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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: juras on May 10, 2020, 02:07:09 PM
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What about your favourite decks brands? Defunct too.
My random:
Alis skateboards
Flip
Nomad
Antiz
Charge skateboards
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polar or sour
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Only Euro stuff I like is isle. But I REALLY like isle .
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Cliche
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It's down under but Passport
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Not Palace.
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polar
magenta
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Death Box.
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I love isle, wish they made a little bit bigger boards but overall they are the shit
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Polar, Isle, magenta
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Only Euro stuff I like is isle. But I REALLY like isle .
So this guy doesn't like Sour... "Okay".
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What about your favourite decks brands? Defunct too.
My random:
Alis skateboards
Flip
Nomad
Antiz
Charge skateboards
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The only brand that matters JART!!!!!!!]
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What about your favourite decks brands? Defunct too.
My random:
Alis skateboards
Flip
Nomad
Antiz
Charge skateboards
I wake up everyday wondering when is the next JART PART!!!!!
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It's down under but Passport
I would back them if they stole JART’s art director. No one touches JART’s art
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Not Palace.
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Polar , Magenta, Sour, Isle, Killing:Time
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Blueprint
Minutia
Cliché
Death box (just for that Bruno Rouland asterix board)
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The only european board brand I would skate frequently was cliche, haven't tried anything else recently but I've been meaning to branch out
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The only european board brand I would skate frequently was cliche, haven't tried anything else recently but I've been meaning to branch out
One word, JART
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkR2gCnZYR4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkR2gCnZYR4)
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Happy Hour has some sick graphics, Sour of course is amazing. Don't even need to talk about Polar. Magenta, Rave, Isle and Frank!
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Cliché (og not the bull shit reboot)
Eat Shit Club (rip?)
Rave
Boarderco
Antiz ...
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Are Euro brands (besides polar) a thing in us skateshops?
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Blueprint
Heroin
Death
Carpet
Science
Paccbet
Landscape
A Third Foot
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit. I also want to like Trap and emillion, but it is the same shitty wood.
Out of European companies I skate “Salut“ The most, which is a German company oddly enough. I like the shapes and their wood is excellent.
Jart is not skater owned and therefore I do not support these Spanish furniture manufacturers. Is Isle wood any good?
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Haven’t gotten a polar deck, but I want one. We blew it is a fukn good video
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Sour
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Sour
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit. I also want to like Trap and emillion, but it is the same shitty wood.
Out of European companies I skate “Salut“ The most, which is a German company oddly enough. I like the shapes and their wood is excellent.
Jart is not skater owned and therefore I do not support these Spanish furniture manufacturers. Is Isle wood any good?
All jokes aside, I’m really into Spanish furniture manufacturers. JART LIFE
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Polar
Magenta
And ISLE obviously.
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National
Isle
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit.
Quite ironically, I'm pretty sure Antiz is Jart wood, or at least was for a period of time.
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Death Box
Wind Service, Geneva, Switzerland shop decks
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blueprint was dopeski also popwar, i ended up selling a popwar to a fella in spain hee hee
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Polar is what I skate and Sour is best team out anywhere
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skate café is pretty dope.
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Sour
Magenta
Isle
Polar
Café
The National
...
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LOVER
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BLAST
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ive ridden one isle tom knox board and it was presumably china wood. skateshop bargain bin.
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit.
Quite ironically, I'm pretty sure Antiz is Jart wood, or at least was for a period of time.
Not since at least 4 or 5 years. Now it's china wood (not dwindle).
Fun fact, I heard that Isle wanted to be manufactured by HLC at first, but it seems that HLC owners weren't interested because Isle was too small or something...
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Jart is wack, and it has been for a long time.
I'm surprised that they got the distribution right for EU of a lot of legit brands, including Habitat and SkateMafia.
I personally like:
Blast, DUMB, Magenta, Antiz and I've always been a great fan of Panic/Blueprint back then.
There are a lot more worth mentioning.
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit.
