Powell Peralta Andy Anderson Heron Skull Flight 290 Skateboard Deck – 9.13″

POW-SKD-0552

Size: 32.80 x 9.13 IN

Deck Shape 290
Deck Construction FLIGHT
Deck Concave K21
Deck Wheelbase 15″
Deck Length 32.8″
Deck Width 9.13″
Deck Nose 6.8″
Deck Tail 6.8″

Built in a new production area in our Santa Barbara, California facility, Powell-Peralta Flight decks are stronger and thinner than an average 7-ply. You’ll get the feel of it in an hour or two and begin to realize you can do things riding a Flight deck that cannot be done on a 7-ply. Flight decks allow you to extend your limits, because they let you ollie higher, flip faster, do tricks more easily, while lasting considerably longer than most maple 7-plys.

There are so many within the skateboarding world who look at skating as a religion which must be practiced to exacting and specific standards; you must conform and ride this type of terrain, you must conform and do these types of tricks, you must not mix this style with that style, you must look this way or else etc. And then once in a while a skater like Andy comes along who doesnt fit into this fanatical mold, a skater who is such an outsider himself that he doesnt even fit into skateboarding. He doesnt fit in because hes not following its false mandates. What Andy is doing is living the creed of what a skateboarder is supposed to be. Hes not conforming nor is he looking for acceptance from conforming, and with that hes accepting the grief and exclusion that comes with being a true outsider. That is what a real skateboarder is. -Stacy Peralta

Artwork by Vernon Courtlandt Johnson