Old-School Board

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Although old school deck may refer to any type of skateboard that is no longer fashionable, it nowadays refers to the type of skateboard that was popular through the early and mid 1980s. These boards have a very small nose and a very large and usually square shaped tail. They may be flat or have a little concave.

Old-School boards were obsoleted by the invention of the flatland ollie. After skaters realized they could perform no handed aerials on flat ground they started to look for lighter boards with which they could jump higher. The noses started to grow larger and in the modern skateboard the nose usually is slightly longer and wider than the tail. At the same time the decks and trucks became narrower and wheels became smaller. All this was aimed to improve the skateboarder's ability to perform the ollie and the tricks that are based on it.

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