Quite ironically, I'm pretty sure Antiz is Jart wood, or at least was for a period of time.
No man, Antiz was from China and now last series is probably from Mexico. Jart is Spain brand. Check this site - https://hlcdist.com/hlc-company
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
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Deathbox
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
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Frank and Cliche.
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Isle and polar all day. Love the Sour videos and team but I still can't get my head around how weak and unfitting the name and logo is. If I'm honest it sounds like something I'd call my skate crew in 5th grade and I don't think I could wear tees/caps that say sour. And they should 100% drop those cheap looking square logo decks, they're better than that.. Sorry not sorry
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Are Euro brands (besides polar) a thing in us skateshops?
I’m in the US. My shop carries Magenta, Isle, and Palace and they sell well. Polar is the most popular of course.
My fav current Euro brands are Polar, Isle, Magenta, and Sour. Don’t care much for Palace as a brand but the team and their videos are undeniably good.
Blueprint was awesome.
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Are Euro brands (besides polar) a thing in us skateshops?
It's a thing pretty much anywhere except for a bunch of US shops. I've seen Euro stuff all over from parts of Asia, all the way to Australia and NZ
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Jart is wack, and it has been for a long time.
I'm surprised that they got the distribution right for EU of a lot of legit brands, including Habitat and SkateMafia.
I personally like:
Blast, DUMB, Magenta, Antiz and I've always been a great fan of Panic/Blueprint back then.
There are a lot more worth mentioning.
Their woodshop is great though. Habitiat euro boards are pressed there. HLC wood. I rode two National Board Co. decks last year and would love to get a few more. I mostly skate BBS. HLC is slightly heavier but also tougher but i'd have no problem completely switching if their boards were stocked here more often.
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit.
Quite ironically, I'm pretty sure Antiz is Jart wood, or at least was for a period of time.
Fun fact, I heard that Isle wanted to be manufactured by HLC at first, but it seems that HLC owners weren't interested because Isle was too small or something...
I stand corrected, my 'guess' was from chatting with the owner and when it came to talking production, suddenly he tried to change subjects and all he could muster to say was 'well there are only so many production places for decks in Europe...' with quite the unsatisfied look on his face. Not surprised they switched eventually, even to Dwindle. That was many years ago, so the dates would match.
Then later that night some local kid approached the owner to compliment his part in 'Diagonal', especially praising 'that one kickflip back tail kickflip out, by far the best trick of the entire section' which is in fact Vivien Feil's guest trick.
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No man, Antiz was from China and now last series is probably from Mexico. Jart is Spain brand. Check this site - https://hlcdist.com/hlc-company
Yeah I know Jart is Spanish but they've printed boards for other European companies since their inception, even in their first year of existence they were already making decks for Hessenmob (which was German) and then quickly picked up some others. Although to be honest, I don't really keep up with all the factory moves as I'm strictly into Generator wood and don't care much for the rest.
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
i had some jart boards and they were always shitty, but weirdly whenever i got a local polish deck manufactured at hlc they’ve been much much better, i wouldn’t say the wood is that bad
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
i had some jart boards and they were always shitty, but weirdly whenever i got a local polish deck manufactured at hlc they’ve been much much better, i wouldn’t say the wood is that bad
I have ridden tons of HLC boards for free or really cheap, and my opinion is that they used to lack consistency between boards. Recent ones are better, but in the past I had really great ones and really shitty ones. I'd rather have a Watson board or BBS, but I've had really shitty BBS and PS Stix too. The value for money is still high on HLC.
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I also want to like Trap and emillion, but it is the same shitty wood.
why?
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
i had some jart boards and they were always shitty, but weirdly whenever i got a local polish deck manufactured at hlc they’ve been much much better, i wouldn’t say the wood is that bad
I forgot to mention in the recent years. In the past they were pretty average but I had one for free last year and it was good considering that I mainly skate BBS decks.
