Who's your local shop?! (name & city) and why are they great?!

There’s nothing better than walking into your local shop and smelling urethane and clean clothes. It’s part of life. not just for skateboarding but everything we need should be exchanged from the hands of another. That’s our heritage for hundreds of years. Now online is choking it all out. What do we do to change this? Somehow we gotta stand up and fight. If I need to use a landline/house phone and write letters to relatives then so be it. Time needs a rewind.

I remember walking into my first skate shop as a kid in the 80’s and seeing all the Bones Brigade member’s boards hanging on that wall. Still gives me goose bumps.

Uprise skate shop in chicago has been supporting the scene over here for years easily my favorite skateshop

Spot on ShredzShop. I had a skateshop for 3 years and sold it because there was no money to make. I had enough customers but the brands just had ridiculous demands. Brands like Vans, Dickies,... all have a minimum order for shops. And as a shop it takes longer to reorder then as a customer straight from there website. They just want to kill the skateshops(middleman). Suppurt your local so the brands feel they can't live without the local shop !

My local closed. rip Conservation skate shop

Back in the day. The one sk8 shop I supported was Sk8 NYC off Saint Mark's st. Greenwich village Manhattan.

Shout out to 303 Boards in Denver for holding down Colorado skateboarding since 1997 and their new shop in Boulder, Emage Denver and RIP to Meta in Boulder and Crisis in Broomfield. Shout out to Labor in New York and Familia in MN. Some of the raddest shop i went to when i was there.

im not a canadian but i appreciate Shredz shop trying to educate, and shoutout all chicago shops holding it down: Uprise Skateshop, Citizen Skateshop, First Gear Skateshop, Wilson Yards

My local is Daville SkateShop is Fayetteville North Carolina. My not local local is BluetileSC in Columbia South Carolina. The circle is real. I hope to open a shop in retirement. Something to keep me part of skateboarding forever. It won't to to do great, and it won't need to. It just needs to be great for the community.

R.I.P , Pipeline - Upland Ca. My first few boards were purchased there; SIMS ( red and white checker graphic, and a Vision "Hippie Stick".

My local skateshop is Shredz Shop here in Cochrane , AB. The team at Shredz is great, as they are super helpful and great to talk to. I also like that they do things for the community such as Shredz Fest and learn to skate programs.

Shout out to Plus, Galactic G, and Catalyst in Orlando, FL

In Dayton we have Onelove skate shop. It’s the best. 🔥🔥

There used to be an awesome local shop in my hometown when i was a kid in the mid 2000s called True Ride. The owner was a wicked nice guy and actually hooked me up with some free stickers and skate videos the first time i shopped there. Unfortunately some assholes broke into the place and stole everything one night and the store was never reopened

I love Val Surf, Pharmacy, 303 boards, Stratosphere, Humidity, Rukus, Bluetile, and Ambush (RIP). You guys are hella rad, too.

Local shops are the heartbeat of skateboarding. Boulevard skate shop in Sacramento Ca and Lines in Rancho Cordova Ca

I love my local skate shop, Black Sheep, Charlotte NC. I do a lot of traveling, so when I’m out of town, I stop in the local skate shops, to buy a shirt or shop deck. Got to support your local skate shop, they build the skate community.

Back in the 80's in Oakland CA it was the Skate Station in San Leandro!

Cheers to Familia in MN. RIP to Fobia who was the local shop back in my youth

I remember as a lil kid. My uncle at the time worked at Billy's Board shop in Montrose CA. Got my first pro board by Real . That was my fav. My new favorite shop is Shredz. I never been. But I have it tattooed on me for a free anti hero board! Thanks again Levi!

Embassy, Old School and Careless Heart skateshops. Columbus, Ohio And the Schwin shop in LIMA RIP Thanks for the Lance Mountain boards.

Skteshops are the real backbone of local scenes and here locally their websites aren’t too difficult to navigate but the one thing, at least here, is availability and selection. Granted its profit loss carrying things that don’t sell but the having something other local shops don’t and being able to put your hands on it does a lot for sales. More variety in local shops would be ideal, even variety in shop decks would be appreciated. I’d totally rock a shop deck if they had the shape/style available or even in stock.

My local shop closed. The owner retired and no one stepped up to buy the business due to the cost he was selling it for. I would have loved to buy it. Now I’m driving to the next local shop which ironically has an indoor park. I love you channel it’s a great one to follow.

Frigging love the channel and love you Levi!

Plus skateboarding in Farmington Michigan

Shout out to Prodigy Boardshop, Clovis CA. Keeping the skate scene solid, and handling Nike SB well. Thanks Mike

Bout to observe Skate Shop Day and Hit up Black Market and 35th Avenue N #Seattle. Also, your guys content is mega fire and Levi is the truth💯

Support your local 💚 ONE LOVE skate shop, Dayton ohio. And shout out to KRUDCO skateshop, Rochester NY. TWO FELONS skateshop, Whittier California.

CowTown skateboards phx az . Your shred shop channel is the best on here.

Its crazy when a shop turns 20 just because of the way the industry is going its def a blessing my local just hit that mark (NJ) they will def keep on pushing on they do so much for the community

Val Surf is my local skate shop that I have been going to in North Hollywood for decades and I still get a new pair of Van's every Black Friday for 30%off

We opened a skate shop in a small rural town in Georgia because there is nothing even close to here. Thankfully I have another business to support overhead and the skateshop is more a labor of love. Its hard to compete with online pricing and availability. And often the profit on a purchase of $100 is only $35-40. It takes alot of sales to cover the cost of running. I feel like a lot of skate shops have to piggy back off another business to stay afloat. Around here a smoke shop or scuba shop or in my case a motorcycle shop may double as a skate shop because the skate shop can't support itself. Lil Chub Decks Fitzgerald Ga

Also, local shops can contribute to the local scene more than just selling gear. They can have video premier watch events, contest sponsorship at a park or an impromptu challenge aty local spots, use local skaters in advertising, go to townhall meetings to build/maintain parks and laws

Shouting out Focus Skate Shop in Edinburgh, Scotland. They do so much for the scene here.

My local is a shop in Fredericton, NB called East Side Board Supply. Brian has been running the shop for 25 years and he’s our local legend.

The closest thing I have to a local skate shop is Zumiez 💀💀💀

Our skate shop in our area started sell skateboards in 1985, a year later I started skating. It closed in 2022 as the owner wanted to retire. A new shop opened as well as an indoor park , we now have 2 parks in a town of about 7K people. W e are on Lake Michigan, north east corner of Illinois.

Sending all the love to my local, NC Boardshop! 💕

I love skateboarding, i try to keep it "live" in my community, im from México, and i started an online shop, it´s very poor now but i hope can be a distributor one day, in my town there´s only one big skate shop, and other shops are pretty humble, they have limited products and stock very limited. So support your local skate shop and keep skating.

Don Thomas Sporthaus in Bloomfield and Squeelyz in Birmingham Michigan were two skate shops I worked at as a teenager in the 80s. Met Tony Hawk, Jesse Martinez and Lance Mountain when they put on a jump ramp demo in our parking lot. Just bought new wheels and bearings from a newly opened skate shop in Rogers Arkansas.

my only skateshop in the city just closed, just as i started to skate, man that hurts

Gotta love my local skate shop since I got my first board from them when I was 10 and they moved around but much love to First Gear skate shop in Berwyn IL, Steve Berra shops there when he's in his suburban home nearby.

RIP Small Empire 💔 so thankful to have had that shop growing up in NJ. So many great memories. Now I live in MA and Orchard holds me down 💚

shout out One Up skateshop pittsburgh

I bought my first board from PITCREW back in the day, it was a huge loss for the local skate community when they closed. The old owners rallied a few years later and now we have Embark 💪 skate local baby!!

Here in England skateboarding is way less popular that it has been, shops and private parks are closing, hoping things will change soon...

Shout out to Anti Hero for refusing to sale on their website and only selling to skateshops

Amazing Vid as always !! support your local skate shop ! My locals are Baseline and Boardhub Much Love ❤️🇿🇦🛹🤘🏻

My town here in the southeast of England named Eastbourne has had a hand full of skate shop's over the years but only one has remained for the past 25 which is called 7ply. The dudes that work in there have always been awesome.

