Powell Peralta bringing the goods with the 16th Series of Bones Brigade, this reissue Steve Cabellero in Gold Foil, Black, Red & bone coloured accents. Limited to 2500 Worldwide - Get your hands, or feet, on one before they're gone! Series 16 includes 6 Decks, & we at Hilltop Skateshop have been lucky enough to have the whole series:

The Whole Series 16 - All 6 Decks

- Rodney Mullen -  Mike McGill - Tommy Guerrero - Lance Mountain - Tony Hawk - Steve Caballero -

Graphic is a snake like Powell Peralta dragon with over 'Caballero' block lettering, 'Steve Caballero' printed signature script, Powell Perlata script & logo with © 1981 Powell below All in gold foil & red. Over black, with wheel wells. Grip side graphic is of the same dragon as the bottom graphic but is the OG Powell Peralta style Logo with 'Bones ★ Brigade' © S.O.C. MMXXV, below it. Also has holographic Bones Brigade sticker on the nose truck mount area with limited edition numbered sticker.

Spec's

Size: 10.09"
Length: 29.69"
Wheelbase: 15.75"
Nose: 2.72"
Tail: 6.22"
Powell Peralta Shape: 173 / SP0 Mold

Deck includes cardboard placard (21.9cm x 14.2cm) for each deck

Bones Brigade Series 16
Series 16 is Gold Foil, Red, Black & White accent colourway.

Each deck has a sequentially numbered sticker on the grip side at the front truck, and will include a postcard with details of the skater.

These decks are Limited edition, with only 2500 made of each of Mullen's, McGill's, Guerrero's, Mountain's & Cabellero's, and to 5,000 for Hawks offered.

Included Steve Cab Placard:

Born: November 8th
Stance: Goofy Foot
@stevecaballero
Deck graphic by VCJ

A fifteen-year-old Steve Caballero rolled through his hometown Winchester skatepark towards the bowl. In 1980, vertical skateboarding was in its infancy and the newly minted pro had already learned all the established tricks. As he padded up, he began thinking, What's next? Skaters had recently begun focusing on taking tricks above the coping and he imagined lifting slides and spins into the air. Established pros still struggled with regular ollies, but within a month word had spread that Cab, inspired by the relatively simple 360 kickturn, had landed a fakie 360 ollie. The teenage pro had skipped so many evolutionary steps in skate progression (grabbing for an aerial 360 actually came afterwards) that fellow pros literally could not imagine the maneuver. At the next contest a few of them met him in the parking lot and asked for a demonstration on the Caballerial.

Cab's innovative riding combined with his equally impressive blend of style and power helped set a standard for vertical skateboarding. He may have been a smaller stature, but he blasted over the heads of every peer on the deck, making skating look deceptively effortless.

When it came time to work on his original graphic, Caballero took inspiration from another Asian superstar who shined with style. "I've always loved Bruce Lee," Caballero says. "He was an inspiration and he was known as 'The Little Dragon' and made movies like Enter The Dragon and Return Of The Dragon. And, in the Chinese and Japanese zodiac calendars, I was born in the year of the dragon so I had a friend of mine draw a mystical dragon with wings and presented that to Court. He did a few renderings and came up with one I liked and I went with that. It had an awesome Court style and depth to his illustration."

Cab skates regularly. In 2022, Vans celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Half Cab, one of the most celebrated skate shoes produced. Besides spinning Caballerials, he enjoys making art, riding motorcycles, collecting toys and plays music. He was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall Of Fame in 2010.

Stacey Peralta on Caballero: "Caballero was the Zen master of the Bones Brigade. He wasn't one to over-think things to fret or to worry. He had a very calm mind and he used it with quiet efficiency, so much so that there was little resistance and he achieved what looked like effortless power in his skateboard." 