Another interesting thread will be the decks price rises in Europe, i'm starting to see a lot of popsicle decks from 70 to 85 euros
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Alai (rip)
Eina
Sour Solution
Magenta
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
i had some jart boards and they were always shitty, but weirdly whenever i got a local polish deck manufactured at hlc they’ve been much much better, i wouldn’t say the wood is that bad
I forgot to mention in the recent years. In the past they were pretty average but I had one for free last year and it was good considering that I mainly skate BBS decks.
Another interesting thread will be the decks price rises in Europe, i'm starting to see a lot of popsicle decks from 70 to 85 euros
Really? €85 for a popsicle? Where are you? I'm in France and the most I've ever seen is €70 (and that's for US brands).
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Active:
Polar
Sour
Palace (I like them, don't care)
Isle
Rassvet
Yardsale
Magenta
Antiz
Rave
Cafe
Poetic
...
Dead:
Blueprint
Cliche
Witchcraft
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My last deck was Polar and the quality of the wood was TOP. It's a good brand.
I also like:
Yama
Antiz
Death
but I think the most iconical europen based brand was Cliche.
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Jart as a brand is terrible, but their wood is very nice.
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Of the current brands, I can only think of Isle.
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top 5
running rn:
polar
isle
rave
antiz(wood sucks tho, not sure if rave and frank isn't the same wood, that would suck) will forever be one of my favorite companies
of course frank
defunct or basically dead:
cliche
blueprint
ayume
witchcraft(think it's basically done? the koloss dudes from germany wanted to keep it running but i think they just kept some decks around...)
minus
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Jart as a brand is terrible, but their wood is very nice.
man, i hear that a lot lately, all my jart/hlc decks i had were hot garbage though. have they changed things up?
i never rode a hcl deck past 2 weeks, and didn't really enjoy my time. i had an antiz one that was okay, but again, snapped after 2 weeks out of the blue. i have severe trust issues with these decks.
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Are Euro brands (besides polar) a thing in us skateshops?
Most US shops in my experience carry tons of international brands. I feel like every shop I've been in since 2016 has magenta, isle, palace, polar and probably a ton more I can't think of.
I live in NJ and my local shop has Isle, Palace, Polar, Magenta, Cafe, Yardsale, and a ton of other euro brands.
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Death
Detested
Shithouse
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Witchcraft Hardware used to be very cool in their early years.
Blast Skates are awesome.
Is Heroin still considered a European brand?
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Lordz wheels
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Witchcraft Hardware used to be very cool in their early years.
word!
I had the privilege to ride around with them and get flown boards and it was very good indeed. Metalest company out there.
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Witchcraft Hardware used to be very cool in their early years.
word!
I had the privilege to ride around with them and get flown boards and it was very good indeed. Metalest company out there.
I have a bunch of signed French stuff (artworks, decks, patches etc) he did a collab with 2052 (local skate shop) cane out to Australia and was a generally well good dude.
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Witchcraft Hardware used to be very cool in their early years.
word!
I had the privilege to ride around with them and get flown boards and it was very good indeed. Metalest company out there.
I have a bunch of signed French stuff (artworks, decks, patches etc) he did a collab with 2052 (local skate shop) cane out to Australia and was a generally well good dude.
French is a great dude!
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ayume
Amen. They were so ahead of their time that it hurts. Fantastic team too.
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Cliche
and at a time, sexpak stix, landscape, hessenmob
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Yardsale is pretty sick. Idk if u can consider it a deck brand cus they don’t have any pro model decks but they have some team decks. And I admit I rly like palace. Palasonic was a rly sick video and I like their team a lot. Had a Lucas Puig board and it was pretty good I liked how flat the concave was
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Just bought an Isle made by generator in mexico, as there were no Real or AH in my size
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Jart as a brand is terrible, but their wood is very nice.
man, i hear that a lot lately, all my jart/hlc decks i had were hot garbage though. have they changed things up?
i never rode a hcl deck past 2 weeks, and didn't really enjoy my time. i had an antiz one that was okay, but again, snapped after 2 weeks out of the blue. i have severe trust issues with these decks.
HLC is making our local brand's decks.
