HOW YOUR FIRST SKATEBOARD CHANGED YOUR LIFE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2023
- That first skateboard started your life as a skater. Your timeline of skateboards throughout your life parallels your own history. Think about those skateboards you rode, many represent pivotal chapters in your life. What was your first setup? Which skateboards make you feel emotional looking back? These are the times of out lives and nothing better than climbing to that part of your mind and enjoying a trip to the best times!!
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First board in 83. Proper pro board in 88. Lived it for a long time until 04. While getting a second wind and skating best I had for a while, I broke my back while skating. That a whole story in itself but it was bad. When it's your life, it defined u, having it taken away was the worst. I went into a downward spiral, as skating was everything. My psychological crutch, my anger tension release, my social life. Everyone knows what I mean, and losing that was bad. I still appreciate the years I had, that was obviously the best days of my life.
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It's in your blood 🙏
First time Punk Rock was a local N Texas band called The Holy.Hard Gore. After that it was all Punk and hardcore and select Thrash Metal! Now I'm into Doom,Stoner,Desert Music. Slow and Heavy!!! 🤘🤠🤘
About 1974, begged my mom to bye me a GT knock off from Pic n Save, ha ha. First real board was a Sims with Trackers, Sims wheels. Still remember the excitement walking into Sandy's Ski shop to get it. Then I got a 10" wide from a shop on Venice blvd, they had their own "Venice" boards. Bought some Independents and a friend's older brother sold me some conned Sims wheels. Took it to MDR skate park pro shop and had them do a custom pizza gip tape job. Man, loved that board!
The pizza grip!! Man that stuff was deadly. Forgot about the GT! They were even knocking those off 😂
First board was a flexy deck in '82. But i wasn't yet IN to skateboarding. I was 8. Only in '88 did i get my first deck, a worn down, beated up Steve Caballero deck. The first music which came from the skateboard community that i really loved was that of the H Street movie, Hocus Pocus. I still love it. Don't skate anymore, just took on surfing as i missed skateboarding but didn't want to risk the injuries anymore.
1st Black Knight with clay wheels
2nd G&S Bowlrider with Road Rider 4s
3rd Sims Lonnie Toft with Sims Snakes
4th Powell/Peralta Beamer with Bones
5th Schmitt Stix Tarampula with Bones
NO SKATING FOR A WHILE
6th Z-Flex Jay Adams (late 90s) with old Hosoi Skyrockets (Ojs ?)
7th Red Kross Duane Peters with Spitfires
8th KROOKED Evil Beamer (34") with Spitfires (TODAY)
all great
I started in 87. First started riding around on a fiberglass board my uncle made out of plaster. Chicago wheels and some sort of trucks. Then he let me skate his pink steadham with bones wheels and gullwings. The first board that was actually mine was a vision with blue venture trucks and green vision shredder wheels. The store called the deck a “punk skull” but I’ve never seen one again. The board was about the same size as me. I skated that for a couple years then got a blind gonz with some boobs on it and I learned how to flip my board on that one. Finally got some lighter trucks too. Right when the small wheels thing started my parents couldn’t get me wheels so me and my friend sanded our wheels down to basically bearing covers but they had hella flat spots. Got some blown out wheels kicked to me and skated those til Xmas when my mom got me a 6 pack of real smalls and that’s when my trick bag started really growing. 41 now and never been off the board even a whole year since I was 5 in 87. Skate almost every day with my 7 yr old now. We have our own probate ditch here in TX that we shred anytime it’s dry and we have our own basketball court none of the neighbors use that we set up the manny pad and skate flat when the ditch is wet.
First setup=Banzai aluminum deck (black) Excalibur trucks, Gen1 OJ's. Many followed of course, including Santa Cruz, Haut, J. Gordon and G&S Fibreflex. Thanks for the memories!
I was raised on Punk music, my 1st board was a Walmart complete back in '04. But my 1st real setup was an Anti-Hero deck with Venture trucks..the other parts I just found from the shop or other homies. I'm almost 30 now and I've been skating for about 17 years.
