Was thinking this morning about old board graphics I liked for one reason or another and utilized the googles for a little walk down memory lane. I can’t think of any boards these days I think will be iconic, they all feel too ‘alloverprintaggrocomicbookywhatever’ to me, but somewhere in Michigan there’s some 6 year old watching a 12 year old hit a rail on board ABC and he’ll be writing a similar blog post from Mars when he’s my age.
First up, the ol’ Lib looking like Salomon (I think…) skis.
The old Doughboy trying to look like the Salomon Force 9s
The ol’ (and also remade a few years back) Matt Cummins. Radical Rick on the base, 23 window splitty overlooking a Washington ‘secret’ surf spot on the top sheet. Pure win.
The ol' Matt Cummins
The OG Terje. I was actually trying to find a pic of the first year Burton Custom with the red base/pegasus graphic because I remember thinking ‘shit just got real’ when TW did the feature on Terje in Alaska and he was doing 540s off cliffs. Then I tried to find the Terje with the dog pissing himself on the topsheet and the cat on the base, and failed again. However, the OG Terje is 3rd best, there was some ad or pic in one of the mags back in the day, kind of fish eyed so the tip of the sword was distorted, Terje tweaking his air. Good stuff.
The original Terje pro model
Burton Brushies. Seriously, Brushie has had some good graphics in his time. The ouija board twin (not his official model, but I recall some sick photos of him boned out, dreads flying, kissy lips puckered out like some New Jersey guido clubber, on this board), the craps table one with the dice base, the old cruzin’ looking one.
Burton Brushie craps table
Look Lamar Trick Stick. Funny story about this board. Was at the old Olympic Sports location at the Tacoma Mall, the one INSIDE the mall near where the Nordstrom’s originally was. Buying my first pair of skis ever (still remember the ad in the TNT, K2′s for $79, I begged and pleaded for skis), just after we moved back from Germany. We were standing in line to pay and I spotted one of these (only in the dark colorway, blue/black) against the wall in the corner. Was one of those “whoa!” moments with sparkly music. Didn’t really know what the hell it was, but I knew I wanted it instead of the skis. Sadly couldn’t convince mom of it, but hey, ‘sall good.
Look Lamar Trick Stick
I could go on all day like this, but we’ll leave it short and sweet for now. Let’s hear about some of your favorite graphics and why.
mistral
avalanche superBUMPS
k2 fatbob
snowboard graphics are kinda weird, because you had a snowboard for like 2 years, and the graphics didn’t get scraped off like skateboards did…
srsly the best graphics were the homey’s kidwell and the skele-libs. best bases are that terje and mc bmx flatty.
snowboards last too long. I wish they cost 100 bucks so you could get new ones after a couple months of staring at the same graphics… a major downfall with them, honestly.
I’m telling you when I got off the chair and saw some obvious K2 dude with the new Gyrator with the old graphics on it and i’m like “tell the art guy he’s a moran” without factoring that they could be one and the same… ahahahaha sometimes you just have to shrug your shoulders and walk (slide) away: there’s no saving a conversation…
luckily there’s spraypaint still…
ranquet heineken board. joyride flower pot.
good calls. i preferred the ranquet les paul, but probably only because my buddy JP was rocking that board up until two years ago (seriously). forgot about the old joyrides. what about the first year peter line board with the rainbow? that was a classic, as well as pretty much all of jaime lynn’s boards. craig kelly mystery air, etc. etc.
see i had the str9 up Mystery Air inna black matte topsheetway, and preferred it to the next year when they put his RAD signature on it and made it all yellow/orange RAD (although you know that one: sprittysicc too)…
Jamie Lynn whale one was dope. Joyride flowerpot for sure. My squad had good boards, that’s all I really remember. Skate trucks on whichever one was first (salasnek?) was key.
The absolute worst was the two or four year stretch where everything was ovals: like STP font in ovals. Oval logos, oval this, oval that. HATE that.
agree, the oval thing was weak. for the kelly boards i always liked his later one, 96 or so, with the haunted tree on the topsheet. i think it was the same year the asym airs had the woodgrain topsheet, but could be wrong.
jamie lynn whale was cool, with that ribbed (for her pleasure, of course) topsheet, and would pretty much blow out the nose/tail if you looked at it wrong. ’bout that time burton started hyping the full wraparound edges on their boards i think.
I can’t relate to your “blow out the nose/tail” issue. You’ve mentioned it a few times. Ride around the trees, dude. What exactly is the issue? The boards just disintegrate beneath you?
I have no idea what CK board you’re talking about, neither. Haunted tree? 96 I was back on Libs I think… dead zone. Certainly not on a Burton. Only had three: mystery air and some mid-year thing called blacktop. and then this malolo which i rode 7 times. haunted tree wtf
actually no 96 was rides. I had a couple of those Timelesseses.
I didn’t even have one of the whale Jamie’s, I think that was like a ’54 or something. I just remember everyone I knew having that board delam.
This is the CK w/ the tree
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6530/burton1996kellyair68topva3.jpg
I’ve never seen that board. The shape looks familiar, though…horrible, too. Fuck that board.
and, while we’re at it: your pic of the “ol matt cummins” is of the repress.
f ur whole concept
meh, whatever, suck it
whale jamie was rad, really wanted it. stared at that shit at torque center for a while, but all libs delamed back then, at least all the ones they shipped to WI. guitar ranquet was ok, but buddy rocked the 162/163?? heineken busting fs 180s all over wilmot w/rad plane sane aunt mables styles poked all the fuck out so i’m partial to that shred stick. r.p.m segment w/guitar board was rad tho.
cardiel 4finger-ring pro model rdrr. get me one.
Libs used to work best in the PNW, where there were no hard things to run over. Of that early 90s era, let’s not forget the lil and big black Bas’s's, with the naked mudflap type lady…that was a sick board I dug it wrd
Olsons whale doughboy was killer
The Jamie Whale was the season before the ribbed topsheet that delam’d like crazy. The ribbed one came a hibiscus flower or Indian goddess depending on length. Lib was experimenting that season with a different core and epoxy laminate that sucked balls. They still rode well and flowed new warranty sticks every time I sent one back. Their boards don’t break now and they are better than ever with the BTX rockin.
I still have the Jamie Lynn whale board that I bought from him in ’94. Rode it up until about 4 years ago and it never delammed. I also hace the Black Bas. That one is just about snapped in half.