Rood Dood

Dominion was a Canadian company that made completes during the 80’s. This one from ’88 says ‘rood dood’, wich should probably be pronounced as ‘rude dude’. To me it’s confusing, because ‘rood dood’ means ‘red death’ in Dutch (ain’t that so, Matthijs?). But the interesting thing here is that this board seems  a diss on vert skaters at a time when vert skating was reaching it’s end. The wall on this graphic is full of references to skateboarding and names of vert pros.  Take a closer look after the jump. The deck was for sale on eBay.

‘Mangle Magnusson’ is written in black and you can read ‘Lester skates like a girl’ in light blue and there is ‘Hosoi toy’ or something under the lapper of the back truck.

On the nose: ‘You’re off your ramp, Hawk!’ Under the nosebone you can read ‘I luv Losi’ and ‘Ban Vans’ is written under the wheel.

Yea, sure,  you get ‘street’ wheels on this complete. Also, we see ‘Grosso’ written in black, but no dissing or swearing here, I guess everybody likes Grosso.

‘Transworld’ in pink under the window with the scared guy and ‘You’re not so tuff,(Tuff Skates?) ruff’.’

So Dominion is all about street skating, but the guy on the sticker seems to do a handplant here.

And 2 more Dominion completes, as seen on Kijiji and Hookit: