Your first skateboard

[Heather Chandler]

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. 

[cucktard]

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

[corto]

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



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



Then in 94 I got my first popsickle board

[somethingmustbreaknow]

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)

[cosmicgypsies]

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.

[Seadramon]

Equipped with:

- Fury trucks
- Flip HKD bearings
- Enjoi wheels

*sigh*

[Davie Dick]

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.

[PABLOS SWANPOWERS LOBSTER]

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.

[moneen]

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.

[Omars_Dad]

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.

[Tuff Lover]

A single kick Nash with the sawblades cut out the grip tape.

My first true board was a 60/40 Ron Chatman slick

[Riverside]

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

[MintySandwhich]

7.5 Jeremy Wray Element Board

Blue Krux Trucks

Reds Bearing

Blue Softies, I think OJ's

[Cousin Avi]

Some Bo Lang design and cheap wood. Rode that shit for 6 months.

[ChrisLambe94]

DSC Bigfoot. Dominion Skate Company.

[HisDudest]

Either a Beer City blank or DGKalis

[HyenaChaser]

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.

[roba]

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.

[SpankerChief]

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.

[HugeBodBoyle]

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.

[WordIsBondo]

Steve Saiz Dreamcatcher
Blue Gullwing Sidewinder trucks
Ratbones
German bearings

Good times

[Wallysaves]

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

[Cool Ceith]

Valterra, with like a dragon on it. 

Then I got serious and got a used rob roskopp with a crazy grip tape design and razor tail.

[nonickname]

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.

[PeggyHillsShittySpanish]

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..

[Sanka Coffie]

I had a Steve Caballero dragon board with red grip that my dad tried to grip with scissors.

[Madam, I'm Adam]

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.

[KRKD1]

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.

[AlbertoBalsalm]

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.

[Halfcab180]

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.