Yeah Perry! The 30's is a great chapter of skating, it's on!
got it used, but a black dogtown bornagain. bought it off my friend who took it off his older brother who moved onto other things. indys, and powell ratbones 85a's. such a smooth ride. razor tailed but did not care. had those wheels thru many boards.
remeber agent orange album "when you least expect it", blaring it till i had to fix the tape with a scotch tape fix.
those were magical, transformitive days.
i'm fifty now, with a natas strangelove, never stop rollin. love this video, good job buddy.
1989 or so my mother took me to Pat’s skate shop in my hometown of St. Paul, Mn. Got a Vision Ken Park deck with slime balls and tracker trucks. Pink grip tape too. One of the greatest days of my life.
That's epic J. These are the memories that define us as skaters.
@@RealSkateStories you know it! Keep up the great content, your channel rules ❤️
Started skating in 72 grandpa bought me a board from Kmart! It was over, I was completely obsessed!! My first experience with a skate park was Indy skatepark in Indpls. This place was all fiberglass modular. With this weird thing call skate ball. And it would seem no one is left out there that knows about it! Put 0.50 cents in this half pipe a horn would go off on a score board you had 90 seconds to skate and run over as many lit bumpers as possible for the high score. The bumpers were 8" round disks that depressed when you ran over them! Scoring you points!😂 we had a 7' wide 3/4 pipe that had one bumper 4" from the top. And we all killed ourselves trying to score on it.
Sents then I've skated all over the country Roseta Delmar Oasis Cherry hill Turf Apple Kona Highroler and many others.
If you find a skateball ramp. I would love to restor it. Now 53 years later I am the pioneer of GatorSkin skat surface have been a builder for 30 years and a veteran skater of 60. Skating was is the best thing that ever happend to me except for my relationship with Christ!! Thank you for the trip down memory lane . I hope to hear more from you!!
Ps I'd love to swop stories with you!.
First real board was in 1975 , i was turning 9.... Logan Earth Ski- Brad Logan , ACS Trucks.... And the newest thing on the market ... OJ wheels had just come out....Fafnir bearings..... Didn't last long the Logan earth ski was unfunctional and was replaced with a Jimmy Plummer Z-Flex a few months later....😮 Cool video...
Those first OJ's!! Richard Metiver made those, he went on to do Speed Wheels! Cant remember what they called those first ones, OJ Super Juice?
Real OG stories.So good to hear.Props!
I started in Normandy, France in 1988, second wave.First deck was a Psycho Stix like millions of dudes who fell for that graphics...Deck wasn't that good though and I quickly switched to a SC Jeff Kendall (atomic man).I had 159 indys with a cell block at the back(jocks put it also on the front...), green Shredder Vision wheels and pink Schmitt Stix rails.I never quit since.I am now 51 years old.
Punkwise, my real firts encounter with punk was some tape a friend gave me.Side A was Jealous again from Black Flag and side B was DRI.I was hooked for good.
Jealous Again was a game changer.
Definitely a great seed for a conversation. My first board was an Executioner that I sold my BB gun to buy. But my first "real" board was a pink Tony Hawk pig in 1985. Our skate shop in WI had a ton of product and they were cool enough to let us build boards literally piece by piece... so I got Gullwing trucks and got to pick 4 different colored baseplates and hangers. then OJii wheels in 4 colors too. White rails and of course a tail skid. Pretty sure it had blue grip. I was da-glow af! Hahaha. I have been skating continuosly ever since and feel very fortunate to still be able to get out there and do it at 53. I never imagined it would be possible.
First board 85 first proper board second hand H-street Art Godoy already knackered enough to have had the back holes re-drilled. First brand new deck was a Deathbox Pete Dossett which was almost as tall as me and still had a half inch nose. Favourite boards were my New Deal Siamese and SMA Julien Stranger. Nice to see people remembering the things I’d forgotten. Channel sick as always man.
I had a small plastic board in the mid 80's...then a Canadian Tire board with graphics at like 14 then a Mini G and S Neil Blender/coffee break (loved the graphic, still do) with G and S trucks and Rat bones 85A. Skated a Mark Gonzale, a Salba in the late eighties to the 90's., I'm 51 and bought a Lance Mountain last summer, stoked.
Love all those shapes. 51 and still rolling hard yeah man!!
