Holy shit!

Yes NoS decks from the 80s have skyrocketed, that particular Grosso deck at 16k is a true 80s deck and Jeff Grosso unfortunately passed away suddenly last year.

I sold this collection last year for 1k this year its probably worth 3x that or more . The cabi , hawk, mountain and Guerrero decks in those colors and shape are almost unobtainable these days , yes you can find them but , $$$$

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I have a few of those.
All the stuff hanging is signed.
The McGill, Guerrero and Mountain are personalized.
I would probably trade you the two in shadow boxes if you ever get your ass us here to come visit.

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Haha,
I know man, you're hard to track with your European travel schedule.

Yeah, the last few months have been a whirl wind since European travel opened back up.
Been there and back three times since June.
Anyhow, I'm back in town for a few weeks now.

Phelps holding a Thrasher from the 80s that has a pinball giveaway on the top left corner of the cover.. I wonder what machine it was??

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RIP Phelper, you old A hole.
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Some mint originals

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Nice tre and heel flip but the inside heel was something extra!! I used to have them fakie but it feels much easier popping them going fakie, I cant even remember ever landing a regular inside heel in a bank. Well done, nice pop and style.

Accidentally posted this up in another thread...

Brother wanted to test his new camera/gimble setup. It worked pretty good for a little bit then started acting all wonky later on in the session

I got a crooks on the curb second try. He was working on kickflips and 50-50's mostly.

It started raining and inside I asked if he wanted to play some pinball and he says "Nah, Im cool just chillin." I'm like huh? Pinball is chilling

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I hope you got a good response. You probably got some guy interested in skating. I can't for the life of me lock into a slappy crook at my curb spot.

Any tips for commiting to a crook? It feels like I stick on every try.

Best tip is to try for a nose slide but with your front foot over the boards screws, oppossed to the nose of your board. Hope it helps. Next step is figuring out how to get out of it

I locked into a few of these nose slides just to get comfortable. I will keep at it.

Speaking of throwing away decks. I highly recommend getting this book "Disposable" if you can't afford to collect them. I am always getting it out to reference or have on the coffee table. I can't believe how much it too has shot up in price!

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I'm on the couch next to my daughter who's using a big book as a support to do her drawing.

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I've got a cool story about this book.
I have a colleague from England who's a skater - we started going to local miniramps on lunch breaks and such. At some point he told me a story about how he and some friend, many years back, went into some local distributor in England where they had a bunch of old mint Powell-Peralta boards such as Tony Hawk and stuff like that.
The owner let them grab whatever they could carry out on the cheap. My coworker's friend got 5 mint Tony Hawk's that he sold at some point to pay for tuition or something.
So when I read the book, there's a very similar story and I tell him "hey that really sounds like the story you told me". And sure enough, it is the same story and it's been written by his friend. He's even referenced in it, although not by name.

Its October, time to switch over to long sleeve. Pac Sun exclusively sold these a few months ago, not sure if they still do? Nod to Jeff Kendall.

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Haven't done much skating lately due to the weather out here, but I did get to do some day dreaming while assembling these completes today.

Ten of them this year are going to the holiday toy drive. Tried to fit in a few smaller boards for the youngins. Got sizes ranging from 7.0 to 8.5, two boards for each size. Hoping they find some good homes and inspire the next pros.

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Grail unlocked!

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Pretty cool, do you know who did that art?
Hint, he did this too!

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Doesn't replace skateboarding but still fun to pass the time outdoors.

No guesses on who did the Hensley art?
He did these too

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Proud to join this thread ! I’m 38 years old and still do some mini ramp and bowl
Here is our spot with my crew , the Fishtails ,maybe our logo remind you something lol
Tiny stuff but really quick/fast ; you can try a lot of cocky tricks in it

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Nice! How does the spot thing work? I was thinking of renting some space to have a miniramp in with friends but not too sure of the logistics...

One of us has dedicated one of his garage for and we build it all together
We meet there every Thursday evening , beers , food , skateboarding and laughs

Dang. That's the life. I don't have room to build a decent garage...

