r/classicskateboarding

I'm early gen Z and while I longboard, I know very little about old boards. But my uncle showed me a "Supaflex" longboard which he loved so this caught my eye. For 5 bucks, I just grabbed it.

Do people still skate those? Or do they only collect them? (I rode it for a bit but it's tiny, skates well though!) The nose definitely suffered some damage, and a pad has chipped off. The trucks are ACS 580.

Did I strike vintage gold? I'm not looking to sell, but out of curiosity is it valuable on top of being neat?

I interviewed Jeff for my podcast and didn't fully grasp the scale of it until I started going through the conversation afterward.

It started with one park in Missoula. No grand plan, just a thing he did. That was years ago. Now there are 27, with 10 more towns already lined up for the next three years.

Some of the kids from the first parks he built were 11 at the time. They're in their 20s now. A group from the Browning Blackfeet Reservation is about to drive 1,200 miles to follow him to a grand opening at Standing Rock.

Montana has one of the highest suicide rates in the country. He didn't say that to make a point. It just came up.

The clip is short — about 5 minutes. Felt like the right place to share it.

TA sighting in front of my building in Chicago

Picked these up at the thrift store the other day. Still in the original packaging with a sticker. 80s surf and skateboard art is my favorite.

Consolidated deck, independent trucks, wheels= oj’s? Anyone want to add to this post? Picked it up for $7.00 at thrift

Grew up in the San Fernando Valley with a Korean best friend next door, Jewish kids two doors down, a Black friend around the block. Not a diverse neighborhood by design — just the neighborhood.

His point: that's how skateboarding has always worked too.

• He argues skate culture never organized around race or background — it sorted on what you could actually do
• The only line he's ever seen drawn is whether you push mongo
• He's not making a speech about it. It's almost offhand, which is why it lands harder than if he were

Short clip. Curious if this holds up to people's actual experience in skating or if it's more complicated depending on where you grew up.

Listen to full conversation and other episodes with Arto Saari, Tony Hawk, Stacy Peralta and others here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNH5UGRKI5E1AUBWAk-OkrA?sub_confirmation=1