//About Loaded Longboard Skateboards//
Beginning in early 1995, trying to mimic the rush of snowboarding on pavement, our shortboards got less and less play time while we experimented with more stable wheelbases, any funky truck we could get our hands on, and pretty much any material we could put trucks on. All sorts of shapes of Baltic birch plies, solid wood, modified shortboards, and various other objects became projectiles to careen down local hills with.

Looking for lively and precisely tuned and responsive ride, old snowboards soon found themselves reincarnated with trucks and wheels attached - awaiting more brutal methods of destruction. We played (and continue to play) with almost every board and truck available and took courses in composite and material technologies, continuing on with our quest to build a lively board capable of skating bigger hills with enhanced control.

September 2000 through June 2002 were dedicated to developing these boards. It was challenging. We enlisted and ended up frustrating many of the greates minds in skateboarding and snowboarding. Determining and testin the materials was a full time job.

Trying to get the wood and fiberglass to conform to compound contours was an affront to physics and we got sick of hearing that it couldn't be done with curvatures as pronounced as we wanted. But done it was and the first ride made it clear that it should be done.

//Vision Loaded Longboard Skateboards//
We've experienced the soulful beauty of riding and want to pass on the stoke. To that end we are dedicated to putting out the best possible rides we can and we stand behind every board we build.

//Technology Loaded Longboard Skateboards//
Our design philosophy is simple: engineer the boards so that the decks and trucks interact to create a synergistic carving system. We therefor design our boards around the trucks. It's a great time for skateboard design with all kinds of cool trucks being developed, and we intend to build decks around all the ones that we enjoy riding.

For our current skate deck lineup, our construction combines the best of snowboard materials technology and skateboard inspired design: Concave and convex cambers, a vertically lam-inated Oak core, triaxle fiberglass, and a functional and symmetrical shape combine to achieve lively composite boards designed to skate bigger hills with enhanced control. Form follows function, and while we hope you'll find them attractive, these boards are designed to ride.