Your first skateboard

[amplituden]

I DSC (Dominion Skate Company) board I bought off some kid.

I spray painted it neon green and put a big Thrasher sticker on the bottom.

My first real one was a Hosoi Street Mini with Gullwing trucks and Hosoi Rockets Wheels.

Hot stuff in 1987.

[sleepypancakes]

My big brother's old 101 gino board that he never skated.
Some indy's from a guy at the shop blank blue no brand wheels

That's really all I remember I had that 2 year old deck for about another year before buying a real

[cookieboy]

My brother got me some Birdhouse board and eventually sold it/ gave it to someone else. Then around 10th grade I got myself a Girl board. Think it was a koston pro model.

[Upgrayedd]

The first board i got when i started skating was they toy machine original turtle buy that my borther had jacked from somebody. then he gave it away when my cousin broke his board,

Few months later after mom realized it was a little more than the flavor of the week, i got my first real board.
Santa Cruz "Skateboarding is not a crime" deck (cause you know, you're in 8th grade. PUNK RAWK!)
Silver Ventures
Blank white wheels
Zero Black widows bearing (i thought the coffin case was rad)
World Industries Hellraisers risers (they said "hell" I HAD to get em)
pig skewers hardware.

[ChronicBluntSlider]

Early 90s Ninja Turtles old school i got when i was a kid.

First actual shop purchased board was
101 three eyed cat deck
venture lows
tiny spitfires

Yeah! I had one too, did it have plastic yellow grind bars and tail skidder (or whatever that shit on old school boards is called)?

[c. 1995]

Fred Gall Alien Workshop
xmas 1994

[RoedGroed]

My first board was this Status mini deck, with invader trucks and blank wheels. The graphic of the board was the one matching these wheels:

[nylin]

A Foundation mini. The graphic was like a blue dog. Some grind kings of course and all over print fire Spitfire wheels.

[Strike A Pose]

My mom found an old Zorlac deck at a garage sale and hooked me up. It had an early 90s shape (I started skating in 2000).

That got stolen after a few weeks and I was given an XGAMES complete as a replacement until I eventually got an ELEMENT team deck with the four quadrants/element graphic.

[kellen]

with some shorty's silverados hardware, black panther bearings, and indy trucks.  I loved  fulfill the dream as a kid watched that shit everyday after school.

[thepman]

A Bam Element board first, I skated by back trucks the wrong way round for a period haha, then this Flip Penny board:

[GarglesCmen]

I can't find the board but it was a girl board that said Eric Koston all over it and some letter were red forming the girl logo. I was pretty stoked on it.

[Paul Cicero]

with some shorty's silverados hardware, black panther bearings, and indy trucks.  I loved  fulfill the dream as a kid watched that shit everyday after school.

I want that deck.

[poopmonkey]

DNA Jason Maxwell complete with unit trucks and accel wheels. lasted a whole year before i bought a new deck (element jake rupp)

[Ben E Hana]

This with a slick bottom and sandpaper duct taped to the top as grip tape, was rocking grind king trucks as well.

[Goblinshark]

[happenstance]

-Plastic Banana board with a cobra on it in probably 1990.
-Then a Nash board in 1991.
-Anyone remember Counterfeit skateboards? You chose a package from a magazine ad. Got one of those in 1993 maybe. That was my first quasi-real board.
-First real brand name board was an Acme in 1994. I can't find a photo but it had chains inside the logo.

[Jive Turkey]

My first board was a hand me down G&S Blender from my brother. He took it back shortly after when he broke the board he was riding.

After complaining about him taking it back to no end, they shut me up with a Variflex complete. I thought it was awesome until my brother kindly informed me Variflex sucked.

My first real board that was all my own was a Powell and Peralta team deck with Gullwing shadow IIs and toxic wheels.

My first popcicle was an Acme gunfire slick with Venture feather lights that had the og green bushings.

[velocirapedher]

ccs deck ti lite trucks idk wheels and shit and d 3s

[happenstance]

ccs deck ti lite trucks idk wheels and shit and d 3s

Holy shit! Ti Lite! Might have been the worst trucks ever. I remember when we were probably around 11 or 12 years old my friend did half a heelflip, he landed on the board upside down and the kingpin just broke (shattered, rattled?) in half and his foot didn't even touch the truck.

[the snake]

second hand, a friend gave it to me, i had a holysport batman before

[via]

I really didn't think it would be so hard to find old graphics online.

My first board was a Blind with a bumble bee doing a karate kick on it. If anyone knows how to find a picture of it, that would be really sick.

Then I had a Think, the old logo all over collage one, and it was a slick.

Then a Kris Markovich Element, the mathematics one. It was yellow and had fractions and equations all over it.

No idea about trucks and wheels at the time, but for some reason I always really believed the Black Cat ads. I was definitely riding those.

[the snake]

I really didn't think it would be so hard to find old graphics online.

My first board was a Blind with a bumble bee doing a karate kick on it. If anyone knows how to find a picture of it, that would be really sick.

Then I had a Think, the old logo all over collage one, and it was a slick.

Then a Kris Markovich Element, the mathematics one. It was yellow and had fractions and equations all over it.

No idea about trucks and wheels at the time, but for some reason I always really believed the Black Cat ads. I was definitely riding those.

that one ?

henry sanchez 1994

[myrrh]

Had a Vision old school board as a kid, but I wouldnt say I was really skating then.

Then I got a Stereo Chris Pastras (with slick!)
Thunder
And the smallest orange Spitfires i could find...

My first set up when I took it a bit more seriously was

Plan B Ronnie Bertino
Thunder
Spitfire wheels. (a bit bigger this time)

Could not find pictures of any of them...

[TonyBologna]

My very first board was a deck with only nose and tail, no concave. The graphic was a galaxy, and the trucks were plastic and the wheels and bearings allowed me to roll 10 feet with a half can of wd40 lubing the bearings. I got it for Christmas, and my parents have a picture of me doing a stationary manual in the living room, biggest grin on my face ever captured in a photo.

I had alot of random boards from kmart after that one, especially x-games brand ones. I remember I was at a friend's party and we went to the school down the road and rolled off curbs and manualed sidewalk blocks. I learned how to ollie really good that day, I still remember the feeling, exact moment and spot on the sidewalk I blasted my first knee high ollie.

After that I was hooked, and my parents ended up realizing it wasn't just a phase. I got a hook-ups deck with a nurse checking her own heart rate in red/black: blue phantoms, girl bearings and hook-ups wheels.

I have a picture up of that first set up, chilling on my shelf with all my other skateboarding paraphernalia.

Good topic, we all get pretty nostalgic and detailed. Shows how much we all really love this plank.

[via]

that one ?

henry sanchez 1994

No, I wish it was, though. That's way cooler than the deck I had. I started skating at the tail end of 1999, so its in that era. It just had a big bumblebee doing a karate kick, maybe onto a target? Its hard to remember. It wasn't anyones model, just a generic Blind board.

[Schmaltz]

i had two hand me downs both got stolen..
a jeremy klein bomberman board with b-52 trucks
and a matt rodriguez stereo, wish i still had both

[trannies and mannies]

It was a blind josh kasper "dodo skull" deck, with orion trucks and some soft ass mini logo wheels. I remember that day in the skateshop like it was yesterday.

[Schismatic]

Shuvit Blank

Shuvit blanks were some of the best decks I ever skated, always had trouble finding them outside of Ocean Beach SD though.

First board was an Alva, Fred Smith punk size with Indys and Rat Bones. Also had a Cab dragon board circa 1980 with 85a Powell Peralta wheels, rad old cruiser..

[poowizard]

Still have mine. 1988.