Santa Cruz is on fire with reissues as of late! These fall reissues are classic graphics and shapes, and are exactly how you remember them from the 80’s! The boards feature Santa Cruz’s original Cruz Missile 2 concave, a personal favorite of Erick Winkowski and Tom Boyle. The mellow and directional concave keeps from being steep, but locks you into the middle of the board perfectly, and flips like a regular modern concave.
Tom Knox’s Fire Pit graphic/shape is perfect for street skating, which Tom is an original innovator of. Tom also skated pools, and this board would do that just as well as it would grind a ledge. The graphics are super well detailed and hand drawn by Jim Phillips, a legendary artist responsible for all of Santa Cruz’s most well known graphics. Tom is also known for early curb dancing, so anything you throw this board at, it’s ready for.
TOM KNOX FIRE PIT REISSUE
- Jim Phillips Graphics
- Double Kick
- Cruz Missile 2 Concave
- 7 ply modern construction
- Originally released in 1991
In 1989 Santa Cruz came out with Speed Freaks. Featuring a healthy list of legendary pros, Tom Knox came through with one of the most progressive street parts at the time. Filmed entirely by Visalia California.
Santa Cruz Skateboards, nestled in the skateboarder's paradise of Santa Cruz, California, burst onto the scene in 1973. Picture this: Richard Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman, probably sporting some epic '70s hairdos, get together and say, "Hey, let's start NHS Inc. and shake up the skate world."
With over four decades of skateboarding smarts (that's like, 280 in dog years of skate knowledge), Santa Cruz isn't just a brand; it's a skateboarding legend. Thanks to the mind-blowing graphics from the artist extraordinaire Jim Phillips, their decks are more iconic than a rock star's guitar.
And let's talk about NHS's brand family – it's like the Avengers of skateboarding gear. They distribute the who's who of skate brands: Santa Cruz Skateboards (obviously), Creature Skates for the monster in you, Independent Truck Co. (the backbone of your board), Bronson Speed Co. (because who doesn't like speed?)!