I love going into a store and getting what I want right then and there. You get to see and feel it in person. I hate ordering things due to shipping. It takes forever and a lot of places do drop shipping from the manufacturer. If I can't get it right away, I just don't really bother unless it's something that I really want.

fav local, is the local, hamilton. .. whose owner is also a blonde haired, blue eyed, tall/heavy, outspoken kinda hyper dude. Also shout out to grind (rip) my former shop sponsor, sud rip, flatspot rip, dmbc rip, outlaw rip(?), and all the other lost canadian shops

Shoutout to Cuckoo's Nest Skate Shop, the only local shop in Columbus, Ga!

Clanskates, glasgow. Buying my board there way back when was like the first time I’d had a monetary transaction where i didn’t feel like my presence was just being tolerated for my cash. So helpful and hey, it worked, i became a repeat customer.

Man my first skate shop Byrds in Alamogordo NM 94… i love skate shops… looking and touching the product…shout out to Sk8 skates in a Winnipeg… escapist in Kansas and now N2Flow in Southern Pines NC

It’s sad, even around 2010 2 of my 3 local shops closed. And the one that has stayed open had a few locations. Now it’s one location and the skate part is a small corner. It’s all about the shoes and clothes and now they sell candles kayaks and fly fishing gear… doesn’t feel the same as it used to when it was just hardcore skating I miss that

People have no clue on how strong the skate, snowboard, surf communities are. Keep it solid and keep rockin. 🤙Real stay real🤙

New Yak City in Yakima, WA. Thanks to Gabe the owner we have an awesome skate shop. He’s definitely holding it down for the community and the skate culture. Anyone from around here would agree. He’s also the only skate shop we have. He’s been around for 20 years or so. He also has a great presence online and in social media. Hope his shop is around for many more years to come.

Skate shack Naperville IL was our local shop that closed around 2000. Sad stuff

Corner Store in Seabrook, NH! REPRESENT!!!

My local closed!😢 RIP Desert Valley Skate Shop in Chandler, AZ! 👍🏽

I'm north of Toronto but going with Blue Tile Lounge and So Hip in Toronto.

There was a skate shop in Dublin called Skate City that only recently closed down. I believe that the gentleman who owned it simply retired, but it had existed since the late 70s. My brother and I used to love the store back in the early 00s, and we have fond memories of skating in (and often being kicked out of) the nearby grounds of the Central Bank of Ireland. Support your local businesses always. This goes well beyond skateboarding. If you can get something from a local store, it's better to spend a few extra buck (or euros) to get it there and not from Amazon. Small businesses need to be supported.

MacArthur Skateboard Shop in Oakland CA!

The Local Skate Shop in Santee CA. Love talking to the guys there. 🙏

Rip to one of my favorite sk8shops in nyc reciprocal, 2013 was the beginning of the end of physical purchases.

The good skate shop in my area recently closed. Now, all we have are one local that's become more of a smoke shop with a few boards and... THE MALL.

First State Skate Supply is a mobile Skateshop in Delaware! Based in Georgetown but they travel all through lower Delaware.

Brooklyn projects literally be marking off all of these things can come hang out and chill and skate!

I have no skate shops in my town. I remember back in around 2005-2008 there was a skate shop in my town my older brothers would go to. I would sit out in the car while they went into this blue building no windows no signs I was dying to try and go in (they never let me lol). The skate shop is gone now. Thankfully we still have a small skatepark I worry it won’t be around much longer but I have recently really gotten into skating. So excited and happy to finally do something I’ve dreamed of since I was a kid.

Support Local Skate, Or Die. You guys do great work, I might talk smack from time to time just trolling, love ya

LBSkate in Long Beach, California. I walked in there in my early 30s looking to get back into skating and they were the coolest dudes, set me up with a whole new complete and let me skate it before even paying.

