"When was the golden age of skateboarding, the time when everything was at its peak? Which decade, specifically? Let's talk about it. I'm going to examine skateboard media - games, magazines, videos, etc. and also popularity and availability, which factor in as well."

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"I kinda see it like pro wrestling, very similar peaks and valleys, white hot 90’s, low mid 00’s, resurgence in the 2020’s, new generations finally catch up to what they’ve missed, and find the new ones they love. I love this shit man"

"1994 to 2003 is the best time for skateboarding especially growing up in the Venice Beach area. With all the skateboarders in my neighborhood and skate spots."

"1995 to 2005 for me. Just because this is the time period I did most of my skating. It went from being a thing my friends would do at the school on weekends when no one else was around to something we did in front of the Phoenix Theater with a huge group of people playing skate. Just a genuinely cool time where it went from a niche thing that people would fight you over to something you could do in a group and feel like you belonged to something."

"I think you said it perfectly, the best time in skateboarding is when you fell in love with it. For me it was 1986, I was 12."

"I've been skating aince '97 and man... it's hard to beat those first ten years. 98'-'08 was the best ten years for skateing. Aka, the 2000s."

"The late 80s and early 90s was the Golden era of skating. It's when all the different disciplines of skating began to converge, and modern street skating was born from that."

"The answer to your question is energy. It has almost nothing to do with skate media. If you went to a demo or contest or large friends session and every single kid there is stoked to be there then you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's hard to quantify. If you know you know. For me it was the mid 90s."

"I'm 50, and I reckon there's no one golden age. Late 70s was all about establishing the aesthetic and attitude. Mid 80s was about seeing where it could go - development of the base tricks, of vert & street, the first videos. Mid 90s was about separating the wheat from the chaff - of independence from the mainstream - and the rise of the video pro. Early 00s was about taking it back to the mainstream."

"I’ve skated since 1983. There’s always been one at my disposal. I used to think it was 77-94 but I’ve realized that right now is the golden age."