What was your first board?

[Daf Dennis]

since when did this become the "what shoes are you wearing?" thread?   

[Mister Afternoon]

1985 Santa Cruz Special Edition 10x 30
Indy 169's
GMN Bearings
OJ II's
rails & tailbone
 

[Daf Dennis]

that sounds sick

[Treacherous L. Sweetness]

My brothers G&S he no longer used. It had Gullwings and OJs that he scrounged together. He took it back when his Schmitt Stix Grosso deck broke. Bummed so I beg my parents for my own which ended up being a Variflex. I was 9 and didn’t know shit so I was stoked. First real deck was a Powell and Peralta team deck with Gullwings again and Toxic wheels. Rocked that and thought I was the shit until I saw the new shape boards were taking in a 3rd hand issue of Thrasher my friend had. Saved my pennies and got an Acme and felt like the shit again.

[tanner moore]

not counting the k-mart spiderman one, it was some blank bam heartagram shit from ebay or something.

[Bro]

A mongoose, there i admit it. Got it for free.
People always gave me their shitty boards to skate.
My first board was a foundation (complete), I was tricked into buying it. I really wanted that Alex olson board (bad brains)

[ttching]

Hot pink variflex my friend gave me in 1986, complete with rails and tail block.  I think it had Ratfink on it, but can't remember cause we spray painted it black and added skulls to it pretty much as soon as he gave it to me.  Bryan Cook, if you're out there and read this, thanks again, hope you and Andrew Nevin are both still skating.

[Angus Scrimm]

There was a Black Knight me and a friend took turns on, but that wasn't my board. Outside of a multitude of fiberglass and wood boards Buzz gave me in the 70's ( I wish I could remember the brand names ) and a Sure Grip blank, my first legit board was a 1983 Sims Hosoi with Indys and City Street Wheels. This was pre Alva fish and before the hammerhead. The graphic of the rising sun was so popular, after Hosoi left, Sims continued to produce it as the Kamikaze. Probably a pretty cheap move on Sims part but a smart marketing one. Buzz ( my moms high school boyfriend ) and my Godfather started Smoothill, originally selling surfboards, they became a skateboard distributor. They made City Streets which were kinda like the Spitfires of their time and Seaflex boards. Anyone remember the Boom Cat?

[Frandy St. FLeur]

Lmao my first board which was a complete lmao from KB Toys was a Twister "time for some Grindage complete" ahhh the good ol days that board only had pop even though it was fake lolol just recently i was a sponsured rider for a clothing company called "Alleyezclothing" but i got dropped because they wasn't making enough money of off the skateboarding world to survive so they went to switch everything up to gay poser wanna bee rap clothing. but i still miss that board lol.

[C H U C K]

That sounds gay.

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[13kickit]

West Coast Choppers mini board. I was six. My bro got it for me.

[Jason Shrack]

Mine was a G&S with ghosts or witches on the bottom (Might have been Willy Santos's first pro model) with one Tracker Street Shadow truck and one Veriflex truck, Vision Big Wheels (67mm, I believe) with NMB bearings that I used a hammer to pound in.

[C H U C K]

There was a Black Knight me and a friend took turns on, but that wasn't my board. Outside of a multitude of fiberglass and wood boards Buzz gave me in the 70's ( I wish I could remember the brand names ) and a Sure Grip blank, my first legit board was a 1983 Sims Hosoi with Indys and City Street Wheels. This was pre Alva fish and before the hammerhead. The graphic of the rising sun was so popular, after Hosoi left, Sims continued to produce it as the Kamikaze. Probably a pretty cheap move on Sims part but a smart marketing one. Buzz ( my moms high school boyfriend ) and my Godfather started Smoothill, originally selling surfboards, they became a skateboard distributor. They made City Streets which were kinda like the Spitfires of their time and Seaflex boards. Anyone remember the Boom Cat?

The Boom Cat was Bob DeNikes' model right? A friend had one back then. It was giant 11x31 I think.

[krusher]

My first was a Target store composite called "The Afterburner", it had a picture of a jet on it so everyone thought it was a McGill. My 1st pro board was Jeff Phillips, all pinked out with, Trackers, and Oj II's

Never thought I would see this again, and now it's mine...



Now I just need to get that pinked out Phillips. Let that be a lesson to'ya kids... keep your first boards