World Industries Skateboards

The freestyle skateboarder Steve Rocco was kicked off his team at Sims Skateboards and Snowboards, bought a few hundred skateboards and rented a warehouse with Black Label’s John Lucero. Lucero was bought out by Rodney Mullen, who then became Rocco’s partner. The company they started was World Industries, a skateboard and snowboard manufacturing company.

Things were rough initially, but the company started doing well in 1998; relationships with other skateboarding companies had their ups and downs, mostly due to Rocco’s eccentric personality. Skaters Jesse Martinez and Jeff Hartsel rode for World Industries, along with Steve Rocco himself. A short while later, both Rodney Mullen and Mike Vallely officially left Powell Peralta and joined the World Industries skateboard team; the two also invested money in the company.

The company prided itself on being innovative and responding to the ever dynamic world of skateboarding; it was very flexible and had no problem producing boards with different shapes that departed somewhat from the standard. Quite a bit of focus was put on street skating, and World Industries skateboards would come out with crazy graphics and experimental shapes that street skaters found very appealing. Indeed, for quite some time, World Industries was the only skateboarding company that had cartoon graphics on their boards, something which was highly unusual but turned out to be very successful.

Mark Gonzales from Vision Skateboards spoke to Steve Rocco and expressed his desire to start his own company in 1989; Blind Skateboards was born under the umbrella of World Industries Skateboards. Mike Ternasky from H-Street also associated himself with World Industries, leaving H-Street; he formed Plan B skateboards in 1991 with Rodney Mullen skating for the team. Many more changes occurred, with skaters breaking away and joining other teams. In July 2002, World Industries Skateboards was sold to Globe International Limited.

There are World Industries skateboard decks that are suitable for beginners and decks that are suitable for experts. The company prides itself on using only the highest quality materials to make both its decks and its complete boards. Canadian maple veneers are hand selected and pressed in such a way as to ensure deck strength; moreover, durability is ensured by the use of STIFFGlue during the lamination process. Decks have good concave, while completes have the added benefits of high quality urethane wheels and a finely tuned setup. World Industries complete skateboards come with high quality ABEC 5 bearings and lightweight World Industries skateboard trucks.

If you’re looking for cheap World Industries skateboards, old World Industries skateboard decks or recent World Industries skateboards, there are a number of online skate shops that you can visit. Indeed, online shops are a great place to look for any product with the World Industries skateboard logo, including World Industries skateboard ramps and World Industries skateboard shoes.