-bones in 67mm/95 or 92a (dunno exactly- they were pretty soft) and those gullwing trucks with the plastic baseplate. I don’t remember, which rails I had, but I also had some rip grip
Thats so sick!!! Danny Way H STreet board!
(https://www.longboarderlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Danny-Way-Black-Hole-h-street.jpg)
Did the Gullwings have Copers?
I am trying to picture what a board would look like with rip grip, I am thinking something like this
(https://www.longboarderlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ripgrip-santacruz-nose-peice-25x525-hoarder-500x500.jpg)
But then what is this?
(https://www.longboarderlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ripgrip-santacruz-3slots-16-225x425-1.jpg)
are you meant to cut that out to the shape of your board to look like the picture above? its meant to protect your fingers when doing grabs?
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But then what is this?
(https://www.longboarderlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ripgrip-santacruz-3slots-16-225x425-1.jpg)
are you meant to cut that out to the shape of your board to look like the picture above? its meant to protect your fingers when doing grabs?
You put that piece in your board bottom somewhere to make grabbing easier, typically where you reach melons and weddles.
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My first one was a variflex complete, I started at 00' so you know it was the terrible mall ones
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRzNfNJ1C2b2ixBItM86Ky0zp7arCEmhIKM2w&usqp=CAU)
Obviously trucks exploted and got some from friends, later changed the board to a skateshop one from 1000 km away, made the deal on my dads FAX and it came in mail with a bootleg vhs version of flip sorry <3
The first american board was a Element Reese Forbes (with blue plys) with a Don Pendleton drawing.
This one:
(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/332748885723_/Limited-Edition-Element-Reese-Forbes-Manimal-Skateboard-Deck.jpg)
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for the old school guys, 1990 or older: What was your first "Popsicle" shape skateboard?
Did you switch to popsicle right away, or did you wait a bit?
How long did it take after that Vallely Animal Farm board before there were a lot of options for them?
I was talking to my friend and he said we didnt even get it at the shop here in Canada lol he had to wait a bit longer before he got a popsicle shape but couldnt seem to remember what his first one was.
It seems like by 91 most of the old school shapes were kinda phasing out from what i can tell. Seems like during Rubbish Heap they were still on the Old School Board but by Video Days they were bit more Popsicle shaped and at least had proper noses. maybe not until like Plan B era the shapes got more symmetrical looking and rounded
The Barnyard is 89 and there is some version of it available until Vallely leaves World in 91. It was pretty unique (Double Vision notwithstanding) and I don't remember any direct rip offs of it (at some point there is the toe knee hawk deck but by this time I have no idea what Powell is doing) so it kinda owned it's own space for those couple years. Board shapes didn't change overnight and it was more of a glimpse of things to come than anything. 1990 - rails start to straighten out and noses get as big as tails which continues into 1991 and Video Days. 1992 is the eggy football year and by 93 pops took over. Almost none of these shape changes were available at the same time for very long because back then an innovation would completely kill off what had come before. Barnyard is the exception where it had a relatively long time in the sun, all to itself.
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Santa Cruz yellow slasher with Indies and Slimeballs. Rails and a kick plate. Clear grip on top of a bunch of T&C stickers. It's gotta still be out there somewhere, hopefully not in a landfill.
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First skateboard was a Variflex complete ordered from the Eaton's catalog (I'm old and grew up in Canada), first real board was a Tony Hawk mini (with BONEITE!), Tracker Ultralights and I'm guessing some OJ wheels, or maybe Ratbones? I don't know, unfortunately it's long gone now, my family isn't super into holding onto things and my folks got rid of a lot of my stuff when I moved out.
I've got super fond memories of skating a Jeremy Klein "Dreamgirl" deck though. Loved that thing.
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I can't find an image of my 80s board but my first popsicle was a 1994 Sonic Kit Erickson Fem Circuit board (https://i.ibb.co/mFK2D2r/sonic-Kit-Erickson-1994.jpg) (https://ibb.co/mFK2D2r)
Two years later I got my first Alien Workshop Spectrum deck. I was riding Ventures at that point with Speed Demons and Alien wheels
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My first complete was a Powell slick, graphic was a big dragon, red and orange colours I recall. Still can't find the graphic despite my best efforts. The rest of the parts were Orion trucks and World wheels. I think it was in 1996-1997. Can't remember if it was a Caballero pro model or just some team graphic. Pretty sure I left it outside (though it was undercover) and the plys started to delaminate, so my dad helped me complain to the company and they reluctantly sent me some black skull and sword graphic slick that must have been no more than 7 inches wide. They were pissed and told me not to do it again basically, but it was pretty cool they still sent me a new deck. I was just a little kid so the tiny board actually helped me progress a lot more.
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Im prettty sure it was this monstrosity
(https://i.ibb.co/MsjBXVL/New-Project.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PNbDSh8)
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I had a toy skateboard, probably from K-Mart, as a kid in the 80s with 80s style laser graphics, blue grip tape and pink plastic wheels. I just played around on it, 'bombed' drive ways, etc., but never could learn any tricks. Then I didn't skate for 30+ years until early this year when my son expressed interest, so we went to the local and started off right with proper builds. Therefore, my first real skateboard is an 8.6 Creature deck with Indy forged hollow 159s, Swiss bearings and F4 99a conical fulls that is right next to me because I'm about to go skate. Skateboarding has really sparked something in me even at 40, and I've skated just about every day this year with park sessions every weekend.
