Loaded longboards is arguably the best longboard company on the planet. Loaded uses bamboo for its boards and don't use any maple. Loaded longboards like the dervish and vanguard are the best selling freeride longboards in the world and for good reason. Loaded has been around since the 90's and have progressively pushed the sport of longboarding into the forefront with high end longboards and brilliant marketing. If you're on the fence about what brand to buy, just remember, you cannot go wrong with a loaded longboard. Loaded is also very active in the community and sponsors many events including races, slide jams and charity functions across the nation. With Loaded's Ambassador program they have helped build the longboard industry to the ever growing behemoth it is today. Beginning in early 1995, trying to mimic the rush of snowboarding on pavement, Loaded's shortboards got less and less play time while they experimented with more stable wheelbases, any funky truck they could get their hands on, and pretty much any material they could put trucks on. All sorts of shapes of Baltic birch plies, solid wood, modified shortboards, and various other objects became projectiles to careen down local hills with. Looking for a lively and precisely tuned and responsive ride, old snowboards soon found themselves reincarnated with trucks and wheels attached and awaiting more brutal methods of destruction. They played (and continue to play) with almost every board and truck available and took courses in composite and material technologies, continuing on with our quest to build a lively board capable of skating bigger hills with enhanced control. September 2000 through June 2002 was dedicated to developing these boards at Loaded. It was challenging. They enlisted and ended up frustrating many of the greatest minds in skate-boarding and snowboarding. Determining and testing the materials was a full time job. Trying to get the wood and fiberglass to conform to compound contours was an affront to physics and they got sick of hearing that it couldn't be done with curvatures as pronounced as they wanted. But done it was, and the first ride made it clear that it should be done. Loaded has continued to be at the forefront of the industry introducing legendary boards including the Dervish and most recently the updated Dervish Sama. They've also developed the Tan Tien which is similar to the new Dervish Sama, the Fattail and Bhangra. Loaded has continually been voted the best longboard company by concrete wave magazine for good reason. Loaded has always seemed able to tap into a longboarders consciousness and deliver your inner most desires. We remember the first day the Dervish arrived in the shop back in 2007. There was so much excitement about this board and they disappeared almost instantly after many riders took it out to our parking lot and had a blast. Loaded longboards are one of our favorites and will continue to push these boards for many moons to come.
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