SurfSkate Carving Skateboard
The V-Truck Bowl Series is our newest series being introduced in 2015.
These decks feature an old school shape with a concave kicktail. It's aptly named for its shredability in pools and skateparks. Great for tight carving and boosting airs.
To build a skateboard that rides like a surfboard, you need to start by looking at a surfboard. Surfboards have a simple design: a flat plane with fins in the rear. This simple design allows a rider to rotate their upper body, pivoting off of the fins to perform turns, while the free unlimited motion of the front allows the rider to slide the board left to right to pump for speed.
SurfSkate Industries built their longboard around this style of movement. The rear truck acts as a pivot point allowing a rider to use their upper body to pull the board into turns, while the 360* rotating front truck allows the rider to face the board in any chosen direction and pump for speed.
“When I was about 15, (2005) I was a sponsored longboard rider. I’d spend many days making downhill/slide videos when the waves were flat, but my true passion was surfing. I noticed that all the longboard companies were marketing their boards as surfing cross trainers; saying that their board, with their truck set up, felt like surfing. But I never agreed with that. Making turns on a surfboard felt way different than standard skateboard trucks; whether they had reverse kingpins or springs instead of bushings, they didn’t mimic the same movement or feeling of surfing.
So I began to think about how to build a board that really mimicked the movement of surfing. A little while passed and I didn’t try building anything. Then one day I found my skateboard in the street run over… by my friend who just got his license. The deck had snapped and one of the trucks had cracked in half. So, skateboard-less, I decided to take those parts and make my