what was your first real set up, how old were you, and what was the year?..

[zaked]

alien workshop 7.75, red and black thunder trucks, spitfire wheels, shortys bearings

the year was 1997, i was 12.

[Firebert]

Birdhouse Andrew Reynolds Reaper 3, 13, 2000.

[rgrg215]

[Back to 0]

alva jeff hartsel, slammers and gulwing pro3's 1989.
cellblock rails and risers and some other plastic shit
12years old

[Lumpy Oatmeal]

this is gonna make me sound like such an idiot

darkstar ryan kenreich
kreper glow in the dark
pig where the wild things are wheels  <-----these were actually cool
etnies mc rap

it was 2001 and i was 11

[Jura]

G & S - Gary Smith
Ventures
bridge bolts
wheels of some sort

1988-89 and I was 8-9 years old

[GIRL Workshop B]

flip rowley, 10, 2004

[kevbo999]

2001, I was 14, and super into blink182 and the shit they wore (Hurley & Adio).

The set-up was a 7.75 Element Fire team deck with Tensor mids (silver hanger, red base, black slider) and blank white 54mm's.  I skated some shitty sport skate shoes then got some Navy/White Mojo's.

[bothersome]

powell peralta steve cabalarro 2 baby blue with independents and pink rat bones
it was 1987 and i was 13

[jersey by nature]

it was a firm lance mountain gangster deck, orion trucks, ghetto child wheels, and speed demon bearings

summer 00' when i was visiting florida i got it at a swap meet for $15

[j....soy.....]

vision psycho stick, green bullets, indys, 1986....

I had a nash before that...

[Prison Wallet]

vision psycho stick, green bullets, indys, 1986....

I had a nash before that...

'86, got a Santa Cruz Hosoi for Christmas but had to set it up with my old Action Sports trucks and wheels. A few months later I got a pair of Indys and then some OJ IIs for my birthday. I was 11.

[Lance]

Jamie Thomas Invisible, Venture Featherlite II's, and some bearing Huggers.  I think it was 94ish.

[fuckingvegan]

Suregrip Eric Grisham with Suregrip wheels and trucks, full kit including rails, tail guard, lapper, nose guard and copers. It was October 1985 and I had just turned 14.

[dudebro]

damn, some of you guys are youngsters. spring of 1995, i was 14, a used t&c surf shop deck and i don't remember the trucks and wheels. i think my next board was a used birdhouse ocean howell. i honestly don't remember the first legit brand new deck i got. before that i hung out with these kids (still some of my best friends to this day) that skated and we'd go to this empty lot where a bunch of other kids skated and i'd borrow boards from dudes who were afraid to skate in front of other people. that was funny. my mom bought me a board out of the JC Penny catalog in 1987 and i lost it a few days later. then i got a random hand me down Vision Shredder with Indys and some big blue wheels when I lived in Alaska for a minute and then didn't really touch a board until 1994ish.

[gravel pitch]

Must have been 2000, and I would have been 11. Mini-logo deck with ventures, reds bearings, and I have no idea what wheels. I remember skating around the mall sidewalks and being stoked on dropping off the curb.

[sergioflorez]

my first board was a cheapo board with plastic wheels and a batman logo that my dad got me from a tag sale. then came countless caldors/woolworth/exito/el cafetero plastic wheels/chinese birchwood setups.

i dont like to count this one as my first "real" setup but it was. a tailess/bullet nose scott conklin aws board in '95 or '96 given to me by a cousin. waterlogged. barely rolled. my cousin would put leftover cooking oil in the wheels just so they could move  . we were young and dumb.

the real setup came when i moved to connecticut. beer city blank. venture tallboys. beer city wheels. 4 days later, my dad backed his car up into it, and i upgraded to a 23 ronnie bertino. the one with twinkie the kid getting chased.

[Randozzi]

92, i think. Schmidt Sticks Chris Miller, Indys and Bullet wheels(i think). dad friend gave me the trucks and wheels, went to Skate on Haight for the deck.

[dtrigiani]

7.5" P-Rod Girl deck
Destructo trucks
blank wheels
bones reds

I was 12 or 13 and it was in 2003.


I normally hang on to things that bear the slightest hint of sentimental value, but I just sold that board a year ago, and for some reason have very little attachment to it.

[Star Whores Episode I: The Fellatio Menace]

Shortys Chadillac Muskalade
Krux lows
Black Panther Bearings
Spitfires

I was about 12 or 13

and it was about 2001

[ParaVida]

99-00
I was in the 5th grade so I was probably like 10ish 11
got a Birdhouse from my mom and was psyched to start skating with kids around the area.....fun times

[Wizard Fuck]

A Zero Jamie Thomas board, I think it was the American Flag one. I had some venture trucks that were red and white and some blue wheels to match the American flag. I seriously thought it was the best thing in the world. That was around 5 years ago.

[mikefork]

around 2000 i found a mike mcgill board in an alleyway


it had oj wheels, wide indys, and red colored grip on it. i was psyched. shortly after i bought a bucky lasek birdhouse board, indys, andrew reynolds 51mm spitfire wheels, and quickies. i had that setup forever

[Sleazy]

Suregrip Eric Grisham with Suregrip wheels and trucks, full kit including rails, tail guard, lapper, nose guard and copers. It was October 1985 and I had just turned 14.

i had no idea what i was buying and ended up with a piece of shit action sports reaper with the full kit. it was 1985 and i was 13. my first pro board was a kevin staab with gull wings probably a year later.

[carbonite]

Sims Pharoah (which I want to shoot myself for not holding onto), Trackers, OJ II's, tailguard, clear noseguard, rails
10
1987

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

I had a nash before it that I skated the shit out of like it  was a real board, but my first legit set up was in 92 or 93. I was 10 at the time. Powell skull and sword slick, thunder t-4 trucks, ccs blank 42.5 mm wheels, and gmn bearings.

[Edward Sebastian]

i had a bonza deck (any aussies here remember back that far?) and i don't remember what else was on it. that was about 20 years ago so i was around 9 or 10

/yes fat
/yes old

[I Joey I]

Acme Devil Made me Do It Deck

Like 34mm wheels lol

summer 1993 I was 13

[Tuna]

shop deck.
random wheels
indy's?

i think it was about 98 or 99 and i was 7 or 8

[picklesickshuv-it]

i had an early flip board and a blind board but i dont think i had either for very long (lost them or traded for surfboards), i remember my re-introduction to skating in 1999, i was 13, when i started skating again but i already could do the basics (grind, boardslide, kickflip, heelflip etc)... i had a jeron wilson girl board, i had mercury or ventures, dont remember, and it had some black label 53s..that shit lasted forever, when girl boards were nice and flat

edit,
i can vaguely remember aquiring an acme board too somehow when i was probably 9. it was a slick bottom and it sucked