@@RealSkateStories I don't know about rolling hard but I do try to enjoy and challenge myself. Love the channel brother, the tribute to Yearsley is awesome and all the other material your putting out. Thank you!
EXCELENTE footage Amigo❤
First board was a yellow Sizzler. Was like a penny board with plastic trucks. QS actually pretty dope considering. First real board P&P Tommy Guerrero, dagger n flames . Blue stain.
This is Fabulous! As a 50 year old I still remember buying a Santa Cruz Claus Grabke deck aged around 16 in Glasgow Scotland 😂 Great video bro. ❤❤❤
Thank you. That Claus deck was money. Got a Claus '89 video coming up soon 🙌
I love this! Great document! First board in ‘78, a “Sizzler” by Mattel, plastic deck, plastic trucks, loose ball bearings and a tuning fork shaped wrench screwed to the bottom to remove the wheel hubs. Learned to ride that piece of garbage pretty well! First “pro” board was a Town & Country Burst with red Gullwing Pro trucks, Madrid Street Fly 90a wheels, GMN bearings, copers that fell off all the time (to protect those sweet red trucks!), a Variflex wrap around tail guard, Ugly Stix and (drumroll…) a Bird lapper. Must’ve weighed as much as me and it wasn’t until I ditched all of the plastic besides the rails that I learned to Ollie. I probably rode it for a year till it had no tail left, then a Phillips (RIP) Breakout, then a Blender Coffebreak and on and on and on… Thanks for all of your videos! Fantastic stuff!
Oh and first punk was the Stooges, Funhouse if you want to call it punk. Found in neighbors dads record collection.
1st Proper "pro" deck same as your (sort of , not a bowl rider) , 28 inch fiberflex , Acs 651 , Tunnel rocks.. punk rock , I believe it was Don Hillsman car suicidal tendencies, ask who else was good- bad brains , black Flag, 1st 4 years.. Next deck was fall 85 , Schmitt Stix Monty Nolder , green stripes , natural.. Variflex trucks(off my mall Hi- Top) and got some two tone Kryptonites wheels (looked like g&s yo yo of the late 70s)
Great video , keep it up!!
So rad Rob!! Hillsman blew your mind that day!!
I grew up early 80s in San Diego. My uncle gave me his old G&S Warptail. Then moved on to more 80s powell and G&S boards. I stopped skating in 89.
Dec 2017, as i turned 41, i picked up a board and have not put it down as i come up on 47.
I am restoring a 77 G&S Fibreflex with a HPG Gull Wing Split axle, and first gen Kryptonic wheels right now, it will be skated. I juat have to wait for the local Machinist to finish fabrication of the Kingpin. I couldn't find one anywhere.
Today i am putting together a new reissue G&S Fibreflex Team Rider with some new Bennet Vectors and YOYO wheels.
It is going go be a fun board. Even found some old Rad Pad wedge risers for it.
Love this stuff Sir. Thanks for sharing your stories.
That warptail was the dream board. SO stoked you got back on board for this chapter, its going to be the best one! man I have wondered how a fiberglass board would feel all these decades later. The rad pads!!! let me know how that thing turns!!
Great energy ✌🏻💨peace
@@RealSkateStories 💯 Sir. If it doesn't turn the way I want it to I will pick up some 109 Indys.
I skate all the modern boards but the quiver is full of boards from all generations. We aren't just collecting them we are riding them all Sir. I can't let a skateboard not be ridden. 🙏
@@veggieSxDBD My work life is a bit serious and Skating saved me from it and myself. I can't thank skating and the skate community enough for the last 6 years and the next 50 years.
Bobby Valdez is one cool cat! Easily the friendliest guy at the El Gato Classic Legends Weekend! Meekster! Blackhart! DK's!! Kryptos! Bahne! I had a hand-me-down Foam Slasher! wood one too that was so bashed up and still a blast! First I rollerskated in rinks, had a bike or four, one of my biggest derp, shoulda's ..was not buyin a good skateboard but throwing 100$ into my Mongoose. But I had that 77 FreeFormer in 79, cost me 2 bucks. Kneeboarded it and got the plastic grip dents in it.. fast-forward to 86, Bought the first SS Lucero with Indy 5's and stupid slow ass Shredders, another derp, shudda gotten Nitros or Blurs or oj's or somethin! Could go on & on... but, I won't. Coolest videos on TH-cam! keep it up!
