5 Skateboard Deck Collections from the 80&8217;s | Skateboarding Magazine


In the 80′s the plywood ramp and streetstyle revitalized skateboarding just as the urethane wheel had revitalized the sport in the 70′s. Forced to take an underground, do-it-yourself attitude, skaters began to create their own wooden skate ramps in backyards and empty lots and turn previously unrideable street terrain, such as walls an handrails, into free-skate parks.

5 Skateboard Deck Collections from the 80&8217;s | Skateboarding Magazine