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First "skateboard" was a wooden Donald Duck scooter that I had my dad take the steering bar off of; I think I was like 10. First "official" skateboard was a used Zoo York board that I took out of the dumpster of the local shop in my town. My friends parents owned a hair saloon next door to it so we would hang out in the back alley all the time and check the dumpster for old boards, wheels, and trucks. That lasted me about a year and then I got my first brand-new board for Christmas which was a Birdhouse Hawk 3.
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poopy toy store complete with plastic trucks on it that had some blue guy with sunglasses on with "doofus" graff throw up underneath him
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first board was a target board first real board was a zero 3 skull blood deck with some thunders and spits
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I had a weird European brand board first and a few after aswell first I had a choice in was a Bam or Muska a local shop had a 2 for 3 on boards and I liked Element back then I'll post the Bam Deck and I have never found an image of the muska's
(https://i.ibb.co/rHdh2G8/images.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rHdh2G8)
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blind Rudy Johnson sparkplug slick
deadbolt trucks
blank wheels and bearings
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My first legit board was a yellow think deck with the flame writing, ventures, reds and black bones. It was stolen a week later by the local park hero ( who had a bit of a reputation at the time) while I wasn't looking. I was about 12 and this dude was 14-15. Had a friend who was in high school with him at the time manage to steal it back for me and in turn had this hero after him for a couple months.
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The double vision was peanut shaped. It's was more double tail than the Vallaileee. The V got more closer to double tail as time went on.
I'm almost 100 that the first one was the same mold as the other boards like the V elephant and the Lee Cat and the kline Candy bar.
When Rocco said he got the double mold it felt like he counted on the fact that no one wanted the Double vision.
That V was cigar shaped with a short nose/tail
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http://www.instagram.com/p/CFCWaGbqO_T/
http://www.instagram.com/p/CQZTegqFMZN/
I got a Tom Knox Santa Cruz board with Zorlac wheels that had those cool Pushead Zombu graphics and red Tracker trucks (the ones with plastic baseplates).
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First board was some plastic 70's looking thing....Wish I had kept it!
Then a Town & Country complete....no idea where that came from.
Finally first real board was a Vision Jinx. With green gullwings if I remember right! Getting nostalgic just thinking about those trucks. ;D
(https://streetskateshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/og-jinx-red.jpeg)
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for the old school guys, 1990 or older: What was your first "Popsicle" shape skateboard?
Did you switch to popsicle right away, or did you wait a bit?
How long did it take after that Vallely Animal Farm board before there were a lot of options for them?
I was talking to my friend and he said we didnt even get it at the shop here in Canada lol he had to wait a bit longer before he got a popsicle shape but couldnt seem to remember what his first one was.
It seems like by 91 most of the old school shapes were kinda phasing out from what i can tell. Seems like during Rubbish Heap they were still on the Old School Board but by Video Days they were bit more Popsicle shaped and at least had proper noses. maybe not until like Plan B era the shapes got more symmetrical looking and rounded
Things moved so quick. You didn't really have a choice. Shaped boards became footballs/ eggs and then slimmed down to popsicles. Once that happened there were no shaped boards unless they were old stock.
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for the old school guys, 1990 or older: What was your first "Popsicle" shape skateboard?
Did you switch to popsicle right away, or did you wait a bit?
How long did it take after that Vallely Animal Farm board before there were a lot of options for them?
I was talking to my friend and he said we didnt even get it at the shop here in Canada lol he had to wait a bit longer before he got a popsicle shape but couldnt seem to remember what his first one was.
It seems like by 91 most of the old school shapes were kinda phasing out from what i can tell. Seems like during Rubbish Heap they were still on the Old School Board but by Video Days they were bit more Popsicle shaped and at least had proper noses. maybe not until like Plan B era the shapes got more symmetrical looking and rounded
This was how I remember it. A friend got one but everyone thought it was kinda strange and I don’t remember anything like it for another couple years. I think there was a Powell symmetrical board but that might have been later as well. We didn’t really do nollie or switch stuff yet so a big nose seemed pointless.
I remember slick decks were a big deal for a while when we learned to skate without rails. But back then they were terrible.
I know people look back fondly on those 80s boards but last time I tried one I hated it. Totally impractical. Really short too. I wonder if that had anything to do with skateboarding still being a thing for kids.
My first board was a plastic banana. I think in 83. First real deck was a Natas, the one everyone knows.
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for the old school guys, 1990 or older: What was your first "Popsicle" shape skateboard?
Did you switch to popsicle right away, or did you wait a bit?
How long did it take after that Vallely Animal Farm board before there were a lot of options for them?
I was talking to my friend and he said we didnt even get it at the shop here in Canada lol he had to wait a bit longer before he got a popsicle shape but couldnt seem to remember what his first one was.
It seems like by 91 most of the old school shapes were kinda phasing out from what i can tell. Seems like during Rubbish Heap they were still on the Old School Board but by Video Days they were bit more Popsicle shaped and at least had proper noses. maybe not until like Plan B era the shapes got more symmetrical looking and rounded
Things moved so quick. You didn't really have a choice. Shaped boards became footballs/ eggs and then slimmed down to popsicles. Once that happened there were no shaped boards unless they were old stock.
I don’t remember popsicles necessarily being a thing until well into 92 but I could be wrong. But as far as a contemporary board for 91 I got a Jason Lee Whopper board and that thing was the best. I think it had a bit of a square nose and flared tail but it felt so light and modern compared to my previous deck which was that Santa Cruz Tom Knox.