I loved my blind and hated my Powell. I used them everyday as a kid (mainly for transportation). Both of them were indestructible and heavy as fuck, especially the Powell which rode like a tank. I ended up swapping the Powell for my mates BMX when I was 13. Shame it would have been fun turning it into an esk8.
my elementary school board was a sweet TMNT board. Eventually it was spray painted black.
After a bunch of random boards, I got this Element around highschool which pops really well, it was the deck I learn a lot of tricks on (pathetically I might add). Broke a few of them.
When I was 13 my parents got me a skateboard for my birthday. Iām talking tiny hard wheels, popsicle park deck, bad bearings and no prior knowledge. I just knew skating was cool and wanted to to do it.
Well, It didnāt go well. I probably tried to learn how to ride it without falling off for a week before it ended up in the garage. Then I came back to skating 7.5 years later with an eboard and pretty much started from scratch.
I lost my skateboard virginity to this, a Kryptonics longboard I picked up from Target in the second week of collegeā¦I abused the shit out if it, both ends cracked after a couple months. Swapped to 90mm ABEC clones and a custom mechanical break
As a note, it suckedā¦ The trucks are literally made of plastic and the bushings were plugs of the same materialā¦nice deck shape though
@Mikenopolis@Monkey Holy shit!!! I also had a TMNT board!!! Didnt ride standing up back then though. Just one knee in the board while the other sped me through the alley like a madmanā¦ we later got a bike and rope involved and learned all about speed wobblesā¦
My boards tucked away in the garage somewhereā¦ It was some random complete that I got from my cousins when I was 5ā¦ Stopped skating til around a year/two years ago and I can still only Ollie lolā¦
This is my first board. It was bought about a year ago, at the same time I bought my first plain, premade electric skateboard. I figured I should learn how to actually use one before killing myself on an electric. Honestly, I enjoy this one more than the electric. This board encourages me to let it fly downhill. May not be the best, but I do enjoy this one. It also barely fits into my Mini. In my little experience, I would say it rides rather smoothly, but its time to clean the bearingsā¦
I love this thread. I canāt answer though, I can only say it was a ninja turtles themed kicktail deck in the early 90s. Then I got into longboarding after going through a few standard shortboards later in the 90s and ended up on a LY DH Race after some super short longboard thing called the bug with ultra soft wheels and super wide trucks.
First real board (not a $15 Walmart board) was a Landyachtz gambler atop some Caliber IIās with some butterball 75mm wheels. Hit 43mph ez downhillā¦ Not much to compare too but iām very happy with the combo
Was some sort of blind deck for me when I was like 20 and roommate at college and gf at the time bought me a complete so I could hang out with my ārealā skateboard buddies. I learned to Ollie and shove it but thatās about it, was a fun time though never got that good. First esk8 was also my first longboard was a generic piece of garbage but cheap I broke it when a pin on my custom receiver came loose and went full throttle into a wall (I jumped off before it went completely rogue since I realized braking was doing nothing). Current deck is a cheapo old school moose maple deck (heavy as hell like the old school ones show here given the size but way easier to manage getting up stairs and keeping a hold of it on the train). Working on setup on Icarus which will be my first nice longboard and second to the blind only above generic deck Iād say.
Something like this, an 80s Santa Cruz, but with Independent trucks and wide translucent red wheels. I was around 10 at the time, and did mostly street and downhill with my mates. Whatever we could find to skate.
Please donāt question my sense of style, it was the early 90ās in Cyprus, so things were very different back then
I also found a pic of my very first ever skateboard. I think it had a picture of some eagles on it
