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My original Powell Peralta Mike Vallely and Alva Fred Smith III decks

RottenWed, 10/10/2012 - 04:43

I know this isnt very ‘metal’ orientated but I know a few people here skate so ill post these just for nostalgia. I can’t believe I still have these – they were caked with half an inch worth of dust. I haven’t skated for years. Ive been thinking about buying a new deck though but I doubt ill skate at skate parks or ramps anymore – ill probably break my neck. I just want one in the boot of my car so if I get bored, I can just grab it and have some fun. I placed the date as 1988 but I cant remember when I bought these – they would have been from around then.

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Year: 1988

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Powell Peralta

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Thrash attacker on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 04:57

wow ! thats cool !

ConsideredDead11 on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 05:21

Nice one! I always loved skating, never got too good though.. I did land some pretty cool tricks like "lazer flip" but was never able to do basic stuff like varial kickflips/ heelflips...It's weird how the world works:P

creedsk8 on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 05:47

Nice it's cool we got some skate discussion going on here,I'm gonna round up some old skate stuff to post on here to, As far as skate stuff being metal, true it's not music related but the dates of both metal and skating pretty much run side by side, all my friends in the 80's skated and listened to metal.

Rotten on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 06:35

Same here dude. As a kid i was all about skating and my Walkman cranking metal mix tapes.

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on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 12:43

damn..great old decks ! ..reminds me as i was a kid...skating around all the time after school..with my walking man. Like Rotten said above.hahaha

Corrosive on Thu, 11/10/2012 - 00:20

Beyond awesome!!!!
LOVE this skates, pieces of history.

But for me, old school skate is very close to metal! As you said alot of old skaters listened metal. Even Metallica had their model with Zorlac Skateboards back in the day!!
And Thrasher Magazine, allways related to good old thrash/speed/hardcore!!

It's a shame today skate is mostly related to rich faggots and modern hip-hop bullshit...

creedsk8 on Thu, 11/10/2012 - 01:23

yeah I know what you mean, there still some skaters I see even young guys holding it down for metal, I do see alot of preppy looking skaters now more than ever before, It's funny about perceptions though my neighborhood just turned down a free six hundred thousand dollar skate park because they thought it would bring a bad element into the neighborhood,meanwhile we have like 20 bars in the neighborhood.

creedsk8 on Thu, 11/10/2012 - 01:57

Added a few of my boards under the action shot photo.

cgar1986 on Thu, 11/10/2012 - 07:35

sick boards man!!! i love powell peralta!
i hope to have that vallely some day!

Rotten on Fri, 12/10/2012 - 00:10

Powell rereleased it only a couple years ago. Im sure you could still hunt one down. Forget about buying the original / first release like this one unless you want to spend a fuck load of money on it - even in utter shit condition.

cgar1986 on Mon, 15/10/2012 - 01:07

yeah ive seen the rerelease of it..
id rather get my hands on an original one..i dont know..i dont like the noses of the re-released ones.. but yeah forget about buying one!! fuck that! you're right ..even in shitty conditions they go for $100+!!

dayak666 on Fri, 12/04/2013 - 08:16

super nice and oldschool,esp that vallely deck.. extreme music for extreme people! \m/

NocturnalOccultist on Fri, 08/01/2016 - 05:20

Love Powell Peralta also love the Alva team they were badass!!! Rad decks dude!

Rotten on Fri, 08/01/2016 - 05:51

Cheers. I should upload my current decks - still old school shapes - I hate Popsicle shapes.

NocturnalOccultist on Fri, 08/01/2016 - 06:02

do it dude! I love old school decks for sure, usually riding for cruising and dropping in the bowl and other than that doing tricks is really hard :p
I've owned a PP Tony Hawk & Mike McGill, Skull Skates Diehard, Santa Cruz Steve Olson, and Hosoi Hammerhead. All Reissues :p

Also have a deck that is similar to late 80s - early 90's shape.

Cheers!