Top selling decks past and present
Anyone know what the all time top selling Powell Peralta deck is? What is the current top selling deck? Currently I would have to guess one of the Cab reissues.
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I'm going to limb it, but I would say graphic wise....Hawk chicken skull will be #1, and Lance Mountain FP will be #2....and Vallely will be #3.
This is something Ive always wondered
Figure the 80s had PP,Vision, Santa Cruz, Schmitt, Sims, Hosoi, Dog Town...and a few others. But the big companies were Santa Cruz, PP, and Vision.....the other companies had fewer pro models and a few of them were more niche companies. I always looked at Hosoi and Lake as companies that only catered to a few skaters due to the shapes. Skate shops were dominated by PP and Vision. Once the 90s came around so many more companies showed up, SMA and all their sub companies, H-Street, and so on. There were more choices in the 90s. When World went ape shit against PP and Vision, they were looked down on by the new breed of skater. The whole sport changed. I look at 80s skating and 90s skating as two complete different mentalities. In the 80s it was all about freedom, pushing one another. Being a skater was like being part of a special group. You would leave your local spot and venture into other areas, meet up with those locals and skate together. Pointing out good spots, just being part of it all. In the 90s it took a strange turn where instead of being part of the same community, there was just a nasty vibe. It was more about pulling the radest trick and showing everybody else that you were better. More people put focus on what you skated, how you skated, as opposed to the 80s where it didn't matter....you were a fellow skater.
Maybe Cali was different, but in South Florida, it was such an awesome vibe in the 80s. I loved skating with people from other areas, and I loved skating in other spots. Meeting new people, learning from each other, and just having a good time. All of a sudden the skaters got younger and much cockier. Just a different feel.
The only thing I would add is that Alva was also one of the big names
& that vallely musta got 8c per deck.. why else would he spew as much haha
Many places on this planet suffer from this. Manly locals used to tell us to zip off from the Curl Park ramp, we never did though. They were the usual gay grommits trying to look cool, yet never followed through