Bones Brigade:
An Autobiography

It's not a death metal band, an extreme diet club or historic dominoes association—the Bones Brigade was a talented gang of teenage outcasts. Unmotivated by fame or popularity, they completely dedicated their lives to a disrespected art form. For most of the 1980s, this misfit crew headed by a 1970s ex-skateboard champion blasted the industry with a mixture of art and raw talent becoming the most popular skateboarding team in history. The core unit of the Bones Brigade built an empire that covered the world. They dominated contests, made hundreds of thousands of dollars, created the modern skateboard video, reinvented endemic advertising, pushed skate progression into a new era, and set the stage for a totally new form of skating called street style. There's nothing comparable in today's skateboarding.

In 1978, a mechanical engineer who had developed new skateboard products teamed up with one of the most popular skaters of the era. George Powell and Stacy Peralta created Powell Peralta and immediately began retooling how skateboard products were made and marketed.

George, who had started developing products in his garage and kitchen oven, went on to invent innovative equipment such as double radial Bones wheels, named for their unique whiteness, and trend setting skateboard decks. Stacy recruited the skaters and handled marketing along with his longtime creative cohort Craig Stecyk III. Rejecting the expected action shot marketing, they used their young team to create esoteric images conveying the culture's sarcasm and disenfranchised dark humor. While spitballing about his stable of skaters, Stacy commented that he never wanted to call them a "team," a label that invited all kinds of jock baggage. Craig shrugged and simply said, "Bones Brigade."

Powell Peralta reinterpreted a military motif, warping it with pioneering skateboard graphics more suited to biker gang tats than decks. As great a skater as Stacy was, his scouting skills surpassed any celebrated onboard skills. By 1984, Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero and Mike McGill compiled the most competitively dominant skateboard team in history. On top of winning large, cheap plastic trophies, Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen—two 13-year-olds initially ridiculed by their peers—created new ways to skate and pioneered modern technical skating.

Disgruntled at the way the skate mags played favorites, Stacy weaponized consumer VCRs by directing The Bones Brigade Video Show in 1983. The low-budget amateur skateboard video was the first of its kind and sold a surprising 30,000 copies (including Betamax!).

At the time, skating needed all the help it could get. The 1970s "fad" that swept the country after the invention of the urethane wheel had deflated embarrassingly by 1981. Remaining participants' social status ranked below the chess club. Powell Peralta averaged an anemic 500 monthly board sales and Tony Hawk once received a royalty check for 85¢. To increase brand awareness and grow skateboarding, Stacy produced and created a new Bones Brigade video every year, showcasing his crew's varied personalities and invented maneuvers. The videos routinely featured riders crawling out of sewers, skating abandoned pools and back alleys, bombing desolate hills—essentially shredded an apocalyptic world hidden to most non-skaters.

By the mid-'80s, Brigade videos were sold all over the world and a new generation of teens discovered skating, making the Brigade international stars. The dearth of skateparks forced enthusiasts to DIY it, triggering a wooden ramp revolution. Endemic brands had started their own magazines and for the first time skaters controlled every aspect of skateboarding. Powell Peralta peaked in 1987 with $27 million in annual sales while its pro team continued to dominate contests, cash $20,000 monthly royalty checks, tour the world, occasionally cause riots and star in the ambitious The Search for Animal Chin, which remains the most successful skateboard video of all time.

But the activity's cyclical nature reaffirmed itself by the end of the decade and skateboarding descended back to the faded fad category. The industry broke apart as zeros dropped off checks and most top pros drifted away in search of second jobs. Powell Peralta dissolved over the owners' business differences and Stacy left to pursue filmmaking in Hollywood. Almost all the core Brigade members split and started their own skateboard brands just like their mentor had in 1978. George regrouped and continued making skate products under the Powell and Bones banner.

Twenty years on, the Brigade all remain in skateboarding. Although they've succeeded in separate endeavors, they continue to be bonded together as veterans of a culture war. Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain and Steve Caballero remain skate stars while Tommy Guerrero runs a skate brand and Mike McGill owns and operates one of the most successful independent skate shops in the country. In 2001, Stacy returned to skateboarding with his award-winning documentary Dogtown and Z Boys.

-About the Movie - Bones Brigade: An Autobiography