Skaters aren't normal, we have special needs...

We can't just go on holiday or even to visit friends/family or another part of the country without taking (or wishing that you had) a board.


Especially now so many good parks are popping up all over the place and let's face it, if you've got to go to work after the session you may have some pads too AND maybe there's a hill as well, so you'll need a downhill setup...

ETC, ETC ad infinitum...


After many years trying to carry a few skateboards around on the road while travelling Europe and Asia in planes, trains, buses, vans and on motorbikes I got tired of trying to find a well designed bag to suit our lifestyle.

So I made my own!

I was working as a teacher in Thailand at the time and a long way from any old skate mates to do a show and tell, so...

I emailed the results to some stranger called Mike at Old Man Army in the USA, as I was riding one of his decks (still am, its good wood!) and the OMA forum showed him to be someone who would get what I was trying to do.


He did.

Fast forward to now and check out oldmanarmy.com to see what we did...

Me;

Born in '71, got my first 'Red Stone' skinny board around '79 and rolled around until I found a wooden deck with ACS trucks and no wheels in a hedge in '82 (Skating was never too big in Norfolk and was a long time gone by this time!) So I went and knocked on the door of a scary biker I knew skated back in the day and asked to buy some wheels, he gave me some and that was me, till BMX Action Bike had a skate feature with a full page ad full of modern decks and wheels and shots of Danny Webster and Lucian Hendrix etc, I was blown away. Had it on my wall till I discovered motorbikes and girls. (And then some!) Seeing 'Future Primitive' in '86 through a shop window, twice (I had a numb bum sitting on the pavement) finished me off and has ruined my ankles and marriage prospects for life. Since then it's just been wheels (skate and motorbikes) and later fins as I got hooked on surfing as well.
The surfing led me to travel and after a few years I ended up in Thailand teaching English. My Malaysian surf bro's I met there sent me to their friends' surfboard bag manufacturing company in Bali and that's how I met the guys now making my bags.

The rest is soon gonna be history...