Internet research has made an impact on all kinds of shops because people spend hours researching exactly what specific thing to buy and then are disappointed if the local shop doesn't have the exact thing in the exact color they want at the cheapest price possible. In the old days we just went to the shop and bought what they had on the wall or in the display case and trusted that they only brought in the best brands.

Freeride surf and skateshop here in gainesville florida!!! It used to be Inland Surf Shop in the 1970's and was Rodney Mullens First sponsor! Love you guys. RIP Tom!

MA/NH area locals Eastern Boarder in Nashua and Snowboard Jones in Manchester always hook it up!

Index will forever be the skate shop that most resonated with me. Skater owned and operated but it ran like a legitimate business. Alot of shops fail cause of bad management, bad contracts with vendors or serving an overall inferior product that what you can get online/ big box. I will always try and go out of my way to support local business and keep that money with our city when possible unfortunately I just think recently business is just bad because of recession but I see a lot of new faces coming in to pickup a new setup or new people at the skate park showing general interest in trying out skating. Imo the core (thrasher, hesh, us against them) mantra needs to die to allow for a broader audience to skating

Not my local but always my favorite RHETT in Bloomington, Indiana

Nothing will ever beat walking into my local skateshop (Skatology boardshop in bel air MD) and grabbing a new board or new pair of shoes. Online just doesn't cut it for me

Biff Whiffles House O' Skateboards 853 America Way Del Mar, CA is legendary.

Its about an hour drive for me to get to a shop. It is what it is. If I'm after something specific I'm gonna find someone's local store that ships, if I just need some wheels or shoes I'll make the drive.

Mr Wilson , Skateshop , el Medano , Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Canary Islands .

The problem is that zumiez has more product then most local shops which sucks cause the local shops do deserve more product and foot traffic. and the casuals and posers will always go to a zumiez no matter what, and the employee's that work there do not have any expertise and most of them don't even care, while local skateshops have the expertise and passion. Oh and shout out to Boarderline.

Another skateshop, CB, North Carolina

Shoutout NJ skateshop/FTC New York/Labor/Orchard/Humdity skateshop

Levi using the ouroboros as an analogy to explain the market economics.

My local shop closed this December

my local just posted on their ig that they might close down this year if they don't get more people in the shop :(

Grew up skating. At least from what I’ve seen the largest skateboard age group rarely has the income to constantly buy new Setups. I skated almost every day growing up and I actually don’t remember buying my first complete until I was 20. Before that I just bought everything as parts. Wheels this month, board the next and maybe wheels two months later

When I was growing up, I practically lived at the local skate shop and I still buy gear from them till this day. But something I've noticed is that nowadays, many shops aren't hosting as many events as they used to. I get it - there aren't as many skate brands going on tour to do demos at the local shops, and we're seeing fewer skate videos these days. But that doesn't mean the shops shouldn't be organizing their own skate demos/events and streaming events like SLS, Dew Tour, Xgames, and hosting movie nights featuring old and new(when they do come out) skate videos. Give people a reason to come to your shop and they will.

world boards, bozeman MT skateboard and snowboard shop been goin for 30ish years, always got the chillest ppl working there, never steered me wrong before. if you're goin to that part of MT gotta visit world boars

Shout out to The Point Skateshop and Rec Shop holding it down in Dallas!!

every single skate shop in my town has disappeared… we are left with nothing , gotta buy online

Shout out to Antics and Nocturnal!!!

Ouch! In Nixa, MO whoop whoop

The feeling of a shop where skaters hung out infront of the store inside a couch full of homies or strangers no one cared watching the newest skatevideo the backyard park session in full blast that is a feeling online stores can never have

Venue Richmond Va one of the best!!

I hate to admit I can only hit my childhood skate shop once in a while as it's an hour away. That's the closest one too. I've been skating since the 90's, I know what I like, I order it online. I know that sucks, but I do local online shops!

I remember when I was in high school in St. Louis, I use to go to love going to my local skate shop SOKA. It use to feel so bad ass going there and hanging out.

June Store Leigh on sea Essex in the Uk, trying to do so much for community in providing better parks, better spots and support. Shop local and support your local

Republik of Kalifornia, San Clemente, Ca 92672. Assisted greatly in building up my Powell collection.