There is no minimum order, and the wood is top notch, we got the most expensive resin though.
There are also plenty of available shapes, which is nice.
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Just bought an Isle made by generator in mexico, as there were no Real or AH in my size
same shit, different graphic.
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Fifty Fifty (always OG for me, bought my first setup from their Park Row shop 20 years ago)
Skateboard Cafe (Bristol representing, again)
Magenta
Heroin
Death
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit. I also want to like Trap and emillion, but it is the same shitty wood.
Out of European companies I skate “Salut“ The most, which is a German company oddly enough. I like the shapes and their wood is excellent.
Jart is not skater owned and therefore I do not support these Spanish furniture manufacturers. Is Isle wood any good?
HLC / JART is skater owned
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
giza you have no idea what you're talking about
they had quality issues in the past
But current wood is great
We made hundreds of decks there (for 2 or 3 years) and they are top notch
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Jart is wack, and it has been for a long time.
I'm surprised that they got the distribution right for EU of a lot of legit brands, including Habitat and SkateMafia.
I personally like:
Blast, DUMB, Magenta, Antiz and I've always been a great fan of Panic/Blueprint back then.
There are a lot more worth mentioning.
Their woodshop is great though. Habitiat euro boards are pressed there. HLC wood. I rode two National Board Co. decks last year and would love to get a few more. I mostly skate BBS. HLC is slightly heavier but also tougher but i'd have no problem completely switching if their boards were stocked here more often.
habitat is not pressed there anymore.
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
i had some jart boards and they were always shitty, but weirdly whenever i got a local polish deck manufactured at hlc they’ve been much much better, i wouldn’t say the wood is that bad
I forgot to mention in the recent years. In the past they were pretty average but I had one for free last year and it was good considering that I mainly skate BBS decks.
Another interesting thread will be the decks price rises in Europe, i'm starting to see a lot of popsicle decks from 70 to 85 euros
Really? €85 for a popsicle? Where are you? I'm in France and the most I've ever seen is €70 (and that's for US brands).
All us brands preorders for next year show it's gonna be 80-85€
BAKER is already at 85-90 RSP
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit. I also want to like Trap and emillion, but it is the same shitty wood.
Out of European companies I skate “Salut“ The most, which is a German company oddly enough. I like the shapes and their wood is excellent.
Jart is not skater owned and therefore I do not support these Spanish furniture manufacturers. Is Isle wood any good?
HLC / JART is skater owned
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
giza you have no idea what you're talking about
Wood is great
We made hundreds of decks there (for 2 or 3 years) and they are top notch
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Jart is wack, and it has been for a long time.
I'm surprised that they got the distribution right for EU of a lot of legit brands, including Habitat and SkateMafia.
I personally like:
Blast, DUMB, Magenta, Antiz and I've always been a great fan of Panic/Blueprint back then.
There are a lot more worth mentioning.
Their woodshop is great though. Habitiat euro boards are pressed there. HLC wood. I rode two National Board Co. decks last year and would love to get a few more. I mostly skate BBS. HLC is slightly heavier but also tougher but i'd have no problem completely switching if their boards were stocked here more often.
habitat is not pressed there anymore.
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
i had some jart boards and they were always shitty, but weirdly whenever i got a local polish deck manufactured at hlc they’ve been much much better, i wouldn’t say the wood is that bad
I forgot to mention in the recent years. In the past they were pretty average but I had one for free last year and it was good considering that I mainly skate BBS decks.
Another interesting thread will be the decks price rises in Europe, i'm starting to see a lot of popsicle decks from 70 to 85 euros
Really? €85 for a popsicle? Where are you? I'm in France and the most I've ever seen is €70 (and that's for US brands).
All us brands preorders for next year show it's gonna be 80-85€
BAKER is already at 85-90 RSP
I bet UK decks/goods will go up also. Reading about Brexit in the Irish news, VAT (value added tax) is gonna be 21% for anything over €22, and 12% customs duty on goods over €65. I'm sure it will be the same here in France.
