When did skateboarding peak?

[Ex Lion Tamer]

this is the thread where we finally figure out the answer to this question



I like 2000/2001. photosynthesis era. good videos, good styles, normal clothes.

[HousePlant]

Flip Sorry (03) - Baker 3 (05) - Mindfield (09)
For me that feels like peak era skating, fashion, music influence but probably more me just showing my age.
Shows how forgettable 'Fully Flared' influence is now too.

[Troubadour26]

[dunc]

95 for me . Style was more important than tricks. The clothes were on point. People skated fast and the conest scene was amazing. Footage was staggered so it was exciting when it came out. We had grown out of the small wheel phase and companies were making money again.
Another crucial year was 1989. That's when skateboarding just blew up. Everyone skated!

[dapurge]

whenever girl had the p rod and jereme rogers vitamin boards and their boards didn't exceed 7.8"

[Mean salto]

2012 wasn't when the world was going to actually end just when it peaked.

[Sedition]

Define “peak.”

[Drain Bamage]

87’-88’ was a definite peak in sense that  took another 30  godamn years for skaters in general to be as well rounded as they were in that era (granted things weren’t as advanced). Skating went specialized around 90’-91’ and other than a handful of ATV’s (Wade, Cardiel) etc. there were only a handful of dudes that could do a 10 stair handrail and skate a pool and vert. Them early H-Street and Santa Cruz videos are super well rounded and dudes are just skating everything still. By the Blind  video in 91’ Gonz was the only dude in there that was legit good on street and vert. By the Plan video  B Danny and Colin could skate anything but that was kind of the end of that type of skater for a long time. Specialized video part skating  probably peaked around 2001 or so, but that doesn’t really mean skateboarding peaked then. There are more parks and all around ATV rippers today than there have ever been.  Now is awesome. The newness of it all is gone but in every other way now rips.

[Drain Bamage]

There are different type of peaks. Here is the peak of the skatepark era (before it was only Del Mar and Upland).  Pre Mctwisr but the skating is fucking incredible for 1982. I don’t think people realize how much good skateboarding just didn’t get recorded in this era. This shit is mind blowing for the time and holds up now so I’m gonna say this is a bowl skating peak.

[back smith]

1989

[Gab]

Hasn’t yet.

[roba]

skateboarding looked the best in 1996 - welcome to hell, mouse, ee3, trilogy, penal code...

as for the difficulty level idk, probably like 2012 or something

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

[moonordie]

I would say 26th November of 1999

[Mount St. Hermdog]

Reynolds, Davis Gap

[big_kev_215]

I think the peak of that fabled golden era of skateboarding was definitely Mindfield.  A year later P-Rod was releasing iTunes parts of him doing nollie frontfoot flip nosegrinds to Kanye West and the magic was kind of gone… 

[RoughStylin]

What ever year you were 15

[Suangi]

2003 and Yeah Right were the peak for me. They built on the good stuff in the late 90s and it seemed to mostly plateau from there

[Goggzy60]

Tail end 2005 early 2006 for me the early 2000’s for sure ending not long after Baker 3

[Sick_McCrank_]

We Haven’t seen skateboarding on the moon so I would say not yet.

[The real veganshawn]

Never

[Cesar Vialpando]

MFWTCB is where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

[Sleazy]

early nineties was pretty impactful era... matt Hensley had everyone wearing chain wallets and docs and the kids change the landscape not long after.

[Cuban_Lynx]

2002 was heavy with Sorry, Dying to Live, and PJWHL, but then 2003 hit us with Yeah Right! This is Skateboarding and the DC Video. Shit leveled out after Baker 3 in 2005. Berries opened in 2007 and everything has been downhill since then.

[GardenSkater77]

1989

A number

Another summer

[123]

The most recent peak was Tyshawn second SOTY.  SLAP was in a fever pitch.  Supreme just dropped the follow up to Blessed.  T Funk jammed onto bench at China Banks (people were calling it and had $100 on it).  GH made TJ switch ollie the picnic table again.

Since then, we've had slumping sales, team cuts, and the loss of numerous brands.  Too many boardless kings and yet still seeing King boards less and less.  Whats really happened since the tracks were kick flipped?  a fakie Jaeb flip down Wallenberg and thats about it.

[JamesFardy]

What year did Birdhouse “the beginning” come out ?

[mdspb]

What ever year you were 15

I was going to say 17, but yeah.
Coincidentally when music peaked as well.
Funny how that works.

[hotservicedeli]

In 2000 when the jackasses performed stunts on mtv. It went from fresh to hesh.. basically all the wwe wrestling dorks came aboard that year.

[doomstation55]

I did a few really sick tricks in like 2009 so I would say that year, but my answer is Fred Gall