Skull Skates continues an established lineage launched in 1978 with a true to the core line up of unique quality skateboard decks made in Canada. Collaborations with like-minded skaters have resulted in all new offerings from the some of skating's legends, innovators and mysterious kults.
Steve Olson
Steve Olson is blessed with the gift of tapping the flow on a skateboard. If you have ever seen him snap a backside carve grind in the space of a kick turn on some insane steep pool wall, then you can truly appreciate what this means. Steve was the first pro skater Skull Skates ever sponsored and made a signature model with. Skull is stoked these years later to re-release his original model (with the pointed noise like Steve had originally intended in the 80s). The art is a combination of Steve’s O.G. graphic combined with a skull & cross bones from one of his art pieces entitled “Death to Chanel”.
Dave Hackett
David Hackett’s bio could fill a book. Whether it’s D.H.’s patented hack slash, his racing ability, his outside loop at 45 years old, or his cube van drop in the 80s that foreshadowed the modern huge stair drops; his presence is always intense. Skull Skates put out the Street Sicle and the Iron Cross models with D.H. in the mid 80s and are stoked to work with Hackett on the Shralp Sicle with the traditional art on an all new Hackman shape. Made in Canada, cut from Skull’s 2010 Tub Tech concave.
Duane Peters
Duane Peters redefines the word burly every time he steps on a skateboard or a stage. Channeling skateboarding and music thru his gnarled structure, D.P. always digs deep and comes up with something mind blowing at sessions and live shows. Duane released two deck models with Skull in the 80s, the 2010 re-release is an almost identical reproduction of the original and is available in jet black or eye gouging day-glo orange. Punk it up beotches!
Chris Haslam
Chris Haslam has proven his intense dedication to skateboarding through innovation and creativity in the contemporary realm. His talent of making very technical moves blend with a smooth style and flow is even more impressive when you consider that Chris rides an 8½” wide board. Skull Skates has collaborated with Chris Haslam and his sponsor Almost to release a limited run of decks by Skull Skates and a limited run of T-shirts by Almost. The 8½” x 32” decks are pressed and manufactured in Canada from hard rock Canadian maple.
Craig Williams
Craig’s ominous height and dark features culminated with his technical and burly skateboard know-how always made him stand out from the rest amongst the crowd of Vancouver’s tumultuous sponsor-me scene. As the late 2000s came around and Craig had seemed to exhaust the Canadian skateboard industry via various pro teams and parallel movements, he was seen saying, “In all my years of skating, I haven’t had such a fulfilling time and subsequent attention until I relaxed and stopped going for a serious career in professional skateboarding.” It shows in his still evolving and burly style of tech skating more than ever that a relaxed stature and skating for the pure fun of it can evolve into a whole sincere personality on a skateboard – various themes that directly resulted in his recent pro models on Skull Skates.
The Barrier Kult
The Barrier Kult, or the common abbreviation BA. KU., crept into Vancouver, B.C.’s skateboard consciousness during the year of 2002 with it’s first print ‘zine. After the “vinter scroll” and the cardboard “Altar” (further examples of their printed propaganda), they premiered their first video entitled simply “Barrier Kult Horde Video”. The video finally truly represented their militant movement that embraces the early 80s purity of elliptical and tight transition worship via Jersey barrier skateboarding, securing their dark ritual mania in the international skateboard world. The past few years have seen numerous examples of Barrier Kult DVDs, wheels, decks, clothing, etc. but the backbone has been the Skull Skate decks. Adding to the BA. KU. diehard and the Deer Man of Dark Woods decks, Skull Skates now offers models for Depth Leviathan Dweller (one of the BA. KU.’s originators) and The Beast of Gevaudan (propaganda rider recruit).