Edit source: https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2020/1209/1183380-brexit-charge/
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I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit. I also want to like Trap and emillion, but it is the same shitty wood.
Out of European companies I skate “Salut“ The most, which is a German company oddly enough. I like the shapes and their wood is excellent.
Jart is not skater owned and therefore I do not support these Spanish furniture manufacturers. Is Isle wood any good?
HLC / JART is skater owned
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
giza you have no idea what you're talking about
they had quality issues in the past
But current wood is great
We made hundreds of decks there (for 2 or 3 years) and they are top notch
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Jart is wack, and it has been for a long time.
I'm surprised that they got the distribution right for EU of a lot of legit brands, including Habitat and SkateMafia.
I personally like:
Blast, DUMB, Magenta, Antiz and I've always been a great fan of Panic/Blueprint back then.
There are a lot more worth mentioning.
Their woodshop is great though. Habitiat euro boards are pressed there. HLC wood. I rode two National Board Co. decks last year and would love to get a few more. I mostly skate BBS. HLC is slightly heavier but also tougher but i'd have no problem completely switching if their boards were stocked here more often.
habitat is not pressed there anymore.
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
i had some jart boards and they were always shitty, but weirdly whenever i got a local polish deck manufactured at hlc they’ve been much much better, i wouldn’t say the wood is that bad
I forgot to mention in the recent years. In the past they were pretty average but I had one for free last year and it was good considering that I mainly skate BBS decks.
Another interesting thread will be the decks price rises in Europe, i'm starting to see a lot of popsicle decks from 70 to 85 euros
Really? €85 for a popsicle? Where are you? I'm in France and the most I've ever seen is €70 (and that's for US brands).
All us brands preorders for next year show it's gonna be 80-85€
BAKER is already at 85-90 RSP
Speaking from personal experience, all jart/hlc decks I've ridden have snapped before a whole month of skating. I know I'm a big lanky and fat goofy dude but as personal experience I found their wood not to par with BBS or PS Stix, I guess it's ok for Europe. I'd still rather ride MDCN than HLC.
I'm glad that you could find them suitable enough for your brand, to each one it's own.
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KOLOSS. Beer drinking metalheads from Munster/Germany.
https://blackheavenshop.com/KOLOSS_1
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Cliche
You realize this is 2020, right?
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SCIENCE
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Antiz
Polar
Magenta
in that order.
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Palace
Isle
Magenta
In that order.
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Wait are Antiz and Jart like real brands? I always thought they were some sort of fake shit that got by through selling cheap decks.
Sometimes their decks are cool and sometimes they’re corny as fuck so I don’t know what to make of them.
Also, should Jart be pronounced like “hart?” Or are they leaning more Germanic and it’s like “yart?”
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cliche
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Cliche was so sick in the early-mid 2000s. Bon Appetite and Freedom Fries (even Hello Jojo was good too) are two of my favourite videos of all time.
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What about your favourite decks brands? Defunct too.
My random:
Alis skateboards
Flip
Nomad
Antiz
Charge skateboards
Can Flip still be considered a Euro brand?
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It's down under but Passport
It's American but Krooked
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It's down under but Passport
It's American but Krooked
It's wheels but spitfire
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It's down under but Passport
It's American but Krooked
It's wheels but spitfire
It's not delivery, it's DiGiorno .
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The fact that so few mention Sour is really weird to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvdFN-3vkTg&t=606s
You're welcome.
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What about your favourite decks brands? Defunct too.
My random:
Alis skateboards
Flip
Nomad
Antiz
Charge skateboards
Can Flip still be considered a Euro brand?
Why wouldn't it be?
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What about your favourite decks brands? Defunct too.
My random:
Alis skateboards
Flip
Nomad
Antiz
Charge skateboards
Can Flip still be considered a Euro brand?
Why wouldn't it be?
Haven't they been based in Cali for over 20 years?
