Ever since the mid 70s, when Craig Stecyk's photography and the 'Dogtown Articles' appeared in 'Skateboarder Magazine' the perception of skateboarding was changed forever — not only for skaters, but also for surfers. Seeing Tony Alva skate a bank low to the ground, dragging one of his hands on the concrete, as if he was riding a wave, felt like an epiphany to the surf community. No more flat days.
Since then many things have changed — in the 90s Carver and Hamboard created the first surfskate trucks, Swelltech, Slide and YOW followed with similar yet different systems. In 2021 we can choose from a range of more than 20 surfskate brands — each of them having their own unique abbilities, yet all of them enabling a rider to experience and train the movements, flow and feel of surfing.
What hasn’t changed is, that style will never come with the surf trainer you choose — it will always be rooted in your personality and feeling for the concrete wave.
