The Disposable Skateboard Bible

I bought this book after picking up a copy of Concrete Wave magazine. There was an interview for the author and a few photos from the book which I found very interesting.When I started skateboarding it was in 1986, and at the height of popularity in my area. Every shop was covered with neon deck designs and day glo plastic parts for sale. I don't remember many (if any) wheels that were natural colored white, everything was bright and loud. Every company stood out, there was no mistake for a Vision board or a G&S, you could even tell the difference from the shapes alone.I never actually had a board from these years, my parents bought me a generic board while my friends all had the skate shop specials. So all I could do is read the Transworld and Thrasher magazines at the super market.Years later, I wanted to buy a reissue board and while searching around I knew there was a few favorites that were missing. The reissue market is mostly Santa Cruz and Powell, with some other brands like a few Vision. After finding this book from reading Concrete Wave, I was amazed at the amount of skateboards I remember and the ones that I didn't.The book is produced on a nice thick cover and each page is very thick, also there is a bit of distressed look to the pages. Each deck is photographed very clearly, and the range of graphics is amazing, I had no ideas there were so many colors to some of the decks or alternate graphics.I think the part that really surprised me was how I could remember so many of the boards and who had them. It also kinda of made me realize that how technical skating has gotten really left behind the unique shapes that defined some of the boards. I just recently bought my first longboard and find it's more fun as their shapes and design are fun since it's different from each other.In closing, if you have any interest in skating history or just interested in the graphics, or even wanting to create your own custom skateboard, this is a great resource. The book covers from the beginning of skateboarding, to about 2007.BTW my favorite skateboard?The Schmitt Stick John Lucreo from 1987.

This book is written by Sean Cliver who designed skateboard graphics for Powell originally back in 1988 (He designed all the rad Powell graphics in the early 90's. Ray Barbee, Frankie Hill, Bucky Lasek), then went on to work at World Industries, Birdhouse and Hookups. He still designs board graphics in a freelance capacity. Here's a link to a great bio in Slap Magazine. [...]The dude knows really knows how to design and fully understands the over all radness of skateboard graphics, which is evident by this book.Now for the book. It's the best coffee table book you can buy if you skate, used to skate, or like rad skateboard graphics and skateboard history. 368 pages of decks and insight from the 70's through the 90s. It's basically like the history of the skateboard.The quality of the book is top shelf style. Hard bound with a ribbon for saving pages. Printing is really high quality. You can tell that he spent a lot of time on every single page of this book to make sure it was perfect. Each page is fully designed from top to bottom. You won't see a white page with just pictures and words, because he's designed the background of the pages as well with a patina you might see in a really old book.I'm in the graphic t shirt design industry and this book contains pretty much everything that has inspired me to get to where I am today. It's really refreshing to see a book as well written and designed as this, by someone that I can really relate to.Bottom line. Get this book. I would have paid twice the price for it.

amazing! I HAVE HISTORY WITH MOST OF THE DECKS FORM 1989-1991= AKA THE Gem era of our industry...-tHE STORY OF SKATING IN THE BPSW era CAN-NOT BE TOLD WITHOUT Seand Cliver and Marc McKee....-oh yeah- "BPSW"- "Big Pants, Small Wheels" lol 1991-1996 the xxx t SHIRTS KILLED A AWESOME STYLE!--This book will take you down memory lane.-You will see decks form youre favorite skaters that you DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED.-I DIDNT KNOW Kareem Cambell had soo many decks for World industries before "Menace"-I didn't know H-Street had sooo many Cool decks. I only saw the top 10..---This book is awesome..----I discovered this book when I was researching info on the GREAT BOOK HISTORY OF ":SKATEBOARD SHOES":.-------NEGATIVE--------Skateboarding decks & products GET WAAAAAY TO MUCH ATTENTION IN THIS BOOK!!! Why Sean>?? 80's & 90's skaters don't care about 2x4 skateboard decks..45% of this book is dedicated to the boring PRE-POWELL PERALTA side of skating..I am old. 40 years old! I skated form 1986-1993. My whooooole teenage years from 11-19-ish. The earliest decks that have any interest graphicly or shape are Alva or Dogtown in early 80's..it makes no sense why Sean Cliver who is like my "brother from another mother",,who was/is my ultimate favorite part of MY SKATE HISTORY.--Despite the boring skate decks..the only other negative I have is my last deck form my teenage years is missing..It was a BigBird Alva..---Im buying Marc McKee's next...Sean if you BUT SOME REMOTE RETARDED CHANCEread this= thank you..I wish I could be early 90's forever.

I purchased this book for a Christmas gift for my oldest brother. He absolutely loved it!!! The graphics in the book brought back so many memories. When I get some extra cash I'm going to purchase a copy of this book for myself. As we where sitting there pointing out decks from our past I commented on how I couldn't find my first skateboard deck in the book (which it was in there). I mentioned that I wished I knew what happened to that board. My brother laughed stood up left the room and came back with my board. He kept the board all these years and now I have it back. It was scratched and mangled with memories but now I have it hanging on my wall. Great book!

Indispensável para quem gosta da história do skate. Cheio de boas e detalhadas fotos, dos anos 60 até os dias de hoje.

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オールドスクールなスケートシーンを経験してなかったのですが、PowellとSanta Cruzのリイシューデッキを買ったのを切っ掛けにグラフィックの良さにハマり、思わずこの本を買ってしまいました。バイブルというだけあって、60年代の貴重な木製デッキから、80年代のPowell,Dog Townなどのグッとくるグラフィックのデッキが網羅されています。ページ数も豊富で、パラパラめくるだけでもとても楽しめます。英語が読める方なら、著者がディストリビューターの古い倉庫を漁ってTony Howkの6000ドルもする貴重な板を発掘した話から、eBayで金に困ったライダーから直接サイン入りの板を買う話まで時代に沿って流れる、バックサイドストーリーも楽しめて、とても面白いです。

I'm at page 70ish and really enjoying it. If you like skateboard graphics, history, stories, anecdotes and maybe some tips on board acquisition/collection then consider getting this book.I'm going to buy the first edition of this book too though as the author says somewhere near the beginning that he tried ever so hard not to use the same boards in this book as the previous rendition. I thought this was just an update/revision and would have the first book plus some more, but apparently if i buy the first skateboard bible too I'll have EVEN MORE skateboards to look at. That ain't any kind of small thing considering the content of this tome.Buy it.

This book is just a treasure trove of skateboard deck design and artwork, I started skateboarding in 1976, I can trace all the boards I've owned and ridden through this book. It's great for bringing back great memories of boards, people and skatespots. I love it, it was a gift for my birthday from my boys, so it's special in lots of ways for me... So if you can't get someone to buy it for you as a present buy it yourself, you'll not regret it.