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Established in 1973 and the home of Santa Cruz Skateboards, Independent Trucks, Creature Skateboards, OJ Wheels, Ricta Wheels, Mob Grip, Krux Trucks, Bullet and Slime Balls.
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NHS, Inc. is a United States sports equipment distribution company based in Santa Cruz, California. It was founded by Richard Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman, three surfer friends from Santa Cruz, California, teamed up to start NHS.
NHS Skate Direct, formerly known as NHS Fun Factory is the official store and offers the largest selection of Santa Cruz Skateboards, Independent Trucks, Creature Skateboards, Bronson Speed Co., OJ Wheels, Mob Grip, Krux Trucks, Ricta Wheels, Slime Balls, Bullet & Nor Cal products online.
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The story of how wheels moved from loose ball bearings to precision begins with a surfboard company. In the early 1970s, three surfing buddies, Richard Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman, got together to make surfboards. The trio worked out of the back of the Santa Cruz Surf Shop and eventually took the name NHS from their initials. In 1973, NHS fo...
With Quality Products heading up production and NHS handling the marketing and sales, the Road Rider precision skateboard wheel was born. The year was 1975. Road Riders started out with their #2 model and progressed to sizes #4, #6, and the Henry Hester model for slalom. Eventually, they made harder, pink-colored wheels for park riding. Without que...
Many skaters active in the 1980s remember Cell Blocks, the first stackable, colored riser pads. Black Top skateboards were another of Tim's innovations. "They had black fiberglass on top of laminated wood. Literally, out of the tens of thousands of Black Top skateboards we ever made, only one came back broke." In 1989, Tim took skateboarding to the...
One of the products emerging from NHS was a grip tape featuring full-color graphics. "Our president, Bob Denike, wanted some sort of innovation to grip tape. We code-named it wacky tape. I found a way to put photos into grip tape." It took about eight months for Tim to develop this new tape called Roofies. Tim Piumarta is humble about the skateboar...
Santa Cruz Skateboard is the oldest continuous skateboard company in the world. This is its story. In 1973, Richard Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman, three surfer friends from Santa Cruz, California, teamed up to start NHS Inc. The acronym NHS comes from their surname initials - Novak, Haut, and Sherman.
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