Well Designed Skate Decks?
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^ I agree and disagree with ArsenicPants.
On one hand, from the standpoint of a designer, it'd be a shame to see a beautiful deck get thrashed. That being said, isn't that the whole point of skating?
Skate culture is about making something beautiful out of something common. There is also something in skateboarding that is dedicated to the damage achieved through strong skating; the mocking of anything elite or refined. The fact that decks have become a surface for good design should never dissuade a skater from doing whatever they need with it to express themselves and achieve all that they want.
I'm reminded of a brilliantly humbling process that tibetan monks engage in — the sand mandala:
The monks create dozens of vials of colored sand. This sand is used to create intricately ornate designs—often over ten feet in diameter—by trickling small amounts of this sand over a flat surface in tiny, linear mounds. After many days of doing this, they have a wonderful piece of design, around which they pray for several days more.
Then—this is the beauty of it all—they simply sweep all of the sand up by their hands, careful not to miss a grain, and toss it into the sea. This is the life and death of a beautiful skate deck, to me.
All of this is temporary. Grab your board.