Thank you! Those chrome Mongoose of the late 70's were the dream! Bobby Valdez is the man no doubt!!
Roskopp III mini in sky blue, picked it up June 27, 1986 (yes! I remember the exact date + it was also around the time of the 2nd Mt. Trashmore NSA contest in VB). This was after nagging my mom for a skateboard for about 6 months ("it's a fad like breakdancing."). Components: Gullwing trucks weighing about 5 pounds each (heard Indies break -- pretty much my only deviation from Indy) and OJIIs -- full plastics except the lapper. I can't really say whether the Gullwing radius led to poor turning as I ran 'em fully tight initially although that certainly wasn't the case later on...
I actually remember the exact deck progression of skating journey I from 1986 - 1991. I decided to quit skating due to a serious injury and didn't pick it up again until the mid-2000s. As a local 80s pro once told me, I can remember this sh*t because I wasn't smoking weed BITD.
Classic! Plastic skid plate! I remember those. We would turn them around when one side wore out!
Shorter Comment 😂. Absolutely love this video. I am absolutely hyped to skate today after watching this with my morning coffee.
That's what's UP!! 🆙🆙🆙
jeff grosso schmitt stix and natas panther are the ones that i remember the most. Some time in the mid 80's.
Those decks were so good. Iconic.
Sick video i came to the us from costa rica when i was 2 with mom and dad i found punk and skateboarding and then old school skateboarding in the states
Saw a Dave Hackett Thrasher cover in 1985 around Christmas time and was blown away. Knew I wanted to skate. First board was Nash Nuke Baby for Christmas that year. First real set up was 87 with Skull Skates Godoy Bros., Trackers, OJ II’s and Gorilla Ribs rails bought at Sunshine Surf in Monterey, CA
My 1st was a 2nd hand well used 1985 Nash "Heat Zone" in late summer 1987 age 12, I bought it for 20 quid off the kid that showed me my 1st look at a Thrasher Mag a week or two before.
The Nash got a lot of people going! Once you saw that mag it was ON!!
My brother had a G&S fiberflex a lot like that. I had a Santa Cruz wooden board with ACS250 trucks and Road Rider wheels. Good times. 1976 or so.
My first skateboard was a Black Flag Loose Nut with Tracker Ultra lights and Sims street wheels that were purple. That was from a Surf shop that had some boards. That was summer of 1985. We had moved to Cali from Austin, Texas. I had raced BMX and saw some guys. skateboarding in between race motos. It was inspiring at 10 years old to see this, I turned 11 that summer and got the board and a used surfboard at Wahl Boards in Pismo where I went to 6th grade, and in 7th grade I heard Black Flag, The Misfits, Minor Threat, DK, and Doggy Style from my friend Danny Esparza. At 12 I started learning to play guitar and learned about Heavy Metal. I played in Punk Rock bands in the mid 90's Terminal Digust "The Price of War" was the first full length release in 1996, i then went on to play in Death Metal, Black Metal, and Grind Core bands the last 30 years. I still play in a Death Metal band called Goretorium in Austin with the same drummer since 2006, who I met in 2003 skating on North Loop here in ATX. I stopped skating in 2004 after hurting myself on my buddy's 8ft backyard halfpipe. In 2020 I started skating again at age 46. I got some rad Roskopp reissues, Neil Blender reissues, some Hosoi Hammerheads. I have 18 decks of which 6 complete setups I ride on my backyard mini half that 4ftx16ft on one side, 4ftx8f and 5ftx8ft on the other side. It has 3ftx8ft on one side and 3ftx4ft on the other side. 4 sided with 6ft transitions. I started watching all of your old videos in the spring of 2021. Thank you for all the years of documentation of skate and surf videos for the last 4 decades! You rule Mang!!!- Caleb Pruitt 49 years old and still grinding!!!😎🤙
Yeah Caleb!! Love the history. Austin rules, then moving to Cali at that age? So rad. Man to hear those bands in Jr. High then become a guitarist yourself is just pure expression. That mini sounds so fun! Send me some of your new and old tunes for some future skate edits on here!! tonyrobertsphoto@gmail.com
Fuck yeah Dude! 😃
1986 black and green Vision Gator, Indys, black Powell cross bones, GMN bearings and white rib bone rails!
