First real deck:
http://skateboardgraphics.com/img/image32.jpg

Favorite deck : none, really, once I realized bikes were faster and could go uphill I never really looked back.

Black label power beam... hands down... skated it for a year before i finally broke it.

lol...actually sr. old man when I was skating, boards would get torn up relatively quickly. In my day, they were lighter and more destructable, especially how we slid on the graphics....

I was a bit torn when i realized that I would have to start scratching up my first board to do certain ****, but you get over that. I wasn't as much into my favorite board graphics as I was my favorite sneakers or even my favorite trucks

Yeah, but I'm sure you had a favorite company.
You can't say they are all the same.
Different wood, different concave, different shape.

The graphics are just a bonus.

New Skool "Dork" slick w/tracker B-52 trucks and, I believe, 46mm wheels.

favourite: Zoo York, when they had the really angular sides.
(Skates on Haaight 8ply, a close second)

1st deck......

1987 schmitt stix ripsaw red varnish. wavy sides. pre-kicknose.

booya

1st deck was a generic deck that came with my first complete. My first real deck was an Element Featherlight circa 2000.

My favorite deck was the Krooked Sweatpants deck I used to have, but I've really been into the 7.75" Real Pricepoint I've been riding.

Never skated.

http://www.oldschoolnews.com/archive...kates_logo.gif
Good old skull skates blank

next

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etc...etc...etc... for like 20years or something.

current

http://emagenetwork.com/product_phot.../waykiller.jpg

tru

natas kaupas

First and probably favorite deck:

http://www.piraticalskates.com/collection/obrien.jpg

Can't find a pic of the old Claus Grabke mini, but that's definitely a favorite.

I missed the days of old school skates, but when I first got into it, i was all about the alien workshop slicks.

Now, all i ride are anti-heros.

I'm gettin choked up.
I loved the Blender's. What '86-'87? Roskopp, Hammerhead's-
Was it the Lucero with the red cross and his name spelled backwards- I had like 3 of those. Always broke Alva's. A week or so and they'd SNAP in the hip.
(Big Bonelesses!)

Current favos:
(Gonz give me the Krooked. The Oakland deck was a going away present that I'll never ride)





PS- Tommy G is still my hero.

first
http://members.tripod.com/kewl_chick...ures/hawk.jpeg

favorite are always blanks..

Zorlac Shrunken head, double cut.

http://www.piraticalskates.com/collection/lucero.jpg

Before Black Label...

1st deck was a Zorlac John Gibson.

Favorite was probably a Santa Monica Airlines Natas Kaupas.

Still have a Zorlac Craig Johnson and a Dogtown Web kicking around, though I haven't skated for years.

I love them all...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...ewhat/tops.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...at/bottoms.jpg
left to right: Gator Reissue (Flame grip tape and Sims Pure Juice wheels from my father), CAL-240 (I picked it up off of ebay, tricked it out, it is now known as Pink Death), first board (I don't know the make, it was cut and painted by a friend, then it was given to me as a present, Gullwing trucks, Hosoi Rocket wheels), Birdhouse Bird Skull and Cross Bones (was my friends, I inheretted it after he died), Black Label Christian Hosoi Rising Sun deck (old school rat bone wheels)
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...lowroskopp.jpg
roskopp reissue with led running lights that I made

those led lights rule

they were cool as ****, and then one night I went through a bottle of jack, next day, they were broke, I don't know what happened... I need to rebuild them.

That is ****ing cool!

DAmn.. this is nuts.. I had like 80% of the decks on this posting. Started with a Hosoi Hammerhead..Lucero..Gator..Gonzoles, Caballero, Lance, Hawk, Tony Alva punk size, SMA Natas, Blockhead, Matt Henley.

My favorite was the Henley...cuz this was when street boards turned symetrical.

block haed

fave toy machine monster wide

You weren't skating hard enough.
Longest I ever had a board, when actually skating, was probably a month. Shortest I ever had a board was 2 hours.