Tom Sims was an innovator whose impact on snowboarding and skateboarding lives on in the boards we ride and the culture we celebrate today. Born in Los Angeles in 1950 and raised on the East Coast, Sims was a lifelong board enthusiast who chased thrills on waves, streets, and snow. His journey from his first […]
In 1978, Skateboard Industry News published a series of Product Primer articles “aimed at giving the retailer a thumb-nail familiarity with skateboard engineering.” S.I.N covered decks in their April/May 1978 issue, then wheels in June/July and then in Aug/Sept they covered “the dreaded truck – and find they aren’t so difficult to understand at all.” […]
TOM SIMS INTERVIEW PART 1: Here is where I get confused because I seem to think Sims was run by Brad Dorfman and Vision in the 1980s? By the late 70?s I got very busy getting snowboarding off the ground, and licensed Sims Skateboards to Brad Dorfman in 1981. At the time we had the […]
Where are you from originally? I was born in Los Angeles but grew up in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Sounds like you learned how to surf here and then were whisked away into exile on the East Coast? No, we moved when I was two years old. My dad went back there […]