Yes , we re very lucky /happy
Since we made it , lot of friends has joined us after years without skateboarding
And some start skateboarding here

Nice release by Plan B

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Jeff Klindt! By way of Lichtenstein… by way of Minor Threat on the Hensley one!

Fuck yes!
Jeff was a friend, hooked me up big time back in the day, and I was probably at damn near every Wonderful Broken Thing show. Good dude, RIP
Enjoy! It's a beauty
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Needs a Monster Bash to go with them.

I got one of those ....

Sounds like you need a series of plan B boards for your wall.

So, the subway tile behind the bar at Jackbar in Brooklyn is made out of cut pieces of busted skateboard decks.

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The winter blues got me down. Haven't skated since Thanksgiving weekend. Ughhg!! This thasher documentary got me feeling better thou.

Gave me time to assemble my Christmas complete. My fiance's family think I'm dumb for skating at 37. But it didn't stop them from getting me gift certificates to a local skate shop in St. Louis . (Where they hail from).

Anti Hero 8.63 Beres deck
Ace 55 trucks
Spitfire 99d 56mm
Bones Big Balls bearings

Researching skateparks in driving distance, with bowls. Got a few in mind. Haha

I love my future in-laws!

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I remember, when I was a kid, thinking it would amazing if I could still be skating when I turn thirty. Ha. I started at nine and here I am at 45. Admittedly, I haven't skated a lot over the past two years. They just finished a new concrete park near me. Time to get back on it!

Shoveled all weekend, sunny day, looking forward to coming home from work to skate and....

Crap...

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(Also, need to wash the windows )

I just discovered this mini is right by my work. The design is nothing super exciting but stoked to have miniramp I can go skate anytime.

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Too old to skating now but it was my obsession when I was young.
these are some boards that I saved from when my friend owned Roots.
All 3 still wrapped in original plastic.
The board on the right was a high school friend of mine and roommate for a few years who passed too young.

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Just rejoining the pin hobby after a few year hiatus...

We built our first half-pipe in the backyard over 10 years ago now when I was a 40-yr old "young-buck":

I was one of the guys standing on top watching the kids as the hip x-rays at the time came back ok but was still aching, since then like many others I'm enjoying electric - a Dualtron Ultra 2 has become a good friend.....

But, like the pin thing, I started collecting boards around 1998 from the hey-day, wasn't sure why.... just liked the old stuff.

Here is what currently hangs, a lot in storage, a lot of reissues mixed in w/ OG's (can't tell which Ripsaws are OG vs reissue) a lot are signed, some art boards in there as well primarily in the washroom lol.

Only posted pics in the past to Skull & Bones, nice to see collections of others.

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These guys are out for pics as they might need new owners, best use of the a2a and d2d decks (I am biased)...

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Mountain and Cab riders, board w/ shirt is from Lance's part in Extremely sorry, others are from X-Games, Pro-tec Pool Party etc....

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Some Mountain art and Hawk Trophy from here in TO @ Skatewave '87

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If anyone is looking for some boards I have a few boxes of stuff for sale, drop me a pm.

In the interim keep skating if you can!

That's quite a collection! I had one of those Rainbow Gator decks as my first pro board. Mine was on a green stain as I recall.

So i just started skating again after about 25-30 years. I'm basically having to relearn from the ground up as i hardly retained any skill. I just grabbed this Kendall reissue. I suck, but I'm having a lot of fun skating again...

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I’ve been working with the city for four years to get a park built and we just got the go ahead from city council. We have a 2.3 million dollar budget and a great piece of land, the plan is to build a 40,000 sqft park with a 20,000 sqft pump track. I’m also opening a skate shop close by. Hopefully breaking ground early spring next year so if anyone is in the Detroit area please stop in.

And yes we will definitely have pinball at the shop.

https://www.redrunnskateshop.com/

Anyone know anything about 70s decks?

Every Friday, I usually get up early and hit the sketchy free park here in town. Saw this thrown off in the weeds. Doesn't look like it's been there long, there's no water damage. Oaks East deck, Tracker trucks, Kryptonics wheels... probably a pretty nice setup in its day.

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Just repros here, but they still look sick! clearly need more….

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I got a sweet repro a week ago

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Great display, info on display.

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I’m pretty sure I bought that board when it came out.
Very nice!