Skuda and Destroy
May 9th, 2008 by Kilwag
At first glance this looks like your run of the mill cheap plastic skateboard, but in fact the Skuda is a fiberglass composite, so it was probably priced out of range of your typical youngster. I’ll admit that I know nothing about the Skuda. A Google image search turned up nothing, but We have another variation called the “Supa Skuda” catalogued on SnA, remember Captain Radical? These old boards have super clean lines. They remind me of old Corvette Stingrays. Everyone should have one in their garage for taking a spin on every other odd weekend. This one belongs to Graeme Wicks. He bought it off eBay a few years back so he could actually ride it.
Vintage Skuda skateboard.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
…these Skudas were really popular in the uk around ‘76….in fact I haven’t seen one anywhere since then!!! The Supa Skuda ( the transparent blue double kick number) was my first board (discountig the terrible rubber wheeled Surf Flyer!) - really fast and seemed to roll forever…!! If you had a Skuda u were the shit in the UK back then!! Think i have a picture of me in full grom mode on the Supa Skuda somewhere…!! argghhh!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
fuck me, the Surf Flyer! The first ever “skateboard” I ever stepped foot on. The trucks on that thing were some double axle abomination weren’t they?
And you are right about Skudas. They were 1 step below the oak Pacer complete, the board that showed you had bypassed grom status and were now “serious”.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:25 am
the Surf Flyer didn’t even give you grom status. You’d push like fuck and roll about 3 metres due to the rubber wheels that wore out within two weeks. I nearly gave up because of that thing…
Saw this on Ebay UK a while back. A “buy now” for 75 quid!! Needless to say I hammered the seller with ridiculous bids and quetsions till he got the point…. No one bought it.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:31 am
doesn’t that Skuda have Grentec wheels?
May 10th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
yeah… i thought they were Grentecs too, they are oversized for the deck. the original wheels were much smaller, clear urethane with open bearings I think.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
That Surf Flyer looks bad (ass) actualy. Even if it sucks, I’d like to have one just to marvel at. Those trucks look kooktacular. I wish the image was larger.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Grentec (GT).. I haven’t heard that name in a long time. The first complete deck that I ever had that was new.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Sweet to see another Skuda! The Supa-Skuda was my first skateboard back in around ‘77 here in Sweden. And I still got it … Cute eh?
July 4th, 2008 at 4:38 am
This Skuda was the first real skateboard I bought, it cost me Brand new £16 in 75-76 mine was black though and had loose bearings with D washers , remember them!!
July 15th, 2008 at 9:45 am
i have one of these in blue without a kick tail… i love skating it!!
they worth anything?
July 20th, 2008 at 6:38 am
My Daughter is 14 and she was embarrished at first with my Supa Skuda with yellow YoYo wheels.. (It originally came with orange SK wheels ) But hey when the woman in local skate shop saw my board she had to ring her husband and tell him !! All of a sudden this 40ish year old Dad became quite cool. Now me and Daughter blade and board together… Surprisingly I can still board !!
July 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am
“blade and board together…” your telling me that you can skateboard w/ rollerblades on? impressive