Puberty Skates and other Chinese Crap
You can quickly got down a rabbit hole when you start searching for skateboards on those Chinese import sites. Here’a couple of beauties: A children’s skateboard with the Spanish word for puberty, and some World Industries and Santa Cruz knockoffs. It’s important to remember that brand products are beautiful, flexible in performance, stable in quality, novel and complete in style. And as always, dangerous actions, please play under guidance of professionals. Bonus Baker knockoffs after the jump.
Puberty!
I thought these next ones were knockoffs, but if you look close you will see that they are from the completely different brand known as DLROW, whose mascot is none other than YOBEMALF.
Baker knockoffs… or maybe coming direct from the factory that makes the legit models? You can find out for as low as $20 a piece if you have 49 friends!
The bakers might not be knockoffs. Most brands are doing their price point boards in China and they might be overstock. Hell some of the brands are doing all of their decks out of china. The 80s are over. Board manufacturing barely happens stateside anymore other than small producers like Chapman and a few others. Even Schmitt is doing his shit in Mexico.