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Soon, a friend from a Hawaiian company challenged NHS to make 500 skateboards. With the surplus of fiberglass lying around they decided to use the stocked materials to fulfill and make skateboards. Their first Santa Cruz skateboard was produced in 1973. The batch of 500 skateboards sold quickly, and a demand for many more boards ensued.
Jessee's first sponsor was Powell Peralta and later Vision Street Wear, [2] but made the move to a professional sponsorship deal with Santa Cruz Skateboards in December 1987. He notably featured in the company's 1988 highlight video Streets on Fire, in which he played a fictional version of himself who is arrested and jailed for illegal ...
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Independent Truck Company is an American skateboard truck manufacturer based in Santa Cruz, California. Established in 1978, the brand is currently owned by NHS, Inc. and has an extended list of sponsored team riders. The trucks are made by Ermico Enterprises, in the bay area of San Francisco.
There were several artistic skateboarding pioneers that had an influence on the culture of skateboarding during the 1980s, that transformed skateboard-deck art like Jim Phillips, whose edgy comic-book style "Screaming Hand", not only became the main logo for Santa Cruz Skateboards, but eventually transcended into tattoos of the same image for ...
A Reason for Living is a various artists compilation album released on cassette tape and fifty-seven minute VHS in 1990 by Santa Cruz Skateboards. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] " Cockeyed Motherfucker " was also released on From the Machine by Index Productions [ 3 ] and later on Diatribe debut EP Therapy in 1991.
The following is a list of notable companies that produce skateboards and skateboarding merchandise. Companies listed may also be members of the US -based trade association , the International Association of Skateboard Companies and may have skateboarding sponsorship arrangements with individuals, venues or events.
Santa Cruz Bicycles was founded by Pino, Rob Roskopp, Mike Marquez and Rich Novak in 1993. [5] Roskopp had spent many years as a professional skateboarder, and Novak's Santa Cruz Skateboards company had put out a special "Roskopp" model before the two met. Roskopp and Novak went into partnership with bike engineer Mike Marquez, who had ...