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A young parisian brand called LOCO SKATEBOARDS check their IG @loco.skateboards
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top 5
running rn:
polar
isle
rave
antiz(wood sucks tho, not sure if rave and frank isn't the same wood, that would suck) will forever be one of my favorite companies
of course frank
defunct or basically dead:
cliche
blueprint
ayume
witchcraft(think it's basically done? the koloss dudes from germany wanted to keep it running but i think they just kept some decks around...)
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Witchcraft Hardware used to be very cool in their early years.
word!
I had the privilege to ride around with them and get flown boards and it was very good indeed. Metalest company out there.
could be wrong but im sure Witchcraft relaunched/continued under the name Dungeon?
https://www.instagram.com/dungeongateway/
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Wait are Antiz and Jart like real brands? I always thought they were some sort of fake shit that got by through selling cheap decks.
Sometimes their decks are cool and sometimes they’re corny as fuck so I don’t know what to make of them.
Also, should Jart be pronounced like “hart?” Or are they leaning more Germanic and it’s like “yart?”
Just to clarify, Antiz is a real company, run and created by long time european rippers, hobo travelling and pushing good vibes.
Jart is a Basque factory, run by a family who also does furniture, which had the first legit woodshop in Europe. Hence they have been really trying to figure out how to press as many boards as possible. The quality has sucked for a long time, apparently nowadays it's slightly better.
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could be wrong but im sure Witchcraft relaunched/continued under the name Dungeon?
https://www.instagram.com/dungeongateway/
i think dungeon is frenchs new own thing on top but as i understood he was cool with witchcraft being done by the koloss/black heaven dudes or allowed them to handle it from here on, but they didn't do much i guess.
looking on their site now, they have dungeon, but only some witchcraft softgoods, and these are from the last collection, where they were already doing pastel colors and white shirts. it seems frenchs new style doesn't fit the old purist occult metal aesthetic anymore. the last witchcraft drop already looked a bit like what he does now with dungeon. no witchcraft decks, but i expected that tbh.
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Antiz is pressed in China, as with a bunch of other less popular brands like Nomad, BDskateco and Droshky. Really average wood, good for about a week before it starts to sog out.
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Antiz is pressed in China, as with a bunch of other less popular brands like Nomad, BDskateco and Droshky. Really average wood, good for about a week before it starts to sog out.
Antiz wood and shapes are really bad. It's become really difficult for european brands to get decks from North American woodshops at a price cheap enough to make any profit at all at current deck prices. A friend of mine just recently started a small brand and he showed me the numbers. He tried very hard to make it work using PS Stix wood, but he would have had to sell them at a higher price than known American brands, which would not work at all. People expect local brands to be at least a little cheaper than American ones.
Check out his little brand here: https://www.instagram.com/kaffeeskateboards/
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Wait are Antiz and Jart like real brands? I always thought they were some sort of fake shit that got by through selling cheap decks.
Sometimes their decks are cool and sometimes they’re corny as fuck so I don’t know what to make of them.
Also, should Jart be pronounced like “hart?” Or are they leaning more Germanic and it’s like “yart?”
Just to clarify, Antiz is a real company, run and created by long time european rippers, hobo travelling and pushing good vibes.
Jart is a Basque factory, run by a family who also does furniture, which had the first legit woodshop in Europe. Hence they have been really trying to figure out how to press as many boards as possible. The quality has sucked for a long time, apparently nowadays it's slightly better.
i rode propably over 20 Jart boards in my life and so did my peers and basically everyone else in Europe. and there was never a reason to complain about quality. they held up perfectly well always and stood every comparison to any American brand.
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Anyone remember those STM decks back in the mid 90's.
Quite a few of my mates starting out had the white Shaft deck.
I remember I begged my mum to order me an STM hooded fleece from one of their Sidewalk ads and some cunt stole it a week later while I was working at maccas.
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Wait are Antiz and Jart like real brands? I always thought they were some sort of fake shit that got by through selling cheap decks.
Sometimes their decks are cool and sometimes they’re corny as fuck so I don’t know what to make of them.
