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Your first skateboard
« on: August 12, 2007, 03:31:38 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2007, 03:36:27 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2007, 03:38:54 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2007, 03:40:13 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2007, 03:57:22 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2007, 03:59:43 PM »

I couldn't find an image for them, but the clear green 55mm wheels that corresponded with this deck




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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2007, 04:01:30 PM »
my first board was a santa cruz rob roskopp I got at a second hand sports store.


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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2007, 04:02:42 PM »
walmart, on sale for $20, starwars hollographic setup, young luke anakin solo.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2007, 04:04:54 PM »
christmas 2002 i think

darkstar kenreich deck
kreper glow in the dark trucks
pig wheels
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2007, 04:11:17 PM »
Shuvit Blank

Indys


Some shitty used wheels...








Once I started skating a lot my parents supported me more and I got a nice complete...

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Grind Kings (Hahaha)

Some Birdhouse Wheels...



I used to really dig Willy Santos.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2007, 04:16:57 PM »
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2007, 04:44:49 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2007, 04:47:26 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2007, 04:51:43 PM »
Mike Smith - Madrid.   maybe that's why i do so many smithgrinds  on tranny.   
early 80's. 

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2007, 04:55:12 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2007, 04:57:20 PM »
Bradlees "Alf" skateboard. It was rad.




Remember Alf? Cute little, cat eating, fucker.

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2007, 05:00:17 PM »
did you know cotton got Alf stoned?
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2007, 05:01:37 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2007, 05:53:48 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2007, 05:57:10 PM »
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-

I’ve been hooked ever since, for over 20 years now. I’ll roll until I die.
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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2007, 06:10:20 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2007, 06:12:48 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2007, 06:15:03 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #23 on: August 12, 2007, 06:32:14 PM »
about 2 years ago
donny barly-birdhouse (bargin bin)
some royals
shop wheels
some bones reds i think

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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #24 on: August 12, 2007, 06:42:13 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2007, 06:48:38 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #26 on: August 12, 2007, 07:02:42 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #27 on: August 12, 2007, 07:06:36 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #28 on: August 12, 2007, 07:16:19 PM »
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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Re: Your first skateboard
« Reply #29 on: August 12, 2007, 07:23:12 PM »
put a set up together out of scraps from my homies van

-dynasty 8"
-slipped indys
-like 60mm wheels
-5 pieces of hardware.