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Owing to a shift toward street culture, the past few years have been an interesting time for the skateboarding community of India with many young individuals embracing the sport and many skate parks coming up in cities across the country. Now, a new wave of skaters with their own homegrown skateboard companies is helming a skateboard revolution. Here are some verified skateboard brands from skateboarding enthusiast Leon Poorekhorsandi that you should check out.
Dankies
Tapping into the world of skateboards, streetwear, and lifestyle is Dankies, a street culture and skateboarding brand that claims to be the ‘home to the dankiest collection of skateboards’ in India. Offering a wide range of skateboards, accessories, and decks right from anime-inspired collections to pop art to some punk-inspired collections, they have something for everyone.
Check them out here.
Merkabah Boards
Merkabah Boards is a Kochi-based premium skateboard brand that’s creating a one-of-a-kind artist-oriented collection of physical skateboards and digital NFTs. ‘Mer’ refers to Light, ‘Ka’ means Spirit and ‘Ba’ stands for the Body; Mer-Ka-Ba is the spirit surrounded by counter-rotating fields of light. Since there weren’t a lot of manufacturers making skateboards exclusively in India, the founder Francis Kurien Elenjikka, an artist himself, learned the carpentry behind the boards. The brand kicked off in 2019 with hand-drawn 3-D engraved decks produced in collaboration with local artists. The boards come in a range of hand-painted, hydro-dipped, stickered, and heat-pressed boards in funky caricatures taken from their Indian roots.
Check out the brand here.
Moshi Skate
Trying to make skateboarding more accessible to Indians is skateboarding couple Kartikeya Kashiva and Jeni Narzary who offer customised skateboards from their small skate shop. Supporting the skater community through their endeavour, they often collaborate with other Indian skater-owned brands for their skatewear and deck collections. Among their most famous and a Homegrown favourite is their kimbap collection of decks and skatewear hoodies.
You can check them out here.
Piso Skateboards
In 2013, Varun Patra along with Nick Smith, ALIS and Abhishek Khan organised the Third Eye Tour, a first-of-its-kind skate tour from Bangalore to Goa that brought together skateboarders from across India. Inspired by this, in 2015, Vaibhav Rasam started experimenting with DIY boards and by 2018 Piso Skateboards had become a reality. A homegrown skateboard brand from Goa, they proudly claim themselves to be ‘By Skaters, For Skaters.’ Offering skateboards, decks and accessories, the brand wishes to create a happy skateboarding community and provide the best quality skateboard products that are budget-friendly as well. About the name, they say, “Every time we’re skateboarding, we draw a lot of attention from people passing by. Some are intrigued, but most people just cannot wrap their heads around it. They think we’re crazy when they see us fall or whizz past them. In the Goan local language (Konkani), the word ‘piso’ literally translates to ‘crazy’. We thought this was perfect!”
Check them out here.
Jaspo
Jaspo is a well-known brand that was started by Sardar Dharam Singh as a business that would refurbish wooden rackets. They soon moved on to tennis and other sports paraphernalia and in 1992 when mini ramps came into picture and hype about skateboards started catching on globally, Jaspo started designing and manufacturing flamboyant yet functional, aerodynamic skateboards and roller skates. Today, they're a pretty big name in skateboard culture.
You can check them out here.
Prokick
Prokick is one of India's largest stores for sports equipment, gear, and accessories. They offer a wide range of skateboards at affordable prices. The brand allows consumers to purchase everything from the skateboard itself to all the accessories you would need to take your skateboarding game to the next level. Their skateboards offer premium quality and excellent design, along with some exquisite artwork.
Check them out here.
