My first real board was a world industries complete my grandma got me for christmas on direction from my cousin. Might still be my favorite gift of all time. 
Not my exact board. Just found the pic online
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A bike & rope sounds like a sensible way to do it. After watching gleaming the cube we thought it would be a good idea to hold onto the back of vans. It didnât end well 
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My first deck. Was a hand me down from my big sister. I couldnât find it on the interwebs. It looked similar to this one bit it had barbed wire wrapped around a license plate that had santa Cruz for the plate number.
It was dope! Wish I still had it.
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Cant find a picture of my original deck. It was a Black Label deck with skeleton soldiers all in a purple hue. Itâs from 1996 or 97. I ran Independent trucks and spit fire wheels with good ol reds bearings.
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Oops it was 1999 found my old deck but cant find a better pic.
Itâs the 1999 Black Label Hassan Alive deck
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The nos natas kitten
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I recall my first board back in the 70`s it was heavy, very thick and used to ride very slow even downhill. I think the wheels were not even urethane. I canât provide a picture, i dunno where it is.
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First deck I ever got in 2001 when I was 13. I had spit fire wheels, krux trucks, lucky abec 3 bearings. It was a good board but a little wide for me at the time
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My first ever real board was a âlush longboardsâ that i saved up for and brought from my local skate shop when i was ~15. most of my friends skated short boards and i was always the guy with the long board.
This board has seen some serious miles.
Its been with me through 3 years of doing a 200 house paper round weekly, rain or shine.
Its been with me through many teenage years of stupidity such as dropping into half pipes and being ridden whilst on fire.
Its been with me through 4 years of my downhill morning commute to university, when i was barely awake enough to stand.
15 years later and its still going strong. lives in the workshop and gets used occasionally for my short work commute when i feel like mixing things up or if its raining and i dont want to take the electric boards out. All still original wheels and hardware same as the day i brought it (although the grip tape is basically smooth like leather at this point).
15 year old me made a great investment.
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Wooden pennyboard, was quite sketchy being that small. But I often rode it to school (4km a day). Even did done low incline downhill on it without any protection⌠looking back Ive been really luckyâŚ
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This yellow thing was my first and only skateboard. Some plastic deck with a ninja on it. I donât remember how old I was but I think maybe 5.
Never really did much with it but I remember my older brother doing 360 on it tick tacking in the garage. Was the coolest thing Iâd ever seen.
Here it is today next to my old torque drive setup and itâs going to be my sonâs first skateboard too.
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This was my first, got it when I was 11yo after having played THPS2 (the best game ever). Due to not knowing anything about skateboards or anything about the universe in general, I rode with very loose trucks wich developed serious wheel-bite marks.
I remember the first times dropping in on quarter pipes. Instant wheel-bite, instant face-plant. The embarrasing part was figuring out it actually was because of the trucks. Nedless to say, my face isnât very prettyâŚ
Edit: donât still have it, If I remember correctly my big brother snapped the deck in half after a fight we had (heâs a roller blader⌠and ugly)
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I found a pic of @Darenoâs first skateboard, it was in the Smithsonian at the Caveman exhibit 
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Oh yeahâŚthat was my first skateboard. Except my deck was a piece of 2x4 woodâŚI had a little flex stillâŚlol
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I feel like we could design something similar to those old-school curb poppers to protect our Motors
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