Your first pro deck

[moonordie]

Not my actual board but it was this very same one. It was my third board. I learned nollies on that puppy.

[Fernandito]

It might’ve been this one actually. It’s either a McCrank or Howard board as far as I can tell. I thought it looked cool at the time

[Filip]

Hey guys, I ressurected this old thread. Im trying to find a picture of my first board that I bought in a skateshop. It was either in 2002, or 03, I cant remember.

Board was an ATM click, and the graphic was the one  attached, but the black part was red. Logo, if I remember correctly, was black. This is the only picture I could find, and I tried for weeks now.

Does anybody has old ATM catalogs from around 02/03, where I can find this? This is very nostalgic for me, so if anyone can help, I would gnar that person to oblivion.

[Jim and Dan]

I'm not sure why the AOS pictures aren't showing up, but my first real deck was an Acme Astro deck and then a Bam Margera Element Instinct deck, ca. 2000 - 2001...

Edit: Fixed

[rikki]

The image is of a reissue as my deck has entered interstellar space decades ago, but the year was 1989 and I'm pretty sure this was the graphic. We were heavily into the beginnings of street skating with my homies at the time and I got a bit of crap from them for riding this deck as it was considered a vert deck. The first "double kick" shapes etc. were appearing during that time and decks aimed for street skating were starting to dominate the scene. I was a late bloomer and slower at learning. The Lucero deck probably didn't help.

Anyway, halcyon days, man, among the best times of my life. Wake up, go to school, get the fuck out of school, go skate for hours and hours surviving on cold pizza and OJ (not the wheels), get home, eat, sleep, repeat.

[rawbertson.]

orange muska silhouette for me

[joudanIV]

60/40 Joey Suriel, the UCLA Bruin graphic.  A month after I got it, Gonz was on the cover of 411 using the same board.  For once, I felt cool. 

[GnarAlarm]

Learned how to ollie on one of these when I was like 7 years old.

[Boog]

My first "pro" quality deck was a blue stained mini logo back when they had bottom stained veneers in like 01? But my first pro model deck that wasn't a hand me down was an Adrian Lopez virgin Mary zero. I loved that thing.

[Easy Slider]

As many above, I also started with a "Walmart" complete (although there are no Walmarts in Switzerland) at a very young age when skateboards first were a thing in the eighties. The trend kind of faded until the early 90s, when skateboarding made a comeback and I got my mum to offer me and my brother a Maui complete, which we had to share. However, as we got kooked by the local skaters because the Maui had too much plastic on it, we saved all our money and copped our first real board in 1991. Me and my brother got the same, you know how brothers are. Anyway, this was it (but with a green bottom ply).



G&S Mike Taylor
32" x 9.5"
Nose 6" or 6.75"
Tail 6.5"
Wheel base 14.25" or 15.0"

We also got those round G&S trucks. I don't remember the wheels. We rode this for a few months, until football shapes appeared, along with small wheels and big pants. Good times.

[artosousa]

My first deck was an a-team Chet Thomas. Traded my walmart BMX for a complete with some Titan Tilites, spitfires, lucky bearings

[Wallysaves]

[TwisT]

Not sure if I posted in this thread yet. My first pro deck was a lib tech buster halterman board. It was green with a tank on it. I bought it cause the shop told my dad it was indestructible.

The first one I purposefully picked out (and was my second pro deck) was an AWS Danny way deck. I was such a DC/AWS fan boy

[thecomfortsofmadness]

Frederick Gallswoth Alien Workshop, so I nailed it right off the bat with zero skate knowledge. Then all Chocolate/Girl in the 90’s, and all Workshop right up until Quasi…now only Quasi.

Must make comment about Pass-Portal, incredible brand that does absolutely everything perfect.

[miff]

Penny mushroom.

[camel filters]

Only got it because the reynolds elephant decks were all sold out. I loved The End. I did not have access to Baker2g at the time or else this deck would have meant a lot more to me at the time.

[Carrolls Chesthairs]

Koston OG 2001
Couldn’t find a photo of it but it’s in one of the THPS games

[fur lined sea]

Enjoi Mullen




My friend at the time had a very dope Enjoi MJ, was probably his first board, too. I ended up with Puleo Enjoi a bit later on. Didn’t realise it was a Bobby board until years later.

[pointandclick]

not my photo but this reese forbes deck, with orions and ghetto child wheels.

[CHONGO]

Some bam margera board from  Rainer Board Co

[biggums mcgee]

AWS AVE deck. Wanted the thinnest board possible to learn kickflps on, thought Pendleton's art was cool, DC video had just come out & AVE ripped.

Plus there was Workshop merch (stickers?) in the movie Dude, Where's My Car? - the brand was locally popular probably because of that.

[Silky Johnson]

Girl Mccrank. had this rad postcard/stamp graphic bought at the Skate Works location in Milpitas. They threw in some of those strange notes DVDs. Still love that shop to this day for that.

[Theme For A Jackal]

Not my actual board but it was this very same one. It was my third board. I learned nollies on that puppy.

This was my first too

[kookdusoleil]

not my photo but this reese forbes deck, with orions and ghetto child wheels.

Loved that series of decks. That era of element was really good.

[MonsPubis]

Mine was Pappalardo's pro debut turtle deck (still have it). Got it for Easter 2001, and I was 9 years old at the time.

[Control]

Vision Joe Johnson.
Had no idea who he was.

Still kind of don't.

[gaunting]

a girl jeron wilson OG 2000 deck in march of 2000

[SquintinTarantino]

Birdhouse - Willy Santos Weasel - 7.88 (1996)

Thought the graphic was cool when I was 13...still love it today. 

Wish I still had it and have been trying to find it for years

[spooky electric]

this was definitely my first pro model that wasn't a hand me down. i loved it so much, but then it delaminated kind of long ways and it was devastating. like the top ply was splitting nose to tail. i've never had another board do anything like it.

[doctorspazz]

The original board of this graphic was my first. It definitely doesn’t feel like it was over 20 years ago though I always thought skateboarding was interesting, but seeing Tom Penny skate in a vhs tape over at my friends house one day made me want to actually go out and do it. The rest is history