Slide and Rolls for days! 🙌
Nothing but massive love and thanks TR!!!
There’s no way we would have made it without you!! And you’re still keeping us going!!! 🔥👊🏼🔥
let's DO this!!
Fascinating video. I started skating around the summer of 1987, in Aberdeenshire Scotland. My first deck was a Pacer 'Mad Dog' bought from a sports shop in Aberdeen. My first proper deck was a Powell 'Ripper' deck, with Rat Bones and Venture trucks. After that I had a G&S Danny Webster 'Phone Bill' deck, with trackers and Cross-Bones. Other memorable decks I skated between 1989 and 1992 were the H-Street Godoy 'Fish' deck, a Schmitt-Stix Andy Howell 'Pyramid Eye', the Liberty Mike Smith 'Hippo' deck, and the Tom Knox Everslick from circa 1990...that I still have. Good times.
I can't really put into words what just standing on a Roskopp 'face' in '87 felt like. It felt right. Like a gravity machine from Mars...
Another killer video TR, so stoked! I'm 48 and feel the same way I love skating now more than ever!! My first board was some $30 ninja power board, but I mowed enough lawns to buy the Schmitt Stix Lucero jester pulling thru the bars deck! After that I saved up to get the SC Grosso toy box w white Thunder trucks & Slimeballs!! Such a magic innocent time! Thanks for all you do my man!❤
My older brothers were a year apart so I got handed down two of everything. I had two Nash Hot Foot loose bearing boards. I think the wheels were urethane. We would bomb hills & belly board on em. First proper set up was Vision Agent Orange. 70mm Kryptos. Fast as shit. Had it set up as a cruiser yrs later & left it at a keg party running from the cops. Cops took it. Still bummed to this day. 2nd Gonz. 3rd Aggresor. 4th Cab Dragon. Gets fuzzy after that. 5th Roskopp? Def had a slick bottom in there somewhere. Several more for sure. Better job. More money to blow on shit. Lots of reissued wall hangers.
My first board? The black Knight, complete with clay wheels and loose ball bearings. The board that I saved my paper route money for was a Gordon Smith fiber flex slalom board with full tracker trucks and road rider sixes. There was the short-lived, Concord skate park and the skate park and Milpitas, but they might’ve will have been on Mars. Luckily, one of my friends, dad was cool and took us to Milpitas where I got to meet Tim Marting who was super cool and almost got in a fight with black heart. He cut into my line and then jumped on me about it. He tried shoving me thinking I wasn’t looking, but I was watching his shadow and totally. Blocked his shove, and came back with a punch, that scared the shit out of him😂. I still have my GS bowl rider with Gull wings and Powell-Peralta bones
Radness !000%
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1st board was a cheap Variflex in the early 80's then quickly bought a used Caballero deck from my neighbor and threw those trucks and wheels on it.
Boom, that day was like a graduation!
First board 1992ish New Deal I think Andy Howell pro model. Castle graphic. Venture trucks. Don't remember the wheels. Super small wheels. Rode it for over a year in wet Portland, OR. Bought it at a bike shop in the local mall. I was 16.
A day you will never forget!! Epic!!
My first board was a blind , i had trackers, pig wheels. I was 9 and just going into 4th grade . Just before 2000
WAY stoked!
This is fantastic, it has got me reminiscing about my early days, the boards I rode, the places we skated and all of the amazing people I skated with throughout the years.
Thanks for sharing such a great video and your memories.
Peace and good energy Brother , such a dope video man..
1987 vision old ghost , gullwing trucks and bones....shut street posse venture and mini rats , h street ventures toxic wheels h street etc.....heroin etc .....now 47 amd got a NEW set up primitive deck Venture trucks and bones wheels lets go ✌🏻💚nj732
87 what a rad time to get into it!! And still ripping? I salute you @veggies
@RealSkateStories peace and respect, 100% . At 16 I started iv heroin use and that fxcked everything up etc etc I'm 47 (7 yrs off dope and 5 off paper) I haven't skated in so long man but always been etc so yah man im 47 and I'm like a kid again it's living life . Kids fxck dope str8 up just smoke the earth 420 . Stay Free nj732 peace n good energy
Hell Yeah. 47 next month. Stay Rad Sir
@@veggieSxDBD Wise words and great advice! Chasing those not natural highs always have too heavy a downside. Fresh air and being able to breathe it gotta be the best high available, let's LIVE IT!!
