When coming up with a design for our skate tee we wanted to capture everything that we remembered was cool about skating in the 80s.

While the origin of skating, as we know it, goes back to the 50’s and then grew massively during then early 60s and then again in 70s, it was the 80s that really defined skating for us. So, when designing the graphics, we rewound our memories back to the glory days of skating and what made skating one of the coolest things for an 80s kid.

How do you define skating in the 80s in a single word – Rad. From riders busting out big airs and grabs on vert ramps, to the creation of a whole new range of street tricks that’s made skating what it is today. Skating was radical in the 80’s, but then no one had time to say radical, so it was just rad.

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