Also, should Jart be pronounced like “hart?” Or are they leaning more Germanic and it’s like “yart?”
Just to clarify, Antiz is a real company, run and created by long time european rippers, hobo travelling and pushing good vibes.
Jart is a Basque factory, run by a family who also does furniture, which had the first legit woodshop in Europe. Hence they have been really trying to figure out how to press as many boards as possible. The quality has sucked for a long time, apparently nowadays it's slightly better.
i rode propably over 20 Jart boards in my life and so did my peers and basically everyone else in Europe. and there was never a reason to complain about quality. they held up perfectly well always and stood every comparison to any American brand.
i haven't ridden as much, and it's been more than 10 years. but they were all crap when i had them. i'll take your word for it and check them out again, i know they changed stuff up. i never had a problem with how the boards skated(decent actually) but they would always break after one or two weeks and i would usually retire boards after a month or two even back then than straight up break the tail off. i would compare them to crailwood back then. feels fine when new but gets soggy and dull fast and then breaks without warning on flat tricks.
if anyone know about rave, i was thinking they might be jart wood but i'm not sure, but i'd try a sour or rave deck.
i don't know about antiz actually, they might be xcel/mdcn or something, or hlc. either way love antiz, but wasn't a fan of the boards i had except one. i don't know what was up with that, the thing wouldn't die.
i'd like to see european pressed boards succeed but have to admit i didn't care to buy any board made by jart in over a decade as far as i know.
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ANTIZ is not pressed by HLC
HLC wood is great
RAVE is pressed by CONTROL (Canada)
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polar
isle
yama
sour
witchcraft
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkR2gCnZYR4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkR2gCnZYR4)
Respect.
And The National Skateboard Co. from Leeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPIjQTLZB1w
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ANTIZ is not pressed by HLC
HLC wood is great
RAVE is pressed by CONTROL (Canada)
thx
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any love for cafe?
kohran is unreal
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It's down under but Passport
It's American but Krooked
It's wheels but spitfire
It's guitars but Fender
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NOT JART FOR THE LOVE OF GOD (unless you are under 12)
(not owned and operated by skater at all, they use to make furniture in the 00)
ISLE IS THE SHIIIIT
genrator made ,graphics by Nick fucking Jensen
RAVE SKATEBOARD
POLAR
POETIC COLLECTIVE
Antiz
FRANK
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Lordz wheels
amen to that
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amen to that
Fuck yeah
https://youtu.be/9B5r33PDE_Y
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I used to be the first to shit on Jart during the 2010's but lately they have upped their game and their boards do not for pressure cracks during the first day of skating one. Lots of EU brands use Jart wood and a friend who bought from them for his company said they offer like 10 different grades of quality. The Sour boards that I have been religiously skating the last 3 years have all been top notch (lasting me 2 months at least before I dispose because of razor tail). During this time I skated a couple Jart branded boards because i couldn't find Sour and they seemed to not last longer than 3-4 sessions.
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that's sick, i'll add sour boards to my list to try out.
does anyone know where antiz boards are made atm?
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that's sick, i'll add sour boards to my list to try out.
does anyone know where antiz boards are made atm?
China for sure, not sure if it's Dwindle or another factory though.
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Polar and sour, does heroin still count? If so then heroin too.
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that's sick, i'll add sour boards to my list to try out.
does anyone know where antiz boards are made atm?
China for sure, not sure if it's Dwindle or another factory though.
thanks, so it's probably dwindle, xcel or ps china or wherever craig does boards i guess. ps china was always trash, so i hope it's one of the three other at least. i could deal with those i guess.
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It's down under but Passport
I would back them if they stole JART’s art director. No one touches JART’s art
the guy who did this?
(https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.970965030.8916/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg)
untouchable!
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sour
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i really fuck with sour and am riding one of their boards right now. has anyone else heard of this new company called eva? it was started by some swedish guys that i think are friends with vincent huhta and david jakinda. they seem pretty cool but are only shipping stuff to europe right now.
this their promo vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH7McgDuspM