Powell Peralta bringing the goods with the 16th Series of Bones Brigade, this reissue Tommy Guerrero 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 consists of flames all over the deck, with the flames creating 'Tommy Guerrero' as flame script at the tail. Has a Powell Peralta dagger in the middle of the graphic, & 'Guerrero' engraved into the blade, below this is 'Powell Peralta' in their standard script with 'Powell Corporation ©MCMLXXXVI' at the rear truck mount. Grip side graphic is the OG Powell Peralta Dragon logo with 'Bones ★ Brigade' © S.O.C. MMXXV, below it. The entire graphic is gold foil, black, red. Also has holographic Bones Brigade sticker on the nose truck mount area with limited edition numbered sticker.

Spec's

Size: 9.75"
Length: 30.27"
Wheelbase: 15.38"
Nose: 3.84"
Tail: 6.05"
Powell Peralta Shape: 233 / SP3 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 Tommy Guerrero Placard:

Born: September 9th
Stance: Regular Foot
@tommyguerrero
Deck graphic by VCJ

In 1983, a teenage Tommy Guerrero rode his bike across town to the world's first professional 'street style' contest in San Francisco. Lifting his battered skateboard off his handlebars, he dumped his bike and surveyed the course strewn with curbs and slanted ramps. While having no idea what street skateboarding meant or even the accurate definition of a professional, the unknown amateur recognised obstacles that he rode everyday with his friends. He'd simply do what he did in the schoolyards, the empty pond, the curbs outside his apartment. After winning the contest and getting stiffed on the prize money because he entered as an amateur, Tommy picked up his bike and rode home.

The TG spent the next decade helping shape modern street skating. The urban street rat, recognised as one of his generation's most stylish riders, helped spread the new type of skating after filming the first ever street part in Powell's Future Primitive. Skate videos were distributed all over the world and pr-internet, this was the most dynamic transmission of progressive skateboarding.

TG's iconic flaming "Conan Dagger" graphic, screened on one of the first models designed for this new type of skating, originated from another type of street style. "The initial graphic idea was the front grill of a hot rod, like a street machine," Tommy says. "The knife actually came from the centrepiece of a grill--that's where V8 comes from because it was connected to the engine. I was thinking a hot rod street machine and how they raced in the streets. There were always low-riders cruising The Mission on Saturday nights. It was super cool."

Tommy left Powell in 1991 to co-found REAL skateboards with fellow Powell-Peralta rider Jim Thiebaud. A successful musician, Tommy tours the world and continues to help Deluxe Distribution with Thiebaud. Tommy was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall Of Fame in 2016.

Stacy Peralta on Tommy: "The first time I saw Tommy was at a contest where he was screaming at the event official-- he was right up in the guy's face and he wasn't backing down. I saw that this tiny kid knew how to fight and how to defend himself. Tommy's influence on skating can be deceptive-- he is extremely underrated skater. He can look good and proper just standing on a board. It's rare that a skater doesn't need an impressive maneuverer to look impressive on a skateboard, but Tommy and his board become one."

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