My first pro board was a Vision Mark Gonzalez, the first one, Thunder trucks and Vision Blurs. The gonz was used , first new set up was a Powell Peralta Caballero dragon and bats ,Venture trucks and Powell Crossbones wheels!
Rad setup!
Great stories!
My first decent deck came from Sears or JC Penny. It may have had a name, can't remember. It was actually 7 plys, came wirh the full complement of plastic. Lappers,copers,nose & tailgaurd.
First name brand deck was a Jeff Phillips devil graphic Alva.
Gullwing trucks and OJ Teamriders.
Each board with it's own memories and emotions. Epic.
I was never into punk.
Played a shit-ton of East Coast hard-core shows in the 90's.
I'm a filthy death metaller.
Cool thanks, my fist board was a fiberflex with Road Riders too. It was exciting but felt a little small even for a kid like me. My next board the Z-woody with Sims Snakes a huge upgrade performance wise, cheers!
Gracias Tony, amazing footage as always!
Action Sport Kamakazi 🎉
When you started talking about Meek I began to think is that where the Slasher came from.... somehow I had no idea of that story until right now...thanks for this and all your videos 💪🙏💀
Yeah man that's Meekster's model! Loved that board!!
I ordered a Mike McGill boneite w black trackers n 90a black powell crossbones with German bearings from ccs via thrasher magazine...
You got that thing and were the fastest man on the block!! So sick.
Thank you so much Tony!!!
My pleasure Bryce
@@RealSkateStories blessings
86 Valterra Gargoyle. Then got a SC Jeff Kendall in 87. I love this shit.
Then Shackle Me Not and Matt Hensley hit. 😢
Pig deck style Flag Ship Model E, Tracker Trucks, Sims Wheels, all 1983!
My dad bought me my first skateboard from Westminister swap meet. It had like a coyote on it I think. I never had any money so we would dumpster dive Gremic or buy old boards from guys working there with laundry quarters.
Great stories mine was round '86' surfboard shape fiberglass yellow with black cat paw prints on it not sure what trucks got me hooked, then 1st pro board Lee Ralph Vision contorted man blue n red and green Gullwings Super Pro 3's can't remember the wheels.47 now still loving skating just had a sesh with the lads and I have the Lee Ralph reissue on me wall.. Punk oh yeah drummer here to got a jam sesh tomorrow and Exploited got me hooked to this day also great Aussie punk BodyJar if haven't herd av a listen you may like......🤘❤🔥🤘
Love how many 47 year olds are in here and still skating and stoked on skating. Stay Rad Sir.
@@AdventuresInSkateboarding you to legend....
Love Body Jar!! So Good. Stoked you are still jamming and shredding Scottie!! Thanks for checkin' in
@@RealSkateStories and a thank you for the rad memory starters love your work....
1st punk rock: Circle Jerks Group Sex. Being 11 years old, I didn't really know what the title was about -- but I remember it being loud with short songs and kind of catchy even back then. My dad, who I was visiting, threw away the tape after discovering and listening to it. Being kind of liberal, he wasn't opposed to it but did not think it was age-appropriate..
Classic. My Mom asked me the same thing. I didn't know what the name of the group meant. She explained it. Very uncomfortable moment 😂
First board in 97 it was a cheap fish tail set up first popsicle was in 2002 I was 11 at the time and the rest of the story is a future video
1st punk band I ever heard was Australian group (the living end)
I think that was Shredy Repas !!
In here? Shreddy was so ahead of his time! Lapped over smith grinds and 5-0's in the 70's!!
Not into punk to tuff but that cumbia is nice.
Yeah, the local Cumbia band in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste CR where I used to live "Pekin Y La Nueva Septima", love those guys.
Garbage pail kids custom blank not sure what trucks 1986
Classic!
My first board was a yellowish-beige stain schmitt stix Lucero. Indys and Slimeballs
Rad setup!!